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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Would you rather draft high (like top 3) for 4 of 5 years, then wait 12 years, have little to no success postseason, then have to remake your team by trading for other players and winding up with just 4 home grown guys? Because that's also a model of a present successful team.
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Both teams were bad for a decade before starting to have success.
Which is actually my point - The "Dallas Model" (Nor Carolina) doesn't avoid the decade of being bad. There's some misguided romanticized notion that these teams got good through good assets management and shrewd drafting and avoided the long downturn that "tanking" teams have. They didn't. They just sucked a little bit less but still had no real success for a decade as well.
So if we need to be bad for a decade (Which is really the cycle of a rebuild) we better start maximizing our chances at elite talent since this is year 4. And of the 2 'models' I know which relies more on luck to get the elite talent. The one hoping to find the talent at the end of the 1st round and in the 2nd.
It isn't impossible, your odds are just exponentially lower. And both those teams did end up winning a lottery with terrible odds.