jrodmc wrote:4 1st rounders with only two decades between them. A truly great and novel point. Yes, we should tank, since we're now overdue for draft pick success!
Me thinks the point was not to tank but to consider the true upside potential is to draft your core. Teams can also trade appreciating assets for picks also. While SAS had the incredible good fortune of getting Duncan, just as important managed his career, minutes and build around him without starphuckingly panic tactics to span a lenghthy run. You do that with draft picks and forsight. Look at the current roster and how it was constructed. Patience. Even Kwai leonard was form a pick obtained from trading George Hill. Hill put Parker on the bench at one point. They developed Hill, then traded him. They also managed their cap by doing so. Splitter is no world beater but he was picked and incubated overseas. They gave up on Dejuan Blair then pay him long term.
Not to say everything they do turns to gold, but they are thoughtful longer term.
If this is truely the mecca then fans should understand that the star system is not the way to long term success.
Thus, we are really not the "mecca", we are starphucher short term gradification revenue worshipping franchise.
While JRod preaches being patient and not panicking, and I do agree BTW, the real forces that run the franchise don't think this way.
Thus, real fans are left to stew in the somber because there is little hope under the current thinking.
If you buy stocks when they reach all time highs, your not really appreciating in value.
This is not about Denver and the trade anymore, Or the Nets and what they are or not doing, or even Melo, its about the product on the floor. Bargnani is an Isiah type trade. We keep doing the same thing with new cast of players.
I can be patient but to what end? Look forward to Tyson and Amare come off the books? A new starphuch coach? Get caught up in the hype of UK boasting of Iman "Kobe lite" Shumpart? Baron Davis to return?
Way I see it (its dark) if we pay Melo 33mil we are screwed. If we lose him we are screwed.
The Mecca don't change any of the above.
