Scott Lipsky
9.9K posts
Scott Lipsky
@ScottAdamLipsky
Prefer to carry over a cart. Eating ice cream in hot weather makes no sense. #NeverDaunted #LGM #NetsWorld
NY➡️IN➡️GA➡️NJ➡️FL➡️TX Katılım Temmuz 2011
3.6K Takip Edilen618 Takipçiler
@ScottAdamLipsky @TheFieldOf68 @GoodmanHoops That’s exactly what Roy Williams said before…. He became the coach of North Carolina
English
Tommy Lloyd on his name continuing to come up for North Carolina:
"Guys, this team has my full focus. Nothing, nothing, I promise you NOTHING, is knocking me off that path. You might call them 'distractions,' but it's cause you're distracted. That doesn't mean I'm distracted."
English
@jeffborzello @TomFornelli Peculiar move if that's what happens. Seems like he should get another P5 shot.
English
NEWS: Akron’s John Groce has emerged as the top target in Charleston’s head coach search, sources told ESPN. Nothing is done and steps remain for both sides in the next 24 hours, but there’s mutual interest. Groce has led the Zips to four of the last five NCAA tournaments.
English
@Dskrilla325 @BrettSiegelNBA @Joe_Martin13 Or because they know it's in their best interests to be bad, like the Nets these last two seasons. That should never be the case.
English
English
A playoff time should have NO CHANCE at receiving a lottery pick.
That is not how you solve the issues with the current system.
This gives those teams who actually lack talent and can’t win an even smaller chance to improve and they’ll be stuck forever.
Brett Siegel@BrettSiegelNBA
All of these are horrible…
English
@JakeAndBall I still like the idea of the bottom four teams each having equal odds at picks 1, 2, 29 and 30. Tank at your own peril.
English
My proposal:
Eliminate the lottery. Teams draft based on reverse order of standings (just like the NFL), but cannot pick Top 3 twice in a row.
Simple as that.
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources. 1. 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance, the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18, and and a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. 2) 22 teams in lottery using 2-year record (seeds 7-15, plus the four playoff first round exits in both conferences). Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor. Top 4 drawn as part of lottery, as is currently. 3) 18 teams in a "5 by 5" lottery – bottom 5 teams have equal odds for the top pick, with lottery formed for picks 1-5. Bottom 5 teams have a floor at 10; those that fall out of top 5 get sorted in a separate drawing.
English
The NBA is voting on 3 new anti-tanking concepts:
1) The Finals winner receives the No. 1 pick.
2) Playoff teams will own swap rights on all non-playoff teams’ first round picks.
3) The Kings, Nets, Jazz, & Wizards are permanently banned from moving up in the draft lottery.
English
@Joe_Martin13 @BrettSiegelNBA Top picks exist every season. Somebody will get them. You shouldn't have to field a losing team on purpose to be one of those teams, is the point.
English
@Joe_Martin13 @BrettSiegelNBA How many games was that top 6 pick this summer helping them win this season. Not more than Santi Aldama. The answer is an easy one.
English
@BrettSiegelNBA @Joe_Martin13 They lack talent because they choose to lack talent. The Nets had plenty of money to spend this past summer and chose to lose on purpose instead. They're not unique in this scenario.
English
@ScottAdamLipsky @Joe_Martin13 Bad teams are bad because they lack talent. Taking away their ability to add talent doesn't help the cause.
English
@SamQuinnCBS @markpherrmann I'm still of the mind that its purpose shouldn't be as a talent balancing mechanism and the fact that it is is what is causing these problems.
English
I say this with every round of lottery reform concepts and I’ll reiterate now: any concept that allows Play-In or playoff teams to get the No. 1 pick entirely defeats the purpose of the reverse-order draft as a talent balancing mechanism. The cure is worse than the disease.
English
@SamQuinnCBS Option 2 literally incentivizes *losing in the first round of the playoffs.* How does this even get brought to the table.
English
I’m not sure how options 1 and 3 curb tanking? They just move the incentive. Option 1 incentivizes teams to tank out of the play-in and into the bottom 10. Option 3 incentivizes tanking into bottom five. Would need more details to fully understand option 2 and the win floor.
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources. 1. 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance, the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18, and and a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. 2) 22 teams in lottery using 2-year record (seeds 7-15, plus the four playoff first round exits in both conferences). Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor. Top 4 drawn as part of lottery, as is currently. 3) 18 teams in a "5 by 5" lottery – bottom 5 teams have equal odds for the top pick, with lottery formed for picks 1-5. Bottom 5 teams have a floor at 10; those that fall out of top 5 get sorted in a separate drawing.
English
Scott Lipsky retweetledi
@franfraschilla Less than that. Boston College is currently open and Scott Cross and Gerry McNamara aren't making comments like that less than a week in lol
English
Assuming this is an accurate quote and no reason to think it is not. This leaves one of 17 other head coaches. That coach is an ass-hat. I wish bad coaching karma on him.
Jeff Goodman@GoodmanHoops
One ACC head coach to me on Hubert Davis' departure: "I had really hoped he was the coach forever. No one in the ACC was scared of him. I'm worried that they hire someone really good now because if you get a big-time guy at UNC, they could be right there with Duke again."
English
English
English
The Wizards and Jazz made trades to take themselves out of the top of the draft next year. The Nets don't own their pick. A team like the Kings was never trying to tank. This feels like it punishes the wrong teams
Tim Bontemps@TimBontemps
Adam Silver: “Going into next season, the incentives (regarding the lottery and tanking) will be completely different than they are now.”
English
@darrenrovell Shug's across the street from SMU's football stadium is probably as good or better than 80-90% of bagel places in the NYC area. Starship is pretty good too. The DFW metroplex definitely lacks depth in this space though.
English
@DJAceNBA Maybe the losing on purpose thing is an issue who knows.
English
It’s jarring how many people I know who couldn’t care less about the NBA right now. Was at a brewery last weekend watching the NCAA and it was like pulling teeth trying to get anyone to talk about the league. The NBA has a serious cultural problem with the American sports fan.
English