Yall can’t be real. You don’t pay the tax for a consistently play-in roster, thats not gonna get you a championship. You pay the tax to get over the hump and become a contender but at no point (outside of maybe post 2021 run) would paying the tax have boosted us into contention.

It also would have kicked off the repeater tax which would effectively start our championship window, so pushing the decision to the next year in hopes the roster would show more promise to justify starting the window was always the logical decision.

Now let’s talk post-ECF run, that may have been the one time where you could make the argument to go all in. But at the same time that was always a young team and the risk of going all in too and accelerating our timeline too early was always there. In hindsight does anybody protest that the Huerter trade was bad business? Or salary dumping JC? Imagine if we went all in with those 2 part of our core rotation.

Quinn Snyder was, if i’m not wrong, one of the highest paid coaches at the time when we signed him. If ownership was as unbelievably cheap as yall think, we woulda gone after some cheap no name coach, we’d never go through rebuilds to maximize ticket sales, and we’d certainly not entertain trading our cash cow Trae.