Final 3 games. Catch Houston for #2 or stay at #3?

[rascal]

Sam Bowie. Darius Miles.

If Wemby goes there, he won’t last his rookie contract with that medical staff.

Stop the nonsesne.

You have to do better than this.

[Degoat]

I go through this cycle every draft but honestly regardless of where our pick ends up, it’s always just great to add new young talent to the team tbh

[Ariel]

As we get closer to the draft we're going to hear a lot about how like gods Amen and Ausar Thompson are.

Amen and Ausar Thompson are the crypto currency of the draft: all hype, no substance behind. A honeypot for the incautious. They'll be on the Rockets or Blazers next year, maybe even Detroit.

[Ariel]

In fairness Roy and Walton were amazing before their injury luck. I bet Oden would have been decent too. It’s different than drafting poorly like a Thabeet or Olawakandi. Blazers just have crappy luck.

Oden and Roy had glaring red flags well before the draft which were not properly addressed before and handled afterwards. That's not bad luck, that's negligence if not worse.

[MultiTroll]

[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.72)]However, the league is not expected to break those ties [/COLOR]until at least next Monday, April 17[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.72)], because there are also ties between teams who will participate in this week’s play-in tournament.[/COLOR]

[exstatic]

Yeah, the play in could sort some of this out.

[Ariel]

Anyone who pretends they were disappointed their guy was missed by one pick would only be genuine if they were hyping them up right now and all the way to draft night. The truth is, no one is doing that.

People have been talking about their favorite players for months, there's even a specific thread ("Draft projects to watch besides Wembanyama & Henderson")
with literally 76 pages of people doing exactly this.
As for reactions to the draft, falling to 6/7 and having your player taken ahead of you by the team picking before is just bad luck, very little you can do about it. Sometimes you can, like Dallas with Luka, but you can't take that for granted and hold it against the FO.
What would warrant a meltdown, IMO, is the Spurs landing 2/3/4 and picking someone like Nick Smith or GG Jackson "because they'd be a top 5 pick next year"
I've said like a dozen times who my picks would be, so I'm not going to repeat myself again here, but I just hope we take someone with some tangible floor and plausible upside, and avoid trying to look like a genius by taking on some obscure guy 20 spots before they were projected. As long as we don't pull some stupid BS like that, you have to accept whatever fate has in store for us.

[Dejounte]

I explained this in my posts after that. I will be more clear from the getgo next time:

in that 76 page thread, there are players people say they like after the second or third pick. But they aren’t players they love enough to be confident about a great outcome for their career that would justify an attachment (and outrage for being picked one pick earlier). In regards to you, I don’t think you have a player like I just described in that range— you have preferred a trade down which makes my above point valid.

[Uriel]

I have this strange, irrational feeling that the Spurs are going to win the coin toss but that the Rockets are going to land Wemby.

Posted this last month. So glad I was wrong and got it completely backwards.