I watched a few highlights
Southpaw shooter who can run a little PnR? Not really seeing a crazy athlete, ballhandler or passer but intriguing
I watched a few highlights
Southpaw shooter who can run a little PnR? Not really seeing a crazy athlete, ballhandler or passer but intriguing
every where.
I'm just spitballing since it's the draft/lotto thread, but what if the league held two lotteries for the draft, each team with even odds?
1-14, each team gets one ping pong ball.
All the playoff teams get the same treatment for 15-30.
Would eliminate blatant tanking and would also give the best teams better odds to re-tool.
1-14, each team gets one ping pong ball.
All the playoff teams get the same treatment for 15-30.
Would eliminate blatant tanking and would also give the best teams better odds to re-tool.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
All you did was reinforce the notion that being 8th seed is the worst thing to be. So not only can I miss out on the 1-14 lottery, I could fukk around and pick last? No one would ever agree to that. On top of that, no one would ever use draft picks as a form of currency again, simply because the fate of that pick is random. That would cripple the transaction market.
How bout regular lottery odds/ping pong balls for the playoff teams then?
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
For the same reasons I just mentioned. The entire concept of these drafts is that the worst teams generally need that infusion of amateur talent for a reason. For whatever reason, people are not convinced in the NBA that bad teams truly exist.
I get that. People and the league are always bytching about tanking though.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
Because they see talented rosters on paper perform poorly and think “how can this team be that bad?” And when you see teams pull the plug on vets to play green players, fans don’t appreciate punting a winnable game in the short term even if it leads to long term success. There’s a lot that goes into it. Now we’re hearing about it in baseball and their draft is the biggest crapshoot out of any of the major sports.I get that. People and the league are always bytching about tanking though.
Sacramento out here trying to rob nikkas.
The KAT trade is kind of even but the Wiggins trade is laughable
I don’t give a shyt breh just get my dog away from Thibs.
I get that. People and the league are always bytching about tanking though.
I think people are blinded by the tanking fiasco of years past and seeing bad teams like Brooklyn and Dallas and assume those teams are tanking (well maybe not in Brooklyn's case), but they are flat out bad teams, their FO couldn't do much more with those rosters to make them better if they tried right now. There are some teams that tanked the year away and some teams are just bad teams for different reasons.
Then there's teams like Phoenix that had to trade one of their better players early in the season and tanked the rest of the year out, but it was definitely circumstantial, I'm sure the players there would've won more games and put forth more effort if they thought they could win as currently constructed.
Then you got Memphis who was RAVAGED by injuries and off court drama with their coach, they tanked but they were in a really bad situation so getting like 9th/10th seed wouldn't have helped them at all whatsoever.
So I think the NBA's tanking problem isn't as bad as people say it is, I think from year to year circumstances change and tanking becomes a necessity, very rarely does a team pull a Sixers and WANT to lose every year.
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
You Tum Tum bumpin motherfukkers don't deserve Bamba anyway
Bigblackted4
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Cavs future point guard