Dwight has been in his 08 form all season long with no lingering back issues and was clearly dominant on both ends prior to the all star break.

Nash didnt miss significant time with Darius Morris and Jodie Meeks taking his place. Those guys are just as good.

Jerry didn't die.

Jordan Hill wasn't a quality backup and wasn't lost for the season? Nobody is cysing him like he's Dwight or some shit, so stop pretending we are, but acting like he wasn't a key bench component on both ends to back up both starters and such a loss is inconsequential is flat out dishonest- especially when both of those starters missed time. Having a quality backup is important when one of them is still rehabbing his back and the other is out.

Disgusting? Please with the so-called pleas. You can't cite the incredible expectations on this team and then downplay every single event that's occured and pretend that there is no realistic impact on those expectations.

They were expected to win 60 games with that starting 5! Wait, they played a grand total of twenty games all year? SO WHAT, they had TWO of that HOF team all year! So when 2 of the 4 guys that were expected to win 60 games miss significant time and only played 20 games together, that 60 game projection doesn't change? In what world does that make any sense? Only on some agenda shit.

Wait, one of the two that was there most of the year was coming off back surgery and clearly wasn't himself until the All Star break? So what! No consequence, even if his primary backups are out for the year!

You can downplay this season all you want. They still underperformed, but acting as though all these injuries, coaching change, a beloved owner dying, and Dwight rehabbing on company time aren't factors that reshapped any realistic expectation is so dishonest it barely deserves to be taken seriously.

They still underperformed in light of these hardships, just not to the degree you'd like us all to believe. 5-6 seed is reasonable in light of all this, and holding them to a 60 game standard when most of what could have went wrong actually did says you're letting your hatred for this team and it's fans overtalk a level head. You're better than that, or so I thought.