Draft Lottery Game Thread
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So worst team has won the lottery 3 times in 21 years ~ 14%, while holding 25% chance of picking first.
The odds are its fixed.
The odds are its fixed.
Between injuries, and coaches decisions-did not play, how many games do Kyrie, Embiid, and Bennett play next year?
They kinda are.FelixMantilla said:
The poor #1 pick may never get a touch with Kyrie and Waiters in the backcourt.
The problem is that our offer just got substantially worse than had we acquired a Top-3 pick.Nick Kaufman said:
For what it's worth, I don't know that Embiid is a lock at 1. Cleveland's had a hole at the 3 forever now.
Parker?Grin&MartyBarret said:
Nah.
They have no C, and they plan to troll the "Lebron could come back" train as long as possible.
Gordon's range is a dunk. He shoots FT's at 44% and his jumper makes Michael Kidd-Gilchirst's look like Ray Allen's.Bongorific said:
I'm officially in the "Holy shit Danny you better make this Kevin Love deal a reality as Step One."
I would also try to trade some of those assets to move into the top 3 this year if possible, although I'm sure it's highly unlikelyriboflav said:
Parker or Wiggins. Wiggins can play the 2, also. Verajao, Thompson, LeBron, Wiggins, Kyrie with Waiters off the bench works in the East.Cellar-Door said:
Game threads are, by their nature, stream-of-consciousness. If you were looking for pure news, you came to the wrong place.Fred in Lynn said:
Grin&MartyBarret said:
Especially funny that they passed on a health risk in Noel to take a lemon in Bennett. Now gonna reverse course?
I think it's a pretty even coinflip between Embiid and Wiggins. Nobody else in the running.
Being in the lottery consecutive years should lower your chances of the #1 pick by an increasing percentage year after year. The league rewards prolonged incompetence and it's annoying.
Also, I'm bitter and I hate Cleveland.
Also, I'm bitter and I hate Cleveland.
They did everything they could to win this year, short of not being a professional sports franchise from Cleveland. Hard to fault a team that traded for Deng and Hawes to push for the playoffs.timelysarcasm said:
Cleveland drafts Wiggins.
He gets arrested at the airport and deported.
Cleveland continues to get what it deserves.
He gets arrested at the airport and deported.
Cleveland continues to get what it deserves.
I don't think the lottery is rigged at all (at least not this year). The NBA doesn't care about LeBron going back to Cleveland, they just love that he went to Miami and formed a super villain like team.
What the problem is that a team should not be allowed to win the lottery, or even get a top 3 pick in back to back years. If you screw up your number one, you shouldn't just get a do-over, thanks to shit luck. It prevents teams from getting back in the top 3 thanks to fucking up their pick, and it prevents a team that improved to the rate that the odds were nearly/impossible to win the lottery a second time, yet they win it anyways, from getting into the top 3.
The NBA has the only system it sports that is so obviously unfair to teams, they need something so new, and this potentially could be the tipping point.
What the problem is that a team should not be allowed to win the lottery, or even get a top 3 pick in back to back years. If you screw up your number one, you shouldn't just get a do-over, thanks to shit luck. It prevents teams from getting back in the top 3 thanks to fucking up their pick, and it prevents a team that improved to the rate that the odds were nearly/impossible to win the lottery a second time, yet they win it anyways, from getting into the top 3.
The NBA has the only system it sports that is so obviously unfair to teams, they need something so new, and this potentially could be the tipping point.
Serious question here, what is the big deal about just giving the worst team by record the first pick? I mean I honestly could care less if teams tank at the bottom to get the number 1 pick. They are doing so at their owners expense, in the end. I mean does it really make that big of a difference? I would say this method still doesn't prevent teams from tanking anyways.
Weren't they already at a shade under 2% to get the first pick? Talk about good fortune.timelysarcasm said:
Grin&MartyBarret said:
Not going to argue on that one, but in general I still think there should be some kind of penalty for constantly being in the lottery.
I'm really not a fan of the ping pong ball system though, it's ridiculous to me that it's not like every other sport in terms of draft order. Cleveland should not have even had a chance at the #1, it's dumbassery.
I think it makes a big difference honestly. It's a bad feeling to root for your team to lose. Rooting for a rebuilding baseball team is much more fun that way.BoSoxFink said:
The problem as you point out is that we haven't prevented tanking anyway.