Its not a window issue anymore. This is a new team. Its reopening if anything. No team with Mike Bibby, Brad Miller, and Peja Stojakovic is an expansion caliber team. We knew coming into the post season that we didn't have the heigth or interior defense needed to make a deep run. What's happening right now was really pretty predictable, especially with Brad limited coming off an injury. If you assume Brad isn't 100% our frontline consists of Kenny Thomas who is one of the smallest 4's in the league, and Brian Skinner who would be pretty much the smallest starting 5 in the league.
Rick may have his games where he isn't all the way there and frustrates the crap out of me, but the fact that he got this team into the playoffs with the injuries and midseason changes has me thouroughly convinced he should be the coach of the year. Assuming we are healthy the last month of the season this is a different team. A championchip team? Probly not, but certainly much tougher than they look right now.
Im pretty annoyed by this massive doom and gloom stuff over one playoff series especially after suffering through around 15 years of teams that weren't even sniffing the tenth seed let alone the playoffs. Its still a pretty special team to watch, and they're participating in playoff basketball which is something that doesnt happen that often.