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Originally Posted by Bunk
Ok, fine, but could either of those teams have won if their best player walked prior?
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You're moving the goalposts. The question is whether those teams could win without a top-3 draft pick, and clearly they did.
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The thing people are arguing is that it would be next to impossible to build your way to a championship team post best player walking.
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No, they are arguing that you need to do a complete tank and rely on winning the draft lottery.
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They gave it their shot to try to be Boston or St Louis, didn’t happen with their best core player. With him gone, it is just a fool’s errand to try to be that long shot that might somehow do it against all odds.
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It's an even bigger fool's errand to just twiddle your thumbs and resign yourself to losing until the lottery balls happen to fall your way.
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Our better odds are leveraging assets, building back through the draft and prospects attained.
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Which has nothing to do with magically picking in the top 3.