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If he does return and plays at his level from 2 years ago this team could be legit. He really could be the missing piece. He was that good that year.

yeah obviously, and when you're missing 3 key guys you're going to have a thinner bench, that's true of any team. Of course having drafts like 2021 don't help and Kupchak deserves blame for the poor depth, but he's mostly done a great job of getting us young high potential talent across all positions. It's on coaching to make it work.

Part of that is terrible rotations but also bad injury/suspension luck to start the year. Terry, Cody and Miles being added to the lineup should fix the bench issues for the most part. But yeah bench was absolutely atrocious tonight.

Mark Williams IS our defense. Which is exciting to have at C but also a huge knock on the shitty coaching

Clifford is the worst pro sports coach in Charlotte. This team has so much talent so horribly misused. Need to fire him immediately

Or just fire them both now

Belief is he'll play without limitations after the current suspension assuming he stays out of further trouble (not sure that's a fair assumption though). My expectations of him are honestly kinda low though, a full year off the court and having all those distractions I don't expect him to be as dominant as he was 2 years ago. Somewhere in between his 20-21 season and his 21-22 season. If he can play anything like 2 years ago that would be insanely huge for this team. We were looking like a legit 5 or 6 seed that year with healthy Melo and Miles carrying the team and many of the other same pieces still here with PJ, Terry, Hayward (albeit different coaching staff). Unfortunately injuries hit us and derailed our season a bit, dropping us to play-in round and ensuing blowout loss. And now this season we have most of the same pieces that had us playing great ball that year, but with LaMelo and PJ being better AND adding Mark and Miller. The talent is there, and if Clifford can't make this team a top 6 seed he's gotta be replaced. Never should've been hired really but here we are with him.

I basically made this same thread a month ago. Catch up guys

McCown definitely wanted Stroud

fuging trash refs robbed us of this game. fug the Mavs I'm gonna root so hard against those fugs the rest of the year

lol

"Nicole Tepper turns to amateur porn to inspire struggling Panthers"

I would not classify myself as either a Bryce defender nor as hopeful, however 1 good reason here is that he's only 7 games into his career. We've seen others struggle badly early and turn it around -- recent examples being Goff, Allen. Do I expect him to turn it around? Personally no, I don't see much of a chance of that happening. However you can't write a player off after 7 games.

the house always wins bro, don't bet on sports

I’d be feeling so good if we beat the Mavs, they’ve been great his year so far, only loss to Denver. Miller and Mark are gonna be so good, we need LaMelo to get out of his funk though and if Miles winds up playing for us anything like his 2021 self this team could be top 6 in the east

And we had an owner/front office who could bring us some occasional success. Under Tepper I don’t think we’ll ever have a winning season

I switched to womens tennis while waiting for the Hornets game to start, that’s how low we’ve fallen

Yes by far

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me to see Purdy continue to struggle and Darnold come in and play lights out.

Lol we are actually calling timeouts here. Clear house tonight don’t even wait until tomorrow

in 2015 he had literal garbage as well and he won MVP

3rd pick

I could never adopt a NFC team. I’ve adopted the Chiefs in recent years. Yeah yeah yeah bandwagon, whatever. But I’ve always liked Reid and want to see him continue to cement his legacy as the best HC of his generation and one of the best of all time.

We should do him a solid and trade him to KC this offseason, get a 4th round pick (for Fitts or the next hand picked GM to waste)

Down 14 with no time left and the refs are still fuging us over. What a joke