DuckIII wrote:League Circles wrote:DuckIII wrote:And the higher you pick the more options you have and the greater their trade value if you would prefer a quicker rebuild with vets.
This is only true if you totally ignore the moves required to pick higher.
No it’s not. My days of trying to convince flat earthers are over. All your arguments against the value of draft picks have always been awful and rebutted a thousand times with arguments that are not awful. Life is too short.
I very much wanted to pick higher in the draft, but I don't think there's a lot to be upset about with the decisions the organization made. These late season wins haven't been coming on the backs of vets(like in 2023, when Wemby was coming out, which absolutely drove me nuts and I will still criticize the organization for that); they're coming on the back of Giddey and Coby exploding and Matas showing some signs as well. There was no reason for anyone to think the team would do this well post-Zach trade, and I can't fault AK for thinking he'd done enough for the tank. And we actually did look pretty bad the first couple of weeks after the trade.
And also the teams below us have been so bad that we were realistically never going to get above #8. Philly refused to win, and then we had bad luck with Wemby going down, which enabled SAS to jump us too, and Miami traded Jimmy.
I mean, short of making up fake injuries for Coby and Giddey and swallowing the fines from the NBA, what else could we have done?
Anyway, we are at #10 right now, and SAS and Portland are close enough that we could still get back to #8.