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Scraptor wrote: View Post
What is your plan to take a team that has a bad playoff record (13th in the NBA over 5 years, 10th over 3 years, 11th over 2), a gigantic payroll, only late picks after this year (where we have none), no true superstar, and an unattractive market to the rank of contender?
This is the ranking of Raptors among teams who appeared in the playoffs in each year of those stretches mentioned:
5 years:
Winning %: 4th, Wins: 4th
3 years
Winning %: 7th, Wins: 4th
2 years
Winning %: 6th, Wins: 5th
And even that gives teams like Washington a better playoff record than us because they lost in 6 or 7 games to pretty good teams while the Raptors lost in 4 to Lebron, despite the fact that they did not have more playoff success.
Sorry I just hate intellectually dishonest stats.That is a normal collar. Move on, find a new slant.
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magoon wrote: View PostThis list makes no sense. Dallas got their biggest star through the draft. Houston got their stars via trades, not free agency (an option you skipped); historically Phoenix has always done this as well. The Knicks are on two different lists. Et cetera.
The draft has always been the best way for getting a star.
Trades are available to all teams and isn't really a directional strategy. (And Olajuwon was drafted, Yao was drafted, Stoudemire was drafted, Marion was drafted, Nash was free agency.) Further you can only use trades to add stars if you are careful about managing assets; we traded one first round pick for Ibaka and another to get rid of Carroll. Over the past few years guys like Butler, George, Cousins, Paul have all been moved.
In five years if your best trade acquisition is Serge Ibaka, Norman Powell, or a pick that turned into Jakob Poeltl, it doesn't seem like a reliable strategy, does it?
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Scraptor wrote: View PostNope. That is a straw man argument that is constantly brought up.
If you are not a contender (GSW, HOU, CLE, and next year BOS, PHI) it looks more like this:
1. If you already have a superstar (or someone with that ceiling) you don't need to tank, you can try to build around him: Pelicans, Bucks, Thunder, Timberwolves, Nuggets, Knicks.
2. If you don't have a superstar but you are an attractive US market due to size/weather/taxes, you can try to acquire a star through free agency: NY, LA, Miami, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Dallas.
3. If you have neither superstar nor market, then you should tank till you get one. This includes Orlando, Sacramento, Memphis, Charlotte... and Toronto.
Other teams can be debated on an individual basis. The Blazers are like us. Two stars but not true superstars and a pile of bad contracts who got swept by a lower seed. Not a great NBA market. They should probably blow it up.
What is your plan to take a team that has a bad playoff record (13th in the NBA over 5 years, 10th over 3 years, 11th over 2), a gigantic payroll, only late picks after this year (where we have none), no true superstar, and an unattractive market to the rank of contender?
Hoping that late picks can become elite stars is---statistically--wishful thinking.
Ergo, way more should tank by your reasoning.
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hotfuzz wrote: View PostI mean, if you look at it, we're not that different from them if you look at our chances of winning a ring. That is, our chances of winning a championship are slim to none, right in line with blazers and wizards chances.
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3. If you have neither superstar nor market, then you should tank till you get one. This includes Orlando, Sacramento, Memphis, Charlotte... and Toronto.
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NBA execs think Kawhi is done in San Antonio https://t.co/S3OZWCsmDF pic.twitter.com/dPxRaFOWh5
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 10, 2018
oh shit it's Masai timeOnly one thing matters: We The Champs.
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MixxAOR wrote: View PostNBA execs think Kawhi is done in San Antonio https://t.co/S3OZWCsmDF pic.twitter.com/dPxRaFOWh5
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 10, 2018
oh shit it's Masai time
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MixxAOR wrote: View PostNBA execs think Kawhi is done in San Antonio https://t.co/S3OZWCsmDF pic.twitter.com/dPxRaFOWh5
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 10, 2018
oh shit it's Masai timeMamba Mentality
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LaMarcus Aldridge Approached Damian Lillard About Trade Back To Blazers https://t.co/dBXHyAzOJp
— RealGM (@RealGM) May 10, 2018
omg this is like the best day ever. Spurs entering NBA purgatory will be so goodOnly one thing matters: We The Champs.
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