Jamaaliver wrote:macd-gm wrote:I thought you were saying this summer would have been a great chance to acquire talent to build a contender.
^That is literally what I'm saying.
That if we had started the rebuild after 2016 when it was obvious we
couldn't re-acquire the magic of the 2015 season....
If we had never wasted money on Baze. If we had never wasted money on
Baze Dwight.
If we had gone and traded Millsap to ORL for Oladipo, Sabonis and Ilyasova.
If we had bottomed out and been terrible on purpose for multiple seasons -- acquiring multiple lottery picks in the process.
After drafting in the 2017 lottery, and again drafting in the 2018 lottery....then today, in this buyer's market of free agency...we could
add a half dozen solid Free Agents to the core of young talent we'd acquired through drafting (and trade).
This summer's buyer's market is unlikely to be available again anytime soon.
I wish we were further along in our rebuild to take advantage.
Thus my original statement:
Jamaaliver wrote:I really regret we didn't start our rebuild a year early and could be big spenders this summer when few other teams have space.
Rebuilding properly is not only tanking and doing absorb + asset deals with open cap, but also about timing and knowing when to blow it up.
My hometeam Lakers did the exact same mistake in not realizing how screwed we were when Kobe went down with major injury. We rolled the dice HARD trading for DHo (for a song in retrospect) and trading a KING's ransom for **** 38 year old Steve Nash (basically 2 FRP for the privilege of feathering his 30mil retirement fund). After DHo bolted and Kobe's career effectively over due to major injury, we should've
A) not extend a crippled Kobe to a massive deal that ate like 40% of the cap, that Jeannie Buss justified as paying him for all his past accomplishments (and handcuffing her brother from improving the team leading to his eventual ouster)
B) traded Pau Gasol when we still had the chance, for ANYTHING, instead of letting him expire
C) Whore out our cap space during years where we had no chance of winning a thing (IE Kobe swansong years), to pile up assets to do something
Only smart thing we did during that era was have Byron "Tank Master General" Scott, beautifully conduct a 2 year tank job to get top #2 overall picks.
Then we **** it all up by signing Deng and Mozgov... sigh.
I'm just glad LBJ wants to chill in LA and be treated like a King til his retirement, at least we wont be seeing obscene unwatchable basketball anymore. Just gotta pray our kids pan out...
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