06-17-2021, 12:09 PM
(06-17-2021, 10:45 AM)khaled1987 Wrote: A- Technically Atlanta had "several" losing years, yeah. But those several are just 3, while 4 of last 7 years they had top 5 seed in the east, those 3 years are only lottery years in 14 seasons.
Mavericks also had 3 years as losing years, 4 lottery years in last 10.
B- John Collins was drafted with 19th pick, in a winning season, arguably their 2nd best pick.
And this the main problem, our draft sucks.
No value from 2013-2016 NBA draft. Minimal from 2017 (traded him, but could have got Bam, Mitchell, Collins, all who would have been better than KP and would have alliwed us to keep assets)
Nothing from 2019 and 2020 in our rotation yet either.
And above all, not a single extra 1st coming our way in trades since ancient times.
This is something we need to work on and hopefully new management will do this
Preach brother, Donnie was absolutely atrocious at drafting and seemed to ignore it or have a lazy approach. One of the biggest head scratchers for me was the Harrison Barnes trade to Sacramento where we basically just dumped him. Most teams would have extended him and traded him but he was a high value player lost for nothing.
Donnie was trash at managing assets, absolutely atrocious.