I don't think anyone would disagree that this team needs to be competing for championships by the time Zion reaches his prime.
I do think it's kind of silly to say that we ''have'' to find a way to compete for chips before then. Do we need to be a playoff team, consistently? Of course we do. But we don't have to be competing for a championship when Zion is 21. To even get in a position to do that would require us throwing away all our future assets and knee-capping the franchise.