Buy the team, Ted. Get us a new GM. Lets *really* start over.

Think about it: the game results *can only be* the sum of the players’ individual numbers. That is what adds up to the score. Chemistry would have to mean that individuals put up different numbers when the move between teams. You are citing that fact for Haywood, for example.

Maybe it’s true in his case, over this relatively small sample, but the studies show that NBA players are *extremely* consistent from year to year and team to team. They tend to put up the same numbers wherever they are, once you take into account the arc of their careers (getting better the first few years; getting less good the final few years). Obviously there are exceptions, but there is also a norm the data shows. Hence… chemistry is a myth.

Our Cleveland pick could be #30, but it could conceivably be #29. We also have our own round 2 pick (but apparently not the Kings this year), and that could be somewhere in a range as well. Never hope to lose, but the more we lose the better those 2 picks are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/06/AR2010030602292.html

So, if the players are doing better with similar numbers, and they are part of a team that is excelling, then we shouldn’t have been looking at those players to carry the team, but to be part of a team. We didn’t get players, outside of Gil and Antonio Daniels, that could put these players in the right positioning to benefit from their skillset. Now that I’m looking at this from a different angle, and see that they didn’t really change their games since leaving, It wasn’t their selfish play, it was putting players around them (i.e. a real point guard, a real power forward, a leader outside of themselves). The real tale of this story is that Brendan is avging a double double. He is getting the ball where he can score easily, and he has other players around him, whereas teams have to pay attention to those players and he has more opportunities.

In closing, I guess it wasn’t more-so the players, but maybe it was our system and lack of players. I mean really, the players come in and play “natural” ball, then start practicing and the play is worse? Hmmmmmmm(but again, we did lose JHoward)

I think Miller will be worth more to a contender than to us. His time is now. Ours isn’t.

I guess we don’t quite agree on the chemistry idea. For instance, I think we had a lot of individual talent in the group that just left, but they never developed much chemistry. Garnett and good coaching made the Celtics more than the sum of their individual talents IMO.