Draft Lottery 2025 Tonight @ 7pm TSN

ishoy123 · Post #641 » by **ishoy123** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:35 am

Lol I'm not saying the draft necessary wasn't rigged, but some of you really need to understand how statistics and probability work

Tha Cynic · Post #642 » by **Tha Cynic** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:35 am

aminiaturebuddha wrote:
WuTang_OG wrote:at least the top 2 went to the West

Haha yeah, and now we just get a few more years of everyone in the sports media complaining about how weak the East is. lol

I always wondered how much of it is location. You would think most free agents want the warm weather or be by the ocean. So they get free agency advantage. If the league is also rigging the draft to help those teams and the ones down south, the Eastern teams are **** lol

SFour · Post #643 » by **SFour** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:35 am

Tha Cynic wrote:
disoblige wrote:
SFour wrote:
exactly these pro-tankers aren't making sense at all.....they're acting like Wizards or Jazz just won the lotto, not the Mavs/Spurs

Even we dont win the lottery, we would have landed 5-6 at worst if we tanked and traded properly. Now, you have the 9th pick and you have no all-star or future.

This is delusional if people actually think we would have had a roster bad enough to end up with the worst record in the NBA. I would rather have our roster and get the 9th pick than have tried he worst team in the league's roster and get 5th.

ya there's nothing to be happy about with the 5th pick and a blown up roster.....that's the worst situation to be in.

At least with the 9th pick and a new Ingram addition we have something to look forward to, even if it's not championship worthy but the Raptors still haven't made their "contender" trades.

bballsparkin · Post #644 » by **bballsparkin** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:36 am

SFour wrote:
I don't think Spurs or Sixers care about their 2nd or 3rd pick having bust potential.....it's like getting a free Ferrari, you're not worried about the engine blowing up.

Well 2nd seems a very good place to be. For sure about the 76ers. They're the biggest winners of tonight.

MoneyBall · Post #645 » by **MoneyBall** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:36 am

Knowing Masai, he might have still picked Maluach at #3... so if he's still there at #9 it's no problem.

ItsDanger · Post #646 » by **ItsDanger** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:36 am

Completely demoralizing for these bottom end teams that just desperately need top end talent. They got to pray one of these bottom half lottery guys surprises big time. Then its onto next year's lottery.

TheAlchemist23 · Post #647 » by **TheAlchemist23** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:37 am

Messed up a rebuild so we can compete with Fred Vanvleet and Jakob Poeltl

Ed Rogers save us

Zeno · Post #648 » by **Zeno** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:38 am

ishoy123 wrote:Lol I'm not saying the draft necessary wasn't rigged, but some of you really need to understand how statistics and probability work

Don’t you know how randomness is supposed to look?

UnderdogRaptors · Post #649 » by **UnderdogRaptors** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:41 am

That trade from Dallas end was trash so the nba gave them this as a consolation prize

PushDaRock · Post #650 » by **PushDaRock** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:41 am

bballsparkin wrote:
djsunyc wrote:
bballsparkin wrote:
Ya 3rd. Big bust potential there.

morey is a good drafter but he could trade it for immediate help.

he is that's true. i was speaking more about this draft in particular and a guy like Ace. Good point about trading the pick.

Tricky spot really, I don't think Edgecombe or Bailey helps them much right away. 3rd pick is also making over 10m a year, that factors in quite a bit on a team with 3 max contracts.

DreamTeam09 · Post #651 » by **DreamTeam09** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:42 am

I remember that Scase poster arguing with me when I said "ATL won the lottery at 10" he was arguing with back n forth for posts on post questioning my basketball intellect and even called me a few names and pick 8 n 11 jumped to #1 n #2

lol lol

Either way I hope Khaman is there, I'll take Queen as well. Plus we stay well under the tax

dublo7 · Post #652 » by **dublo7** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:43 am

artsncrafts wrote:How do we know its not rigged, who watched the draw?

a lawyer group - like Suits - oversees the draw.

disoblige · Post #653 » by **disoblige** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:44 am

SFour wrote:
Tha Cynic wrote:
disoblige wrote:
Even we dont win the lottery, we would have landed 5-6 at worst if we tanked and traded properly. Now, you have the 9th pick and you have no all-star or future.

