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Skin wrote:Fiiiiiiiiiiine, Knightro.... We'll fight about it here.
So, who's onboard with Corey Kispert at 6? I was hoping to get him with the CHI pick, but I was also hoping to be picking in the Top 5. Those dreams are now DEAD.
Def Swami wrote:There are 9 potential wins left in the season IMHO.
WAS - April 7
SAS - April 12
CHI - April 14
TOR - April 16
HOU - April 18
LAL* - April 26 (are James and Davis still out in 4 weeks?)
CLE - April 28
DET - May 3
MIN - May 9
And then there are the other playoff teams that may sit their starters against us. We aren't fielding a good team. This is going to require a lot of luck in terms of who is healthy against the Magic and some likely meaningless bounces in a game or so here. It will require a lot of luck in the lottery. I'm just hoping that the basketball gods reward the Magic for not flat out sucking to finish the season.
Just Plain Mark wrote:Skin wrote:Fiiiiiiiiiiine, Knightro.... We'll fight about it here.
So, who's onboard with Corey Kispert at 6? I was hoping to get him with the CHI pick, but I was also hoping to be picking in the Top 5. Those dreams are now DEAD.
Are you seeing mock drafts or discussion of Kispert going in the top 10? I'm looking around and he's not in the top 10 of any mock draft I've seen.
Skin wrote:Fiiiiiiiiiiine, Knightro.... We'll fight about it here.
So, who's onboard with Corey Kispert at 6? I was hoping to get him with the CHI pick, but I was also hoping to be picking in the Top 5. Those dreams are now DEAD.
Nyce_1 wrote:Skybox wrote:D J C wrote:2020: 3 - 1 - 8 - 7
2019: 7 - 8 - 1 - 11
2018: 1 - 7 - 4
2017: 1 - 3 - 8
17 & 18 the top 3 had much better odds than the new system too
Not sure why everyone’s freaking out going from 4 to 5, WeltHam is just doing the big brain move of getting to that sweet 7 spot
What is this, exactly?
these are the pre-lotto slotted team rank and their actual picking order the last couple years.
2019: 7th worse team picked 1 - 8th worse team picked 2 - worst team picked 3rd, 11 worse team pick 4
Nyce_1 wrote:Skybox wrote:D J C wrote:2020: 3 - 1 - 8 - 7
2019: 7 - 8 - 1 - 11
2018: 1 - 7 - 4
2017: 1 - 3 - 8
17 & 18 the top 3 had much better odds than the new system too
Not sure why everyone’s freaking out going from 4 to 5, WeltHam is just doing the big brain move of getting to that sweet 7 spot
What is this, exactly?
these are the pre-lotto slotted team rank and their actual picking order the last couple years.
2019: 7th worse team picked 1 - 8th worse team picked 2 - worst team picked 3rd, 11 worse team pick 4
penny_nz wrote:Nyce_1 wrote:Skybox wrote:
What is this, exactly?
these are the pre-lotto slotted team rank and their actual picking order the last couple years.
2019: 7th worse team picked 1 - 8th worse team picked 2 - worst team picked 3rd, 11 worse team pick 4
That is really quite powerful seeing that laid out for the last two seasons
The Effect wrote:penny_nz wrote:Nyce_1 wrote:these are the pre-lotto slotted team rank and their actual picking order the last couple years.
2019: 7th worse team picked 1 - 8th worse team picked 2 - worst team picked 3rd, 11 worse team pick 4
That is really quite powerful seeing that laid out for the last two seasons
DOnt put too much stock in the 2019 draft
That was an OBVIOUS "help LAbron get AD draft"
"hey if you guys trade AD to the lakers to maek them relevant again, we'll give you the 1st pick, and we'll help the lakers up their offer by giving them a top 5 pick too"
To me thats just like when Dan Gilbert was gifted the #1 pick 3 times in like 4 years after lebron left, including the year after he left, they got 1&4. They got the clippers pick who just happened to jump from 8 to 1 but owed it to the cavs, and the cavs fell to 4 with their own pick
Literally our only hope for getting 1-4 picks is that the NBA rewards orlando for saving last years playoffs (how many billions did the nba recoup from that??)
The Effect wrote:
Literally our only hope for getting 1-4 picks is that the NBA rewards orlando for saving last years playoffs (how many billions did the nba recoup from that??)
SOUL wrote:You can make up reasons for any team to get the first pick for any year.
Ewing draft may have been the only one but they changed it so that the whole process is watched over by all the teams/people/etc.
Skybox wrote:SOUL wrote:You can make up reasons for any team to get the first pick for any year.
Ewing draft may have been the only one but they changed it so that the whole process is watched over by all the teams/people/etc.
there are literally 10 people from each team watching the ping pong balls
Skybox wrote:SOUL wrote:You can make up reasons for any team to get the first pick for any year.
Ewing draft may have been the only one but they changed it so that the whole process is watched over by all the teams/people/etc.
there are literally 10 people from each team watching the ping pong balls
GelbeWand09 wrote:Skin wrote:Fiiiiiiiiiiine, Knightro.... We'll fight about it here.
So, who's onboard with Corey Kispert at 6? I was hoping to get him with the CHI pick, but I was also hoping to be picking in the Top 5. Those dreams are now DEAD.
Before i draft him at 6 i offer 3 picks to trade up or trade down & get another asset. Or hope Barnes lerns to shoot or Johnson becomes our MPJr.
SOUL wrote:You can make up reasons for any team to get the first pick for any year.
Ewing draft may have been the only one but they changed it so that the whole process is watched over by all the teams/people/etc.
The Effect wrote:So they changed one and then never again? cause thats usually how that works right?
Just Plain Mark wrote:Skin wrote:Fiiiiiiiiiiine, Knightro.... We'll fight about it here.
So, who's onboard with Corey Kispert at 6? I was hoping to get him with the CHI pick, but I was also hoping to be picking in the Top 5. Those dreams are now DEAD.
Are you seeing mock drafts or discussion of Kispert going in the top 10? I'm looking around and he's not in the top 10 of any mock draft I've seen.
SOUL wrote:The Effect wrote:So they changed one and then never again? cause thats usually how that works right?
That's what I'm implying, yes. It is pretty much impossible to do it now with people there to make sure things like that do not happen, unless you are insisting that every team in the lottery is in on it to rig it for another team, as well as outside representatives.
Lakers were bad for a while, Boston sucked for a while, New York is having their first decent season in a while. There is a myth that the NBA is making the big market teams good through devious means. That's all on the players wanting to play on those cities through free agency.
The NBA isn't rigging things to keep Utah, San Antonio and Indiana to have decent to good to great teams for what seems like forever.
Skin wrote:Fiiiiiiiiiiine, Knightro.... We'll fight about it here.
So, who's onboard with Corey Kispert at 6? I was hoping to get him with the CHI pick, but I was also hoping to be picking in the Top 5. Those dreams are now DEAD.
