Who gives a s***, honestly? Most of you guys didn't think this was even a playoff team. Now we're complaining we may not be as great as our record? Please.
Right. Need better defensve TALENT at the bigs, but can depend on health of that depth enough. Rockets still played well without Capela even. Need to not overrun the key backcourt/wings into the ground on a faster paced team. Bev & Gordon have injury issues as-is. Any of those guys are out, MDA still avoids Ennis/KJ/Brown like the plague and inserts BREWER in more. Having better depth is needed performance and health insurance. While Dekker isnt a good shooter and not a world beater, his fresh legs are momentarily better than a fatigued Ariza shooting 30% FG. Or get a better talent than Brewer to shore all that up. Ariza's days of chasing point guards, best opposing scorers and POWER forwards for 40 minutes should end sooner than later. And Harden leading league in minutes every single year is just asking him to COAST on defense.
Astute observations. And that comprises the bad news. The good news: The schedule gets much softer after the break, at least from the standpoint of travel, frequency of games, and time to rest up.
