Bensational wrote:There’s two sides to that coin though. I’m obviously big on rebuilds, drafts and development so I get excited about those. But if people look at the 10 year long rebuild we’ve been on with 9 lottery picks over that time plus a couple of mid-1sts, and of all that we haven't found a single cornerstone player yet or even someone who can consistently average 20ppg efficiently on a winning team. If you look at that track record and come away skeptical can anyone blame you? Similarly, if you ‘make your own luck’ and convince yourself Bamba is a superstar, then you could equally be setting yourself up for future failure if he doesn’t live up to that.
I’d be happier if some of our opinions and discussions didn’t exist in the far, absolute ends of spectrums so there was at least some chance of finding a middle ground.
I think that's a different discussion entirely though. To me, what I'm referring to is a mindset thing rather than being on one side or another. Like what you're alluding to, imo, is there are obvious positives and negatives to tanking or trying to compete year in and year out, and I've always existed somewhere in the middle depending on what our FO's intention is. I'm for the tank at this moment because we've shown a clear intention to do that. My expectations adjust as things change. People should always question things even when we have a good team because it's being proactive instead of reactive, which is important in the NBA.
However, I disagree on thinking people should always expect the worst when there is no concrete evidence behind something happening. Will Holmgren be more injury prone than Jabari or Banchero? Who knows. Maybe he'll be the least injured one of them all. Will we drop in the draft? Maybe, because it's mathematically the most likely thing to happen. Are we screwed if we don't get a top 3-4 pick? No, because year after year we see picks all throughout the first round change the hopes of fanbases. That's not selling people a false reality, it's the most common sense way of looking at things, but that doesn't also mean everything is going to work perfectly either.
What I'm basically saying is, if a bird **** on you when you go outside, you shouldn't expect that to happen every time you go outside. People are skittish and nervous and superstitious even about the Magic, I understand that, but to me that's just an extremely negative way to live in general and is just as delusional as an eternal optimist that sees nothing wrong at all.
