Race to the Bottom thread

[Joshyjosh31]

Honestly depends on how real the attitude concerns are.

Ant had the same negative chatter pre draft and he turned out alright (aside from being an idiot, but you know - nobody is perfect). If it's overblown and Peterson seems cool with being a King then yeah, draft him and hope Vivek doesn't **** it up for the umpteenth time again.

I want no part of Boozer though haha

How much attitude can he have his NIL is reportedly between 1.3 - 3 million this year he could’ve simply sat out and still went top 3 but decided to play hurt

 

[Folsomkingsfan]

I called this storybook ending months ago. No point in rooting for this team to lose. No matter what thr kangz will rip off 10 meaningless games to close the season and ruin any chance of top pick.

Everyone knew this was going to happen. What is going on right now is the least shocking outcome possible if you've followed this team for a while.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Pelicans tanking an important game for there pick front office playing 3D chess

 

[jiimbob]

Nets win, theres that easy end of schedule in work. The rest of the losers lose, Jazz especially disgusting after leading first half

 

[est.1999]

Jazz are a disgrace lol I hope the lottery gods show us mercy

 

[Capt. Factorial]

The tank is so blatant this year that the Kings are 3-7 in their last ten, and NO team that is out of the playoffs is better than that.

 

[jiimbob]

We might have a three way tie for third worst record.

 

[Section 101]

The tank is so blatant this year that the Kings are 3-7 in their last ten, and NO team that is out of the playoffs is better than that.

Tie breaker should be best record in last 10!

 

[HndsmCelt]

Tie breaker should be best record in last 10!

From your lips to silver’s ears

 

[Krunker]

We might have a three way tie for third worst record.

I would be okay with that, random pick for 3, 4, and 5! It seems like there is a good chance, Jazz won't win anymore games and probably neither will we (better chance we beat GSW or PDX though). Nets should beat Indy and lose the rest.

 

[Caccia]

We might have a three way tie for third worst record.

What happens then? Capt. Factorial says that a two-way tie results in a coin toss, but three?

 

[coolhandluke]

What happens then? Capt. Factorial says that a two-way tie results in a coin toss, but three?

"Tied lottery teams split their ping pong balls evenly, and any odd remainder and the better draft order position are given to the random drawing winner" as per Tankathon

 

[Caccia]

"Tied lottery teams split their ping pong balls evenly, and any odd remainder and the better draft order position are given to the random drawing winner" as per Tankathon

Thanks, coolhandluke.

 

[sono]

"Tied lottery teams split their ping pong balls evenly, and any odd remainder and the better draft order position are given to the random drawing winner" as per Tankathon

The bottom 6 teams should split the ping pong evenly, no matter their position.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

The bottom 6 teams should split the ping pong evenly, no matter their position.

Absolutely not.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

https://twitter(.)com/UnderdogNBA/status/2041963605445505171

Shams: NBA Board of Governors will meet on May 28 to vote on anti-tanking draft lottery reform.

Option 1 has gained the most momentum:

- 18 teams in lottery: Bottom 10 that miss Play-In and 8 that qualify
- Bottom 10 teams each have 8% chance of moving up in lottery
- Other 8 teams split 20% odds of moving up
- All 18 spots drawn as part of lottery

Why have 6 teams tank when you can get 16 teams to tank pure comedy..

 

[ESP47]

https://twitter(.)com/UnderdogNBA/status/2041963605445505171

Shams: NBA Board of Governors will meet on May 28 to vote on anti-tanking draft lottery reform.

Option 1 has gained the most momentum:

- 18 teams in lottery: Bottom 10 that miss Play-In and 8 that qualify
- Bottom 10 teams each have 8% chance of moving up in lottery
- Other 8 teams split 20% odds of moving up
- All 18 spots drawn as part of lottery

Why have 6 teams tank when you can get 16 teams to tank pure comedy..

Yeah that doesn't solve tanking. Just solves teams not needing to tank as hard.

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

Hey, late season games are valuable gambling income. The integrity of meaningless games allows the NBA's partners to squeeze every last drop out of sports gambling addicts.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Yeah that doesn't solve tanking. Just solves teams not needing to tank as hard.

What it does is it makes it much harder for bad teams to get good players. If they implement this, the Kings had better hit the lottery this year, because as a small market franchise we're bound to be lovable losers, doing our absolute best to finish .300 and then picking 16th anyway while teams that lose in the playoffs get lucky and nab superstars.

It's (almost) amazing to me that the league simply can't see that a lottery system does not and cannot simultaneously solve the tanking problem and the get-bad-teams-better-picks problem, it can only solve one at the expense of the other. But they don't have the imagination to scrap it and start over with a system designed to solve both problems.