Hinkie took a team with no future, with two assets (Holiday and T Young), with 2 high 2nd rd picks and a 1st rd pick traded away over the next four years and in three years amassed a boat load of assets, both players and draft picks. As Sampson showed (starting for Denver), a lot of those players fans like to disdain have value for the right team and the right situation (solid bench players who were asked to play starter minutes).
In the NBA, you can't make moves unless you have tradeable assets.
The key is not to make the moves Bryan initially made in Toronto, wasting assets on 30 year old former stars who are breaking down (what the Sixers did with Bynum and the Nets did in their Boston trade).
You want to patiently utilize those assets to add pieces to the foundation, whether through trade or free agency, and avoid overpaying (because you need a number of pieces, not one player to put you over the top).
We'll know if Bryan learned from Toronto if he signs a solid FA or two to a reasonable deal, trades for a 25 year old guard without getting fleeced, and doesn't try to to it all this summer to win 45 game then sink back in two years.