I can accept the losses, as most all fans can, but we're looking to see improvements by the players on the court not how we could potentially move up 1 or 2 spots in the draft by losing that game, especially in November. Losing to a team at home that is currently out of the playoffs in the east right now who is missing their best player isn't a good loss. However getting it to overtime like they did helped make things a bit better because it showed good fight from them. There is a middle ground there that I think most posters here are part of. They view each game individually and don't look beyond them much other than player development, if some of our youngsters look good or bad during that game.
There is a lot more to developing a team than getting lucky in the draft. Adding a high draft pick guarantees nothing and with the lottery in place losing a ton of games doesn't guarantee a top 3 pick either. The Suns had the 2nd worst record last year and ended up picking 4th and that isn't an anomaly, it happens a lot. Meanwhile the players aren't just lifeless assets and aren't happy consistently losing all of the time. McD has been bashed by a lot of people for having poor people skills with how he views players as assets instead of people but the tanking crowd seems to do the same thing. They disregard our talent's competitive nature and want them to suck this year so the team can draft a replacement for one of them. Once we add a top prospect (again) they should flip their competitive nature back on and start winning? It's not that simple. Adding a top prospect to the club may not be enough to turn this into a competitive team either for various reasons, we don't know. The only way to figure that out is for the team to play hard and develop this year which may put them in a position where they're not able to draft #1,2, or 3.
Continually losing wears on players and I'd hate to see Booker force his way out because the team keeps trying to hit it big in the lottery by purposefully tanking. Losing happens with a young team, that's to be expected, but our players don't need the coaching staff or front office working against them by trading away productive players in hopes that will cost them some games this year and improve their draft positioning. They need to play hard and let the ping pong balls fall where they may. McD has shown the ability to draft really good players late in the lottery so I'm not that worried about where we'll draft so much as seeing the players we have gel together and get better.
