It doesn't really matter if Houston and Orlando are tied for the worst record as they have the same amount of odds regardless. Only matters if both fall out of the top 3 (which would be highly unlikely) and a toss up for 5th or 6th at worst. At that point we already lost the draft.
Thank you Phoenix for resting your players and choking to the G-League Thunder you still should've beaten. Presti's magic failed.
Why does the MIA/TOR game matter. They are 6 losses ahead of the Nets where the Nets can't overtake them in the standings.
Who cares. This is a 4 person draft class at the top, and the bottom three have the same chances at the top 4.
I think it is a 2 + 2 draft at the top Chet and Jabari are a tier above Banchero and Ivey. It is arguable that Murray and Griffin belong on that 2nd tier as well - but both are (at worst) a tier above the remainder.
Here's something interesting. What happens if we are tied with Orlando for worst record, they get a top 3 pick and we don't. Does Houston automatically get no worse than the top 5 pick at the point since they're not competing against Orlando now or do they somehow still do a coin flip to figure that order? Seems to me that there's almost zero % chance of Orlando AND Houston (if tied) to both get booted out of the top 3 so Houston can do no worse than 5th regardless.
I think it's been stated a few times already. More than likely there's a "coin flip" and if they both land outside the top-4 that'll be the tie-breaker. All the other "coin flips" happen before the lottery, so this probably would, too.
That's what I mean, it only matters if they BOTH land outside the top 4. If only one lands in the top 4 then the coin-flip is null and the other team gets the 5th spot by default.
This Rocket's team makes me think of Billy Hoyle. "It's hard work making something this pretty look like a chump"
