Nalod wrote:its all good but it will feel awful. Uncle Nalod just reminding you rebuilding is a process and it will hurt at times.
Some of you will accuse me and others as being "not caring" or "sugar coating it"....but its not that, its just the path to success has to be this way. Its a process and pain is included.
I see where you are coming from, and I get what the tone is supposed to be here, but no rational, functional and competent NBA front office will consider what you say to actually make sense.
The position you are really taking is it's going to suck now but it will pay off. This is not a functional front office mindset.
It MIGHT pay off. Odds are against it. But it's better than the alternative, which is zero chance at all.
Too many casual fans operate in absolutes. They think, oh , draft this dude this year, sign this guy next, then draft this guy and it will all work out. No one accounts for margin of error. Teams will miss on picks. Even elite ones.
"Rebuildng" and "Development" implies too much on outcome dependence.
It's really a "dart throw"
Using the NBA draft is throwing darts. But that 1 percent chance is better than zero percent chance.
There is no "Process" run by any NBA team. There are some loose guiding market principles and teams try to make the best choices they can given the time and place. Boston had no idea Kyrie Irving would be on the market. Houston had no long range plan to get James Harden. Complicated situations opened up narrow opportunities that can't be replicated.
If more people called it and recognized it as a basic "Dart Throw" then you'd see less arguing about what the Knicks have to do to get better.
Teams are fighting for OPPORTUNITY, not CERTAINTY. Many fans want to operate to certainty and it simply doesn't exist.