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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1779227" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>Oh let's be real, it's absolutely the intent. How else to get higher draft picks for 18 year olds who are three years away from contributing?</p><p></p><p>This idea of cap space is a deception. It's Rockford-quality bums for the foreseeable future.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, just taken on faith.</p><p></p><p>Basketball is different but the NBA has plenty of the same logic, and I think it's striking the difference with what Arturas Karnisovas did when he took over the Bulls. GarPax left a mess just like Stan Bowman and the immediate assumption was to sell Zach Lavine for whatever you could get and blow the whole thing up. Instead he traded a ton of future assets for Nikola Vucevic to pair with him. It didn't work. So he doubled down and added DeMar Derozan and Lonzo Ball.</p><p></p><p>I don't think the evidence supports the generalized proposition that nuking your losing roster is the more robust path to success than making the best of what you have and sincerely trying to improve. In any sport. There are examples you could cite both ways, some situations are more tank-friendly than others. But the attitude in the savvy online sports fan and media world is that it is just per se obvious that total roster annihilation, being absolutely as bad as you possibly can, is the smartest thing you can possibly do. That's incorrect, and that is what the Blackhawks are doing.</p><p></p><p>In five years this team will be nowhere. Maybe the same would be true making an effort of it, but maybe not, and even in the worst case you've seen out the careers of a couple of team legends. But no, that's dumb sports radio meatball talk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1779227, member: 746137"] Oh let's be real, it's absolutely the intent. How else to get higher draft picks for 18 year olds who are three years away from contributing? This idea of cap space is a deception. It's Rockford-quality bums for the foreseeable future. Again, just taken on faith. Basketball is different but the NBA has plenty of the same logic, and I think it's striking the difference with what Arturas Karnisovas did when he took over the Bulls. GarPax left a mess just like Stan Bowman and the immediate assumption was to sell Zach Lavine for whatever you could get and blow the whole thing up. Instead he traded a ton of future assets for Nikola Vucevic to pair with him. It didn't work. So he doubled down and added DeMar Derozan and Lonzo Ball. I don't think the evidence supports the generalized proposition that nuking your losing roster is the more robust path to success than making the best of what you have and sincerely trying to improve. In any sport. There are examples you could cite both ways, some situations are more tank-friendly than others. But the attitude in the savvy online sports fan and media world is that it is just per se obvious that total roster annihilation, being absolutely as bad as you possibly can, is the smartest thing you can possibly do. That's incorrect, and that is what the Blackhawks are doing. In five years this team will be nowhere. Maybe the same would be true making an effort of it, but maybe not, and even in the worst case you've seen out the careers of a couple of team legends. But no, that's dumb sports radio meatball talk. [/QUOTE]
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