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Thats my point though, no conflict, just a basic truth that the best chance of getting the first pick is flat in our likely finish scenarios, the only potential downside is our floor. Our ceiling is 100% better served by the TimberPups in the lottery.

It’s all about collecting lottery balls- we get a lot more chances added to our total if we get the additional chances of the wolves entering the lottery vs none at all with them out. We should pin as many losses on them that we can.

Not quite a fair comparison. Egor is the primary ballhandler and getting blitzed a lot. VJ is mostly playing off ball and his handle isn't getting challenged similarly. But Egor does really need to tighten up his handle (and has showed marked improvement the last few games.)

Thought the same until I saw OUR starting lineup.

Agreed, and he does it effortlessly.

Pretty much should be a requirement for posting privileges after the draft. Pic with your new jersey or account set to read only...

The data is what the data is. The announcers were harping on the fact during the game that a team shooting so well from 3 was a large outlier against Cincinnati.

As I already stated, just pointing out their Big 12 stats on defending the 3 are very good, not that they're a good team. Even after getting blitzed by BYU they're fractions of a percent from being 3rd in 3 PT FG% Defense in the B12: https://big12sports.com/stats.aspx?path=mbball&year=2024

Demin mostly just wasn't rushing his shot. His form is good, but when he shoot 'anxious' its often short. When he relaxes a bit he's good. Interesting that this last game was a team that is traditionally good against the 3 this season, but BYU shot lights out long distance, so it wasn't about...

At that range its more front office homework- the easiest, most obvious picks are off the board. Also more likely to be drafting for need over BPA.

Too many favors and they end up good in the future and hurt our pick's value. We only help in ways that they're likely to spend on their immediate needs, not in ways that will help them down the line.

This has been true but not knowable ahead of time- his value at the time of the trade seemed higher than we got- kind of similar to Simone- I thought he'd do a lot more on a bad Detroit team, but he's not getting run/results.

I’d be shocked if the tank lasted beyond next season- top 5 pick this year, top 10 next, trade for a youngish vet with our assets, then start climbing the standings after that.

This is where I really disagree. The dude will be given every opportunity to grow with the team and he's shown out fine so far. He has a great relationship with the players even during a time when it is obviously difficult to get everyone's competing agendas to collectively align. and the...

I'm sure any other team with a bunch of young up and comers would love him- a near-championship team looking to upgrade their coach, no, probably not and he can't prove himself to those teams with this squad. But he already is the head coach of an NBA team that historically has been more than...

Harkless may be too good for regular minutes- his D is the best on the team outside of Kessler.

He's been great at player development, which is the only requirement on his plate thus far. They literally only lose because they're sitting talent, and even then, barely. Ryan/Ainge I'm sure are delighted at the job he's done.

Never said you did? Just saying my mental comp for him is more Westbrookian than Stock-ish. Being as young as he is he could make as good a run at Stock as anyone, but to me it is the most unbreakable record in sport.

So far he's seemed more like Westbrook lite- similar body type and downhill game. Not a triple double machine, but probably much more likely than any other Jazz player to pick one up.

Lotto balls multiplying like Tribbles!