Bonn1997 wrote:ramtour420 wrote:It doesn't pay to draft your core,most of the time its a fail. But the few times that it does work out , the whole future of the team can be changed with one player. Unless you are a crappy organization then it doesn't even matter.
I think that is misguided. Take the top 3 players on each of the final four NBA teams this year. 9 of the 12 players were drafted by their teams. My guess is that's similar to the percentage for any given year.
Wow. You totally destroyed my point with the appropriate stats. Um, let me try to recover a bit. Draft not only pays, but is the most efficient way to get talent(that's the way that it is designed to be).However, only a select few teams can really take advantage, and that advantage is based on luck just as much. So with luck being such a significant factor, its easy to assume that draft is a crapshoot. Just to throw a wrench into your statistics, out of 4 teams in the last finals we have the Heat with the historic addition of LeBron and that other guy. And the final 4 includes the Celtics, who made winning a chip seem like a foregone conclusion after getting their pieces together with trades and FA signings. Yes PP was drafted and eventually he got lucky to play with KG , Ray Allen and Rondo (who was a flash of brilliant drafting OR a lucky break, you take your pick).
Either way, one cannot build a champion without draft , but more importantly its the organization that makes a difference, which was really my original point.