IceColdCubano wrote:MiamiLoyal926 wrote:3ammy3uck3ts wrote:
Every year just seems to be some sort of what if.
2020: what if Bam and Dragic don’t get hurt in the finals
2021: we were screwed, shortest offseason ever
2022: what if Jimmy doesn’t get hurt, what about PJ Herro and Lowry
2023: what if Jimmy doesn’t get hurt, what if Herro doesn’t
2024: what if Jimmy Rozier JRich and Duncan aren’t hurt
It’s just always something, we can’t catch a break but we always find ourselves at the top (except we’re losing in 5 this series unfortunately). We need that next piece that tries in the regular season and is available to help Bam in getting us better postseason positioning. No play in this season means no Jimmy injury and I’m not taking any of these EC teams over a healthy Heat
Butterfly effect for sure! No play in might mean no injured Jimmy! Top seeding also means better chance of making it through even if we had early injuries in the playoffs allowing them to get. Healthy for later series. We just need better seeding and better effort throughout the season.
This is the Jimmy though were expecting, so were not expecting a healthy Jimmy surviving the regular season moving forward, the data says this team is flawed and injury prone at all positions. Whatever Build we go into were never really going to get the most out of it, with the current core, we just hope to survive long enough to get into the playoffs healthy. There's just way too many things that need correction just changing the one is not going to offset all our issues.
I still can't imagine in my mind a prolific scorer coming here and completely changing the landscape by 180 by the addition/deduction of replacing that said player with Herro. Its like I am going to forget how terrible our offensive sets are, half court offense is, and undersized we are, and how injury prone the rest of our roster is year in year out.
By this post, one can deduce that Jimmy is the current major problem then. Too big of a contract to give us any spending power, has injury concerns, and has adopted the coast-during-the-season mentality to not be as impactful for better seeding. Now, if he was riding a $20-30million contract the next two seasons, then it wouldn’t be so much of an issue. The reality is that we are strapped to his contract and if he is going to be an injury concern moving forward, then you are right, there is not much else we can do in terms of major trades.
