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Official Utah/Minnesota/Philadelphia Pick Watch

Shams says Dallas may shut down Luka and Kyrie for the year. Sounds like Lauri is pushing back and wants to play but man… we really should try and lose the rest of the games this year. It would suck to piss him off but I’d strongly consider shutting both him and Walker down.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Shams says Dallas may shut down Luka and Kyrie for the year. Sounds like Lauri is pushing back and wants to play but man… we really should try and lose the rest of the games this year. It would suck to piss him off but I’d strongly consider shutting both him and Walker down.
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I've been afraid of Dallas going that route. It's going to be tough to lose out.
 
Bodhi said:
The lottery gods better punish some of these blatant tanking teams like the Mavs and Portland. Basically just reward us for being us.
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If the lottery gods exist then Magic wins. They have given up 3 draft positions past 15 or so games. They looked almost like a lock for 5th worst record at one point.... but they just keep balling.

Would be fun to get quotes to see if they have more people who are happy that their young core is balling or if they are cussing like there is no tomorrow...
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Shams says Dallas may shut down Luka and Kyrie for the year. Sounds like Lauri is pushing back and wants to play but man… we really should try and lose the rest of the games this year. It would suck to piss him off but I’d strongly consider shutting both him and Walker down.
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Yeah I was worried this might happen. They are in a spot where 1 team jumping from 11-14 range is enough for them to lose their pick. They are in a hurry to drop below us.
 
HermanG said:
If the lottery gods exist then Magic wins. They have given up 3 draft positions past 15 or so games. They looked almost like a lock for 5th worst record at one point.... but they just keep balling.

Would be fun to get quotes to see if they have more people who are happy that their young core is balling or if they are cussing like there is no tomorrow...
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I would hope they think they might actually have the pieces to be setup, cuz they do, they will still finish in the 4-7 range (where I think the pool is flat), and they will likely get a second lottery pick.

The Jazz have a less-optimal situation as building from the ground up goes, where their best player is a reclamation project on his second contract (less time, less team control), they don’t have a pick next year, and are situated to where this is maybe the only year they’ll have access to the top-10 of the draft for a number of years. The Jazz could also entirely drop out of the top-10.

The Magic have also been ****ing irrelevant since, what, 2012? Conversely, the Jazz have made the playoffs most years since the late 1980’s, but have only made a conference finals once by luck in the last 20 years (what I am attempting to illustrate here is winning a bunch of regular season games and being an early-out in the playoffs is ooooooooold hat and bores the ever living **** out of me [and I assume a fair amount of others as well]).

Both teams are setup well, but they come from very different contexts.
 
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