You're absolutely right. This is incredibly exciting. Because we will also be horrible and generating our own lottery picks for the next few years. So that's potentially 6 high lottery picks in a 3 year period, on top of the lottery picks we'll get in '14 & '15.
Obviously it's unlikely we'll keep all of them. But rather they represent a tremendous wealth of riches that will propel us into long term prosperity by the end of this decade. And it could be the kind of long term, dynastic prosperity that we've seen from the Lakers and Spurs.
I know many of the young fans are very displeased at this kind of long term planning and team building strategy. But if you're a lifelong fan who's been around awhile, you know this is the best move for the team. And you don't mind waiting for a master plan of this magnitude to finally come together in a few years. Afterall, this is the Boston Celtics. We've been here for 64 years!! We ain't goin' nowhere. But rest assured folks - the C's will own the future.
I like how in defense of tanking you cite two teams who have remained relevant the past decade without tanking. At all. Yes, the Spurs tanked to get Tim Duncan; but since then they have remained relevant through shrewd management, not the draft. The Lakers haven't tanked, either.
Tanking is by far some fool-proof strategy for rebuilding. It is high risk, high reward. There is a reason most teams that tank get absolutely nothing out of it and remain at the bottom of the league in perpetuity.
I don't like tanking. I think it is fool's gold; the success rate on teams tanking is incredibly low. It worked for the Spurs 15 years ago. Once OKC wins a title we can say it worked for them.
Besides that? The Heat didn't tank. The Mavericks didn't tank. The Pistons didn't tank. It's not nearly the safe, smart strategy people here seem to think it is (boy am I glad that nobody on this forum is the GM, our team would be a disaster).
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