lilfishi22 wrote:Revived wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:That's exactly their point. Nobody cares what's gonna happen to some 7th grader in 2031. They are focused on building a contender.
What contender? They already failed badly at building one EVEN WHILE trading every fcking pick and taking on the worst contracts in all of North American sports.
So the solution to “building a contender” is trading even more picks crappy overpaid old-ass players?
Yeah so they couldn't build it properly this season. They'll have another opportunity this offseason to build one.
That would honestly be great news if that was at all realistic given what we know of the league and corresponding value tiers! But currently, the popular trend is exciting young talent being key inclusionary pieces to impact trades. Our best-remaining assets are what again? the 30th pick in every other draft? What team gets really hyped up or excited by the idea of the very last pick in the round of a draft? Or some random pick at least 7 years out? I mean sure he keeps saying that there are 29 other teams that would give up their entire rosters' and picks to be in our current situation, But of course offers no substation or vetted confirmation for this claim because he knows it's absolute disingenuous hyperbolic BS.
I'd honestly love to be able to get behind this idea that we'll get better next season and experience much more success! But hyperbolic statements like the ones that Ishbia are making just significantly diminish any credibility he has when neither he nor his puppet "yes man" GM James Jones can even give an idea of how they'll achieve this miraculous outcome. Also, neither can accurately identify and explain how this team failed so spectacularly. All they continue to offer is vague responses and open-ended non-committal responses saying the answer to our problems is absolutely this, BUT.... it could also become this......... too unless it isn't either of those at all?? It's the functional equivalent to saying of saying....................... We have the answers people are looking for, we just don't know which answers contextually apply to those issues. Or we have a plan, but we just can't share it yet because we don't yet know the logistics of it!
Just like Ishbia, I could say something outrageous like............... Next season we're going to acquire Luka Donci in a trade, and then we're going to get Giannis too in a follow-up deal, acting all excited and confident! excitedly envisioning it in my mind too! But how many would take me seriously, if I didn't give a valid explanation of how I came to that astoundingly miraculous outcome? It sounds good and exciting of course! But reality tells a very different story than what my imagination does. Ishbia keeps making these outrageously bold statements when the contextual reality and historic precedence or even recent outcomes tell us a very different story. But somehow we're all supposed to buy into this hype machine premise without him ever sharing how this result gets done. It's just incredibly silly and somewhat offputting for someone in charge of this franchise to make such unvalidated sensationalist claims all while telling us to ignore recent context.