eagereyez wrote:
Meh. The odds that it is a high lottery pick is quite high, as is the likelihood that several players in next years' draft fit aside Embiid and Simmons, as is the likelihood that the player we'd get at #3 is as good as Fultz. If Fultz is a star, BC wins. But I don't see that. I see a very good player, like six of the other top prospects. Fultz is not a full "top ten pick" better than DSJ in my book.
Matter of fact, "fit" is a two-way street. Fultz absolutely does not fit the logjam Boston has at guard. If Sixers' fans were foolish to expect a great return when we have a logjam, how do we justify paying Boston a ransom when they can't use Fultz in the first place. They don't even have minutes for Josh Jackson.
We also have $50M to find players that fit. The old adage is draft for talent, free agency is for fit. BC was supposed to use his relationships to leverage that money into something nice that "fits".
Moreover, "fitting" into BC's conception of a basketball team means we're not going to focus on defense, and are likely to plateau at some point in the future. Consider his boy, Mike D'Antoni. Pretty much same credentials as BC, and we brought him in. He gets a job coaching the Rockets, and they finish exactly as D'Antoni's teams always do--in the playoffs, bounced in the second round, because they don't take defense serious enough.
Getting Fultz is nice. But giving up LA18 says that now and in the future, we're in for consistently mediocre decision-making. How can the team itself not reflect that, eventually? Championship dream dying a death of a thousand cuts.
I'ma drink a glass of water and go calm down.
