2018 Pick Watch (Philly, LAL 1 or 6-30, etc)

[No-Man]

the C's might get the pick cause of the lottery, but I think pre-lotto it's gonna be out of the top5, Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, Orlando, and Sacramento are gonna end the year with a worse record than LA 100%, Dallas, Phoenix, and Brooklyn are gonna be in the same range.

LA is gonna push when all those teams, other than Brooklyn, tank for real.

So you're home watching some prospect vids, a week out from the draft, there's a phone call: "Hi, Fis, Bryan Colangelo here, if you didn't know I'm with the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA. I read the realgm forums everyday and I see you post a bit in the draft forums. Who do you think we should draft with the 7th pick in the draft?"

Well If he is there which I'd say it's probable, I will say Miles Bridges would be my call

But again, it's a difficult one, Jaren Jackson Jr. is right there it'd be between those 2 to me.

[Sixerscan]

How do you think the draft lottery will be presented in terms of the 14 seats? Celtics are in the playoffs so they are not included in the 14 seats. Sixers will be seating for the spot of the lakers. Do you think they will give another seat for the celtics representative?

Yeah they'll be there. The Wizards traded their pick top 3 protected a few years ago. They had like the 12th spot so there was very little chance of them getting to keep their pick, still sent a rep.

So the celtics will be just standing in the background just in case they win their pick? They wont be included in the 14 seats?

Lol. They'll get a seat. Anyone with any sort of chance gets a seat.

[Aussiepiston1]

i think Lakers will finish with a 30-52 record and end up with the 9th pick and we'll end up 45-37 and get the 18th pick.

[broseph13]

No

[BullyKing]

This Fultz trade is looking awful. It's like Anthony Bennett all over again but worse considering we gave up another lotto pick to get this guy. He's got a lot of convincing to do because he looked awful in the first 4 games and probably won't be doing much better once he returns.

This belongs in the Fultz trade topic and only the Fultz trade topic.

[HartfordWhalers]

...

No.
You've been told not to do this, trying it again in a different wrong thread isn't flying. Warning issued.

[nitocobola]

my bet

atlanta
orlando
chicago
kings
Memphis
Lakers

I think that dallas, phoenix should tank but i don't see them making any moves before the deadline.

[Kolkmania]

Do think that the Lakers will pick it up with Lonzo back. Watching their highlights it seems that they've realized that he's far more effective as an off-ball player in the HC. They ran some plays for him coming off screens and with him actually hitting a great percentage over his last 15 or so games, it's quite deadly.

Also great that Lopez is back, not that he's terrific, but the Randle/Kuzma pairing is horrendous on the defensive end. Lopez can stretch the floor with Randle in and Kuzma can shoot whenever he wants with the second unit.

Not sure if I have a preference of having Sac '19 or LA '18 (6-8) at this point. Not nearly as stressful as last seasons though, knowing that we have Embiid, Simmons and Fultz.

[Wilfried]

LAL - SAC tonight

[Wilfried]

Not sure if I have a preference of having Sac '19 or LA '18 (6-8) at this point. Not nearly as stressful as last seasons though, knowing that we have Embiid, Simmons and Fultz.

Fact that this draft is pretty deep gives me the edge for the LA pick (we don't know anything about "19 draft).
We could get a nice asset that fits this team well.

Salarywise on the other hand, I think it's better to not get the pick this season, because it would gives us more salary space to go after a big time FA.

But that's also very uncertain, so give me the LA pick this season and draft Jaren Jackson or Miles Bridges.

[jbent87]

my bet

atlanta
orlando
chicago
kings
Memphis
Lakers

I think that dallas, phoenix should tank but i don't see them making any moves before the deadline.

You could make an argument for any of these 8 teams that they need to tank the MOST. 8 teams, most of all which WILL tank at some point. Let's see if Adam Silver has anything to say about this in a couple months.

[OFWGKTA]

Not sure if I have a preference of having Sac '19 or LA '18 (6-8) at this point. Not nearly as stressful as last seasons though, knowing that we have Embiid, Simmons and Fultz.

Fact that this draft is pretty deep gives me the edge for the LA pick (we don't know anything about "19 draft).
We could get a nice asset that fits this team well.

Salarywise on the other hand, I think it's better to not get the pick this season, because it would gives us more salary space to go after a big time FA.

But that's also very uncertain, so give me the LA pick this season and draft Jaren Jackson or Miles Bridges.

It has been reported that Silver might get rid of the one and done rule though, which could end up being huge.

[the_process]

Not sure if I have a preference of having Sac '19 or LA '18 (6-8) at this point. Not nearly as stressful as last seasons though, knowing that we have Embiid, Simmons and Fultz.

Fact that this draft is pretty deep gives me the edge for the LA pick (we don't know anything about "19 draft).
We could get a nice asset that fits this team well.

