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Game Thread NBA Draft Lottery - May 12, 2025

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Last 12 months we had a lot of people suggesting that we sell Lauri and others for cheap to "improve out pick".

The only silver lining I see in this result is that at least we didnt do that.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Maybe the flattened odds are angering enough fan bases that there is enough of a voice to ask for change.
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This fan base is screaming for more tanking next year. Just fake anger and in October everyone's back being tanking generals and believing "George Keyonte" is a future All-Star.

jom2003 said:
2, they need to have a third party authority examining all the lottery balls before or after the lottery to make sure they are all the same in terms of weight, size and materials made so they don't have any kind of mechanism in place to rig the result in any way.
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They have.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Wow. Some people are DEEP in their conspiracy theory rabbit holes. Not healthy. Anyway, three things:

1) The draft is not rigged (as if that needed saying).

2) The possibility of VJ Edgecombe, the only player with a legit superstar ceiling, somehow still being there at #5 is very, very unlikely… but even stranger things have happened in this league. GM’s mess up all the time.

3) Overall, this draft class will not live up to the hype. Flagg is a glorified jack-of-all-trades 3rd banana (with a 2nd banana ceiling), Ace and Tre are meh bench players in the league. When all is said and done, Harper and VJ will be the ones head and shoulders above everyone else.
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Good post.

I agree re Harper and VJ.
 
KqWIN said:
Sure….What I meant to communicate is that that the decision to tank vs half tank isn’t the one which should be reconsidered. Even with this brutal result, I am 100% sure I’m happier now than if we half and half tank (if you don’t consider the fact that dumb luck would have resulted in us getting a top 2 pick). The real decision was made when we dumped Gobert and Mitchell. Once that decision was made, we now exist in a different world where this 14% chance is the best hope we have and this should have been considered when we dumped Mitchell/Gobert.

What I’m saying is that the only thing to be reconsidered is dumping Mitchell/Gobert. The decision to tank after they had already been traded is a no brainer. But we should not have looked at the tanking route as so roses when we had those two and it did not take hindsight to recognize that. All it took was the acknowledgment of simple probability to know that this was the most likely outcome.
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I am a broken record on this but there was no reason to trade both of them and that was obvious at the time. It clearly was never going to work with the two of them together but we could have gotten plenty of "assets" from trading one of them and still hung on to a core around them. When your plan is to bank on the draft lottery it is the same as not having a plan.
 
Tanktastic said:
There is no "system". There are actual, physical lottery balls - 14 of them.

Go and ask a physicist if 14 identical balls mixed for 20 seconds can be programmed to come up in a certain order.
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14?
I heard that the jazz alone had like 140

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We should tank even harder for the next 2 years. Because... screw the NBA and Silver.
 
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