5 hours ago
"I just don't see where the improvement is coming from. Trades and new talent? You need assets to make that happen."
I think they are better than a 25-win team, the instant they stop tanking. I don't think the talent cupboard is bare (although players who are tanking look lousier than they are).
The potential improvement comes from "we are winning" mindset (rather than we are tanking), plus
1 addition of a top-10 draft pick who could be really good,
2 perhaps the addition of a MLE talent, and/or TPE addition,
3 healthy players instead of players sitting a week for a hangnail,
4 roster that might be tweaked to be better (via trade) in needed areas, and
5 the growth of CF (which I think will be another huge step upwards).
How much better does all that make them? Impossible to say. But from what I see in the NBA, if you already have a good talent base, it doesn't take a complete addition of a whole roster of new talent to make a team way better. Just one or two, when it's the right one, makes a massive upgrade because of the multiplier on the play of the other talent already there.
I also think that CF alone (and his presence is certain) will have a HUGE impact on improvement of the team. He will be way way better. That will have a major trickle-down effect on everyone. Wait n see. (Just give me one more player with similar upside trajectory, which I hope they get via the lottery.)
I think they are better than a 25-win team, the instant they stop tanking. I don't think the talent cupboard is bare (although players who are tanking look lousier than they are).
The potential improvement comes from "we are winning" mindset (rather than we are tanking), plus
1 addition of a top-10 draft pick who could be really good,
2 perhaps the addition of a MLE talent, and/or TPE addition,
3 healthy players instead of players sitting a week for a hangnail,
4 roster that might be tweaked to be better (via trade) in needed areas, and
5 the growth of CF (which I think will be another huge step upwards).
How much better does all that make them? Impossible to say. But from what I see in the NBA, if you already have a good talent base, it doesn't take a complete addition of a whole roster of new talent to make a team way better. Just one or two, when it's the right one, makes a massive upgrade because of the multiplier on the play of the other talent already there.
I also think that CF alone (and his presence is certain) will have a HUGE impact on improvement of the team. He will be way way better. That will have a major trickle-down effect on everyone. Wait n see. (Just give me one more player with similar upside trajectory, which I hope they get via the lottery.)