Salarywise on the other hand, I think it's better to not get the pick this season, because it would gives us more salary space to go after a big time FA.

But that's also very uncertain, so give me the LA pick this season and draft Jaren Jackson or Miles Bridges.

It has been reported that Silver might get rid of the one and done rule though, which could end up being huge.

It’s doubtful the league would do that without getting a concession of some sort from the union. And I’m not thinking the union is going to give back anymore BRI.

[KL78192020]

If they sixers aren't in playoff spot with 15 or so games left do they rest Embiid/Simmons? Tank drop in the standings and push the lakers up? Would be crazy epic lol but highly unlikely. Would love to see Philly get Trae Young somehow.

[76ciology]

We need to root for Lakers

Against for..
Mavs
Nets
Suns
Grizz
Chi

Good chance we keep the pick IMO

[SpoSucks]

my bet

atlanta
orlando
chicago
kings
Memphis
Lakers

I think that dallas, phoenix should tank but i don't see them making any moves before the deadline.

You could make an argument for any of these 8 teams that they need to tank the MOST. 8 teams, most of all which WILL tank at some point. Let's see if Adam Silver has anything to say about this in a couple months.

This is priceless. Now that you guys are done tanking, you want the commissioner to step in and stop other teams from doing it.

[CoreyGallagher]

my bet

atlanta
orlando
chicago
kings
Memphis
Lakers

I think that dallas, phoenix should tank but i don't see them making any moves before the deadline.

You could make an argument for any of these 8 teams that they need to tank the MOST. 8 teams, most of all which WILL tank at some point. Let's see if Adam Silver has anything to say about this in a couple months.

This is priceless. Now that you guys are done tanking, you want the commissioner to step in and stop other teams from doing it.

...Because he stepped in and put people into positions that forced our GM to resign as a result of it. So, yeah, we're bitter. Lol.

Also, nobody here actually expects Silver to do anything about it, assuming was implied sarcastically.

[PLO]

my bet

atlanta
orlando
chicago
kings
Memphis
Lakers

I think that dallas, phoenix should tank but i don't see them making any moves before the deadline.

You could make an argument for any of these 8 teams that they need to tank the MOST. 8 teams, most of all which WILL tank at some point. Let's see if Adam Silver has anything to say about this in a couple months.

This is priceless. Now that you guys are done tanking, you want the commissioner to step in and stop other teams from doing it.

As Corey said above, Silver basically had Sam Hinkie fired because of our tank and his role in it, meanwhile other teams were doing it then and will be tanking this season and Silver didn't do/won't do anything about it. This has nothing to do with us fans wanting to stop other teams from tanking (and in fact its in our interests for other teams to tank this year) but merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the league commissioner.

[SpoSucks]

You could make an argument for any of these 8 teams that they need to tank the MOST. 8 teams, most of all which WILL tank at some point. Let's see if Adam Silver has anything to say about this in a couple months.

This is priceless. Now that you guys are done tanking, you want the commissioner to step in and stop other teams from doing it.

...Because he stepped in and put people into positions that forced our GM to resign as a result of it. So, yeah, we're bitter. Lol.

Also, nobody here actually expects Silver to do anything about it, assuming was implied sarcastically.

OK, that clarifies that part. Still, you operate within a system you're not in charge off. You have to live with the results of your actions. That's life. Now buck up. And rather than be upset it happened, you should be happy. Very unlikely any other team now does the same. Since you all worship the ground Sam Hinkie walks on, nobody will be able to duplicate "The Process". It was the greatest play ever, right?

[PLO]

This is priceless. Now that you guys are done tanking, you want the commissioner to step in and stop other teams from doing it.

...Because he stepped in and put people into positions that forced our GM to resign as a result of it. So, yeah, we're bitter. Lol.

Also, nobody here actually expects Silver to do anything about it, assuming was implied sarcastically.

OK, that clarifies that part. Still, you operate within a system you're not in charge off. You have to live with the results of your actions. That's life. Now buck up. And rather than be upset it happened, you should be happy. Very unlikely any other team now does the same. Since you all worship the ground Sam Hinkie walks on, nobody will be able to duplicate "The Process". It was the greatest play ever, right?

I'm not sure what you are getting at: other teams tank so to say its "very unlikely any other team now does the same" isn't true. No one has said its the "greatest play ever" but Hinkie tried to maximise outcomes for the 76ers within a system he wasn't in charge of, as you say. Some of the individual deals he was able to work out en route to where we are now were pretty incredible though and maybe that is one thing Silver found so galling - Hinkie made a lot of the league look pretty stupid. That and the fact the tank was blatant, but the Lakers, for example, were trotting out Kobe every night through this period so it wasn't as if their tank was any less blatant.