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They've got a brutal schedule the next 20 games. This stretch will determine their season.
Bummer for us, he stinks.
They've got a brutal schedule the next 20 games. This stretch will determine their season.
we need the bulls to pass them up in the standings.But they look like they getting worst as well sitting colby white as welll.
They came out hot, with a player like Hunter hitting really high 3pts and Daniels being effective there, too. The injuries are going to hurt bad as the shooting has fallen off.
I don't think they fall worse than 8th or 9th worst record though. There's a bit of a firewall of tanking going on.
Bulls actively want to tank and will succeed.
That would be beyond awful, and I don't really see the upgrade in the long run, tbh.
Might depend on what Jalen's shoulder injury looks like. That affect them greatly if he's out for a long period of time.
lol. They’re quiet as now. Anyone who thinks the dejounte trade was a bad one for the spurs is an absolute moron.
True, just saying that the worse record teams have huge incentive to keep being worse.
Has anyone actually said this?
Trae ruled out for today’s game. Maybe the wolves won’t choke.
If we have 2 shots at the lottery balls, that would be phenomenal. 3 is a long shot with Chicago's hard tank.
Half a season to go and anything could theoretically happen. If we end up with 2 of the 12 chances to get a high pick we will have succeeded. Wildly. If not we have several future chances.
The east is so weird and fragile that injuries and/or implosion could be part of the equation that affects our chances. 6ers might not rebound which bodes well for the Bulls pick. 1200 games left.
Maybe we'll catch another break from the basketball gods. Best case scenario is probably the 9th seed (with the ATL pick) in the lottery, because I don't see the Sixers pulling it together and in fact I wonder if they'll shut it down to try and protect their pick (though this might also be tough. They are +3 wins on the Nets for the #6 seed, they'll likely need to get lucky and jump into the Top 4.
Jalen Johnson is the straw that stirs the drink, he's the only player that matters
Hawks are 2-1 without Trae Young this season and 14-14 last season without him.
Philly is five games back of Atlanta in the win column which is imo insurmountable. The Sixers outright suck, even playing their guys.
I don't see Atlanta going worse than 9th. I see the worst eight teams pretty locked in, with Chicago being the 9th worse and probably also tanking. I see no way the Hawks can out- teams that are already in full on mode. They have too many wins stacked up. Those Ws against Cleveland and Boston hurt.
If the Sixers manage to turn it on and Bulls sort of stay mediocre-ish and the Spurs get better, then Atlanta can wind up #8. That's probably best case scenario.
While I think Atlanta is in for a rough next 7 or 8 games, I can't see anyway they finish lower than 8th either. #9 would be my guess as well..
I think the Hawks are going to have to lose in the play-in to give us a lottery pick.
If that happens there's a crazy scenario where the Hawks and Spurs both move up and we get the #1 AND #2 picks.
In that scenario the Bulls pick would get pushed to 11 and also convey.
Might as well dream amirite?
I played on Tankathon and only had to push the button a few dozen times to get this result, even though it is something like at 0.09% probability or less.
How lucky can we get?
Multiple people in this thread criticizing Wright. Ie, BWrong, bad bet, etc. No matter what happens, it was an awesome trade and if it yields a lottery pick or two, it was better trade than anyone could have imagined
Wright has earned the criticism. The team is still terrible, and if not for Wemby we'd be leading the Capture The Flagg race, either by intentional or unintentional tanking.
I haven't seen anyone say the Dejounte trade was a bad one, but rather criticize what we've done with these assets since, which is fair criticism.
And saying "if it yields a lottery pick, it was a better trade than anyone could have imagined" is quite revisionist history - all people have been doing since the trade has been imagining lottery picks
More mad at Wright at those Bulls pick protections tbh... the Atlanta trade was great.
What about the protections? Wright traded a literal free agent
The Chicago trade was amazing. A first only top 10 protected this year, top 8 the next two for a guy the team wanted to let walk for nothing. Even in the unlikely event it only converts as two seconds it was still a win.
All of Wright's "tear down" moves were great. A++ on that front. But that's the easy part of the job. You (hopefully) don't acquire all these picks so that you can actually make them, you acquire them for use as trade assets. The criticism of Wright is that he's failed to cash them in, to the point where they've lost their value. CHA has completely lost any value it may have once had, CHI might be on a similar path, and (at a minimum) the shine has worn off of ATL25.
People who were saying at the top of the year that this team was barely going to win more than 22 games are now ing that the team isn't already a contender. smdh
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