What I don't like is being bad for the next couple years at least...But....

What I do like is that in a couple years with some luck in drafting, and maybe luck in the 2015 FA season the team could be on its way back up to contending with a nice mix of young and old talent.

What I like even better that unless Brooklyn makes some crazy deals, in threw years they could be an 8th seed or lottery team. So in '16 and '18 we could get their lotto pic and trade for it in '17 if they have a worse record.

So while we are on the upswing and maybe even contending we still could be getting young assets 5 years from now that could take over the team a couple years from that.

As much as I hate seeing PP and KG leave. And as much as I don't really like any of the players coming in. This was a great deal for a team that is going to rebuild. Any rebuilding team would like this set up over the next 5 years.

Some good points.

I think people have a tendency to think in binaries.

Either we're looking to win championships, or we're tanking all out for the #1 pick.

If in any given season we're not doing either, it's a failure or a waste of time. 

Truthfully, that's not really the case.  Danny's plan so far looks good to me because like you said, it sets us up to get a lot of valuable assets even if we fail to get a top 3 pick in the lottery at any point in the next few years.

Yes, getting a top pick, especially in a great draft, is the easiest way to get a franchise player.  But it's not the only way.  The draft, for better or for worse, is the most reliable way to get high value, low cost assets in this league.  A draft pick, however, is never a 100% proposition, and the lower the pick the less of a sure thing it is. 

So Danny is playing the odds -- he's going for quantity over quality of draft picks, because he understands that in the draft it's better to have a lot of scratch tickets than it is to place all of your hopes on one raffle drawing.