YosemiteSam wrote:Look, I get that we have been bad for 5 years in a row now, but others have been bad for longer or worse in even more recent memory, but take a look at this round up from ESPN
2017 NBA Summer Forecast: ESPN predicts the season
Our complete lack of presence within EVERY category is the most damning. We are not even interesting in our badness - we are irrelevant. Click into the story on each category and see we aren't even barely mentioned in the "Others Receiving Votes" categories. Isaac got ZERO votes for best Rookie, even Markkanen got one vote!
The only mention I found was our prized #6 Isaac pick for Worst Newcomer of the Year.
I will tell you that I work in Marketing and where this team is as a brand both nationally AND locally is a really bad place to be - what you do not want is for no one to talk or think about you. If Martins is the businessman people seem to think he is he better figure out how to get this turned around quickly. Irrelevance is death in today's hyper-competitive world.
By the way, this is why I still believe we should have chosen Smith over Isaac - this year we needed to look for talent and charisma (in game play) - a shy project was just a stupid business decision for 2017.
This is what happens when you don't commit to a full rebuild and keep drafting just outside the legit star range in the draft year after year. We get some interesting young talent but we are just going to treadmill as a terrible team with no identity and no chance at the top picks we need to turn things around. This is why i don't mind a big trade because as it stands I just see us heading for another rebuild.