SOUL wrote:jezzerinho wrote:Which means they don't have to be like that. There are infinite alternative courses of action. And so when fans ask why none of the myriad other courses of action ever seem valid to the Orlando FO, it's a very convenient but totally invalid argument to offer "it was always going to be that way" as the explanation.
On the flip side though, people were also saying to move on from Suggs after his first two seasons and also saying Paolo would leave our first season if we didn't completely overhaul the roster. We also are coming off a prior rebuild that failed while trading away guys like Oladipo for horrible trades that failed because fans got impatient that the roster wasn't better.
It's just hard for me to take a lot of the whining seriously when we had a 47 win team (that probably should've gotten 50 wins with some of the losses we had) with one of the youngest teams in the league and not great offensive pieces.
So yeah, while the FO could be more active, the whole acting like this rebuild is a failure thing is just not fair either. I even asked before the season if (outside of injury) people would accept losses as a trade-off for integrating and developing guys like Jett/TDS/Black more and people seemed down with it, when in reality, I think any sort of losses just bother people regardless if it's good process or not.
I just want to put it out there that at no point in the last few seasons did it seem logical that Jett, TDS, or Black should be
given starters minutes at the expense of losses. Ok maybe the case for Black over Fultz…
That being said, having those guys buried so deep into the bench, that they never saw playing time, IS counter intuitive to development.
That’s what the context IS between developing prospects and acquiring a functioning offense being run. At the very worst, you want these guys capable of earning minutes even if it comes at the expense of not playing short term juggernauts like Gary Harris and Cole Anthony
.
On the other hand, acquiring a point guard so that the entire offense works properly isn’t some crazy far-fetched wishlist situation when you consistently see this FO pay a bunch of nobodies, 3rd string unit guys, and streaky journeyman. Like.. we are aware those are different situations right?
One is obviously more important to developing players you are signing max contracts for and the other is hoping your investments become
anything worthwhile with in-game minutes.
It isn’t some “gotcha” concept that advocating for either of those situations aren’t mutually exclusive. You want to make sure those max guys are IN a good system, while making sure your lotto picks aren’t rotting behind scrubs that show up once every 4 games if it can be avoided.
I have no doubt that the defense on this team is good enough to win a bunch of games against bad teams when healthy. The problem becomes when the offense being carried by 2 guys becomes easily schemed against because there is no growth in terms of a system. Like are people just hoping Suggs hits 8 3’s a game or AB becomes 6’7 Chris Paul as a solution? Let be real here.
