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The hope for the spurs is the Pelicans. The Kings and Blazers will not win too much to end the season.
Actually not. Better if the Raps are 7 or 8.
The hope for the spurs is the Pelicans. The Kings and Blazers will not win too much to end the season.
I'd rather the Raps finish 6th so I don't have to sweat out them potentially losing two play-in games. Having the pick be 2 or 3 slots lower is worth avoiding that risk imo.
Yep. Best for the Raps to finish the top 6 to assure a pick for the Spurs that is not conveyed to next year.
I feel like the Spurs are cemented as far as their best case scenario goes. The problem is the Knicks and Atlanta losing so much.
The problem is,the rest of our schedule is kind of cake walk-y. I’m almost certain that we will make the play in. We have Portland 3 more times, and they’re full on in tank mode. Another Houston game, another Pelicans game, couple with the Timberwolves, Hornets, and they’re kind of in free fall. Lakers without AD most likely.
I wouldn't be surprised at all. The team won't tank and everyone else is.
Hornets blowing out the Raptors isn’t the best sign for the potential play-in matchup.
At the rate things are going, instead of the Spurs getting 7/17/21 in the draft they'll end up with only 12 and 24.
Would be worst case scenario. That would really suck tbh. Spurs are simply too proud to tank and most the other teams are already starting to.
I'd be totally fine with this. This draft appears to be very weak after pick 4 or 5. Players between 5 and 14 are pretty equal and pretty meh. I'd expect them to shop the pick aggressively.
It'd be nervous with regards to getting Toronto's pick next year but a '23 pick would be way more valuable than another first this year.
The hope is there.
Boston- 22 games left- 6th strongest remaining schedule
Toronto-23 games left- 24 th strongest schedule
San Antonio-21 games left-19th strongest schedule ( Sacramento with the 10th strongest schedule/NO with the 2Oth/Portland the 30th)
The next six games will be very important imo for the Spurs pick- @Memphis/Sacramento/@Charlotte/Lakers/Toronto/Utah.
That would be terrible for our future
Actually, it would be better to defer Torontos pick to next year. It’s the so-called double draft, where the last one and done class combines with the first new HS draft class.
I like the 2nd team showing up last night and making it close, but L to 1st placer in the East.
Im good with Toronto's pick conferring next year. The more I look at it, the more this year's draft looks prety bad to me.
If the Toronto pick does not convey this season and therefore goes to next season, what are the restrictions on if? Is it still lottery protected? What if Toronto misses the playoffs next season, do we just lose the pick altogether?
The protection is 1-13 next year, so they could just slip into the lottery with the best record of the 14 teams who don’t make the playoffs. I don’t necessarily want the pick to not convey this year, I was just pointing out that it wouldn’t be the end of the world if it didn’t.
Boston L @Indiana tonight, they lose 2 of their last 3 games againt Detroit and Indiana. Not bad.
Nah. That ended up not being a thing. The one-and-done rule is still there.
https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/se...n-wojnarowski/
It says it may not be until 2025 -- if ever -- that it changes. Of course, that's already a decent draft year for the Spurs, given they already have four picks that year.
The only real benefit that I can see from not getting Toronto's pick is that it gives them "room" to get another first this upcoming draft. We don't know yet if the Spurs are going to keep Poeltl or even Murray. They might want to trade one of them for a known prospect this summer. That's much harder to see if they are already drafting four guys. Yes, the Spurs could include one of their picks in the deal, like trading Murray at 19 to NYK for a top-four pick or something, but I'd rather them not trade anybody else just to move up, especially not one of those two.
Not sure if anyone is noticing but the lakers are free falling. Getting torn by New Orleans at home. They or whom ever has their pick could be another slot to bump San Antonio down
They’re ed. AD is supposed to be out for a while, and LeBron, apparently, cannot even take a team to the playoffs any more.
I'm with those that are okay with the Toronto pick conveying next year, despite how funny it might be to see Toronto keep their current pick and gain the Detroit second.
I really don't care for this draft, and there isn't even the old reliable strategy of draft and stashing a euro with one of the 3 firsts we as a good choice considering people like Chad Ford are calling it the worst international class in over a decade. I don't remember his exact words from his podcast recently about it but it might have even been 20 years.
So a rollover would be fine by me. A 2023 pick #22 might be better than a 2022 pick #16.
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