@RedNinetyFour Honestly worse case scenario for me. You have at most two year window. After those two years you’re just fucked
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TheHaiden
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Giannis is significantly better than Alpi. He would’ve destroyed Ayton 1 on 1 and we probably win this series even without KD. And we probably win 60 games if Giannis/KD/FVV are healthy. But cashing in all our assets for an injured 31 year old on the decline feels so pointless.
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@freewrlld For you to understand, playing without Pg, getting ball at the 3point line as a center, no one knows how to play PnR with center, trying to play 1vs3 against any team and your shooters usually sucks like 1/10 from 3point line, so there is no threat at perimeter line. Need more?
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How does one shoot 50% TS at the rim I don’t get it
Andrew Soukup@asoukuptx
Sengun True Shooting percentage in the playoffs: 2025: 49.1% 2026: 51% I have no idea how you build a functioning offense if your leading shot taker is this inefficient.
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@JacksonNBA6 @BiasedHouston 21 with limited experience. Smart is still a very good defender. Putting all ball handling on a young players that been pulled in and out all year. He’s going to have down moments
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@the_haiden @BiasedHouston Can’t hang against an old marcus smart? He can’t run a pick n roll. Too small, can’t get to his spots
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Reed Sheppard just don’t got it today. I’ll cut him some bail as this is his first season getting actual minutes, let alone first time in the playoffs. We are seeing the consequences of giving Reed an inconsistent role all season long.
Must be better next season.
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@TheRealBills75 @El_Mince_ @Wolvesmuse Who is getting punished. They still have a chance of getting a top pick. But let’s watch the Kings fuck up again for 50
Years.
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@the_haiden @El_Mince_ @Wolvesmuse But punish the teams further for continuing to be in purgatory regardless of whatever that situation may be?
Do you hear yourself?
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With the current proposed lottery rules, the Orlando Magic would have a 2.7% chance at the first pick
They’re up 3-1 on the first seed right now
NBA what are we doing
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Rockets fail to convert a 3-on-1 fast break.
Really poor decision-making from Şengün.
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One of Alpi and Amen is just going to have to learn to shoot. We’ll see if it ever happens. Or maybe Alpi is just traded, which is a strong possibility. His value will be at an all time low. There’s also the picks coming in 2027 for added hope. I would just sit tight tbh.
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@JacksonNBA6 @BiasedHouston They put the best defender on him for a reason. Only dude that can run pick and roll. Crazy saying all this in his first real season.
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@BiasedHouston You’re seeing Reed in a playoff setting. He’s unplayable in high stakes minutes. He only plays cuz rockets have no other offensive options.
He wouldn’t even play on spurs or OKC cuz they have better 2 way options
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@MelSchwitz24677 @BrettSiegelNBA Incorrect, what purpose to teams 1-10 receive to tank. They actually get worse odds as they get worse.
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So… we will still have bad teams with no incentive to win, and we’ll add more teams saying at the end of the year:
“You know what, we aren’t good enough to win in the playoffs, so let’s gamble for the No. 1 pick.”
This really doesn’t solve anything.
NBACentral@TheDunkCentral
The NBA could expand the lottery to 18 teams, per @sam_amick “according to league and team sources, a heavy frontrunner has emerged among the three proposed solutions to curb the widespread tanking problem that put such a stain on this season: Option No. 1, in which 18 teams would be part of the draft lottery (rather than the current 14) and the bottom 10 teams would all have an 8 percent chance of landing the No. 1 pick. The remaining odds — 20 percent in all — would be divided among the remaining eight teams. In the current system, the bottom three teams all have a 14 percent chance of landing the No. 1 pick and the odds decline from there.” (Via nytimes.com/athletic/72340…)
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@El_Mince_ @Wolvesmuse The magic don’t have a great roster, they almost missed the playoffs. Let’s punish them because they actually tried to make the playoffs
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@BuzelisBall @Wolvesmuse The 8th seed has never won the championship. So your thought process has happened 0% in NBA history
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@the_haiden @Wolvesmuse So give it to the champion each time right?
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@raxgoreWW @Wolvesmuse The new rules prevent teams getting 3 consecutive top 5 picks. So that would not be possible
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@GlitchTooWavyy @Wolvesmuse Yes they can, they just have less odds of getting the first pick. Plenty of stars are drafted outside the top 3.
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@the_haiden @Wolvesmuse Teams that genuinely suck can’t improve their teams cause of the new rules
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@StroudMerchant Stops teams tanking on purpose, bench your starters and not play players to lose hurts the game more than a bad team getting a high pick.
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nah genuinely how does the league benefit from this
NBACentral@TheDunkCentral
Here’s how the new lottery odds will look: (h/t @LevAkabas )
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@Nerd_Sesh @Carsobi Oh no we aren’t rewarding teams that purposely bench players and not play starters. It’s harsh but it’s the BS bad teams deserve
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@SalmanAliNBA The second apron has helped small market teams. OKC and Pacers were in the finals last year
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Since Adam Silver took office, the NBA has:
-introduced the repeater tax
-flattened the lottery odds
-enabled super max contracts (DVPE)
-added a second apron
-further restricted sign-and-trades
-this proposal
Never believe them when they say they care about small market teams.
Underdog NBA@UnderdogNBA
"Heavy frontrunner" has emerged among NBA's lottery reform plans, per @sam_amick: - 18 teams part of lottery (rather than current 14) - Bottom 10 teams all have 8% chance at no. 1 pick - Remaining 20% odds at no. 1 divided among other 8 teams Vote coming next month.
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@richthruster @BrettSiegelNBA Actually the 5th seed has only won once, 6th seed twice. 3 times in super era. Can’t fault a statistic off rare events.
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@the_haiden @BrettSiegelNBA This is just not true. Since the year 2000, five NFL wild card teams (seeds 5-7 in each conference) have won a title.
In that same time span the lowest seeded NBA teams to win a title are the #3 seed.
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@BrettSiegelNBA That’s not the issue. In every league 90% of teams know they can’t win the championship. The issue is teams getting compensated for losing by not playing starters or benching guys because they are playing well. This should stop the Jazz and Kings benching starters for better odds
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@the_haiden There's no point in winning if you know you can't win a championship.
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