brownbobcat wrote:Los_29 wrote:Kingsway_fan wrote:
We had like the 6th worst record at the time. We had just as likely a chance as did San Antonio in a year when there was a generational talent...
What are you talking about?
We had a 26-30 record when we traded for Poeltl. And your math is insanely off. San Antonio had a much better chance than we did.
The 7th/8th slot was easily within reach if they had sold off at the deadline. On the same date, Portland was 27-28 and they ended up 5th worst. Those slots would've had a 6-10% chance at Wemby vs 14% for SA. For a truly
generational player - there is simply no excuse for trading for Poeltl instead of tanking at that point. And now we have to hear apologists talk about how Siakam was never worth much on the market anyway - so why did we hang on to him?
Portland is and was a terrible basketball team. Even they didn’t have the same odds as the Spurs despite being awful down the stretch.
I preferred to tank last year in January/February. With that said I didn’t mind the Poeltl trade before I heard about the light protections. Putting top 6 protections was insane and is Masai’s biggest blunder. It’s limited this team’s options moving forward.
The reality is though, despite there being a generational talent, very few teams decided to tank for him. Spurs and Rockets are the only two teams I can think of that actually wanted to be bad heading into the season.