I think the floor is also very important though as bottom 3-4 you are pretty likely to land top 5. At 4 its 60% chance at top 5 and 85% chance at top 6. You land 6 and 55%+ chance at 7th or later.
Yeah....but then it's the difference between 5 and 7/8 or whatever. The flattened odds did make it more of a lottery, but I still don't care to watch Olynyk and Conley lead us to 5 more wins at that cost. Honestly, I'd rather have those two spots filled in by rotating G-League guys.
I actually think the Jazz are somewhat similar to the Grizzlies now that I think about it. We half a playoff team just like they did. They just happened to jump from #8 to #2 and the #2 pick happened to be Ja Morant. Praying on a miracle, otherwise you are the Wizards/Kings/Knicks.