Rerisen wrote:kyrv wrote:The list of teams that bottom out and draft a top 3 pick superstar and win a title with that player continously on the team is really really short in recent decades. The amount of outrage (not from you, to be clear), does not seem to be warranted, given the stacked odds against sucking teams winning titles.
Every method is a really short list of title winners. But the one thing 85% or more of them all share is elite superstar talent. The frustration is really with that the Bulls aren't looking to get 1 single shot to pick where these players vast majority come from. And a lot of it is self-inflicted due to how they didn't totally dismantle superfluous pieces in the offseason.
After this year the Bulls will almost certainly get some degree better yet, and then it may be another 5-10 years before the next rebuild is executed before they'll get another similar chance. That would have been fine if they thought Dunn, Lavine, Lauri had that kind of talent so that it wasn't needed via the draft, but realistically do they?
Golden State's best player: 7th pick in the draft.
Cleveland's best player- acquired as free agent.
Boston's best player- (KG), acquired in trade.
San Antonio's best player- drafted #1 overall.
Miami's best player- acquired as FA.
Lakers best player(s)- acquired with 13th pick in the draft (Kobe), and as free agent (Shaq).
Dallas' best player- acquired with 9th pick in the draft.
Detroit's best player- hard to say, no real superstar on this team
So only San Antonio actually acquired it's superstar talent via being in the top spot in the draft. No other team has had a top pick in the draft, and had that player lead them to a title (Lebron with CLE, but he actually left town, before coming back).