Osirus89 wrote:ThunderBolt wrote:
The new nba means you build for a chance at a 2 year window and then blow it up. You don’t think the return for George was a little bit impressive?
I've lost complete faith in Presti at this point. The gravitation of stars to Los Angeles and New York has also made me more cynical about the landscape of the league going forward.
It feels like the team just has inevitable concerns even with Presti recouping picks for PG. A) Presti will either squander the picks on something stupid. B) The ownership will cheap out even in the event that the team hits on the draft picks because thats just the way they lean. C) The players that are drafted might just leave for greener pastures even if the team pulls a 180 and starts doing things properly just because of geography. It could be any one of those three alone or any combination of the three.
If Giannis leaves Milwaukee that will just drive the point home that small market teams are just not viable markets for NBA teams that want to win anything. They will simply be relegated to being farm teams for big markets which is how things used to be and now they have started to slide back in that direction unless the league tries to prevent it with wholesale changes to the cap, revenue rules, and max player contract structures in the next CBA.
The lakers have missed on free agents for years. They just missed again. The clippers and nets got all stars for the first time. They have been losers for decades. The Knicks are still a disaster. In this case I don’t think perception is reality. No one is building a decade long dynasty anymore. We lost Durant for nothing but overall we aren’t going to lose players for nothing. Some returns have been better than others. We can still build a team that can contend but we won’t have two or three guys that stick with us so we can contend for a decade. No one will. That’s the new nba. Maybe building with lower tier all stars like Conley or try to get a foreign player like Jokic is the way to go. I think the jazz have as good of a chance as anyone next year.
We can attract and keep high caliber players. We just need to get a real coach and quit trading for guys like Kanter and schroder. I don’t care if Presti leaves but I have more hope for the franchise than I did last night. As was already said, I think George is great but he may have peaked last year. I don’t think you are wrong with your frustrations. I just don’t think that last night made anything worse. To the contrary, I think it’s a step in the right direction.
