Neutral 123 wrote:Patman wrote:MEDIC wrote:Derozan continues to improve.
Jonas will improve significantly 2 years from now.
Rudy has always put up borderline allstar numbers.
We have more players to draft & more trades to make. Where would Indy be without Hibbert, George & West? None of these guys were top 5 picks. George was the only lottery pick & he went 10th.
Like Masai said.......we have to draft well no matter what pick we have.......1st, 3rd, 10th, 15th, 25th....
He's right. Too bad we haven't.
Yep, and it's consistent with a flawed mindset. When you falsely believe you already have a great core, and you draft on need, and draft guys who you think can fill a role and help sooner rather than later, you end up passing on a stud like Drummond. It's a losing strategy. But it seems the Raps will have to miss the playoffs for 20 years straight for some of these guys to understand that.
Exactly. Accumulating assets comes first. We've rarely accumulated assets. We've usually tried to "build a team" right away. Accumulating assets takes patience, but if done right, it pays huge dividends.
If OKC didn't stupidly trade Harden, they would have 3 of the Top 5 players in the league (as per ESPN rank). I'll concede that Harden might not have blown up in OKC like he did in HOU, but the potential was there. Dumb moves in the future does not mean that they screwed up by tanking. They went BPA all three years and it worked.