crystalline said:I still like the Simmons proposal: the first pick goes to the team that piles up the most wins after being mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Terrible teams get eliminated first and have a longer time to accumulate post-elim wins. Near-miss playoff teams have only a handful of games.
At the same time you give advantage to bad teams while incentivizing wins.
Well not really, this is another proposal that hurts the worst teams.
The worst team is not unable to get the best pick.
I don't understand what the issue is, the worst team gets the top pick, like it is in every sport. Basketball is different in that one player can change a franchise, and can influence the play more than any other sport other than maybe a QB in football.
In decades we're had how many multi year tanking teams? I mean the Cavs were not tanking and got 3 number picks.
This is a solution to a one off problem, the Sixers and frankly there is a pretty good chance without the lottery they wouldn't be tanking as hard this year. IF they had the number 2 pick behind the Bucks, they probably draft Wiggins and then maybe not Saric, and they are immediately in a different area.
The stupid lottery already created another super team with Cavs luck. They didn't tank.
Any solution that helps the 10th worst team get the number one pick I think is flawed.