Snotbubbles wrote:DanTown8587 wrote:Let's say that it's true that the Sixers hit on every draft pick, the problem will come with affording them. One of the problems that comes with great success at the top of the draft, you have to pay everyone that second contract and we can see what happens when you don't (OKC). SO yeah, maybe Embidd/Noel/Saric/This guy this year/Some guy next year are all really good but that window isn't open for a decade, it's probably smaller and then you have the problem of having to make the right decision. And then get lucky.
New Orleans, SOLELY because they have Davis, is more likely to be a dynasty because dynasties in almost all cases have a top 3 (at worst) player on their team and Philly, even if guys max out, probably doesn't have that.
OKC could have kept Harden, they chose not to.
The Sixers don't really need to hit on one guy, Houston didn't draft their superstar, but what Houston did have were the assets to do a sign and trade with a team who didn't/wouldn't go in the luxury tax area. If the Sixers hit on every draft, they would most certainly be a dynasty. Deciding which superstar to keep should they all reach their potential would be such an awful problem to have.
One, the point about Harden is that it becomes hard for teams to justify giving out four or five max contracts so there becomes an issue when you say they're going to hit on all these contracts.
Two, Houston has won what, two playoff series in three years with Harden? Now they're a dynasty?
Three, name me a team that played in multiple conference finals (which is the baseline of a dynasty or any top team) that wasn't built around a top 3 player? The only one was Detroit and they did it against a heavily diluted NBA due to the HS rule and the fact that the best players in the league (KG, Duncan, Nash, Kobe, Shaq) spent the majority of that time in the West and once the East built themselves up with top 5 players (LeBron, Wade) all of the sudden, the Pistons stop winning.
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