So you'd rather we were really bad so that we can get lottery picks and select more players like your fave Zach Collins?
I'm sick of Olshey, but in this area you are short-changing him when talking about the bargain-bin and players other teams were looking to dump, off the top of my head: Steve Blake Eric Maynor Mo Williams (is the BAE a bargain-bin move?) Robin Lopez Thomas Robinson Brian Roberts Mo Harkless Mason Plumlee Jusuf Nurkic Shabazz Napier Skal Nic Stauskas Seth Curry Hezonja Tolliver Melo I'd also consider the 2nd round of the draft a bargain-bin of sorts: Allen Crabbe, Pat Connaughton, Jake Layman, Gary Trent are all 'successes' now, some of these weren't good moves. TRob essentially cost 4 second round picks. Stauskas, Hezonja, and Tolliver were busts. Crabbe was a disaster because of the matched offer sheet. Curry was a bargain but that bargain kept Portland from re-signing him but yeah, when another team is looking to dump a player, Olshey is often first in line
I wasn't talking about just getting players that way, I was talking about getting USEFUL players. Of your list I will grant you RoLo, Shabazz and Curry. I don't count Nurk because I don't see him as a "cast-off" because they really liked him but realized he and Jokic didn't work together. And the draft is a separate issue.
Dame was a pretty nice lottery pick. So was McCollum. Again, I’ll take the better opportunity to draft the best player, rather than be decent enough to make the playoffs
We should go after that Lebron dude, he's old and a Laker but he could still give us a few minutes coming off the bench.
Well, you kind of invite it with your constant moaning. You started off by complaining about getting cheap players that would improve the team. Really? Fair point, given Doncic. I was thinking about all the years they rebuilt year after year without going into the lottery. And don't forget, getting cheap players and developing them is a way of getting assets that can be TRADED for lottery picks. That's essentially how we got the pick that turned into Roy. And we moved up a few places to get Aldridge instead of whatsisname who went to the Bulls and was out of the league in short order by throwing in Khryapa, who was taken in the 20s.
We can't keep returning to that Sacramento well, surely. (Although that reminds me of a player we'd all failed to mention so far as an example of Olshey's dumpster-diving - Wenyen Gabriel.)