I honestly don't get why people are focused on picks?

Maybe I'm an idiot, but so many people are pissed that AK didn't get more FRPs this deadline. Now he isn't good at his job for a lot of reasons, but I don't get the issue with picks. At peak value you might have gotten one or two super protected late round picks set to convey 2 or 3 years from now.

Why is that apparently what this team needs to secure the future? Is a guy picked at 21 in 2028 going to be the franchise savior? What am I missing here? It'd be one thing if the team was in a position to get like 4 unprotected firsts from a team like the Hawks and thus get a lot of lotto picks but they're not even in the zip code of such a trade, so what exactly was the issue?

I thought the hope with Zach and Vooch was to just get out of their contracts without having to lose our own picks. When did it suddenly become the expectation that we'd get some transformative trade with them that would net tons of draft capital?