I would love to have a top five pick but that was never going to happen for this team. SO the best we are talking is a few slots up. If I have to choose between moving a few slots up or closing out winning a pick the latter. We are gellin' like we haven't in years. I see no reason why we won't improve next year. ANy draft pick we get won't help much until the end of the year at best. If we can improve the small forward through some kind of trade and Yao comes back we will be solid two deep at every position. And I am convinced we will be competing for the top spot in the west. If we had not gone on this winning streak than I wouldn't have been so confident. Of course every season brings it's on problems. But I think we are better equipped to handle most injuries and I can not see another start of the year like this. 0-5 3-13 to start the season, 0-5 to start january. If we just split those two 0-5's so that instead of 0-10 we were 5-5, which would be easy for this current squad we would be a lock for the 6th seed. So I have optimism for this team that I would not have if we continued playing .500 all year. Now come draft day I will wish we could have moved up a couple of notches. But doesn't everyone.
