Event 2024 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY - MAY 12, 2024 - SUNDAY - 12:00 PM PST - ABC /ESPN 3

[illmatic99]

Maybe Joe will couple one of the picks with Simons and get a young scoring wing in that 6'8-10" range.

He failed to do this the past three years. Why do you think he can do that now?

 

[Natebishop3]

Leaving the entire team building strategy to chance (especially with flattened odds) requires a real re-think. This isn't a situation where you have a 1 in 4 chance at the top pick by tanking for the worst record.

what other options are available for adding top tier talent? You planning on signing them in free agency?

 

[Natebishop3]

Maybe we can get knocked down to 8 or 9 in the lottery next year.

You can only fall so far….

 

[wizenheimer]

I agree with your basic premise and could see how not taking on Ayton and trading Ant would make sense... I guess I'm willing to have those guys because they're young enough to potentially be in their prime by the time we'd emerge from a tank.

they each only have 2 years left on their contracts. They could leave as UFA as they are just entering their primes. And it easily could be the case that the only way the Blazers can keep them is to significantly overpay

 

[blazerkor]

He failed to do this the past three years. Why do you think he can do that now?

 

[Sheldon Shape]

As soon as they said Atlanta had never won it......I got a bad feeling

Same.

 

[illmatic99]

what other options are available for adding top tier talent? You planning on signing them in free agency?

I dunno what the answer is. Just saying, the merits of tanking are certainly different from what they were 10 yrs ago.

 

[B-Roy]

We’re most likely going to end up with the player we wanted anyways and on a cheaper contract…

 

[Natebishop3]

I dunno what the answer is. Just saying, the merits of tanking are certainly different from what they were 10 yrs ago.

The fact is, even a 16% chance at a potentially franchise changing player is miles better than the 0% chance we have in trades or free agency.

I will take 16% chance at Flagg next year.

 

[wizenheimer]

this thread reminds me of that story about two elderly women in NY eating their dinner at a restaurant...

one says: "this is the worst food I've ever eaten"
the other says: "yes, and such small portions!"

 

[Chris Craig]

You can only fall so far….

Well fell almost as far as we could.

Detroit must not be happy either. Fell as far as they could, still a 5th though.

 

[illmatic99]

The fact is, even a 16% chance at a potentially franchise changing player is miles better than the 0% chance we have in trades or free agency.

I will take 16% chance at Flagg next year.

Worst record gets you a 14% chance. And i dunno if Flagg is 'all that.'

 

[Chris Craig]

The fact is, even a 16% chance at a potentially franchise changing player is miles better than the 0% chance we have in trades or free agency.

I will take 16% chance at Flagg next year.

We won't get him.

 

[THE HCP]

that high will have already been crushed from 5 hours of HCP telling everybody, 87 times or more, that the draft class absolutely sucks

And you STILL don’t believe me.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Yikes! We get pushed back three spots. That surely limits the options we have with that pick. I still wonder if with most teams downplaying this draft if Cronin tries to capitalize on that and either move up from 7 or just acquire another top pick.

Not really. Getting #1 was the only real difference maker. The top 6 will probably have three point guards taken. We weren't gonna take any of them. We were always going to go for a 3 or 4. Maybe Clingan. Getting #7 has actually changed very little.

 

[Chris Craig]

And you STILL don’t believe me.

I believe you.

 

[Natebishop3]

Worst record gets you a 14% chance. And i dunno if Flagg is 'all that.'

Ok. Point still stands. I would take 14% over 0%.

 

[Predator]

Just don’t draft buzelis.

 

[Chris Craig]

Just don’t draft buzelis.

Watch the Blazers draft him now.

 

[Bingo Bango]

This is beautiful. It couldn’t have gone better. Maybe Portland will finally learn it doesn’t pay to tank.

 

[THE HCP]

At the top. Not necessarily after.

LINK

 

[Ed O]

they each only have 2 years left on their contracts. They could leave as UFA as they are just entering their primes. And it easily could be the case that the only way the Blazers can keep them is to significantly overpay

In two years we should have at least a couple more young pieces (with two lottery picks this year, one next year, and then one in 2026, right as their two years are up)... so paying veterans what they are worth is not the worst thing ever. As opposed to the team we have now and paying a guy like Grant so much money in spite of being on the wrong side of 30.

I'm not opposed to trading either of them, but I don't mind them on the team the way I do the other guys I mentioned in this thread.

 

[Bingo Bango]

This is what we tanked for?

Portland has been cheating for three years in a row. This is karma.

 

[Natebishop3]

Portland has been cheating for three years in a row. This is karma.

Actually this might be fortuitous. We could still get a player with just as much potential as the guys at the top for much less money. This draft does not have clear cut top 4 players.

 

[Tince]

How many times has this exact thing happened to us?

I believe this is the first time this exact thing has happened.

 

[Freshtown]

Cope post, but: for us to slide, at least it comes in a year where there is no clear cut top tier outside of maybe sarr. For all we know, Schmitz and team could land their top prospect at 7 given how split people are on this draft

 

[oldfisherman]

 

[inconceivable]

Last year we jumped, this year we dropped, that's just the way it goes.

This is not a year to be upset dropping because it's very possible #7 could turn out to be the best player

 

[Sheldon Shape]

LINK

You want a link for an opinion?

Are you okay?

 

[Whyachi]

the only Hawks livestream i saw was pumping up Braves baseball.