everyone thinks we were 0-2 last postseason bc of rafer....umm we were playing at the toughest arena in the NBA in Utah and were missing the best center in the game, we swapped a 34 year old back up pg for the toughest guy in the league and o yea rafer was out. Im sick of people here, a week ago everyone wanted rafer gone and now he is and everyone acts like we lost bron for fillers. Anyone can bring the ball up the court and pass to yao or "facilitate the offense" like you all are saying. It takes a real skill to combine with your shooting guard on 8-29 night....that's a skill i'm glad our new backcourt of aaron and wafer lacks. I swear you guys are gonna love this team now, honestly rafer and mac combined for 20+ misses a night, those days are behind us.
Another thing people bring up we lost our guy to stand up to barnes and vujacic....did you guys really want alston to get off the bench come playoff time and stand up to barnes and vujacic? The guy is a street baller and he would get off the bench for no reason at all and we'd be down a starter in the plyoffs....remember phoenix a couple years back losing Amare? You can't be a bonehead in the playoffs and guys who get accused to stabbing people in the face aren't good people. I don't think shane battier would ever get accused of something like that....alston may be innocent but still charges like that are never filed on decent people.
Missing Rafer was very crucial, don't try to take anything away from him. We needed him badly; in Game 3 & 4 he played good, made threes and was clutch. If we make the playoffs ,and that's big IF right now, everybody who likes the fact Rafer is gone will see....
