2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[KillerLeft]

That's a fair point.  The Spurs are really the only example of a team that has consistently hit later in the draft over the past couple decades.

Yeah man, I heard an hour long interview with the Denver GM the summer before last, and the main point was (paraphrasing) "nobody is good at drafting. You just make educated guesses and hope for the best." 

If that's the attitude of the guy who has built a borderline contender almost exclusively through the draft, then I think our expectations for Mark Cuban and Donnie Nelson (lol) might have been just a tad high. I think the more legitimate complaint is that they flat out just stopped even trying to make picks, at some point. That's philosophical, imo, and should probably be almost singularly pinned on Cuban. 

Maybe Harrison will help steer the franchise away from that type of thinking, but unfortunately we're kind of to a point right now where those low first rounders and second rounders will be harder to work into the mix, anyway. The time to value the draft more, imho, was the time between about 2012-2020. Can't get another chance at that period.