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Originally Posted by ColossusXIII
To me, the urgency to tank these next couple years is three-pronged
1. There is elite talent at the top of the draft in 26 and 27. You don't go in expecting to get #1, but they're perfect years to have higher odds.
2. Wolf and Parekh set the timeline. It's painful to tank now, but delaying it would be even more devastating. We want to get to the other side of the pain with a couple more high caliber players as soon as possible, both so they can contribute meaningfully in the same window as our current big 2 and so the team can hopefully be back on the upswing and attractive when we need to retain all this drafted talent.
3. Veteran assets. While I love what Conroy's done so far (and I do think he went into last season expecting a top 5 pick), we still do have some veterans with significant trade value. Obviously trade protection is a thing and I have zero problem with the players exercising the rights they negotiated, but for any that can be moved it doesn't make sense for us to be holding depreciating assets at this stage in the life cycle.
It's true full rebuilds are unlikely to work (no strategy is going to have high odds of being the singular winner in a 32 team league), but they still work more often than half measures do.
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Yes!
They should have started before last season, but it doesn't matter now. The best time was yesterday, and today is better than tomorrow. But the longer we wait the worse it will be, and if we do nothing it has less chance of working out. There's no guaranteed way to build a contender but intentionally stripping and rebuilding instead of half measures seems way more reasonable.