Recent content by Warhawk

Don’t ever recall seeing this one before.

Obviously you don't "throw in the towel" - but maybe you quit making overbroad and unsupportable comments such as "if we only kept Hali" because in doing so you are completely ignoring the great 2x all-star we got in return that immediately propelled us into the #3 seed and the playoffs for the...

You are making my point for me. Everyone is saying that "if we only kept Hali" - except, everything we know indicates they would not have been able to do what needed to be done to build a winner around him for the long term. Hali was one of my favorite players here - I wasn't happy to see him...

It's also easy to look back in retrospect and hammer a move that was widely praised as a win-win when a team doesn't build correctly afterwards. And who is to say that it would have ended any better with Hali here? The Kings didn't build correctly around Fox or Sabonis. Why would this be...

He wasn't all-NBA when we had him, now was he? He's grown into a player that frankly is better than I personally thought he'd be (and I hated to see him traded but thought the trade itself was good), but this revisionist history is pretty hilarious.

We didn't "let him get away" - we traded an underused guard for an all-star big who instantly propelled us into the playoffs after almost 2 decades of team ineptitude. Now you can argue that in the aftermath of that trade one team has done a lot better job of talent evaluation and team...

Yeah, I never said he *should* be our #1, but people are treating him like a bench-level player around here. It's just stupid. I think the biggest problem is we never built properly around him (or we didn't play the correct lineups) after the Beam Team success. That isn't on him. He's shown...

He was literally the #1/#2 player on a team that was 3rd in the west and had the two best players with broken hands (and most likely an injured chest, etc.) almost beat the Warriors to be in the second round. He's capable if the team is built right.

Book #4, Defiant, definitely picks up the action again and wraps up satisfactorily. Well done.

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification, and sorry if my initial response was confusing. My response was only with regards to tanking for a top draft pick. I'm not adverse to a rebuild, but am against a tank. There's a difference in my mind between 1) getting some good young players that could...

Please, help me out. What does this sentence/question mean? I'm honestly trying to sort it out but am not having any luck. Can you break it out into a logical sentence structure with maybe a little explanation? "Trading Sabonis for a rebuilding package is “not the way” in sactownkid’s...

At least my comment has some logical sentence structure and coherent thoughts (even if you disagree, and that's cool). I'm struggling to understand the point/comment/question in yours. It sounds like you have two different things you are addressing in one sentence/question, and they are...

Sorry, I'm not catching your point? I think this question is strangely worded and I'm missing something.

I don't disagree that a high pick is a better asset, I'm saying that hoping and wishing upon a star by tanking is no guarantee to get an "obvious" / generational franchise player in the draft. I was very specific in my point of view. Like I said - do the best you can with the picks you get...

This is not the way. With current lottery odds, you can't tank for a top pick. At best you can expect about #4, and that's if you have the best odds in the drawing! Wishing for a top pick for an obvious franchise player is a sucker bet, and that's even assuming that there is such a player...