On the record...

[NUMBERICA]

The team we had at the end of last year was misery incarnate. Saying nothing of all the more weighty strategic arguments in moving on, why in the **** would any of you want to continue to build around two players that had a toxic relationship and huge holes in their games?

It was time.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Yeah, calling them raffle tickets is a vague expression, but that does not mean it's worthless. Are you throwing away a raffle ticket if there's 80% of a chance at winning one billion dollars? You're not. You're simply taking the least charitable interpretation of an expression because it is the easiest to argue against.

And clearly @infection meant we traded a car for 4 raffle tickets with an 80% chance at a billion dollars... Jebus... and I'm the one making **** up.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Yeah, calling them raffle tickets is a vague expression, but that does not mean it's worthless. Are you throwing away a raffle ticket if there's 80% of a chance at winning one billion dollars? You're not. You're simply taking the least charitable interpretation of an expression because it is the easiest to argue against.

And clearly @infection meant we traded a car for 4 raffle tickets with an 80% chance at a billion dollars... Jebus... and I'm the one making **** up.

 

[Elizah Huge]

If we're pretending that's the deal....I don't know what to tell you lol. That is so far removed from what was actually given up to acquire those two. You must think that POR REALLY loved Keon to think that is our equivalent of the deal.

Yeah, you’re delusional as ****. I don’t think you read or maybe you just ignored what HH said about Portland liking Keon. He was a first round pick last year. We don’t have an asset like that besides a future pick.

I don’t know what to tell you lolz.

 

[KqWIN]

What??? That is a dumb comparison. Its low odds but that is where any comparison here stops lolz. Are three pointers free agency and free throws trades in this scenario?

When you hit on a first rounder its like a 50 point half court shot... make them worth 50 and hells yes I'll shoot the **** out of em.

The point is, because something unlikely happened does not mean you should count on it happening again. Would you play the lottery because you won the lottery before? The maximum gain is amazing, but that's not what matters does it? If you wanted to get rich, that's not how you would want to do it.

 

[KqWIN]

And clearly @infection meant we traded a car for 4 raffle tickets with an 80% chance at a billion dollars... Jebus... and I'm the one making **** up.

Do you really think @infection would be willing to throw those picks in the trash as if they meant nothing? Answer that honestly. When you make an uncharitable interpretation of an expression, it means nothing. What I said is as ridiculous as what you said, and that's the point. It's a waste of everyone's time to take that expression in a way that we all know it was not meant to be interpreted.

 

[Elizah Huge]

The point is, because something unlikely happened does not mean you should count on it happening again. Would you play the lottery because you won the lottery before? The maximum gain is amazing, but that's not what matters does it? If you wanted to get rich, that's not how you would want to do it.

It’s not the ****ing lottery. We got unprotected picks 3/5/7 years in the future from a franchise who’s made the playoffs two times since 2004.

How in the **** is any of this equal to playing the lottery.

 

[KqWIN]

It’s not the ****ing lottery. We got unprotected picks 3/5/7 years in the future from a franchise who’s made the playoffs two times since 2004.

How in the **** is any of this equal to playing the lottery.

HH literally just said it's worth it to keep shooting shots if the prize was more. It's not about how much the prize is worth, it's about the expected return on the risk.

And by the way, you can also read the part that says "the point is". It would help a lot. If something is unlikely, it's still unlikely even if it happened before. Do you disagree with that? That's the point.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

The point is, because something unlikely happened does not mean you should count on it happening again. Would you play the lottery because you won the lottery before? The maximum gain is amazing, but that's not what matters does it? If you wanted to get rich, that's not how you would want to do it.

You mean just like VCs who make it rich on low odds on investing in speculative tech startups then continue to build their wealth by rinsing and repeating? Yeah that would be dumb AF.

 

[KqWIN]

You mean just like VCs who make it rich on low odds on investing in speculative tech startups then continue to build their wealth by rinsing and repeating? Yeah that would be dumb AF.

Hmmm….something tells me that the risk is different between a lottery and venture capital. I don’t think they are the same. Maybe it’s that the chances of winning are well defined and not good whereas VC’s are built around calculating risk that is favorable for profit.

Just a hunch I have….

We need basketball. I really do not care to address made up arguments anymore. Leads to dumb **** like this.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It’s not the ****ing lottery. We got unprotected picks 3/5/7 years in the future from a franchise who’s made the playoffs two times since 2004.

How in the **** is any of this equal to playing the lottery.

Its also just not the right odds. If there was a 1% chance I could win the lotto I'd plow a **** ton of money into it as often as I could.

The odds that we find someone as good or better than Donovan or Rudy with one pick aren't good... but they aren't lotto bad... If the payoff on a half court shot is the right point value... I would shoot them.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Hmmm….something tells me that the risk is different between a lottery and venture capital. I don’t think they are the same. Maybe it’s that the chances of winning are well defined and not good whereas VC’s are built around calculating risk that is favorable for profit.

Just a hunch I have….

We need basketball. I really do not care to address made up arguments anymore. Leads to dumb **** like this.

Just like the chances of hitting on a first rounder are slightly better than lotto odds... Thank you.

I would say I (a rec league basketball player) will make more shots than the VCs will pick winners on the whole. The vast majority die... some return enough to cover their investment... and some make billions... almost like draft picks ya know.

But continue comping lottery tickets to draft picks and simultaneously telling me there is no one saying they are worthless.