I don’t think that’s true. As usual you’re wrong. It’s better to say there’s no guarantee on the turnaround but if you look at most of the top teams in the East say, they “blew it up” at some point in the last decade. Boston and Philly being the most prominent of that group. Yes, Toronto will never land a superstar in FA, but there’s only a handful of teams that will anyway. Team like Philly and Boston are mostly built from within or trades. There’s a lot of teams that have blown it up in the last 5 years that are getting there, or hope to.
Really you just have to hit on a couple draft picks. I don’t know if Toronto can get firsts out of anyone other than Pascal and Barnes but if they could, they should