so we wait for the front office to catch lightning in a bottle again?
Look at pelicans. They got the haul for AD that we dreamed of for Leonard and got the number 1 pick. Yet they are still worst than us.
Also not developing young players when losing the games by playing the vets won't help in the long run either.
We won’t wind up any higher than the 11 slot, and those odds are like 2%, so at this point, losing is just losing. We may well stay at 14, and have worse odds than that.
Robinson was drafted in 1987 after a 28-win season (the 4th worst record that year). He didn’t join the team until 2 years later so they ended up drafting Willie Anderson 10th in 1988 (31 wins, 6th worst record) and Sean Elliott 3rd in 1989 (21 wins, tied for 3rd worst record).
Any game where Pop uses DD, Gay, and Patty together in the same unit needs to be an F for him. That’s an automatic 10 pt. run for the other team, and another double digit hole to climb out of.
The odds for the #1 overall pick are admittedly not great or worth tanking for, but the odds of a top 4 pick rise pretty significantly from 14th slot (2.4% chance of a top 4) on up to 10th slot (13.9% chance of a top 4).
Plus, rising a few spots in the draft order could make the difference in landing a difference-maker who slips out of the top 10, even if we don't get lucky in the lottery. Really good players sometimes slip into the 10-14th pick range: Sabonis, Donovan Mitc , Bam Adebayo, Michael Porter Jr., SGA, and Devin Booker, to name some recent guys selected in that range.
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