This is delusional if people actually think we would have had a roster bad enough to end up with the worst record in the NBA. I would rather have our roster and get the 9th pick than have tried he worst team in the league's roster and get 5th.

ya there's nothing to be happy about with the 5th pick and a blown up roster.....that's the worst situation to be in.

At least with the 9th pick and a new Ingram addition we have something to look forward to, even if it's not championship worthy but the Raptors still haven't made their "contender" trades.

You understand that we have no all-stars and we can literally can sit anyone out. Which we did last season (barret and quickley) and this season.

James_Raptors · Post #654 » by **James_Raptors** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:44 am

Cooper, AD, Max Christie and a 2029 1st
We just didn't know they'd wait to announce "the rest of the deal" today.

djsunyc · Post #655 » by **djsunyc** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:44 am

PushDaRock wrote:
bballsparkin wrote:
djsunyc wrote:
morey is a good drafter but he could trade it for immediate help.

he is that's true. i was speaking more about this draft in particular and a guy like Ace. Good point about trading the pick.

Tricky spot really, I don't think Edgecombe or Bailey helps them much right away. 3rd pick is also making over 10m a year, that factors in quite a bit on a team with 3 max contracts.

they also have to pay quentin grimes.

Wargreymon · Post #656 » by **Wargreymon** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:44 am

MoneyBall wrote:Knowing Masai, he might have still picked Maluach at #3... so if he's still there at #9 it's no problem.

Masai would pick him at 1 if we won the lottery.

WuTang_CMB · Post #657 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:47 am

Loll

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ForeverTFC · Post #658 » by **ForeverTFC** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:47 am

Pointgod wrote:
ForeverTFC wrote:
Pointgod wrote:
You know we were games ahead of Philadelphia at the deadline right? The same Philadelphia team that just moved up to grab the third pick. We also dropped 2 spots last lottery as well. It just goes to show you that you either go all in for the tank or you try to compete and pray for luck like Atlanta and Dallas if you fall short. But no more half measures.

We also had one less win than the Spurs, who got the 2nd pick. It would have been better for us to win one more.

Sure but you can’t predict that, but you can be on the right side of the probability to stay in the top 5. No one in their right mind would choose a 52% chance for a top 4 pick over a 26% and 8.6% chance.

Sure, but it depends what it costs you. Gutting your team to get that edge may not be worth it. This team was not going to lost less than Washington, the Jazz, the Nets, and the Hornets once they lost their guys to injury. We just have way better players. To get to their level, we'd have to sell off talent. You have to enter this into the equation.

SFour · Post #659 » by **SFour** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:50 am

disoblige wrote:
SFour wrote:
Tha Cynic wrote:
This is delusional if people actually think we would have had a roster bad enough to end up with the worst record in the NBA. I would rather have our roster and get the 9th pick than have tried he worst team in the league's roster and get 5th.

ya there's nothing to be happy about with the 5th pick and a blown up roster.....that's the worst situation to be in.

At least with the 9th pick and a new Ingram addition we have something to look forward to, even if it's not championship worthy but the Raptors still haven't made their "contender" trades.

You understand that we have no all-stars and we can literally can sit anyone out. Which we did last season (barret and quickley) and this season.

both Barnes and Ingram are more than capable of being allstars. And Raptors are primed to trade for another allstar.

Post #660 » by **Duffman100** » Tue May 13, 2025 12:50 am

ForeverTFC wrote:
Pointgod wrote:
ForeverTFC wrote:
We also had one less win than the Spurs, who got the 2nd pick. It would have been better for us to win one more.

Sure but you can’t predict that, but you can be on the right side of the probability to stay in the top 5. No one in their right mind would choose a 52% chance for a top 4 pick over a 26% and 8.6% chance.

Sure, but it depends what it costs you. Gutting your team to get that edge may not be worth it. This team was not going to lost less than Washington, the Jazz, the Nets, and the Hornets once they lost their guys to injury. We just have way better players. To get to their level, we'd have to sell off talent. You have to enter this into the equation.

Or sit players for the entire year and have them miss out on development time