re: Pels want to move to top of draft, BI to be “aggressively” shopped per Stein

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This year was a historic year for the WCF. Any other year we would be a top 4-5 easily. So there is some data that says we’re built to win now.

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But it's a fact that the West is tough, so you can't say we're built to win now if the West wasn't so good.

The West IS that good, and that is a reason why we aren't remotely close.

You can't be watching these playoff games and thinking we're built to compete with these teams... and it's only the 2nd round. We are so far away from these teams, not close at all.

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But here’s the problem with that, the West is going to be even better next year

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Which makes the argument to take a step back even stronger. I'm not even saying this is the best thing we absolutely need to do, I'm saying I see the reasons for it.

We're not close to competing. And BI likely doesn't have enough value to get the true #2 realistically speaking, so there may not be a trade for BI that gets us in that conversation with those teams.