Clutch0z24 wrote:mdenny wrote:Clutch0z24 wrote:Even if we try to be good next year it WON'T happen lol....Scottie/IQ/Barrett not a winning team in the NBA just yet....Coach sucks...We have no real way to improve this team in the offseason...We will be a young bad team next year....
We had OG/Siakam for half the year last season ...That added about 10-15 wins to the team we had...Once we made them trades we were on pace as the Pistons/Spurs/Hornets level of bad....
We will be going for a top pick next year believe that...Ace Bailey i think is the target for Masai..
As for the people saying we should try to win next year cause the Hawks got the 1st pick....Just lol...As long as we are in the top 3 next year we will be fine....Hopefully top 2...If you hit top 2 next year and can pick between Cooper/Bailey...Thats franchise changing stuff...
Even if we came in dead last.....(which is highly unlikely)....we would still only have a 25% chance of getting a top 2 pick. We'd have a 50% chance of dropping to 5.
The flattened odds changed everything.
Yeah but you still have to give yourself that chance cause we are out of options anyways...We lost our draft pick to the Spurs so we lost a trade asset and also lost the ability to pick a player who could have been good for us this year....We are not signing any game changing players in free agency, IQ/Barrett/Barnes are not winning you many games without a deep supporting cast or the right players around them...
The roster as a whole is very bare bones with talent or high end NBA level talent...We will just not be good next year and even if we don't luck out and win the lottery next years draft is riddled with talent as long as we are in that top 5 range im fine...But obviously Ace/Flagg is the goal
Here is the disconnect tho:
We would not be adding that pick to our current core of players. We've adding that pick the core after they couldn't manage to win 25 games. Which means scotty is not the current scotty (we realize he is t nearly as good as we hoped) and some combination of RJ/IQ/dick are no longer as promising either.
In a vacuum...ppl think we add this pick to our current core. But our general valuation of our core would be diminished. So we lose value in the propsects we actually possess now in order to get another draft pick.
We can't tank next season without losing something (unless the tank is a product of injuries). And what we'd lose is the height of scotty's potential.