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So We Lose The Lottery And Draft Second...

Captain Morgan

By Captain Morgan,
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Just curious, does anyone think the entire lottery system is a joke and should be scrapped? They are the only sport that I know of that does it, and all it does is ends up screwing over the worst teams in the league, the teams that need the talent. Look at the Bulls in '08, they were only a couple of games out of the playoffs, win the lottery and boom, get a future MVP. All the while most of the teams that were worse than they were that year, are still bad. Its a joke to think that far and away the worst team in the league(like us this year, or the heat in '08), could end up with the 4th pick in the draft. All the while teams that barely miss the playoffs have the possibility of getting the #1 pick.

Only reason is to prevent a "tank off" at the end of the season. The other sports don't really hinge on getting one star player but the NBA does.

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Only reason is to prevent a "tank off" at the end of the season. The other sports don't really hinge on getting one star player but the NBA does.

If they wanna keep teams from tanking, then make the lottery for the worst 4 teams, don't give a team that is 1 or 2 wins from the playoffs a chance to get the top pick. 25% chance for the top pick is garbage, that means 1 in every 4 years the actual worst team in the NBA gets the #1 pick, aka the best player in the draft.

Edit: This has nothing to do with the Bobcats being especially bad this year, I have always said the lottery system was a joke.

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No offense guys, but in a league like the NBA where there are maybe 4-5 game changing players that come out every year and barely any of them come from late in the draft, its pretty silly to just give the number 1 pick to the worst team. It completely encourages teams to tank for a season or 2 in order to land a star player. The lottery doesn't really fix the problem (since we clearly used that tactic this year), but if it weren't in place could you imagine what teams would do if a guy like Lebron was coming out?

Honestly I would prefer the lottery to go even further- give every team that didnt make the playoffs an equal chance at the top pick. I think its bullcrap that a team like the Bobcats, who finished just outside of the playoffs for a few years straight and actually tried to put together a decent team, haven't had a top 8 pick in 7 years. And now that we gutted the team the NBA rewards us with a top 4 pick

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No offense guys, but in a league like the NBA where there are maybe 4-5 game changing players that come out every year and barely any of them come from late in the draft, its pretty silly to just give the number 1 pick to the worst team. It completely encourages teams to tank for a season or 2 in order to land a star player. The lottery doesn't really fix the problem (since we clearly used that tactic this year), but if it weren't in place could you imagine what teams would do if a guy like Lebron was coming out?

Honestly I would prefer the lottery to go even further- give every team that didnt make the playoffs an equal chance at the top pick. I think its bullcrap that a team like the Bobcats, who finished just outside of the playoffs for a few years straight and actually tried to put together a decent team, haven't had a top 8 pick in 7 years. And now that we gutted the team the NBA rewards us with a top 4 pick

Your on point. The big market teams rely on free agency knowing a ton of money can be made by stars from companies. Small market teams can only hope to land that once in a blue moon star who'll actually stay with that team. Only thing I can see changing things is to contract teams since there just aren't enough stars or make college players stay 3 or 4yrs to develop a game which would give teams a better idea of who is actually good.

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If they wanna keep teams from tanking, then make the lottery for the worst 4 teams, don't give a team that is 1 or 2 wins from the playoffs a chance to get the top pick. 25% chance for the top pick is garbage, that means 1 in every 4 years the actual worst team in the NBA gets the #1 pick, aka the best player in the draft.

Edit: This has nothing to do with the Bobcats being especially bad this year, I have always said the lottery system was a joke.

just because you have the #1 pick doesnt mean you always get the best player.

see: k. brown, olowokandi, oden

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just because you have the #1 pick doesnt mean you always get the best player.

see: k. brown, olowokandi, oden

Since 1980 there have been what, 31 people picked 1st overall. Of those, only 9 of them have never gone to an allstar game, and that is including John Wall and Kyrie Irving, 2 people who most would agree would probably end up an all star at some point(Kyrie at least). While technically you are correct, the odds of getting a good player out of the #1 pick is much higher than any other.

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It would suck but there will be some good players there. If MKG can develope a consistant jump shot he could be real good. Its not like he is a horrible shooter. He hits some outside shot every now and again I love Thomas Robinson.....dude is just a beast and will be a good player in the NBA. Even if he does measure at 6'7-6'8. Bradly Beal looks like he is ready to score in the NBA right now.

Anthony Davis is who we want but there are guys in the top that would do us some good. Also Cho is going to get us another pick come draft night.

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I'd rather have MKG over most of the other prospects not named Davis, he's got that killer instinct that this team needs and he's Kentucky's leader. He's the reason that team is staying together and plays well as a team.

MKG would be good if we went out and got a free agent center. This team cannot continue to lose like they are. If they get #2 I wouldn't be mad at the MKG pick but they'd better go after a center, at least someone like Hibbert.

They have to solve the center problem it's the biggest hole in this team since Paul Silas has come out a said Biz and Mullens are power forwards.

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