Brooklyn has been awful lately, leading to their coach getting canned. I don't think they'll right the ship and they're only one win better than Memphis/Toronto. Not inconceivable that they slip below either or both. Sucks for us (and them) that Houston owns their pick.
Toronto is bad. Nets are far worse. If they actually had the opportunity to trade Mikal Bridges to Houston for all their picks and some swaps back then I have no idea what Marks is doing not taking that deal. I would have preferred that Houston gets Bridges, tops out as a good not great team, and doesn't have a horrible Nets team potentially giving them high lottery picks for the next 4 years.
I don't believe Houston is offering the picks back. Nor should we, for that matter, if we're wanting Trae.
worried bout charlotte tho..they on a 3 or 4 game win streak.They been looking good lately
They'd have to make up seven games with 30 left to go. Possible, but I'm not sure.
Utah may now be tanking now that LAL and GSW are starting to take off with the play-in spots. Their pick is protected 1-10, otherwise owed to OKC. Right now they're two wins above Houston and Atlanta in the 11 slot.
These refs not interested in calling anything. Clear push off by Duarte on the offensive rebound
Edit: Sorry wrong thread
nice convincing win against brooklyn, one of the teams they could reasonably move past in the standings
charlotte has also won 4 straight and have looked nice since making the deadline moves, but they're too far in the hole to make anything happen with that pick this year
Next year for CHA looking possibly nice though. If they keep Bridges and get LaMelo healthy, they may very well be fighting for a playoff spot next season with how good Miller looks and their bench depth
tbh may come down to mark williams' health as well. or maybe they end up drafting Sarr to shore that up
Yup. It will still take a strong off season for them but its looking at least more promising IMO
Raptors get the close win over Atlanta tonight.
Toronto wins on a back-to-back away at Atlanta. Actually only 3 games back of the Hawks. Honestly this Toronto team is fun to watch. I think they did a great job of finding pieces knowing they had to lose Siakam and Anunoby. They have work to do, but that have a lot to work with.
Taylor Jenkins is one of the best coaches in the league. He has a band of misfits fighting Clippers really hard at home. If they lose, Toronto slides a game free of Memphis and tied with Brooklyn in the win column, though they've lost two more games.
Atlanta seemed to have the last play-in spot sewn up, but have lost three in a row and look listless and unimpressive.
hopefully memphis charlotte and portland lose
Memphis came through with the loss to the Clippers.
In one move, Toronto’s drop from 6 to 7, our pick odds jumped from 54% to 68%.
There isn't only the Toronto pick to watch, there is also Spurs pick to keep an eye on.
Charlotte winning that stretch of games was really nice because it gave Spurs a little cushion to stay in the bottom 3. As of today, Spurs have 11 wins and it would be great if they could stay behind Charlotte (14 wins) and Portland (15 wins).
Just as a side point, it's fascinating to me that compared to last year with Wemby as the prize and multiple teams tanking, that we still have teams that are significantly worse this year (including us). Just an observation.
More teams were tanking last year so teams like the Spurs picked up more wins.
Last year's Spurs after the trade deadline were worse than this year's team but picked up enough wins against tanking teams to seem like they were better.
I’m still not really hearing that picks 1-7 are anything more than a crap shoot, relative to the other 6 picks, in this year’s draft. Where in that 1-7 range is there any real drop off in the quality of prospects (or lack thereof?).
My impression was that the Spurs were better this year especially after the new year when we started playing sane lineups but would have to take a look at point differential compared to last year
Last year's 1-5 were better prospects than that range this year.
I feel like getting the TOR pick this year is best case. Since they may even have to tank harder next season and end up in a rut like the Spurs were in last year and currently. In which case the TOR pick could never convey.
Theyre not going to tank next year. I think people are getting Toronto all wrong.
Any case, it's best to get Toronto's pick now. We can get a good guard and wing out of this one. Next year we have two picks automatically with another pick (Chicago) possible and a fourth (Charlotte) unlikely but not impossible. Handling three picks in one draft is probably too much.
Well I’m not talking about TOR MGT intentions, more basing on the reality of the Spurs blowing them off the floor at home recently. If we are actually better than TOR or in the vicinity, them being a 20-win team is not un fathomable at all.
Another aspect of this though, is we need help sooner than later. TOR or our pick this draft, could be marketable assets to get a veteran at one of our several positions of need.
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