First, can I get a guarantee from you that I'll live to 90 too? Would mean a lot to me. Ok, about blowing it up. We've sort of been doing that in a half a$$ way for some time now, and as a result, we've wasted 5 or 6 years that should have been meaningful, and wern't. We've changed 7 players this year if I've counted correctly, and did a similar thing last year. We've had a coaching marathon followed closely by a revolving door for our GM's..
One thing I know is, that if you keep changing the coaches, GM's and the players, your never going to win anything. Joerger has it right. You have to build a culture, an identity as a team. The only way to do that is to establish a stable front office, and coaching staff. History tells us, that unless your real lucky, your going to struggle for a while. Its going to take some time, and fans tend to be impatient, especially when the team has already wasted several years trying to put a band aid on a bleeding artery.
My point is, I don't necessarily disagree with you. I might disagree on what a blow up means, but not on the premise. We have the best center in the NBA, and if you can rebuild from scratch, and he's willing to take the journey with us, then I do everything I can to keep him. After that, no one would be safe if the right deal comes along. Now I'm not going to sit here and blow smoke up you know where, and tell you that Vlade is gods gift to the GM position. To be honest, I don't know. Only time will determine that. But for the present, we have to put our faith in him.
OK, now to picking talent. Vlade has the final say, but he gets input from multiple sources. It's not like he's isolated in his office looking at film, reads DraftExpress, and then decides. Sometimes, it 's not so much about the talent, but how the talent fits what your trying to build. That's where I think the Kings have made some mistakes. Simply because I don't think the Kings knew what they were trying to build. It kept changing from year to year. So were back to building a culture.
The question I have is, do the fans have the stomach for going through a rebuild? Everyone wants to win now, right now, and that's not likely to happen. Oh we'll probably be better than last year, but unless your really building a foundation, it doesn't matter. Other than Cousins, the only other player of late that the Kings have stuck with is McLemore, and it looks like maybe, just maybe they'll finally get rewarded. The fans have less patience than management. A young player has some bad games, and he's a bust. They want him gone. You can't run an organization like that.
let's assume that a Cousins' trade would actually yield a couple of very promising young players and a very high draft pick or two. If such would occur, a rebuild wouldn't take a decade like we've seen with the Kings. (The reason I'm having Cousins' being traded in a blow it up rebuild scenario is that there is just no ammo other than Cousins on this team that would accomplish the goal). Again, the assumption of the rebuild scenario is that you have a management that knows what they are doing and I certainly wouldn't bet the farm on that. But regardless, if the management isn't good, this team isn't going anywhere anyway.
