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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
It was never that the re-build option was ridiculous. In fact I think there was quite broad support on this community for it.
I think the primary push back was that most people recognized it wasn't plausible. Meaning, the team simply wasn't going to do it based on where the core of this team is/was, and the historic behaviors of the ownership group.
It's the difference between asking SHOULD the team re-build and WILL the team re-build.
As I've said, you can debate if they are picking the right strategy, but at some point it only makes sense to shift the debate to how well they are executing the strategy that they've selected.
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And I think the time to decide to get hard for bedard was a couple of years ago, or at least before last season. The teams that are going to be in the bottom 10 and be lottery eligible are not teams that are going to pass us in the standings. Nor are they teams that will trade their picks. No one want's to trade off that 2023 1st unless they are 100% certain they are finishing clearly out of the lottery. So really, Tre could choose between gearing up to stay competitive, or trying to fire sale in the hopes that we were not only bad enough to have good odds for the lottery , but that we would also be successful in winning the lottery. Look how many 1OA's the coilers got before they struck gold with a top tier 3rd OA and then a generational talent. Plus it's a hard sell to get an arena deal when reverse retro means going back to the young guns.