If you want to win a championship, go with old geezers. The Pacers are proving the effectiveness of that strategy right now, as are the Celts. Blazers did it last last year with Yao and a shell of a team. Ivan has a point, insofar as the point he is making is that the drafts have been weak.
EXACTLY!
I've said the very same thing numerous times. Look at the conf leading teams! Pacers led by Lebron, Mavs have Emeka and Blazers won the title last year cause of 35 year old Yao Ming!! Is that a coincidence? Isn't that a shame? What kind of a league is that when the main players are 35 year olds?
Where is the next generation?! Seriously, Pacers don't get me wrong, but this team of yours wouldn't have made the playoffs 7-8 years ago, let alone dominating. Nor would the Blazers won the title, no way! There's a huge, huge decline as far as overall quaility of the league is concerned, the entire league looks like a gigantic Eastern conference of the real NBA and as far as i'm concerned only a blind man can't see that. And that's all beacuse 90% of the drafties during the last 6-7 years have no impact on the game and are total underachievers.
For example, i'll single out some teams i think that made pretty good job at rebuilding and should be, at least to this point, respectable or even dominating teams;
Forgive me if i forgot someone but here are the five teams;
Knicks - done a pretty good job, really a nice core, on paper at least
Clippers - same
Nuggets - Buck, Gminksi (now Mchale), Kersey etc, good job.
Sixers - Had high draft picks in DrJ, Agguire, Nance etc (i'm probably forgoting someone), done everything he could.
Kings - as i said, all of my starting lineup were a top 5 picks bla bla bla
ALL FIVE teams are well below .50!!Now, are we all incompetent GM's? Did we pick the wrong guys? Are we uncapable to find the right settings? NO! The answer is very simple - top prospects just sucks and they're not what they were supposed to be. From Magic, Bird, Larry Nance to DrJ, Lassale Thomspon, Mchale, Carrol and Isiah Thomas. NONE of this guy is capable of putting his team on the shoulder and make their teams at least respectable or to lead them to the playoffs. And don't give me that "you got to have a team" bullshit. Kobe led that sorry ass Lakers team to the playoff, in the West! Iverson was doing the same thing for years in Philly, KG in Minnesota, Carter & Kidd + bunch of total no namers were like a top 4 seeds in the East 2 years ago, besides Yao & Mcgrady Houston is total garbage and are like a top 4 teams in the West and so on. And if we talk about sim world, hell, i won 50 games with Danny Fortson and Brad Miller, 2 terrible defenders just beacuse Mcgrady was THAT good. So who is the next Mcgrady in this league?
