It means Sharpe's developmental timeline doesn't seem to fit in with the timeless of our expressed plan and thus the surprise at the pick.
This is so frustrating, everyone acting like this makes sense.
I agree with you that the stated plan was to put a roster around Dame that would allow the team to compete this year. And I think that the front office's pursuit of Anunoby indicated that they--like you-- believed him to the piece that, along with Grant, would make that goal a reality.
But even if contender status wasn't really achievable this offseason, the team really
had to make something of the TPE, otherwise there was no legitimate defending of the deadline deals. And Grant is honestly right on that line of working both with Dame and/or Simons, so there was really no downside to making that deal.
However, most in this forum did not believe an OG/JG/Nurk frontcourt to be contender-level. With the front office unable to make a deal for OG (due to a ridiculous asking price), their next-best option was to exalt the value of the player they picked. It just happens that this also dovetails with the desires of those who generally believe that building a contender around Dame with available vets is a fool's errand.
So yes, the front office was not able to actually complete their plan A, but they have to pretend like this was plan A all along, and most of the current optimists
wanted this to be plan A, so of course they're going to be excited.
I think looking at it this way, the optimism that many are showing does in fact make sense, even though this wasn't
the plan.
