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Is coin toss tomorrow?

northeast said:
I figure 25%, based on wikipedia listed lottery odds.
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They have less balls (no pun intended) than the typical #7. You have to factor in the increased chance give. To the #8 from more balls and combine that with everyone else's chances of moving up then subtract out GS's chances of moving up.
 
okay , i see where the 29.5 comes from.
25 has got to be correct, not the 29.5, but I can't put my finger on the why the two numbers are not equal.
I'm sure Nerd can explain it.
 
infection said:
They have less balls (no pun intended) than the typical #7. You have to factor in the increased chance give. To the #8 from more balls and combine that with everyone else's chances of moving up then subtract out GS's chances of moving up.
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so the table I am using may be off for this situation.

29.5 still seems like too much a coincidence.

I still can't figure out why in the wikipedia table , the ranges of [ 8-1 to 14-3 = 29.5% ] , and [7-8 to 7-10 = 25%] are not equal.
 
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Borat said:
Last year, we had NJ pick and lost tie breaker to Kings. Granted we got fortunate with the ping pong balls later, but as far as the toss, once again we lost it:
https://www.nba.com/2011/news/04/15/draft.ties/index.html
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Year before - 2010 - we had Knicks pick, and lost tie breaker toss to Clippers.

So, I can think of 4 coin tosses we lost in last few years and 0 won. Are we going to go 0-5 today, like Raja Bell did last night? It's not that easy to lose 5 coin tosses in a row. Takes special skill that only we possess.
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I think it was 1999 (not sure) the Spurs and Jazz tied with best record so in the second round they had a coin toss and the Jazz loss. SA went on to pick Manu. So it is already 0-5.
 
margodydek said:
I call huge BS on everyone that is saying "tanking" is unfair to the fans. To a degree yes, but it really blows my mind that people even showed up to the GS/SA game last night. Why would you pay money to go watch your team try to lose? If a team is blatantly tanking, but fans are still showing up, it doesn't give them a ton of motivation to try and win.
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Perhaps people have already paid for the tickets or perhaps the people at the game love basketball and rarely have a chance to see a live NBA or people love to watch train wrecks.
 
I think the Basketball Gods are going to make this right. It is just like when a team gets a bogus foul called against them and the player misses a FT (one he should never had). This is an example of the BB Gods are work. The BB Gods are at work with MJ and the Charlotte Bobcats, MJ has to suffer years of humiliation for the "push off" and Bavetta crimes against the Jazz. Mark my word the Warriors are going to pay for their tanking either by losing the pick or picking a bad player.

Jazz will end up be blessed and will finally some day soon be rewarded for their patience with a string of NBA champions (possibly with the GS pick next year being a key part of our championship run). After today GS is second on my list of most hated teams: I still hate the Lakers worse but the gap is close.
 
No reason to really hate the Lakers anymore. They are on the slippery slope down. I expect them to be just as bad as the Mavs were this year next season. GS and their fanbase are disgusting. They are on my most hated team and it is not even close. I was perusing their board on realgm and thise SOB's are trying to defend their team by saying they did not tank! Seriously, they are saying he needed to bench Klay those last two games because he wasnt playing defense?????? They are idiots from the top to the Raider fans that call this their team.
 
cowhide said:
I think it was 1999 (not sure) the Spurs and Jazz tied with best record so in the second round they had a coin toss and the Jazz loss. SA went on to pick Manu. So it is already 0-5.
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Technically 0-6. Utah lost the tiebreaker with Dallas this year. "Fortunately" we don't have the pick, but a loss is a loss!
 
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