05-31-2022, 10:48 AM
(05-31-2022, 12:53 AM)F Gump Wrote: You're missing the point. It's not that the Mavs have to get every pick right - which no one does - but rather that they need to create a steady stream of cheap, bargain-priced, playable talent. A pipeline, as it were, rather than a one-off that happens here or there.
We are ships in the night, amigo. I was trying (poorly perhaps) to say even the great GSW hasn’t outperformed Mavs in the draft recently. I get your outside-the-top-10 focus, but I don’t understand leaving Brunson, Finney-Smith, Kleber out of the equation.
Your take is certainly the consensus view. At least it seems to be here. So I’m probably the one who can’t see reality. But I just can’t make myself care about late first-round picks. And I can’t make myself think the Mavs suck any worse than the rest of the league and making those picks.