What minimum finish at this point would satisfy you as a fan? Hard fought first round loss? Advance at least one round? A certain seed?
The realistic goal as a warrior fan is just making the playoffs. That's probably the teams goal as well. Only one playoff appearance since after the '93 season. That's alot of losing. Alot. With some horrible records in there. I think sometimes people forget how bad this franchise is/was. Cohen ran this team into the ground quickly. Lacob and Gruber seem to be doing a decent job thus far. My only main gripe is the hiring of Jackson. A no experience coach, with a young team just doesn't seem like a good idea.
One of the reasons I've been frustrated at times with this team this year is because the fact we finally have talent, and even bench contributors. So when we make bad mistakes, and there is poor coaching involved with games we don't play up to potential I get pissed. We have talent, the major issue is how unbelievably difficult the West is. The competition is pretty sick. Even though we have talent for the first time in awhile, the West is super talented.
Main concern is making the playoffs, after that, if we are able to get in, seed wouldn't matter so much as the matchup. Our only shot on winning a series maybe with the Clippers, or Memphis sans Gay. Spurs, OKC, and even Denver would be an ugly matchup for us.
With that being said, we just gotta keep winning. I've probably enjoyed this season more so than any other I can remember since the RUN TMC days. The 06-07 We Believe Warriors were real fun to watch, but the season itself was only saved in the last month of the season, and making the playoffs on the last night of the season. We went on a sick run the last month and a half just to get in. Then we had the epic playoff series win over Dallas. After that the Utah series seemed do be doomed from the start. The team was absolutely walled from the craziness of the last month and a half of the season.
Not making the playoffs could also be a possibility that would suck. Especially considering how poor this team played during the losing streak. We can't let that happen again. In 2007-08 after we made the playoffs, we finished 48-34, which got us 9th place and ended our season. Gotta love the western conference. Atlanta made it that year for the East 8 games under .500..lol.
That 6 game losing streak had me scared, but last night we seemed to be back on track.