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sip said:
Another thing to take into account is that Lauri hasn't had his yearly minor injury yet. At some point it will probably happen and we lose him for a few weeks. If that happens then the tank can go into full overdrive.
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KO out a month... Sexton gonna sit a week or two... We should give Mike some time off. Maybe we sit Lauri here and there to prevent the month long injury instead of it happening (it may not happen and I sincerely hope it does not).

All you have to really do is move Beasley, Vando, or maybe JC if something really good comes along and you will slide down the standings.
 
Elizah Huge said:
We are literally 10-20 in our last 30 games and are only a few games out of the 5th/6th pick. If there is any year to get the best pick possible it’s this one.
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Its not hard to see how much parity there is and how we could easily slide to 6/7th which is a meaningful difference between being 11/12 but people feel we have to go full Philly or OKC to do anything here.
 
Apparently the Hawks are seeking a Donovan/Rudy like return for John Collins. Pretty hilarious.
 
Elizah Huge said:
We are literally 10-20 in our last 30 games and are only a few games out of the 5th/6th pick. If there is any year to get the best pick possible it’s this one.
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We also have a big home stand coming up and have barely lost most the games we have lately. There also isn't much difference in picks.

But again, I’m happy to trade away vets it’s more about what we’re getting back though that is the difference.
 
Ron Mexico said:
We also have a big home stand coming up and have barely lost most the games we have lately. There also isn't much difference in picks.

But again, I’m happy to trade away vets it’s more about what we’re getting back though that is the difference.
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We've had pretty great health luck and we are like 1/2 game out of being #8 and 2 games away from #6. The odds of a top 4 pick between the #11, #8, #6 9.4%, 25%, 37% - its significant. We won a bunch of close games early... think we were like 5-2 in games decided by one possession. That is now reversing. We have been in a ton of games which is great. The margins are thin and we can offload 1-2 guys and get in the 6-8 range which provides a real chance at hitting. Memphis hit from the #8 spot and ended up with Ja.
 
We play OKC 4 times in the last 22... say we lose that series 1-3 while continuing to only win 35% of our games. That right there might push you to the 6-7 range which is just so much better long term that winning 3-4 extra games and being the 10/11 spot.

We will see what happens over the next month.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
We play OKC 4 times in the last 22... say we lose that series 1-3 while continuing to only win 35% of our games. That right there might push you to the 6-7 range which is just so much better long term that winning 3-4 extra games and being the 10/11 spot.

We will see what happens over the next month.
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Unless they make moves themselves/have injury troubles I definitely think we will sink below the Lakers, Bulls, Thunder, and Raptors. Washington is always a mediocrity wildcard, but I definitely think we can pass them, and the Magic got frisky for a bit and have the glut of young talent that will help them prioritize development over outright tanking.

So I think we have an outside chance at finishing 5th (10.5% of top pick, 42% of jumping to top 4) and a reasonable hope of finishing 6 (~37% of jumping top 4) or 7 (32% of jumping top 4). Considering we got an unexpected 25 year old All-Star out of the season already, could be quite the year.

Honest question, what is the Lauri Finnish military situation? I know he still has mandatory service to complete, any chance he gets sent after the all-star break? I can't tell if its a meme or real possibility, and can't find much online except he still has some service to complete
 
Jaanipoeg said:
Unless they make moves themselves/have injury troubles I definitely think we will sink below the Lakers, Bulls, Thunder, and Raptors. Washington is always a mediocrity wildcard, but I definitely think we can pass them, and the Magic got frisky for a bit and have the glut of young talent that will help them prioritize development over outright tanking.

So I think we have an outside chance at finishing 5th (10.5% of top pick, 42% of jumping to top 4) and a reasonable hope of finishing 6 (~37% of jumping top 4) or 7 (32% of jumping top 4). Considering we got an unexpected 25 year old All-Star out of the season already, could be quite the year.

Honest question, what is the Lauri Finnish military situation? I know he still has mandatory service to complete, any chance he gets sent after the all-star break? I can't tell if its a meme or real possibility, and can't find much online except he still has some service to complete
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Not sure how the military service works... but I can't imagine he can just show up whenever he wants. Just thinking about how our country works and the mountains of paperwork and time needed to do anything.
 
Jaanipoeg said:
Honest question, what is the Lauri Finnish military situation? I know he still has mandatory service to complete, any chance he gets sent after the all-star break? I can't tell if its a meme or real possibility, and can't find much online except he still has some service to complete
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The shortest service period is 6 months and can be done in parts. Each part that must be completed on one go is exactly 6 weeks and service can be halted and continued later from the start of each part with defense forces officers aproval. So he can do 4x 1.5 months or 2x 3 months for instance.

The athlete school he has applied and been approved to starts a rookie group at the end of April.. which is inconvenient for major teamsport athletes but designed mainly skiiers and winter athletes in mind. The other group starts like october, which is obviously out of the question.

So he is not necessarily gonna miss any games.. but if we know we are missing the playoffs its better for him to step into the service sooner rather than later.
 
HermanG said:
The shortest service period is 6 months and can be done in parts. Each part that must be completed on one go is exactly 6 weeks and service can be halted and continued later from the start of each part with defense forces officers aproval. So he can do 4x 1.5 months or 2x 3 months for instance.

The athlete school he has applied and been approved to starts a rookie group at the end of April.. which is inconvenient for major teamsport athletes but designed mainly skiiers and winter athletes in mind. The other group starts like october, which is obviously out of the question.

So he is not necessarily gonna miss any games.. but if we know we are missing the playoffs its better for him to step into the service sooner rather than later.
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Do it April and do the full 6 months then? Shut down end of March so he has time with family and is healthy for service (also an excuse) would mean he only misses a handful of games at the end of the year though.
 
Elizah Huge said:
The entire point of these trades is to be worse this year and ensure a high draft pick. We would be half-assing the rebuild to trade picks for guys unless we’re talking superstars.
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Don't tell Danny we are rebuilding smh He flipped the roster in one offseason and already has the draft picks to use to get another starter on this roster if he wants to win.
He can still pick somebody in this draft, maybe a lottery pick that can help right away if the pick is good enough, but it is far from reasonable to think the draft is his path to a rebuild.
Now he might use the draft like you say and dial it back once trade values are solid again if they are right before the deadline, but it already looks like they missed that window because the vets values are plummeting
 
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