kulaz3000 wrote:For fans that are draft obsessed, this probably isn't the most appealing part to rebuild your team, but considering how the majority of our best players being 25 years or younger, we've somehow manage to find ourselves in a decent position to rebuild on the fly. It's just a matter of whether the front office goes all in on someone like Zion or LeMelo and disrupts the identity that we look to be building. Playing fast, playing hard, and playing together - these are the types of players that the front office should have always surrounded Billy around.
The reason to prioritize the draft is to get contending ceiling young talent that you can’t otherwise convince teams to trade to you. It remains, objectively speaking, by far the most likely way to obtain the types of elite franchise players every team needs, despite those odds still being poor. It’s just inherent to how it works.
But if you have young contending level talent on your team the scale slides and priorities change. Some fans - whether they believe it or not and I don’t believe they do and are being deliberately intellectually dishonest - love to claim “tankers” just mindlessly want to tank until they get Wemby. Not at all true.
With Giddey’s play, which I am now fully convinced is sustainable, and Coby’s rise as a seemingly ideal backcourt mate who fits with Giddey hand-to-glove (offensively), tanking does become less important. It’s a spectrum.
It would still be best, barring some legit franchise talent actually wanting to come to Chicago, to rise and fall with the youngsters for one more full year to see though. We should, for whatever that looks like, stay young to maximize our picks the next two drafts.
