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Don't get me wrong, I totally agree we should draft well and a strong emphasis needs to be put on that. I just find it hard to care about a player while they are in college playing junk ball. The quality of the sport is poor overall apart from key matchups.

Once they're on the team, I'm happy for them to get a run and I like watching the development. Heck, I'm on the side of Adou should be getting 15 mins a game today. I just can't understand watching college ball, talking about next year, when we're top 6 in the West. Maybe we're out in the first, maybe our team goes on a run, you never know. But I'm invested.

 

Drafting well is definitely an important part of building a roster. Particularly when you find guys who appear to be NBA ready like the ones @OverseasG have mentioned.

We need athleticism and good defenders and there are a number of guys who fit that bill in this draft.

 

Also think our whiffs on JHS and Dalton are hurting us right now even if we only look at it from an asset perspective. At the very least we were able to use Lonzo, Ingram, etc to get AD and Max to get Luka.

We are struggling to even throw Dalton in to make the cap numbers work.

 

Just saw this after my other comments.

The college game isn’t for everyone but I do enjoy it.

 

i think we're 60 games into the season, and we've kind of learned all we're going to learn until the playoffs, right? like, i'm under no illusion that the knicks game was a turning point, and now we're better. we've established who we are, so now it's a matter of who we play in the playoffs and whether or not we show up. hence i think people have energy and interest in discussing other things.

the draft/prospects is the last topic on which i don't find myself just repeating the same stuff over and over at this point. if there's a new discussion to be had about the current team, i'm all ears, lol.

 

I just can't stand OKC and SGA. I'm going to play the what if game but I just never could imagine Luka or Lebron being allowed to do this. The ref still treat Lebron like he's in his prime similar to Shaq

 

luka's the same as lebron. in the knicks game, hart and anunoby were just climbing his back with a live dribble all game long like toddlers wrasslin' their dad or something.

it's great that SGA can make that shot, but he shouldn't be getting it that clean, and at this point, the refs have actively decided to allow it, much like the harden mvp candidate years where they decided him grabbing defenders's arms was a foul on them.