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Be realistic man, you play the game to win. Go read Joakim Noah's quotes from a few weeks back, that's why these guys play. The point is to WIN. I'd rather win 3 more games and take a 3% chance than have a 9% chances. Whoopdee freaking doo, they both require an unbelieveable amount of luck and the odds are minimal at best between the difference. So why root against your team at that point? We had WAYYYY too much talent to be a bottom 3-5 teams this year, that's just stupid talk.
I know...you play to win.
But when you play, you also can't be expecting or saying we need to win anything in the lottery. But there becomes a huge difference between 2.5 and 10%
If i said, you had a 10% chance of surviving a diease and a 2.5% chance of surviving, which would you take? Which would you feel better about? Yes in both cases, the odds of you dying are great...but you take every chance you can get...you take every ping pong ball you can get.
The chances of us this year being a bottom 3-5 team is/was far far greater than us winning the lottery.
I'm not rooting against the team, I'm just saying had Petrie/Maloofs had any balls, Bibby would have been traded to Miami (and possibly their pick, which would still be a top 10 pick), Miller traded, and possibly Artest traded. The stupid rebuild on the fly crap that is destroying this team.
Do you realistically think the Kings have ANY shot at the playoffs this year?!! Next year will be another lotto year, and with our draft picks making little to zero immediate impact, we will be stuck in this position for a few years.
Grow a pair, and rebuild a team the way it should be done.
Again...look at the Spurs.
Ron and GWall are interchangable as to who they would best defend on any given night.