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The sad debacles of "Big 3" teams in the NBA
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I don't know about you, but I'm enjoying seeing the failure of the "Big 3" teams in the NBA: Philly 76ers and Phoenix Suns. Both teams spent a lot of capital on putting together 3 top players on their team. In Phoenix's case, despite a 2nd successive season of having the big 3 and an expensive coach, it still isn't working out. It shows you can't put 3 stars and expect a team to win. You still need solid role players around them - the next 5 are just as important as the first 3. I was never impressed with the roster construction in Philly or Phoenix last off season, and happy to see my intuition bear out. Hopefully this will prevent other big name players from wanting to join their buds thinking it's an easy chase for the ring in the future and stop this non-sense all together.
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I don't know about you, but I'm enjoying seeing the failure of the "Big 3" teams in the NBA: Philly 76ers and Phoenix Suns. Both teams spent a lot of capital on putting together 3 top players on their team. In Phoenix's case, despite a 2nd successive season of having the big 3 and an expensive coach, it still isn't working out. It shows you can't put 3 stars and expect a team to win. You still need solid role players around them - the next 5 are just as important as the first 3. I was never impressed with the roster construction in Philly or Phoenix last off season, and happy to see my intuition bear out. Hopefully this will prevent other big name players from wanting to join their buds thinking it's an easy chase for the ring in the future and stop this non-sense all together.Phoenix is your dream trading partner; desperate and valuing name recognition and salary pricetag over fit, stats, effort and performance history. I felt like PHL was trying harder than Phoenix and got a bit unlucky the way embiid went with injury and maturity. Bradley Beal has talent and never was anywhere near showing he could play within a system other than talented player on a crap team, let alone a complex balance of sharing the ball with two of the most talented offensive players in the league...who also mostly share his main affliction of being a defensive liability. He's a 90s-era ball hog star. Shocker he didn't work out. Building slowly and organically is the way to do it and enjoy it, if you get a lucky draft pick along the way it helps. Cleveland(recent), Memphis, Sacramento, OKC of old were all far more enjoyable, and mostly more successful than teams that just back up a dump truck of money with no strategy to someone who can score 30 a night; clippers, nets, Knicks, Etc.
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I don't know about you, but I'm enjoying seeing the failure of the "Big 3" teams in the NBA: Philly 76ers and Phoenix Suns. Both teams spent a lot of capital on putting together 3 top players on their team. In Phoenix's case, despite a 2nd successive season of having the big 3 and an expensive coach, it still isn't working out. It shows you can't put 3 stars and expect a team to win. You still need solid role players around them - the next 5 are just as important as the first 3. I was never impressed with the roster construction in Philly or Phoenix last off season, and happy to see my intuition bear out. Hopefully this will prevent other big name players from wanting to join their buds thinking it's an easy chase for the ring in the future and stop this non-sense all together.Game changed, bigs are nowadays only ball dominant and new owners like Ishtbia don't know/care about fit and playing style. Suns gotta be the worst tea lm ever on that payroll.
