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Official 2018-2019 Charlotte Hornets Thread - Lose Kemba and All Fans

Parity =mediocrity

Why would you spend money on a mediocre concert? A mediocre house? Going to a mediocre movie?

Why don't you want excellence? Why should excellence be penalized?

Parity isn't conducive to greatness.

Why is a sports business different from any other business? Why should employees in sports have less rights than people in any other job?
 
DeacdeTejas said:
I think a hard cap, no max, and doing away with the lottery are landing spots. I doubt Players Association goes for that though
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Then the smartest GMs will dominate even more. The lottery is a huge lifeline to bad franchises and a top pick obviously does not guarantee success.
 
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PhDeac said:
Then the smartest GMs will dominate even more. The lottery is a huge lifeline to bad franchises and a top pick obviously does not guarantee success.
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Great. Im not opposed to good GMs or bad franchises. Whats your point?
 
PhDeac said:
Then the smartest GMs will dominate even more. The lottery is a huge lifeline to bad franchises and a top pick obviously does not guarantee success.
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So it's a huge lifeline but there's no guarantee it's going to help much ?
 
I would argue NFL has more parity than NBA. MLB as well

Yet well run franchises still find their way to the top. Poor ones still sit on the bottom. Hard cap or lack of lottery doesn’t change that. What it does change is the ability for all teams to rise to the top if they are well run and if they do the work they need to do to get there
 
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DeacdeTejas said:
I would argue NFL has better parity than NBA. MLB as well

Yet well run franchises still find their way to the top. Poor ones still sit on the bottom. Hard cap or lack of lottery doesn’t change that. What it does change is the ability for all teams to rise to the top if they are well run and if they do the work they need to do to get there
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You talked about my reading. How about yours?

I've said this many times. Parity sucks! Parity=mediocrity. Your goal should be excellence not mediocrity.

The NFL has no real penalty if you have a terrible franchise. Because of the socialistic nature of their company, income is shared to ensure the stupidist management makes buckets of money. But there is a penalty for excellence.
 
You still refuse to answer why my team should be forced to give up players that we spent the time and money on to find, train and play to protect the inferior managed teams.

Why should my team be forced to subsidize morons?
 
Lol. Guess I’m a socialist.

I also don’t know how anyone can argue the NFL is a mediocre product. It makes 15 billion a year in revenue
 
DeacdeTejas said:
Great. Im not opposed to good GMs or bad franchises. Whats your point?
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That the lack of parity in the NBA is due to great front offices and bad front offices. Your ideas won't change that.

BiffTannen said:
So it's a huge lifeline but there's no guarantee it's going to help much ?
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Yeah. How is that confusing? If you're drowning and I throw you a life raft and you draft Michael Olowokandi, you fucked up, not the life raft.

DeacdeTejas said:
I would argue NFL has more parity than NBA. MLB as well

Yet well run franchises still find their way to the top. Poor ones still sit on the bottom. Hard cap or lack of lottery doesn’t change that. What it does change is the ability for all teams to rise to the top if they are well run and if they do the work they need to do to get there
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All teams already have the ability to rise to the top if they are well run. Look at the Clippers. They were one of the biggest jokes in sports (see above). The NBA forced a change in ownership (and the CP trade) and they've been a solid franchise ever since.
 
RJKarl said:
You still refuse to answer why my team should be forced to give up players that we spent the time and money on to find, train and play to protect the inferior managed teams.

Why should my team be forced to subsidize morons?
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Hahaha. Hahahaha

You realize this was why this argument started? Because we believe teams should be able to keep their players. The current system doesn’t do that well.
 
DeacdeTejas said:
Lol. Guess I’m a socialist.

I also don’t know how anyone can argue the NFL is a mediocre product. It makes 15 billion a year in revenue
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It has no competition and limits access to its product. You don't have to maximize your product quality when you do that.
 
DeacdeTejas said:
Hahaha. Hahahaha

You realize this was why this argument started? Because we believe teams should be able to keep their players. The current system doesn’t do that well.
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How you can be for a hard cap and for teams keeping their players?

You can't be for both and be realistic.
 
Ph, everything else aside, why do you support the lottery? I don’t get it.
 
PhDeac said:
Yeah. How is that confusing? If you're drowning and I throw you a life raft and you draft Michael Olowokandi, you fucked up, not the life raft.
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Why do you act like drafting is easy ? Of the top 8 picks in the 1998 NBA Draft, AKA the Olawakandi Draft, Vince Carter is the only one who ever made an All-NBA team. The three picks after the Candy Man were Mike Bibby, Raef Lafrentz, and Antawn Jamison. That doesn't make everyone an idiot for not taking Nowitzki with the first pick.
 
You are requiring literal luck to land you a chance at a great player. NBA draft is already enough of a crapshoot without making teams be subjected to a lottery
 
BiffTannen said:
Why do you act like drafting is easy ? Of the top 8 picks in the 1998 NBA Draft, AKA the Olawakandi Draft, Vince Carter is the only one who ever made an All-NBA team. The three picks after the Candy Man were Mike Bibby, Raef Lafrentz, and Antawn Jamison. That doesn't make everyone an idiot for not taking Nowitzki with the first pick.
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Agree drafting is hard. BTW, Antawn Jamison made a couple of all-star games, played 16 years in the NBA, averaged 18 ppg 7.5 rpg and is 44th on the all-time NBA scoring list. He panned out, even if he had an all-NBA season.
 
Drafting isn't easy. That's why some franchises would rather be bad on purpose and try to win a lottery to make it easier for themselves. It is hard to continually be bad as the Hornets are. The only player they hit on in the last decade was an undersized combo guard of all positions.

And with respect to the 1998 draft, like I said there were literally two dozen players in that draft who had a better career than Olowokandi. He wasn't considered the best player in that draft at the time but no one was shocked the Clippers picked him because the Clippers sucked as a franchise.
 
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