Tanking for a top 4 pick is not how it used to be.

Can anyone explain to me why OKC can swap Miami's pick with ours instead of theirs?

It wouldn't be so catastrophic if we ended up having to swap #6 for #9 if that's how it fell, but swapping #6 for #18 would be a massive problem for H-Town.

 

Although I don't fault him for being pushed to do the deal, I sometimes wonder what was the hurry? I don't remember anymore, but were OKC that close on trading Russ elsewhere? I wonder if Morey could of asked Tilman to wait to prevent losing precious draft capital.

 

It is what it is. There’s nothing we can do about it.

 

This draft lottery is going to be stressful as hell.

 

And it's not until June 22 so we will play out every conceivable scenario in our heads before then

 

Tankathon is scary af too. Sometimes we get #1 and it's all gravy but look at this for a nightmare scenario

 

Yea, Tillman overrode him on the coaching situation and that was the last straw for Morey.

 

Harden and Tillman were probably pushing to make this happen as soon as possible. I doubt Morey would be in a hurry to trade for a player he didnt want and with compensation.

 

Olynyk is the real price for tanking....

 

I have no idea. If we fall to #5 it goes to OKC.

 

What choice do we have other than praying for the ping pong balls going our way?

 

Wait. There's a lottery?

 

The league changed the odds to persuade hardcore tanking. But that’s not the main problem.The main problem is the pick swap with OKC. Without that the worst you get is the 5th pick if you have the worst record. In a 5 deep draft like this, the consolidation prize wouldn’t be too bad.

 

If we get the #9th pick I hope we can draft Bouknight.

 

Cool site. I had us in the top 4 8/10 times. Number 1 1/10.

 

Can’t believe Morey the analytical genius didn’t put a top 5 protection on the pick.

 

They own their own pick and Miami's pick in this draft. When we traded for Westbrook, we gave the right to a pick swap to them as part of the deal. This pick swap basically says this :

If the Rockets do not land a pick between 1 and 4, OKC gets the right to swap either their own pick or Miami's pick, which OKC also owns, with the Rockets' pick. As it stands, since OKC's own pick will be higher than Miami's pick, there's no way they're going to swap that pick to the Rockets, so they'll swap Miami's pick instead. In essence, OKC would keep the 2 most favorable picks -- the Rockets' and their own, while the Rockets would end up with Miami's pick.

If the Rockets land a pick between 1 and 4, they would keep that pick and OKC would keep Miami's pick (and their own).