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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Again, I'm not saying building through the draft, and specifically high draft picks isn't a good strategy. The bolded above though needs to be what everyone is comfortable with in the strategy, because it is by far and away what going scorched earth likely means. Agreed, a fun little bonus would be to hit, but it's just that, a bonus.
I actually think most of the scorched earth crowd is likely comfortable with building through high draft picks, but the romanticizing of hitting on that #1 pick seems to get a lot of focus and seems to get overvalued around here: "the chance of hitting it big".
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I would suggest most are very comfortable with it, and few are looking for guarantees of the first overall pick. Some level of access to top 5 picks and the potential of landing cream of the crop prospects is what people want to see.
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