*How to (Maybe) Save Chicago

[Symmetrik]

Never said us being bad was on everyone else. I’m saying everyone else bullying our GMs for trying to fix the team aren’t helping the league.

And agreed nunc, full tanks rarely work. To get the whole team to stay committed during the whole rebuild is really hard.

Unless you can continuously get young, talented free agents, you can’t fix a team by perpetually trading picks/prospects for mid level players. You are almost always losing value on those players. Even if it keeps you afloat for a little while, eventually it will catch up to you. The more you trade the faster it catches you.

You don’t always have to rip it all down, but at some point in order to really fix a team, you need to shed pieces to add more picks. Find the players you who will build the right culture. It doesn’t always have to be everyone, but there’s no sense in keeping players who might leave, or don’t contribute to the room, or who are regressing if you aren’t going to be winning.

And when people who are drafted know that’s the direction, you can find people who will stay committed. That comes with the scouting, but you can find people who want to be there even in a rebuild.