DRAFT LOTTO - Watch the 12-9 slot, if we are not there..YIPPEEE !

I thought the lottery was on Sunday.

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So you're saying that if we're not between #9-#12, we're automatically in the top three? And we can't be like #4-#8?

 

That is correct-
The new draft is sorta complicated but think about it like the lotto. Basically what they have is a whole bunch of numbered balls, and come selection time, the machine "sucks up" 4 different balls. This way, with the total number of balls they have, this leaves 1001 different 4number combinations (ie- 1,12,50,56 or 4,79,34,100). Each team is assigned a certain number of combinations. The Clippers, of course, get the most, at 250 different combinations. If one of their combinations come up, then they get the pick. The bulls have less at 200( I think) and so on and so on. The Rockets have 17 different combinations. This leaves them a 17/1000 (the extra one is just thrown out) possibility of getting the number one pick. After that is chosen, they choose the numbers 2 and 3 selections. As one can imagine, depending on who gets the first pick(and thus the number of combinations taken out of consideration), the Rockets have a slightly higher percentage of getting the number 2 and 3 pick, but it is still like 2% or so. After the third pick, they just go in order of record. So
a) the Rockets could get either picks 1-3
or
b)picks 9-12.....they would be moved down if someone behind them, i.e.-Boston was fortunate enough to move into the top 3, cause everything shifts down a bunch.
There is no way the can end up at 4-8, though, barring a trade. What I am looking for is to see if the order from 12 down goes as planned, and then to pray to the basketball Gods that I don't see the Rockets at number 9.

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[This message has been edited by rocketsfan34 (edited May 19, 2000).]

 

This is all I want to hear, baby:

The ninth pick in the NBA 2000 draft goes to:


The Cleveland Cavaliers!

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The ninth pick in the NBA 2000 draft goes to... The Cleveland Cavaliers.

 

It will be sooo boring if the Rockets get in the top 3 without having to make a trade.

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Cheer up grummet, we'll land the #1 pick then trade Cato, Drew, the exception, our dancers, a ham-on-rye, and a box of cracker jacks for the #2 pick. Yes, we'll have Kenyon and Stromile on our team. How we'll end up playing them who knows, but we'll figure that out later. Then with our #9 pick, we'll pick up Darius Miles. The NBA will then change the rules and regulations to now include 11 foot goals because we'll have a team of players that go up but never come down.

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Even if we land the 10th or lower pick?



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So many of you are so ready to get rid of Kelvin Cato, yet in many of these scenarios (except those involving Olowakandi) we pick up no true 5 in return. Who's gonna play 5? Hakeem is a warrior but an aging one. Where is Kevin Kunnert, Paul Mokeski, Otto Moore, Dick Cunningham, Zaid Abdul-Aziz, or especially Mo Malone when you need them!!!

I'd love to have Kenyon Martin or Stromile Swift and Darius Miles but nobody on the draft board can do the job that Cato does. Who's going to fill that hole? It's fine to dream but keep your toes, at least, on the terra firma.....

This is a GREAT PLACE... A LOT OF FUN!



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Wow, an Otto Moore reference! Back in high school, my best friend and I would go to games and stand up and scream "Ottooooo" whenever he'd score or block a shot. It wasn't very often, but for some reason, we both really liked the guy. Go figure.

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