Tankapolooza: Draft Lottery Odds/Watch thread

j-ragg · Post #1541 » by **j-ragg** » Sun Apr 2, 2017 10:46 pm

OrlandoDream wrote:Lakers drop and will finish with the 3rd best odds which puts them at a higher chance to drop to the 4th or 5th spot. They have some winnable games left where PHX has a brutal schedule. They prob won't win another game.

This! I've been saying for a while now we need to put the pipe dream away of catching Phoenix (I'm sure no one thinks we can by now) and root for Phoenix to pass LA. One spot means a lot less ping pong balls.

rusoopE · Post #1542 » by **rusoopE** » Sun Apr 2, 2017 11:28 pm

Yay! Great news!

PrimeThyme · Post #1543 » by **PrimeThyme** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 1:11 am

Cleveland just won a 2OT game and play us on Tuesday the night before a back to back nationally televised game against the Celtics that has huge playoff implications. I'd say it's about a 85% chance that they rest their guys...

shadrock · Post #1544 » by **shadrock** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 1:11 am

j-ragg wrote:
OrlandoDream wrote:Lakers drop and will finish with the 3rd best odds which puts them at a higher chance to drop to the 4th or 5th spot. They have some winnable games left where PHX has a brutal schedule. They prob won't win another game.

This! I've been saying for a while now we need to put the pipe dream away of catching Phoenix (I'm sure no one thinks we can by now) and root for Phoenix to pass LA. One spot means a lot less ping pong balls.

That has been my thoughts for weeks now.

shadrock · Post #1545 » by **shadrock** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 1:12 am

PrimeShaq wrote:Cleveland just won a 2OT game and play us on Tuesday the night before a back to back nationally televised game against the Celtics that has huge playoff implications. I'd say it's about a 85% chance that they rest their guys...

Doesnt really make sense that they would risk a loss vs us, just to play a hard fought game against the Celts. They need every single win they can get right now.

Viper1500 · Post #1546 » by **Viper1500** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 3:21 am

PrimeShaq wrote:Cleveland just won a 2OT game and play us on Tuesday the night before a back to back nationally televised game against the Celtics that has huge playoff implications. I'd say it's about a 85% chance that they rest their guys...

Cleveland will rest their guys the entire second half once they get a 25 pt lead on us.

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Xatticus · Post #1547 » by **Xatticus** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 4:37 am

PrimeShaq wrote:Cleveland just won a 2OT game and play us on Tuesday the night before a back to back nationally televised game against the Celtics that has huge playoff implications. I'd say it's about a 85% chance that they rest their guys...

Maybe. But they still really need to win the game against us if they are concerned with home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference Finals.

That Lakers win tonight makes things a bit more interesting for us.

cedric76 · Post #1548 » by **cedric76** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 6:55 am

OrlandoDream wrote:Lakers drop and will finish with the 3rd best odds which puts them at a higher chance to drop to the 4th or 5th spot. They have some winnable games left where PHX has a brutal schedule. They prob won't win another game.

Great , 53% chances of losing that pick

Let's hope they get less lucky than last year

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pepe1991 · Post #1549 » by **pepe1991** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 9:02 am

cedric76 wrote:
OrlandoDream wrote:Lakers drop and will finish with the 3rd best odds which puts them at a higher chance to drop to the 4th or 5th spot. They have some winnable games left where PHX has a brutal schedule. They prob won't win another game.

Great , 53% chances of losing that pick

Let's hope they get less lucky than last year

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Bow down to Hinkie. Master of trades. 76ers will probably have two top 8 picks with non of them being their own :lol:

crazytown · Post #1550 » by **crazytown** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 10:11 am

IND and CHI still have something to play for. Needless to say, Nets game is a must lose.

GO Nets!

Nyce_1 · Post #1551 » by **Nyce_1** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 12:11 pm

Suns in sole possession of 2nd in the tank race. I hope they keep it.

