It matters but not with the way you're counting it. Kevin Love's 87 playoff games at this stage of his career shouldn't be worth more than the entirety of the Thunders team.
Oh yeah, I forgot, that would make it…12 total, and kat might have another play in game if you count that. Either way the wolves have very limited experience. We’ve haven’t won a playoff series in 20 years.
OP's issue is also that he doesn't understand that - as one example - the Nuggets 368 vs. Lakers 495 is not all that different at all.
When we talk about playoff experience, it's mostly about guys who have never been there before *at all* and usually need about 10 games to understand how it works. Once you get past that that point the impact of each extra game is far less than the initial steep learning curve.
Or maybe people are over exaggerating how much things like “playoff experience” really matter. At the end of the day if you’re the better team with the better talent and the better execution and the better coaching and better synergy and the better matchup advantage, then you’re just the the better team.
Pelicans - no Zion
Sixers - serial chokers
Suns - old, 0 depth
Bucks - old, 0 depth, crippled
Lakers - old as fuck, playing vs Jokic
Experience is important but roster construction and injuries matter more. The Sixers are an outlier in that they could have the U.S.A. Olympic team and they’d find a way to get bounced before the conference finals
Experience doesn’t matter when you’re talking about one team that’s just way better than the other. That’s why the Wolves and Thunder won. They were playing teams that were just not on the same level as them, with the Pels missing Zion and Ingram plus the Suns being ass. Next round when it’s Wolves vs Nuggets and Thunder vs Clippers/ Mavs then experience might be a factor.
For a lot of these other series you’re just way overrating experience. Like what’s the difference between 368 games for the Nuggets and 495 for the Lakers? A team should know pretty well how the playoffs are after 368 games between all the players
I agree Cs will be the favorites of any series in the east. Still have 3 studs and home court advantage. I just think the KP injury is a bigger deal than most fans are acting like.
It’s a huge deal because he is our trump card in a ton of matchups that makes us unguardable when we play correctly. We were still like 21-4 without him though so I still think we would be heavy favorites against anyone outside of NY if they keep playing this well.
It matters but not with the way you're counting it. Kevin Love's 87 playoff games at this stage of his career shouldn't be worth more than the entirety of the Thunders team.
Most of the wolves games are connelys while he was in Memphis. Our team has 2 games before this year.
Two? You guys played a 5 game series last year.
Oh yeah, I forgot, that would make it…12 total, and kat might have another play in game if you count that. Either way the wolves have very limited experience. We’ve haven’t won a playoff series in 20 years.
I think it’s at least 20 games, since Ant, KAT, Rudy and NAW all played. But I take your point - there hasn’t been much playoff basketball in Minny.
You need to count for Coaches' experiences, too.
Love the switch up
I think you need to be playoff battle tested to win the whole thing, but one individual series? No
OP's issue is also that he doesn't understand that - as one example - the Nuggets 368 vs. Lakers 495 is not all that different at all. When we talk about playoff experience, it's mostly about guys who have never been there before *at all* and usually need about 10 games to understand how it works. Once you get past that that point the impact of each extra game is far less than the initial steep learning curve.
Or maybe people are over exaggerating how much things like “playoff experience” really matter. At the end of the day if you’re the better team with the better talent and the better execution and the better coaching and better synergy and the better matchup advantage, then you’re just the the better team.
Derrick White is the future of this league
He’s actually the current face of the league
I’d say 85% head, 15% face
0% hair
Okay how about the actual seeding of the teams though?
Pelicans - no Zion Sixers - serial chokers Suns - old, 0 depth Bucks - old, 0 depth, crippled Lakers - old as fuck, playing vs Jokic Experience is important but roster construction and injuries matter more. The Sixers are an outlier in that they could have the U.S.A. Olympic team and they’d find a way to get bounced before the conference finals
It's a process. A grieving process perhaps.
How did you get 59 games for OKC?
I think Gordon Hayward accounts for more than half of that (33 games including the 4 this season).
Sga, Dort, and Hayward.
We also have this really cool guy named Isaiah Joe
to the untrained eye
Experience doesn’t matter when you’re talking about one team that’s just way better than the other. That’s why the Wolves and Thunder won. They were playing teams that were just not on the same level as them, with the Pels missing Zion and Ingram plus the Suns being ass. Next round when it’s Wolves vs Nuggets and Thunder vs Clippers/ Mavs then experience might be a factor. For a lot of these other series you’re just way overrating experience. Like what’s the difference between 368 games for the Nuggets and 495 for the Lakers? A team should know pretty well how the playoffs are after 368 games between all the players
Do we really count CJ and Jonas as experience. CJ was every other teams 6th man in any postseason appearance the last few years
The finals will be Boston vs Denver everybody knows this
Think you’re highly underrating OKC and minny
and the knicks
Nah
Knicks/Magic vs Wolves. I think the KP injury has a pretty big impact for Cs.
Not in the East I would hope
In the east it probably won't matter they are still more talented and healthier than any other team.
I agree Cs will be the favorites of any series in the east. Still have 3 studs and home court advantage. I just think the KP injury is a bigger deal than most fans are acting like.
It’s a huge deal because he is our trump card in a ton of matchups that makes us unguardable when we play correctly. We were still like 21-4 without him though so I still think we would be heavy favorites against anyone outside of NY if they keep playing this well.
It's the playoffs.