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Originally Posted by traptor
Rebuild to contetion seems to take about 5-10 years.
Typically you want your core to be in the 25-30 age range to be seriously competitive, and you draft them at 17.
Dallas is used as a quick rebuild model but from 2008-2018 they made playoffs twice.
They hit big in the 2017 with getting 3oa and pulling 3 star. That turned things around.
At the end of the day it just comes down to having to draft star talent and wait for them to fully mature.
We're 2 years put of playoffs. Do we have any of those star players in the system devoping yet? No one's really shown it. Zary is the closest amd maybe he becomes a star but he's not there yet.
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Correlation is not necessarily causation. Almost every team in the league will be a playoff contender at least once in a ten year window.
Getting lucky with a draft lottery win when a franchise player is available in the draft definitely helps. But there is absolutely no evidence that teams dedicated to the tank have better overall playoff results than those that take other approaches.