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HermanG said:
Its predicting team success in a 3 year window. We went backwards in the short term with the trades we made since the last ranking and we now have one of the youngest rosters in the NBA.
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Also, last year everyone predicted (and viewed) Walker as a star, or at least a star-in-waiting. After he flopped last year (which I blame more on timing than anything) nobody sees him that way, and nobody else has come up behind him to take that spot.
 
HermanG said:
Its predicting team success in a 3 year window. We went backwards in the short term with the trades we made since the last ranking and we now have one of the youngest rosters in the NBA.
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Still seems to low for a team with as many assets as we have, but I get it. Until one of the young guy proves themselves to have all-star potential, no one is really going to respect the Jazz.
 
see that is eactly how i see the jazz. getting the 8-10 pick in the draft. never becoming great. just right outside playoffs. never drafting high enough to change fortunes. moreover for the next 2 years teams are going to try to tank. this may actually push the perpetually plucky jazz a little higher in win totals.
 
oldtimer said:
see that is eactly how i see the jazz. getting the 8-10 pick in the draft. never becoming great. just right outside playoffs. never drafting high enough to change fortunes. moreover for the next 2 years teams are going to try to tank. this may actually push the perpetually plucky jazz a little higher in win totals.
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Kobe Bryant was the 13th pick in the NBA. Steph Curry was drafted 7th. Stop with the BS
 
Cy i love that you are who you are. nobody ever said it is impossible to find a star later. yes there are many examples. still much easier to have the number 1, 2 or 3 pick right? i would rather have the higher pick then hope greatness falls to 10. just me but go on an attack those strawman arguments until your little heart explodes
 
oldtimer said:
Cy i love that you are who you are. nobody ever said it is impossible to find a star later. yes there are many examples. still much easier to have the number 1, 2 or 3 pick right? i would rather have the higher pick then hope greatness falls to 10. just me but go on an attack those strawman arguments until your little heart explodes
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Bitch you said "Never drafting high enough to change fortunes". I'm not attacking any strawman. You said what you said and it's annoying AF
 
lol. okay. drafting 8 through 10 isnt high enough to ensure you improve your future. to make CY happy, it is possible a great player drops that low, but id still rather have pick 1,2 or 3 rather than 8,9 or 10.
 
oldtimer said:
lol. okay. drafting 8 through 10 isnt high enough to ensure you improve your future. to make CY happy, it is possible a great player drops that low, but id still rather have pick 1,2 or 3 rather than 8,9 or 10.
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There is no "ensure top 3" in the flat lottery world. Even top 4 is at best a coin toss chance. People who act like "just go and grab that guy by tanking" are living in the past.

There are good drafts and bad drafts in terms of talent quality, but tanking teams cannot choose when they get the lottery balls roll their way. Pistons have been bottom 5 record wise for 5 of the 6 years we have had the flat lottery, and their reward for that glorious bottom grind is:
Cade Cunningham, Jaden Ivey, Killian Hayes, Ausar Thompson and Ron Holland.

Name all the future All-stars from that bunch, I dare you. And remember their fan base has been suffering through some trash basketball for 5 years now. Where is the reward? Its coming in the next draft I guess?

Funniest thing is their second best prospect found in that period might be Jalen Duren, who was picked 13th and not with their own pick (so had nothing to do with their own record).
 
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