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Is there any excuse that a team with Desmond Bane & JJJ are 1-8 and the worst team in the league? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by iWonder007@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Fully understand they are missing Ja. And Adams is out for the year. But they still have 2 max contract guys in Bane and JJJ. Plenty of teams miss their star play and play fine. An example this year is the Kings missing Fox for 70% of their games, and they are chugging along fine. When the Grizz missed Ja a lot last year, they actually had a better W/L with Tyus Jones at helm.

I'm not expecting them to be a top 5 seed or anything. But 1-8??? The worst team in the league?? They've also had the easiest schedule in the league with playing the Blazers 2x, Jazz 2x, and Wizards (1-5 in those games). They gave Desmond Bane a $210 mil max contract to lead their team to a 1-8 start? Something is not adding up

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[–] TrotLaRoc@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Even elite role players get max contracts now. Both Bane and JJJ are really good players but not All Pro levels guys that can carry a team. They are elite cogs in a machine...

Losing Ja was one thing but the loss of Adams was a knockout.....best rebounder, set the league's best screens. Screening is a super important of good defense, they create space and can knock a dermfense off axis. A lot of guys dont have the 1st step to beat a defender...they depend on that bone crunching screen to give them room to work and get to the lane

Also Adams lets JJJ be able to play free safety which he is best at defensively. Now JJJ has to stay in lane more and tussle with bigger centers