Damn. Just imagine our ceiling if we could've drafted someone like Terrence Jones.
Or Evan Fournier or Jae Crowder or Draymond Green or Khris Middleton. But that’s hindsight, obviously. Or had we have just lost two more games, including if just
one of those games were against Golden State, then you’d have been walking into the draft with the #8 pick and the #14 pick (assuming we didn’t move up in the lottery) instead of a first round sweep. Does #8 and #14 move you up two spots? There’s a pretty relevant name there.
But barring that scenario, you’re probably correct that the odds are we get a dud. You can hit into a double play swinging at a good pitch. You can hit a home run swinging in the dirt. But the long-term strategy of swinging at the good ones and passing on the bad will deliver more consistently solid results. And when we’re putting prime value on “bites at the apple,” so much so that deals are valued differently between 2 first rounders vs. 3, or 3 vs. 4, that same type of valuation should be at play.
But this is all irrelevant and, well, dumb right now. And we can acknowledge how dumb and short-sighted it is in hindsight.
It’s small potatoes comparatively, which is kinda the point.
