Will team chemistry improve now that Chandler is gone?

Come on now: this "glue" idea is becoming meaningless. It means everyone loved him? (Did they?) So? Then they followed him into battle? (Really?) And then? They lost in the first round. Now they're gonna do worse this year? I don't think so. "Glue" doesn't mean anything here. Someone demonstrate what is not sticking together now that the glue is gone.

 

It is not so much of just being a glue guy. It is the subtraction of talent. I am sure we all agree that Ariza fits in very nicely to the lineup. What we forget is we have a void for a true 6th man. Losing just Parsons would not have hurt as bad if we got something in return for Lin and Asik. Instead that bench looks extremely weak. Are we really going to use the excuse that our bench was just filled with rookies if we lose the first round? It is lame. Parsons would have been great to fill in a Manu Ginobli role. He probably would have taken that role as long as hebgot his paycheck. If not we could have had Ariza fill that role as well and insert Parsons into the starting 5. We should honestly have both on our team at the moment. He was also capable of filling the temporary void of second scoring option in the case Dwight or Harden got injured. Now we have no depth at All. Kostas is a rookie. Canaan is pretty much a rookie. Daniels and nick johnson is a rookie. Dorsey has not played NBA minutes or competition in a long time. Terence jones and dmo have barely shown improvements since their rookie year. Are we rally going to wait for these guys to develop to make some noise? Morey has voids to fill and Parson's talent is one of them. Should have kept him, acquired Ariza, and traded to get a more serviceable big man to play the four and back up 5. I really thought Morey would have done that by now but instead we are scrambling. If anyone doesn't believe it then they are just fooling themselves. We shot ourselves in the foot this offseason. Morey better have a plan to fix it extremely soon without doing something stupid like picking up Rubio.

 

So you think Parsons > Ariza + Papanikolau? Wing depth, defense, and 3 point shooting were our biggest weaknesses last year. Those 2 covers those deficiencies , along with Daniels being able to play a bigger role that was sorely, sorely needed. We were counting on Garcia to continue his hot shooting, or Casspi to give us something tangible and neither of those happened.

 

Definitely!!! Parsons Asik and Lin are all overrated.

 

Asik was great, he was just, not very useful for us last year

 

Asik good but unprofessional that's why he was useless last year
parsons good but overrates himself and overpaid now
Lin just plain overrated

 

Sometime, I have to wonder if this kind of post just pretends to be such a dumb one that more discussion could be stirred up. SMH

As I read, last year at least all the starter players hung out a lot so they got along with each other pretty well. The chemistry actually was pretty good.

 

No but parsons +ariza is better than ariza+ a papanikolaou rookie. Papanikolau may turn out to be better or just as good as Parsons but that is another maybe. We also don't know how papa will perform in his first playoff performance. I am also not banking on Troy Daniels or Canaan until they prove themselves. Too many unprovens on this roster.

 

You'd sure as hell hope that would be better considering you just locked yourself into a roster by spending $23m on role player small forwards