But...normally, I'd be pissed.

Right now I'm all smiles at every close loss.

The team needs to still make an effort to keep the fans engaged and to have that "if derrick were playing..." cued in their head.

But they need to lose and miss the playoffs...seriously.

Jerry's not gonna dish out dough to help. They've already fucked up the bench and the only trade assets we have are Noah and Deng. Not sure how much we'd get back for both of them even but I know we need at least ONE of them.

So...lose. Get a lottery pick (there will be some good options in the top 14, trust me...even with them saying it is a weak draft, they said the same shit about the 2010 draft and that draft is looking surprisingly deep). And who knows...maybe lightening strikes twice and we end up top 3 with a shot at Nerlens.

But yeah...I'm not optimistic otherwise.