fishonjazz
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I think the best way to build a team is around a star.
What's the best way to get a star?
Well let's look at the teams reamaining and their stars.
Warriors: curry (drafted), thompson (drafted), green (drafted, I think. Not 100% sure)
Thunder: westbrook (drafted), durant (drafted)
Cavs: lebron (drafted originally and then free agency but we know his situation is very unique wanting to win a title for his hometown), kyrie (drafted), love (traded for.... Using a draft pick as the key piece of the trade. Wiggins.)
Raptors: derozan (drafted I think), lowry (traded for)
So looking at that list it seems that drafting and developing your own players is the best way to go. Even the ones traded for (love and lowry) are the worse players of the star players. And love was acquired because of the cavs having a good draft pick.
The jazz have done their best to get as many high draft picks as possible in the hopes of drafting and developing their own stars. They came close with Hayward and favors. A few guys on the roster could still develop into stars. They have a bunch of picks in future drafts for some more attempts in the crapshoot that is drafting a star.
Some of those teams got lucky in the lottery and moved up due to ****ing ping pong balls.
Some of those teams tanked hard (I believe curry was a result of a tank and Thompson was a result of currys injured ankles. Being great requires lots of luck) and the jazz tanked pretty hard 2 years ago bit not quite hard enough. Corbin was trying his hardest to win every game unfortunately. (Luckily corbins best efforts to win still resulted in a top 5 pick). We have lost ****ing coin tosses with other teams.
If one of our draft picks is a home run like durant, curry, westbrook, lebron or klay then we are sitting pretty.
Even the spurs. Best player is Leonard (drafted), duncan (drafted), parker (drafted), ginobli (drafted?), aldridge (free agent who wanted to go to the spurs to have a chance at a title..... Due to the fact that the spurs had a lot of good players that they drafted).
What's the best way to get a star?
Well let's look at the teams reamaining and their stars.
Warriors: curry (drafted), thompson (drafted), green (drafted, I think. Not 100% sure)
Thunder: westbrook (drafted), durant (drafted)
Cavs: lebron (drafted originally and then free agency but we know his situation is very unique wanting to win a title for his hometown), kyrie (drafted), love (traded for.... Using a draft pick as the key piece of the trade. Wiggins.)
Raptors: derozan (drafted I think), lowry (traded for)
So looking at that list it seems that drafting and developing your own players is the best way to go. Even the ones traded for (love and lowry) are the worse players of the star players. And love was acquired because of the cavs having a good draft pick.
The jazz have done their best to get as many high draft picks as possible in the hopes of drafting and developing their own stars. They came close with Hayward and favors. A few guys on the roster could still develop into stars. They have a bunch of picks in future drafts for some more attempts in the crapshoot that is drafting a star.
Some of those teams got lucky in the lottery and moved up due to ****ing ping pong balls.
Some of those teams tanked hard (I believe curry was a result of a tank and Thompson was a result of currys injured ankles. Being great requires lots of luck) and the jazz tanked pretty hard 2 years ago bit not quite hard enough. Corbin was trying his hardest to win every game unfortunately. (Luckily corbins best efforts to win still resulted in a top 5 pick). We have lost ****ing coin tosses with other teams.
If one of our draft picks is a home run like durant, curry, westbrook, lebron or klay then we are sitting pretty.
Even the spurs. Best player is Leonard (drafted), duncan (drafted), parker (drafted), ginobli (drafted?), aldridge (free agent who wanted to go to the spurs to have a chance at a title..... Due to the fact that the spurs had a lot of good players that they drafted).