02-26-2021, 03:07 PM
(02-26-2021, 03:00 PM)loki Wrote: In hindsight I would have preferred the "process" as well, but that would have been a very difficult call to make in the moment. It's hard to make the call to tank when you just gave up next year's 1st to snag Luka.
KP would have been tempting no matter what, but who cares about the future pick you gave up? You got who you want in Luka. Your next goal should be to build a team around him. Most teams do that organically, especially if you aren't in a marquee market. Cuban just isn't patient. You can't always be in a win now mindset. And yes, it is all hindsight and like I said, I don't hate the KP trade but it did come with the pitfall of really screwing up the ability to build a team if he didn't work out. And when you hamstring your assets for a management team that can't draft or recruit free agents....we end up right where we are.