Originally Posted by
Mythrol
And what did ANY of the draft picks we traded ever turn into? People act like the method was used was flawed, yet those drafts were incredibly weak and most of the guys we targeted are either out of the league or barely hanging on.
You can disagree with the method used but you can't say "get a couple of guys on rookie contracts" (couple, implying 2, AD and Jrue), "then trade for borderline all stars" and not admit that that is what we did here.
What he really wanted was, "continue to build through the draft because only players we draft on rookie contracts count".
Jrue was traded because the 76ers were rebuilding they valued draft picks because they wanted to lose. That does not imply that those draft picks were more valuable than Jrue. It implies they were going in a different direction.
The Jrue trade was outstanding for this team. People just look at it tainted because of the injuries. Everything is tainted because of the injuries. That's my point. I think if we had even average injury luck throughout AD's career here things would have been entirely different.