If you have any dialogue to add to this discussion besides a straw-man argument, please let us know. To my knowledge, nobody on this forum (despite how ill informed it may be) has ever argued that we're lottery-bound. I think it's broadly accepted that we're a 7-8 seed looking at a hard first round bump. People's problem is that we're significantly sacrificing future development to maintain a status quo. If you would begin by actually demonstrating why this argument is false it'd go a lot further to demonstrating your point rather than the sensationalist argument of mocking an opinion that nobody here has.
I'll be honest, I initially didn't open this thread because of the spelling error in the title.
Playing well is priority #1 and nothing outside of that is really even close. If you're hoping someone else ****s up, then you don't deserve the break.