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Jingled said:
What exactly is the "take the 4th pick" hypothetical"?
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we discussed if you were offered the fourth pick right now would you take that and give up your chances at landing in the top 3 or would you rather just roll the dice… and apparently there are a lot of river boat gamblers out here that would rather have a 5% shot at Wemby/Scoot than take the fourth pick… because they view 4-10 as roughly equal… so curious how they all feeling now?
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
we discussed if you were offered the fourth pick right now would you take that and give up your chances at landing in the top 3 or would you rather just roll the dice… and apparently there are a lot of river boat gamblers out here that would rather have a 5% shot at Wemby/Scoot than take the fourth pick… because they view 4-10 as roughly equal… so curious how they all feeling now?
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With the way things are going, I would take the 4th pick at this point. I would be very happy with either Amen or Jarace Walker.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
we discussed if you were offered the fourth pick right now would you take that and give up your chances at landing in the top 3 or would you rather just roll the dice… and apparently there are a lot of river boat gamblers out here that would rather have a 5% shot at Wemby/Scoot than take the fourth pick… because they view 4-10 as roughly equal… so curious how they all feeling now?
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4th pick of course. Like i said when we were discussing the hypothetical........ We have no shot at the top 3. We are making the playoffs. Give me the 4th pick. We already lost our shot at top 3.
 
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Handlogten's Heros said:
Watching Xavier… Colby Jones is nice. It’s also nice to see a spread floor. Colby just is really good at a bunch of things and has a nice easy game that is completely unforced. If he slips to the Philly pick that’s a steal.
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I literally came here to ask if he’s considered a legit prospect. His game is nice.
 
Its also funny how Wemby 3P shooting hype was so loud before the season and now that he has sucked from 3 all year (29.6%) no one even cares to mention it.
 
RandyForRubio said:
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I literally came here to ask if he’s considered a legit prospect. His game is nice.
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Mid to late first… he’s been really efficient, productive, just real smooth. He’s prolly not a guy you’d want to take with the Minny pick and may not be there when the Philly pick comes around. I’d guess he goes between like 18-25ish.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
If we end up out of the lottery, then sure I’ll take #4.
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That wasn’t the hypothetical… it was right now… would you take it. Yeah of course out of the lotto you’d take it… it was all about measuring the chance to get Wemby with the certainty of #4… if you are out of the lotto you have no shot at Wemby lol.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
That wasn’t the hypothetical… it was right now… would you take it. Yeah of course out of the lotto you’d take it… it was all about measuring the chance to get Wemby with the certainty of #4… if you are out of the lotto you have no shot at Wemby lol.
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Yea, it was tongue in cheek.

Obviously if we are 12-14 the odds are so low that it would behoove me to change my tune. Especially since I’m sure a #4 dude will emerge and be much coveted. Draft season would be lots of snide comments “Aren’t we glad that we have pick #13, sure would hate to have the chance to draft *whoever will climb up the board* to #4” But I’m dug in now, I’ll still just play things out. I’ll always remember the Bulls getting Derrick Rose with the 14th best odds or so.
 
Bawse Dawg said:
Yea, it was tongue in cheek.

Obviously if we are 12-14 the odds are so low that it would behoove me to change my tune. Especially since I’m sure a #4 dude will emerge and be much coveted. Draft season would be lots of snide comments “Aren’t we glad that we have pick #13, sure would hate to have the chance to draft *whoever will climb up the board* to #4” But I’m dug in now, I’ll still just play things out. I’ll always remember the Bulls getting Derrick Rose with the 14th best odds or so.
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It was a 50/50 proposition for me but after last night it’s a no brainer… each game matters so much in the odds race. Some of these franchises just no how to lose.
 
After all the talk of a deep draft, I’m starting to think most of these players have been overhyped. Most “star” freshmen have not played very well. I’m getting more sold on the Thompson twins and Leonard Miller than the college kids.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
Boston was missing three key players and playing on a B2B with travel. Last night was pretty much a schedule loss for them. Jazz can still lose 10 of their remaining 12 games.
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It really wasn’t… they lost by 1 after leading almost the whole game. If we are good enough to beat them even at a weakened state… we are likely not falling to the range where we have any sort of good odds.

We just aren’t ****** enough and are apparently too proud to resort to levels of tankiness to get where we need to.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
It was a 50/50 proposition for me but after last night it’s a no brainer… each game matters so much in the odds race. Some of these franchises just no how to lose.
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At this point you just have to really hope against all logic that these close game performances are a real, tangible thing. And not just season to season randomness. Because that’s the difference between top 7 odds and where we find ourselves now.

What a bummer if we are not discernibly better next year, record wise or otherwise. Just because we miss out on a half dozen dice roll wins that we ended up getting this year, the worst possible time.
 
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