I normally don't visit the LAL board but I may have to go lurk and read some of the meltdown after yesterday's events.

Jiwol · Post #1552 » by **Jiwol** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 1:33 pm

crazytown wrote:IND and CHI still have something to play for. Needless to say, Nets game is a must lose.

GO Nets!

No, it's not. Hard to root for home loss against the worst team in the NBA. I got it marked as a W. We're fine.

OrlandoNed · Post #1553 » by **OrlandoNed** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 1:46 pm

Jiwol wrote:
crazytown wrote:IND and CHI still have something to play for. Needless to say, Nets game is a must lose.

GO Nets!

No, it's not. Hard to root for home loss against the worst team in the NBA. I got it marked as a W. We're fine.

Home or road, we still lost to that dumpster fire by double digits a few days ago.

Nyce_1 · Post #1554 » by **Nyce_1** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 2:15 pm

OrlandoNed wrote:
Jiwol wrote:
crazytown wrote:IND and CHI still have something to play for. Needless to say, Nets game is a must lose.

GO Nets!

No, it's not. Hard to root for home loss against the worst team in the NBA. I got it marked as a W. We're fine.

Home or road, we still lost to that dumpster fire by double digits a few days ago.

...on the 2nd night of a B2B after a tough loss vs Celtics. And, that dumpster fire is playing .500 ball the last 10 or so games.

The Other Ankle · Post #1555 » by **The Other Ankle** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 2:54 pm

Nyce_1 wrote:
OrlandoNed wrote:
Jiwol wrote:
No, it's not. Hard to root for home loss against the worst team in the NBA. I got it marked as a W. We're fine.

Home or road, we still lost to that dumpster fire by double digits a few days ago.

...on the 2nd night of a B2B after a tough loss vs Celtics. And, that dumpster fire is playing .500 ball the last 10 or so games.

That Dumpster Fire burned down the Hawks like a section of I-85 last night! Burn, Dumpster, Burn!

They are the only bottom-dweller with nothing to gain from tanking and it's showing.

NEM · Post #1556 » by **NEM** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 3:30 pm

Updated. I added italics to indicate our highest possible position and lowest possible position in the lottery. We are guaranteed to be the 8th slot (2.8% chance at 1st overall) at worst, and 4th slot 11.9% chance at 1st overall; current) at best.

Another loss to the Nets and we are almost guaranteed the 4th slot.

Important to note: Sixers and Knicks play on the last day of the season. That's almost a guaranteed win for philly because New York will pull out all the stops to lose that game if their records continue the way they are now. A tie in the regular season results in split odds. There is not tie breaker.

Also, we need LAL to win one more game.

Xatticus · Post #1557 » by **Xatticus** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 4:03 pm

Nyce_1 wrote:
OrlandoNed wrote:
Jiwol wrote:
No, it's not. Hard to root for home loss against the worst team in the NBA. I got it marked as a W. We're fine.

Home or road, we still lost to that dumpster fire by double digits a few days ago.

...on the 2nd night of a B2B after a tough loss vs Celtics. And, that dumpster fire is playing .500 ball the last 10 or so games.

And, like most teams, they are much better at home than on the road.

DiplomaticMagic · Post #1558 » by **DiplomaticMagic** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 8:39 pm

Geezus why is there only 1 basketball game on today? I'm actually really enjoying watching the tank race.

Lakers in the 3rd seed would be huge.

Sensor · Post #1559 » by **Sensor** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 9:18 pm

DiplomaticMagic wrote:Geezus why is there only 1 basketball game on today? I'm actually really enjoying watching the tank race.

Lakers in the 3rd seed would be huge.

I assume to avoid competing for ratings with the NCAA Championship game tonight. Sucks but $$$ rules

DiplomaticMagic · Post #1560 » by **DiplomaticMagic** » Mon Apr 3, 2017 9:18 pm

I cant believe we are 5.5 games behind the Suns, we were within striking distance when we played them. Wish we could tank like them