doclinkin wrote:The Consiglieri wrote:I am curious and maybe a little crazy. Would the NBA just rip our pick, if we violated all of their subtle bull---- rules about tanking?
All we know is Adam Silver said the competition committee would talk about rules proposals to discourage tanking.
Last time they did that they came up with the modified odds. Do they expand the lotto odds to the bottom 8? Or if the bottom 4 had 10% each but those after that had better odds? Or the two worst teams get the 4&5 pick? These are all ideas floated by Mike Vorkunov of the Athletic to encourage a dogfight even among the teams at the bottom of the standings.
I wouldn’t hate it if the cellar dwellers had to fight it out. A little late season juice to look forward to. Or a mini tournament among those that missed the playoffs where the best of the worst got bettered odds as a reward. Plus cash incentives for the players to encourage participation. I dunno. The toilet bowl. The stupor bowl.
Owners still have to vote on whatever they come up with. But I get the sense that anything that screws Ted wouldn’t entirely be frowned on.
I guess I'll just say, none of it makes any sense to me.
The way they layed it out seemed to designed, though I know that's tin foil hat syndrome (it was just stupidity on their part) to reward great flagship teams, that already get the benefit of free agent interest, with the chance to dip into the lottery in the event of a catastrophic mid season injury. Philly did this this year, Miami basically did this due to Butler's melt down with the FO, if the Celtics lost Tatum and/or Brown they would do the same. It essentially is a system that inherently enriches strong franchises that have 1 season of bad luck, and ruthlessly punishes teams at rock bottom, and especially teams headed to rock bottom in undesirable locations unlikely to ever draw elite free agents (see Charlotte, Orlando, Milwaukee, Indiana etc).
It didn't achieve its objectives (preventing tanking) actually accelerated 2nd half of season tanking, and it made the leagues most fundamental issue (half the franchises are totally ----ed or nearly ----ed in a way that isn't true in any other sport, even baseball, barring lottery good fortune/or a SGA/Giannis/Jokic Miracle pick) significantly worse. As Milwaukee loses Giannis in the next year or two, their chances at rising back to the top are infinitely more remote than they were 10 years ago of effecting such change and such a rise. Indeed, w/o the last of the truly colossal idiot trades benefitting OKC, it would be in an identical situation.
That's what frustrates me. The lack of self-awareness, that cities like Milwaukee, Indiana, Charlotte, Orlando etc desperately need to have reasonable lottery odds to have any chance, period, and the league basically shot gunned those hopes six or seven years ago w/those changes. Now instead of a 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 chance of a miracle having a decisive impact, those cities float in a world where their chances are more like 1 in 8 to 1 in 12 at best, which is still possible, but highly unlikely and NO FA's are ever targeting Milwaukee, Indiana or Charlotte period....There is nothing wrong with tanking and never has been anything wrong with it. All a GM and Owner owe their teams is to do their very best to manage in the best long term interests of the franchise. If you have a great build, thats in contending, if you have a desolate roster, then its in tanking, period. Honestly, there shouldn't even be a lottery period, it should simply be in order of finish, period. I've never understood their distaste for it, the GM's and Coaches that tank for franchise QB's in elite classes, are simply doing whats in their teams long term interest just as a playoff contender does the same. No difference whatsoever, and its ridiculous to treat it differently in my view. If you're mad some teams sitting its best players late, maybe you should have won more games early, too freaking bad, Never understood this issue, it's utter nonsense and always has been. There is no tanking issue, period. Its simply smart roster management.
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