Ok Big Brains help me out. As much as I love my Pels it feels like every time I look up the effing Grizzlies are stealing a march on us. Drafting Brandon Clarke last year? Check. Snagging Justise Winslow from Miami at the trade deadline? Check. Somehow turning guys like Dillon Brooks and Grayson Allen into legitimate NBA players? Check!
Now comes this draft where we are loaded up with picks and they?ve got jack squat yet somehow they come out of it with Desmond Bane, Xavier Tillman, Robert Woodard and Killian Tillie?-all of whom stand a good chance to be decent role players on cheap deals?and we wind up with a bunch of picks vesting on the 12th of never all because as a small market team we have to stack up assets in order to compete in the NBA.
This just in: Memphis is a small market team!!! How is it that they can so flagrantly draft actual prospects to develop and help their squad while we are required to hoard our picks like Scrooge McDuck until...when exactly? Bradley Beal magically becomes available and is willing to sign an extension to play here?
We?ve already lucked out and won the lottery?twice! Two generational talents who have left us in good shape to build our team for the future. Start already. Stop looking to the horizon and start drafting and developing high character role players brought up in your culture. At this point it feels like For the Pels it?s always too early until it?s too late....