Bizzare that your takeaway is this. If the nets had tanked properly they wouldn’t be picking this low. Would they have won the lottery? Probably not. Would they have a higher pick? 100 percent.
Or if they won 35 games instead of 26, they'd be picking second. It's a lottery. There is a pretty solid consensus on who the top 2 players are, and it varies thereafter. Utah, Washington, and New Orleans, 3 of the league's 4 worst teams and all examples of those who you must think tanked "properly", are picking 5th, 6th, & 7th, respectively. Trust me, Utah is bummed that they're 5th.
What was to learn? History was staring the Nets in their collective faces. In the new era, no worst-loss team has ever won the #1 pick; Detroit dropped to 5 for 2 years in a row; Atlanta came from 10th to 1st last year. Sean and company are not fools, hence the recognition that quantity trumps quality, especially in a supposedly generational draft. Is it 6 picks out of the top 40 or 5 in the top 36? Those who say that the Nets should have tanked worse are delusional. Players and coaches don't tank. Sean got rid of vets on expiring contracts and stocked the team with wannabe's and never-wills. They may have just gotten a few actual players to emerge from this lost season, despite your 'lack of talent' claims.
The Nets have the No. 36 overall pick along with their 4 1s. Like a host of others, Marks followed the math. But the odds differences are so marginal in this flattened era that any single drawing is more likely to yield results that many would label as outliers. The only good thing to emerge from this season was the coach.
While I'm no conspiracy theorist of any sort, there are so many anomalies in the NBA draft process, beginning with the Knicks getting Patrick. Some teams have had a number of #1 picks and many have had none. Cleveland got Lebron and Daugherty, and after Lebron left, Kyrie and Wiggins. NOLA, with the league owning it, found a potential owner and then got Anthony Davis and later Zion. Philadelphia moved up and saved (possibly) Morey's job. Harrison doesn't shop Luka, makes arguably the worst trade in NBA history, and hits on a 1.9% chance for Flagg. And the Spurs got David Robinson, followed by Tim Duncan and Victor Wembanyama, and now get a #2. The stench is pretty strong, but 'dems de odds. Eh? Frankly it all sucks. I'm for wide open free-agency, just like you and I have for our professional lives.
Bizzare that your takeaway is this. If the nets had tanked properly they wouldn’t be picking this low. Would they have won the lottery? Probably not. Would they have a higher pick? 100 percent.
Or if they won 35 games instead of 26, they'd be picking second. It's a lottery. There is a pretty solid consensus on who the top 2 players are, and it varies thereafter. Utah, Washington, and New Orleans, 3 of the league's 4 worst teams and all examples of those who you must think tanked "properly", are picking 5th, 6th, & 7th, respectively. Trust me, Utah is bummed that they're 5th.
I’d rather all those outcomes than picking eighth.
What was to learn? History was staring the Nets in their collective faces. In the new era, no worst-loss team has ever won the #1 pick; Detroit dropped to 5 for 2 years in a row; Atlanta came from 10th to 1st last year. Sean and company are not fools, hence the recognition that quantity trumps quality, especially in a supposedly generational draft. Is it 6 picks out of the top 40 or 5 in the top 36? Those who say that the Nets should have tanked worse are delusional. Players and coaches don't tank. Sean got rid of vets on expiring contracts and stocked the team with wannabe's and never-wills. They may have just gotten a few actual players to emerge from this lost season, despite your 'lack of talent' claims.
The Nets have the No. 36 overall pick along with their 4 1s. Like a host of others, Marks followed the math. But the odds differences are so marginal in this flattened era that any single drawing is more likely to yield results that many would label as outliers. The only good thing to emerge from this season was the coach.
While I'm no conspiracy theorist of any sort, there are so many anomalies in the NBA draft process, beginning with the Knicks getting Patrick. Some teams have had a number of #1 picks and many have had none. Cleveland got Lebron and Daugherty, and after Lebron left, Kyrie and Wiggins. NOLA, with the league owning it, found a potential owner and then got Anthony Davis and later Zion. Philadelphia moved up and saved (possibly) Morey's job. Harrison doesn't shop Luka, makes arguably the worst trade in NBA history, and hits on a 1.9% chance for Flagg. And the Spurs got David Robinson, followed by Tim Duncan and Victor Wembanyama, and now get a #2. The stench is pretty strong, but 'dems de odds. Eh? Frankly it all sucks. I'm for wide open free-agency, just like you and I have for our professional lives.