jezzerinho wrote:Sane wrote:GiannisAnte34 wrote:
It’s much more difficult to build a team that has a top 3 player than it is to fill out role players. I don’t think you’re coming to the table in good faith if you’re suggesting it’s easier to start over from scratch.
That's the most insane thing I've ever heard. Every season the NBA is littered with several teams who are stuck around an expensive roster. Maybe 1 out of each 10 teams that tank and rebuild will become a cautionary tale. Treadmill teams are way more common.
There are people here who have been a part of franchises that are not major cities and are almost always between good and great. The days of teams outside the big markets not knowing how to rebuild is over. It's completely over, there's a working model and anyone can guarantee you your low bar of 3 straight first round exits with an overpriced roster if that's what you're clinging on to. Most do better than that.
You just accumulate picks slowly until you have roughly 12 picks. It's that simple. You wait as long as it takes. Might take 3 years, might take 5 years. There's no deadline. With Giannis, you have a deadline. Given your username I bet you think it's longer, but historically elite players who rely on athleticism and have gone to the FT line a lot will always be done younger than skilled players. Giannis has 2-3 years left of being your 1A before you'll have to get him a 1A. It's ridiculous to say it's easier to turn a 1st round exit capped out roster into a champion within a few years, than it is to rebuild with no deadline.
Before you say you can ride it out with Giannis then rebuild, first of all you're not understanding that you're wasting a star's career. He has to retire from his job in his 30's. Might not matter to you that he ho-hummed his way through those last years so the Nigerian man can dance and entertain you, but it matters to everyone else on the planet including Giannis. This is serious stuff. His job is not like your job. His passion has an expiry date.
Talk about good faith. You literally are terrified of being relevant without Giannis. What are you going to do when he retires? That's it, it's over for the Bucks franchise? Even with the elite draft picks you'd get from Giannis you don't believe you can build something worth a damn? That's where you're coming from a place of irrational fear so please, don't talk to me about good faith. You've forgotten that Giannis was not a superstar before he became a superstar.
A very poorly thought out and worded paragraph on your part. I get what you intended, but that was very offside. And in the end, if GA decides to stay it was HIS choice. You're pretending like you want him to choose but you clearly don't.
I pay the rent by writing things so don't worry about my writing. I said exactly what I meant.
So should I say you're pretending and you say I'm pretending? That's a conversation? No, it's just avoidance. Believing someone else is pretending just because you don't agree with them or understand them is something children do. Grow up.
