Thee Jazz Fan
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@Handlogten's Heros @Elizah Huge are you guys in the same location or separate locations when you do the pod?
Jackpotting Around Podcast: Episode 13 - Listener Mailbag Edition
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HH is in NoCal and EH is in AZ. They have to meet in Vegas each time they do a pod.
Thee Jazz Fan
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Is this true?
It’s about halfway in between both locations and we have some fun afterwards so it’s worth it.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
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Agreed 100%. Plus when you have a team that is consistently getting a 4-6 seed that means you are kind of close to a finals. Now you just need a little luck. Maybe one of your draft picks that is around the 22-26 range or whatever overachieved like we have seen many times before and now you are a top 3 team in the league.
Maybe in the playoffs your opponent has some injury issues and you go the western conference finals as a 4-6 seed. Then maybe you just get a hot streak in that series and boom you are in the finals.
I mean I doubt Indiana will beat the Celtics. But they might. Maybe Tatum goes down with an injury in game one. Maybe the pacers just catch fire for a few games. Then pacers are not some amazing team but they are very very close to the finals right now.
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Thee Jazz Fan
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What kind of fun
You guys are right and this has been on my mind recently. Look at how many times Denver flamed out in the playoffs but they eventually got over the hump and got a ring.
If you're one miracle away from a championship, it's best to parlay that into more chances to line things up in a much more organized fashion, starting fresh, and being a dozen miracles away from a championship.
If you go back and look I had a lot of back and forth with HH and others before the trades we did. I didn’t want to blow it up but after the haul we received for both I understood it.
I'm not suggesting you were, if that's how I came across. Just speaking more to the general state of things when we were the closest we'd been in 25 years and we stepped back overestimating the probability of being able to just break even and get back to where we were.
Also, the idea that everyone was so averse to spending any more first round picks because of how it could cripple our franchise for a really long time. Do you front-load that or do it on the back-end? Because right now we've had two years out of the playoffs and looking at a lot more.
This is a frustration of a new owner with a Twitter-casual approach and an outside hire that didn't exactly exit on top of his last gig, not to mention should have been a mortal enemy of the franchise. This is part of a larger issue that I'll post about some time but it's tl;dr.