What if you don't clear out and rebuild, but keep your draft picks and focus more on developing your own core of players?
Or another question:
What if you give away draft picks, and get all these ready made 25-26 year olds that guarantee success, what happens if that goes wrong?
Or another question:
What if you give away draft picks, and get all these ready made 25-26 year olds that guarantee success, what happens if that goes wrong?
On your first point, ok we traded some draft picks but by and large, most of them weren't high picks. Surely even the most 'rebuild-driven' supporter would acknowledge that once you get outside the top 10-15, the quality plateaus significantly and good scouting can still find you plenty of decent talent. Which is exactly what we've tried to do.
Obviously we've gone the second route and at this stage we don't know if it has or hasn't worked. If it doesn't, you're no worse off than what you would be if you'd tried rebuilding and failed.
What's worse, being down the bottom with a team of 21 year old duds, or being down the bottom with a few 21 year old duds that have literally done nothing, and some mid to high 20s players who, while not being world beaters (ie. what a number of our players will be classified as in 2-3 years) can still command a bit of trade value?
Sure, by the time that period rolls around our 3 most valuable players will be too old to trade for anything worthwhile, but players like Duncan, Motlop, Menzel etc would be worth at least something.
So in the two parallel 'worst case scenarios' one of them still looks better than the other.
