Bawse Dawg
Well-Known Member
Oh I definitely don't have the answer.How do you see the opposite way? What would it look like? Lets say we keep Lauri and we really try to go for it. What are some example moves we can do and where do they land us? Do they make us better than 8th seed Suns? Or 9th seed Lakers? Or 10th seed Warriors?
Just trying to be the voice of the average fan. And if you tell them that we need to bottom out for a couple of years to carry out the plan. They would (rightfully) ask what the hell these last two years were and why we didn't start then.
I don't think it is as crazy or unlikely as people seem to think, that we just run it back with a few new players from the draft and see what happens. We have a ton of picks in the upcoming years and you just hope you strike gold even if you are always outside of the top 7 when picking. It sounds like what you do if you really have no plan. But statistically finding our next star by just doing that and keeping the star already on the roster might be the best chance we have at becoming great.
It would really be following the Thunder model to make Lauri our Paul George, move our only good player and truly go in the tank. The issue there is that it can't just be about picks. You need to get SGA back in that trade. Which takes a confluence of amazing luck, circumstances, and a desperate team. Even if you can identify that player getting him for Lauri is still a big challenge, likely impossible.
It's just a bummer, even with hindsight saying they should have had top 5 odds for Wemby, that's still like a 10% chance at best. And if we had missed on him, then what? Miller seems like a great consolation. And otherwise no players from last years draft would have us feeling significantly different than we do now. So it just feels like being an unfair *** when I say they blew it by not going all in last year when that very likely doesn't work out either.