ForeverTFC wrote:Scase wrote:MiamiSPX wrote:
Even though it hurts them long-term, I would have done the same thing. You're screwed anyway if/when Giannis asks out (and likely out of a job), so may as well grasp at straws here.
Exactly, your two options are trade them and go into an absolute full rebuild, which neither team can since they have none of their picks, and MIL had that Lillard contract weighing them down by the throat, or lean into it and mortgage that future even more for a shot now.
The latter is what we did, you know, minus having a player or a team worth doing it for.
When have we ever mortgaged out future? Over the last decade, we've never traded a pick beyond the current year and outside Poeltl, we've never traded a prospect. Our future has never been mortgaged.
If you think about it, we've been a very responsible team in that sense. We contended for half a decade, won a championship, pushed for playoffs for a few years and through it all, we never sacrificed our future. Very rarely done in this league.
I don't feel like getting into the entirety of it for the millionth time. But losing FVV, holding onto Siakam/OG for too long, trading for Jak, trading for BI. All of these things have negatively impacted the future outlook of this team, be it in draft position, actual picks, or the returns we received.
This is what happens when you re-tool, we are a capped out team with few prospects and a low ceiling. Not everything has to be as blatant as waiving 100+ mil in salary, the little things add up.
The Bucks are making some insane moves, but there is logic behind it, like us going for Kawhi. Calculated risk and if you flame out, no one will blame you for trying, the opposite of trading for a 28 year old with massive injury concerns and a PO which further limits flexibility....in the future, all for meaningless wins now.
