Missing Wemby (franchise player), Harper (6th man) and Castle in the first half (starting PG). Those are arguably our 3 most impactful players, yet nobody is panicking, shortening the rotation and overplaying guys on a regular season game in november.
And it's not only that, it's the game plan too. Most contenders will make minor adjustments depending on matchups but, in general, they just play their system. Udoka treats every single regular sesson game like game 7 of a playoffs series. He would drastically change the way they do things just to adapt to a particular matchup. Which might not sound like a bad thing, but when you are expected to be a contender, you shouldn't need to go balls to the wall everygame. You should be able to get by with your generic system and not showing your hand for future, more important, matchups.
I told you this would happen last season and it is exactly what happened, yet here you are again arguing against it like the irreversible homer that you are, tbh.
