Lottery Position (we are 10th)

If we don't win the lottery and we get the 10th pick I can see it now... Chase Budinger will come in to his workput and put on the "best shooting display Geoff has ever seen." the rest will be history....
 
Haha...I sure am glad that after the Clippers win I stopped caring about the lotto...Or else I might be bummed today like some of you guys are!
 
Entity said:
And the hits just keep on coming. So here is the run down. If we do not get 1 of the top 3 picks at best we will be drafting #10. At worst #13 only if none of the 3 worst team get a top 3 pick.
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No, fortunately we cannot drop to 13th, and have only a 0.2% chance of dropping to 12th.
 
Actually Char or NY don't need a big and what ever big available at 8th could still be available at 10th.
 
Thats something we should look at. Outside of Oden how many of the top 10 teams actually need a big. I wouldn't think Minn or Portland would.
 
NBATV don't know the rules of the ties as they pertain to the draft. They said the percentage would change as the tie gets broken. That is not the case 8,9, and 10 will all have the same percentage to get one of the top 3 picks.
 
Entity said:
I could see Minn taking Brewer or Jwright or actually trying to trade their pick to win now as KG's window is closing and they need to win now with him at the helm.
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That's true, but they could use some pg help. Foye and James is a crap backcourt.
 
Entity said:
NBATV don't know the rules of the ties as they pertain to the draft. They said the percentage would change as the tie gets broken. That is not the case 8,9, and 10 will all have the same percentage to get one of the top 3 picks.
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I think that they are correct, although only in an academic way. There were 56 lottery balls to be divided between the teams tied for 8th-10th. 56/3 = 18.67; we get 18 and the leftover .67 goes to the #8 team.

A tiny difference, but one just the same.
 
Its these little things that really hurt a franchise sometimes. Difference between #8 and #10 is the difference between being almost sure of getting at least a guy who fills our needs, and not being sure of that at all (not impossible, but now we ARE looking at taking just whoever is left -- like having the last pick on the pickup courts).

Actually time to revisit something I am not soon going to forget: Clippers game. Repeat it ten times. Curse it. Spit on it. What a bleeping waste. And that one stupid moment was the difference between being in acoin toss today to determine if we were 6th/7th/8th, or one to determine if we were 8th/9th/10th. One completely pointless exercise turned our worst case scenario (8th) into our best case scenario, and now of the 5 teams clustered within 1 game of each other we did in fact manage to pull off getting the dead last draft position. Jolly good show. Morons.

Nothing to do now but break out whatever lucky charms you may own on lottery day: we have a 6.7% chance of getting a Top 3 pick. That's where the hope lies at this point. Some sort of 1 in 18 chance at being saved despite all of our best efforts.
 
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Entity said:
Thats something we should look at. Outside of Oden how many of the top 10 teams actually need a big. I wouldn't think Minn or Portland would.
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Of course Minny needs a big -- they've been desperately trying to find someone to put alongside KG for KGs entire career.

Portalnd though -- mentioned before that team gives me a little hope. Not just that they may reach for a SF, but as a potential trading partner to try to trade up. They take our PF for us, we take their SF (presumably) or PG, then we swap. Of course for the favor it will cost us more material, but hey, what's an extra kid or future pick amongst friends when you can have the honor of winning a completely pointless game against the Clippers late in the year to send your Northern California rivals to the playoffs and let them leach your fans, right?

Yes, I'm bitter. ;)
 
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Bricklayer said:
Its these little things that really hurt a franchise sometimes. Difference between #8 and #10 is the difference between being almost sure of getting at least a guy who fills our needs, and not being sure of that at all (not impossible, but now we ARE looking at taking just whoever is left -- like having the last pick on the pickup courts).

Actually time to revisit something I am not soon going to forget: Clippers game. Repeat it ten times. Curse it. Spit on it. What a bleeping waste. And that one stupid moment was the difference between being in acoin toss today to determine if we were 6th/7th/8th, or one to determine if we were 8th/9th/10th. One completely pointless exercise turned our worst case scenario (8th) into our best case scenario, and now of the 5 teams clustered within 1 game of each other we did in fact manage to pull off getting the dead last draft position. Jolly good show. Morons.

Nothing to do now but break out whatever lucky charms you may own on lottery day: we have a 6.7% chance of getting a Top 3 pick. That's where the hope lies at this point. Some sort of 1 in 18 chance at being saved despite all of our best efforts.
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Dude Brick, you're an awesome poster and all and I often agree with you but you've been really bumming me out lately ;)
 
Bricklayer said:
Actually time to revisit something I am not soon going to forget: Clippers game. Repeat it ten times. Curse it. Spit on it. What a bleeping waste. And that one stupid moment was the difference between being in acoin toss today to determine if we were 6th/7th/8th, or one to determine if we were 8th/9th/10th. One completely pointless exercise turned our worst case scenario (8th) into our best case scenario, and now of the 5 teams clustered within 1 game of each other we did in fact manage to pull off getting the dead last draft position. Jolly good show. Morons.
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If Philly hadn't crazily won on the 15th (over Detroit, that was as boneheaded as our Suns win!) and the 18th (over Toronto, about like our Utah win), we might be in 11th right now. So, amazingly, it could have been even worse.
 
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