It's hard to get good draft picks or even good prospects when the teams for the last 10-15 years have been fluctuating between mediocrity of missing the playoffs by a few points, to just making it in, or near the top. When you're stuck in mediocrity constantly and wanting to make the playoffs, the past GM's would rather give away those low end picks for something more tangible to bolster the playoff hopes. I think the only GM's that actually had the balls to sink as low as possible for rebuilding was Feaster and it sucked that Tre had to come in and decided that the rebuild is over. This team had 2 great opportunities on generational drafts and wasted them. Guess we'll see if Conroy has learned from the past. He's definitely in the right direction this past season, albeit one season too late.
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