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Buddy is limited, Any team would be crazy to take him top 6-8
Less inclined to take him at 3 after his game against Nova, but unless he succumbs to a serious injury he's almost certainly going in the top 8. It's a 2+1 player draft (depending on Bender's availability). 4 - 9 haven't separated their game from each other enough, so it's easily justifiable why you could take one player over the other. But right now I'd lean more to Dunn if we only landed the 3rd pick.
Any idiot can tank for years and accumulate picks. But that bad for at least three years? I get to some small extent what he was trying to do. The Astros in baseball stunk it up for a few years and now we have one of the best farm systems in the league and are on the way up. But baseball doesn't have the lottery and even if it did the difference between first and third pick is not as great as that in the NBA.
Plus Astros picked a good mix of players between pitchers and position players. No gaping holes in key positions such as guard or small forward.
With so many young guys you need to surround them with some veterans/leaders to help show them the way especially in the NBA with so many divas. Would Embiid and Okafor been pulled more in line with some more wise heads around?
Yeah and Brett Brown came out after Hinkie was sacked to say they were planning to sign some FAs. But how many players will be willing to come in this state? Porzingis' agent refused Hinkie access to his physical or any work outs.
You're assuming what is, will always will be, which again is such a narrow minded way to look at this.
To put it in your words: Any idiot can build a 40 win team.