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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
Look I understand that focusing on one statement like I did was kind of ####ty. It just feels like people have been devaluing the draft pick in order to defend the trade.
I recall this debate from the Darryl years when he was trading away picks and it's just that every time you trade away a pick you can justify it based on that same general argument. Personally I strongly believe in having a lot of tickets in drafts because eventually you hit on a player that changes the outlook of your team, so maybe I value the pick a bit more than others.
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I fully agree that picks are valuable.
But I think it is also important to not be blindly committed to a particular strategy. Even for a team ina rebuild that should be acquiring as many picks as possible, it is still entirely reasonalbe and sensible to use a pick to acquire an asset.
Especially when that asset is young, fills a need, and teh team is less than enamored with what they think is available with that pick in the upcoming draft.