Luxury Tax Hell

[ThisIStheYear]

Hindsight is 20-20, isn't it?

A year ago, Brunson's ceiling was undersized, no-defense backup, with hopes he might one day become what JJB was, but wasn't really playoff caliber. And THJ was a full-sized SG with a good shot, who didn't shrink in the playoffs and might get even better, a shooter Luka needed to space the floor.

We'd all love to go back and reverse things last summer. What a great place they would be right now. Alas.

These are just people easily fooled by cognitive biases and small sample sizes who are plagued by wishful thinking and indecisiveness.  Over the course of the past two seasons, Jalen has remained almost exactly the same player, except for playing a few more minutes per game in 21/22.  As far as JB’s “development” goes, nothing surprising at all happened.  GMing apparently isn’t rocket science, but you’d expect better evaluation and planning skills from professionals.  You eff around and find out I guess.  The passivity and ad hoc management that led to JB leaving for absolutely nothing is a case study in failure.