Michael Malone: “The emotional reaction to losing cannot force you to make emotional decisions.” “The season wasn’t a failure. We did a lot of great things this year.”
Michael Malone: “The emotional reaction to losing cannot force you to make emotional decisions.” “The season wasn’t a failure. We did a lot of great things this year.”
Feels like a failure to me, but maybe I’m just being emotional.
OrcaBaka
Stop quoting Giannis, accept the failure and get back on winning.
Forward-Reporter8320
Season was not a failure in my opinion. Fighting through injuries all season, we were lucky to be the 2nd seed. Got a bad matchup with a team that got a great draw in the playoffs and was piping hot. Murray needs to refocus his recovery and figure out how he can stay healthy consistently. Will be interesting if he plays for canada or not. Braun looked really good in spots in the playoffs. Watson grew a lot. Hopefully strawther can get into the fold and be a shooter shot creator off the bench. Clearly defending the championship without overwhelming top end talent is nearly impossible. The past few repeat teams had at least 2 top ten guys. Jamal played like a top ten guy last postseason. If we got that jamal this year, we win. Unfortunately he couldnt sustain.
inFAMXS
He’s right you cant win every year. Spurs built a dynasty from the ground up and never repeated. Its about staying consistent and even as of right now we’re a top 3 team in the West going into next year. Just need to reinforce our bench and we’ll be back competing for a championship
Wander715
It was definitely a failure, saying anything else is just coping tbh.
Not a huge fan of this press conference, wanted to see more fire out of Booth and Malone. Although if there are actual plans to change/improve the team I wouldn’t expect them to reveal it here.
Leonnis
Legitimately what?
They kept blowing leads all season which ultimately ended the playoff run, Jamal added another injury and kept bricking, MPJ’s shot faded out in the playoffs again for w/e reason, bench got downgraded which increased stress on Jokic.
I guess the buzzer beater and MV3 were pretty cool tho 😊 😊
HollywoodTea
Congrats MPJ! You get to stay!
Gyncs0069
Season was absolutely a failure. We had a chance to go back to back if not for complacency and bad management of both players and minute distribution in the regular season. If we don’t choke that Spurs game, or better yet several other games earlier in the season, we’re healthy, rested up, and up 1-0 in the WCF right now. If Malone stops being so damn stubborn about this stupid ass hard on he has for seniority and vibes merchant coaching CB and Peyton probably develop in the regular season enough to be solid playoff rotation pieces for at least two rounds. If the front office did literally anything besides sit and watch this past offseason we probably have better chances to begin with.
lexalander
It was 100% a choke/failure
SnooPets752
Being up 20 points in the 3rd quarter of a game 7 and losing… I mean, that’s a failure.
Sounds like Malone’s just trying to CYA
romayyne
Brilliant words
12aragon
Kind of ironic considering how he angrily reacted to the bad question at the postgame conference
rfgrunt
Season was a failure since the expectation was to repeat. But it wasn’t any more than a marginal failure. I truly believe the difference between last year and this was health and hunger. Get some rest, come back strong and now have a greater appreciation of the consistency (and some luck) it takes from game October to June to win.
jrblockquote
Winning in today’s NBA is harder than ever. Nuggets had a very good follow up season to their championship. I look forward to next season.
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Feels like a failure to me, but maybe I’m just being emotional.
Stop quoting Giannis, accept the failure and get back on winning.
Season was not a failure in my opinion. Fighting through injuries all season, we were lucky to be the 2nd seed. Got a bad matchup with a team that got a great draw in the playoffs and was piping hot. Murray needs to refocus his recovery and figure out how he can stay healthy consistently. Will be interesting if he plays for canada or not. Braun looked really good in spots in the playoffs. Watson grew a lot. Hopefully strawther can get into the fold and be a shooter shot creator off the bench. Clearly defending the championship without overwhelming top end talent is nearly impossible. The past few repeat teams had at least 2 top ten guys. Jamal played like a top ten guy last postseason. If we got that jamal this year, we win. Unfortunately he couldnt sustain.
He’s right you cant win every year. Spurs built a dynasty from the ground up and never repeated. Its about staying consistent and even as of right now we’re a top 3 team in the West going into next year. Just need to reinforce our bench and we’ll be back competing for a championship
It was definitely a failure, saying anything else is just coping tbh.
Not a huge fan of this press conference, wanted to see more fire out of Booth and Malone. Although if there are actual plans to change/improve the team I wouldn’t expect them to reveal it here.
Legitimately what?
They kept blowing leads all season which ultimately ended the playoff run, Jamal added another injury and kept bricking, MPJ’s shot faded out in the playoffs again for w/e reason, bench got downgraded which increased stress on Jokic.
I guess the buzzer beater and MV3 were pretty cool tho 😊 😊
Congrats MPJ! You get to stay!
Season was absolutely a failure. We had a chance to go back to back if not for complacency and bad management of both players and minute distribution in the regular season. If we don’t choke that Spurs game, or better yet several other games earlier in the season, we’re healthy, rested up, and up 1-0 in the WCF right now. If Malone stops being so damn stubborn about this stupid ass hard on he has for seniority and vibes merchant coaching CB and Peyton probably develop in the regular season enough to be solid playoff rotation pieces for at least two rounds. If the front office did literally anything besides sit and watch this past offseason we probably have better chances to begin with.
It was 100% a choke/failure
Being up 20 points in the 3rd quarter of a game 7 and losing… I mean, that’s a failure.
Sounds like Malone’s just trying to CYA
Brilliant words
Kind of ironic considering how he angrily reacted to the bad question at the postgame conference
Season was a failure since the expectation was to repeat. But it wasn’t any more than a marginal failure. I truly believe the difference between last year and this was health and hunger. Get some rest, come back strong and now have a greater appreciation of the consistency (and some luck) it takes from game October to June to win.
Winning in today’s NBA is harder than ever. Nuggets had a very good follow up season to their championship. I look forward to next season.