So tell me again how we would be better off we kept Cousins till end of the season and then decided we wanted to rebuild?
You want a successful rebuild? Get young guys who play well. That's what our young guys are doing, and you're complaining that we somehow don't have younger guys who suck more so that we can get better draft position. Again, vets who played in this game: Temple and Evans, who combined for a grand total of ... 9 points. You want to protest the Wolves/ Grizz games then by all means, but this one?! Also, the vets that we have kept are doing a great job at mentoring the young guys. On a team like ours that might be even more valuable than losing a few extra games.
Honestly I think you are missing the point of my post.
What bothers me is the lack of foresight and the lack of a cohesive long term strategy (and the negotiating of trades, but that's a moot point now). And that even when we make a strategy change mid season, we don't go all in on our new strategy.
We went into the season without really commiting to one strategy. We didn't trade Cousins to catalyze a full scale rebuild, despite the fact, that there were some really good arguments for starting over, like you and a few other posters pointed out at that time. We didn't get Cousins enough help and didn't fix the obvious weaknesses of our roster to really make a serious playoff push.
It was a little bit of both. That's why we are once again looking at a draft without the hope for top picks and are now no longer able to hope for a good complimetary player for DMC to bring us to the Playoffs next year.
Of course we have to keep the 76ers trade in mind. But the GM, who negotiated that trade, is still in charge, so I don't feel like giving him a pass for the strategy of the current season just because he pretty much handcuffed himself earlier.
To turn it around, we finally need to go all in on something and be patient and smart. We can't keep changing our approach twice every season and expect good results.
