Scase wrote:TorontoBarneys wrote:Scase wrote:When the blazers go into a rebuild sooner than the raptors. Just wow.
JRoy eating good these days. Even the "bad" Grant contract isn't a big deal to an actual rebuilding team and can be flipped for value return unlike us losing FVV for nothing. Even that mediocre FO is playing circles around Masai skill-wise. Sad to see.
You gotta love how a lot of the same posters being okay with trading Siakam now for pennies on the dollar gave out such honest arguments at the deadline like us turning into the Orlando Magic or Houston rockets and tanking for 10+ years due to being unavoidably terrible the moment we traded away the sacred cow.
Narrative is God to these people.
The dumbest part about those people claiming we will be the Magic/Rockets, is they are the same ones that preach "Trust in masai" and wax intellectuals about how great our drafting is.
So either we've got a great FO that can properly navigate a full teardown and rebuild. Or they are incompetent and we will be the magic 2.0. But with them, somehow it's both. Have faith in the FO, but only if I agree with the direction.
I'm convinced all the people like this are just fans of players and not teams, since I never hear "Yeah we should do this for the betterment of the team long term." but, instead it's always defending these players like they are family.
Or maybe you don't always need a full teardown or rebuild to transition into a new era. Why is it always full rebuild or nothing?
The Warriors never intentionally tanked. They got Curry with the 7th pick, Klay at 11, Draymond at 35 and made start signings.
Bucks found Giannis at 15 and Middleton later as well. They were a treadmill team at this time.
Denver got Jokic at 47, MPJ and 14 and Murray at 7.
Did these teams go through intentional and deliberate tear downs and rebuilds? Rebuilding is one option, but it's not the only option to secure talent. There are also circumstances where it makes more sense to rebuild. Portland won 33 games with a healthy Dame for most of the year and have been bad the last couple of years without much around him. It makes sense for them to get as much as they can for Dame at this juncture, especially considering he's 32.
The catch 22 is if you fully tear down your team, rebuild and get a superstar level talent, it takes years for that person to develop and if you don't build a great team around them, they will leave in free agency.
In 2016/2017 we seemed to be a stalemate in terms of our growth, but smart draft picks in Powell, Delon, Poeltl, OG, Siakam and the Fred pick up carried us through and added serious depth and talent despite only having 1 lottery pick.
You have to look at all options.
