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Originally Posted by Samonadreau
You don't trade a 1st rounder woth no lottery protection because you hope eventually the team will be good but dont expect it to payoff this season.
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Barely making the playoffs is not a "payoff". A payoff is going deep.
Obviously Tre will be disappointed if we miss out and the pick has any lottery chance but maybe he figured even if we miss we will be super close and he's willing to take that 1-2.5% chance if we are right out of the playoffs. Maybe the scouting staff didn't like the look of the top 3 so they figured the risk was minimal.
Not to mention that maybe it was the only way the trade got done for that price and he didn't want to have to add.
I'd happily give up 1 lottery pick this year if it means a cup next year or the year after or the year after etc.
People are way too obsessed with the insanely slim chance we pull a Philly and draft top 3.
More likely we finish in bottom 10 without the players he's acquired via trade. At some point you have to move on from being obsessed with top picks and actually try to win and accept that there's some risk with doing so. No one wants to be Edmonton. It doesn't work.