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Originally Posted by dammage79
I am of the opinion that a team in a rebuild simply does not trade their 1st round pick in two consecutive years. That's poor. Even if you're not a fan of the players after the top 6, you trade down at worst if you think you can get the player you want plus a couple of assets.
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The only reason for doing so would be acquiring a player for the future that is also further along their development path and can help the team sooner. It also means a more defined basement when you already know the development is going as planned. There's nothing wrong with that, and that's what they did in acquiring Dougie Hamilton. You hope that a draft pick turns into a player when you make it, but if you're getting a young player who you already know will be a player, then you're skipping steps 1 and 2 and you're essentially trading a high pick for a high pick of a couple drafts ago. There's no real loss. So I don't understand why it would be poor, if a trade was made under the same circumstances as last year, especially if we don't draft top 3 where the surefire top end forwards will be picked.