06-07-2022, 09:08 AM
(06-07-2022, 08:56 AM)dynamicalVoid Wrote: I dont know.I think you find talent no matter where it comes from (Draft, FA or Trades). The balanced approach to roster building is the best way to go. We’ve been a team that de-values the drafting aspect to team building and it shows on our roster. Can’t fix the past, only the present and future.
Just seems like there is so much talk about playoff basketball and one trick ponies getting played off the court. It would seem as though drafting the biggest 2way player is a sound game plan if the guys with traits that fit your teams schemes needs that you prefer are not available.
Personally...I think trading for players or trying to lure players in FA seems to be a constant overpay proposition. Just doesnt seem like a great long term plan. Drafting players that are reasonable on both ends that can be used in future trades seems more bulletproof than constant overpaying. Height is important...but 6'10 with very unpolished skills and hoping you can coach them up seems like an end game of having a cupboard full of flawed players....but tall.
Im just saying go after basketball players. Players that look like they were born with a ball in their hands....even if they are a few inches shorter. Go after those guys instead of projects.
I get it...you have to take risks if youre not a lottery team. The NBA gets 10 tall 2way guys a year and the drop off after that is significant. Eventually teams are loaded with tall 2ways and drafting shorter ones doesnt help when the competition has lotto picked tall 2ways.
Either way, the “simple” solutions you have been proposing may or may not have been discussed in FOs around the league. Every FO handles the draft the way they believe is the best way for their team after those discussions and I don’t think it’s as cut and dry as what you have been saying.