Seems you have decided that giving the young guys playing time guarantees they develop into something better than the players you are trading away. That simply isn't a guarantee.
Rather the opposite. I've decided that NOT giving the young guys playing time guarantees they won't develop into something better.
We clearly don't have any young players like Ayo Dosunmu in Chicago, who started out barely getting any minutes and just clawed his way past the rotation players in his way. Most players can't do that.
The key thing here is that a player on a rookie deal that performs nearly as well as a vet is far more valuable. It is nearly impossible to win a title if we continue to fail developing draft talent. We obviously can't get lucky with every guy, but we have to do better than we've done the past 4 years.
We've developed Timelord and Grant in that time. Tatum went from rookie to 3 time All-Star in that time.
You can't hit on everyone and it's not like PP, Romeo and Nesmith haven't been given opportunities to consistently shine. At some point, you have to move on. Not every guy develops into something. Giving them playing time simply to prove to fans what the coaches may already know does not help the team.
Yes, everyone knows we struck gold with Tatum.
Since then there have been 8 1sts. Williams was the first one of those, and slowly became starting material in the past year or so, about 3 years after being drafted. Grant is the only other pick that plays, less due to a commitment to development than because of a gaping hole the team has kept at power forward.
We absolutely agree that not every guy develops. And I'm guessing you don't feel like the C's have done that great at choosing and developing picks in the last 4 years either. Where we disagree is in between: how important development is vs a maintained commitment to winning. I just feel until we add one more playmaking/decision making starter, we aren't going to compete with the top tier in the league, and we need Langford and/or Nesmith and maybe even Pritchard to be worth something to do that.
