I don't know how long this correlation holds up but it significantly lowers ALL of our variable risk. OKC is definitely tanking like we are so this is actually a good year where the swaps may not matter. Hopefully, when we actually give them picks they are the late draft variety or we actually are top of the draft and they get a turd sandwich for Brodie. Ryno never leaves my mind. Morey singlehandedly killed us with that move. It will reverberate throughout time for this franchise.
Wizards have quietly won 4 in a row...the Rockets currently have the same record as OKC and are just a half game behind the Wizards for 4th in the tank standings...however, Miami is 11th, and just a game out of the playoffs in the East which would push their pick outside of the lottery altogether the last thing the Rockets need is to pick up any meaningless wins right now all vets better be getting aggressively shopped to every team in the league...
Probably wont happen but I like your way of thinking. Do you want to bring up KPJ/KMJ because that doesn't help the tank. If KPJ becomes what I think he can become and they get lucky and hit in the lotto then a trio of KPJ, Wood, lotto pick and have the Nets future picks to build even further the future indeed could be very bright. Which do you think is more likely things fall into place or they fall apart in the next three years?
Miami just keeps on winning...the chances point to the Rockets getting a mid teens pick. Westbrook trade demolished the Rockets
We are tanking just like OKC. The whole point of getting Exum, Tucker, EGo, and Dipo out of here is to get minutes for the young guys. Right now that is likely to be Nwaba, Jones, Tate, and also KPJ and others eventually. They are all young and we will falter just like OKC while our young guys grow with real minutes and learn to play together and rely on one another. The minutes are invaluable and we don't have 5 years of endless bench space to wait and find out if people can play with what we see in limited practice reps. Setting up for 2022 FA with two max cap slots is where I think out potential lies. That is two years of tanking and gathering assets and then quickly rebuilding with all targets available. If you need at least 8 players I would tell you we are 6 or 7 players away so it is time to act that way and get to the bottom as quickly as possible. Kind of the saying about better to be at the start of the right path than half way down the wrong path. That to me is where all the misguided ideas about playoffs were building false hope like poison for essentially a treadmill team.
man i am all for giving young players playing time i just view losing games on purpose to get better picks is pointless ...we already have a ton of picks, just learn how to draft and and develop players and get a FREAKING SHOOTING COACH...lololol no amount of top 4 picks is a proper substitute for brain
midteens are great.. giannis got drafted with a midteen pick....there is no substitute for basketball IQ, LEARN HOW TO DRAFT!
Great idea: develop a culture of losing to develop and encourage our young talent. Can’t think how this could go wrong given our draft pick situation....
1) It's hard to look at that free agent draft class and say "this money should have gone to that guy instead." Too tired to link it now, but I've seen that list many times over the years. 2) It's hard to know what a better owner would have done regarding flipping salaries and keeping that slot alive vs selling draft picks and assets to eliminate it. 3) Yes, not having Ryno would be better than having Ryno overall. He had one good year. People would have been bitter if the Rockets didn't spend like all the other teams did during that crazy cap year.
Losing with a purpose is better than being stuck in mediocrity hoping to miracle your way out of it someday. Look what losing for a purpose did for the Spurs
