beasonu wrote:And100 wrote:beasonu wrote:Warriors, Thunder, Spurs?
The rest is LeBron bro.
I am the biggest advocate for draft picks. Wish we had Hinkie. You either need LeBron or lucky and incredible draft picks to win in this dominant league.
Listen, the Golden State Warriors could very well become a powerhouse, but you can't define contending as consistently making it out of the second round in one sentence and ID a team who has made it out of the second round once (this year) as an example of who you're talking about.
Undermines whatever else you have to say.
Bogut got hurt last year if you didn't remember. Warriors had it to come out of the West. He is their anchor and it ruined them. . Curry had busted ankles up until last year too.
This team has been a contender for atlas the past year, they just needed to develop.
So I can't say you have to build through the draft because the Warriors didn't win it all coming right out of the gate through all those injuries? Right bro. If the Warriors didn't have those 4 first round picks (Steph, Klay, Dray, Barnes) they'd be nothing.
Knicks are stuck here having to sign a prize of Greg Monroe now. You're right though, build through FA. Really works.
You need 6 key guys to have a contender. Unless it's LeBron, atleast 3 have to be legit guys you drafted. Knicks won't have that again until 2018. Thanks again Isiah, Grunwald, Walsh. Such a joke.
Actually, we're going to draft one guy this year and use our money to sign guys like Monroe and be #4 seed and non contender for forever.
You're making a common mistake. I take exception to a inconsistency in your argument and you assume I'm arguing the Knicks SHOULD sign Greg Monroe OR that I'm arguing against draft picks.
Why do people have to do that.
YOU said something specific, but what you didn't specify was that you're giving credit to GS for being a contender despite not qualifying per the criteria YOU identified.
I'd also remind what GS did with their 2013 and 2014 draft picks.
The Warriors don't exemplify the execution of a strategy. We can name more than a 1/2 dozen teams who picked in the lottery as often and with equal to average picks from 2009-2012 who didn't happen to pick Curry, Thompson and Green.
The Warriors got lucky. And yes, they gave themselves the option of being lucky by holding onto those draft picks, I acknowledge. But the Knicks could as easily be the Wolves or Kings or Jazz or Hornets or Pistons.
That's a statement of fact. It's not the argument of a side.
