Highkin: Brandon Roy repping Blazers at lottery

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Mediocre Man said:
This is a weird one
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And I think it’s weird that you have such disdain for Roy to claim that he hates the entire franchise and City of Portland.

I cannot overlook all the good memories B-Roy gave Blazers fans. I really don’t understand why you dislike him to the point that you like… know how he feels about the entire city of Portland and the organization.

Like he’s literally just doing it for CTC purposes.

I’m glad he’s representing the team regardless of the outcome. I’d be glad to see Lillard representing the team like that some day after he’s retired.
 
PDXFonz said:
And I think it’s weird that you have such disdain for Roy to claim that he hates the entire franchise and City of Portland.

I cannot overlook all the good memories B-Roy gave Blazers fans. I really don’t understand why you dislike him to the point that you like… know how he feels about the entire city of Portland and the organization.

Like he’s literally just doing it for CTC purposes.

I’m glad he’s representing the team regardless of the outcome. I’d be glad to see Lillard representing the team like that some day after he’s retired.
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Great
 
I don't think it's a coincidence that Terry Porter Brian Grant and Brandon Roy are around the team for workouts and draft...Brooks is interviewing with the Bucks..New G league team...it's all positive to me. I'm past the BRoy disappointments I felt when he signed with Minnie..water under the bridge. When I heard Dame and he had been talking oll these years and were friends I figured Dame's probably a good judge of character. I'm going to cheer when he represents and I hope all Blazeer fans cheer as well.
 
andalusian said:
Nope. These are what are called in Statistics "independent events" - Independent Events are not affected by previous events. The classic example is a coin toss, A coin does not "know" it came up heads before and thus each toss of a coin is a perfect isolated thing.

The same happens for NBA lottery events and the spokesperson at the draft. The 10.5% is still the correct answer mathematically. There is no "history" that is related to the spokesperson, thus no change on the odds.

In other words, the odds of getting the #1 (or any other) pick is the same no matter what spokesperson is and what how many times he/she attended before and what the results were in previous events.

Likewise, the odds that a certain pick happens for a specific spokesperson does not change if that spokesperson was at a previous event and whatever happened at this event.
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Not true. There are odds for everything. If I’m shooting the ball with a blindfold on while standing at half court, and I somehow make it, the odds of me doing that on the next shot go way, way up. That’s what Brandon Roy is doing for us once again: trying to make a shot from half court with a blindfold on.
 
andalusian said:
Nope. These are what are called in Statistics "independent events" - Independent Events are not affected by previous events. The classic example is a coin toss, A coin does not "know" it came up heads before and thus each toss of a coin is a perfect isolated thing.

The same happens for NBA lottery events and the spokesperson at the draft. The 10.5% is still the correct answer mathematically. There is no "history" that is related to the spokesperson, thus no change on the odds.

In other words, the odds of getting the #1 (or any other) pick is the same no matter what spokesperson is and what how many times he/she attended before and what the results were in previous events.

Likewise, the odds that a certain pick happens for a specific spokesperson does not change if that spokesperson was at a previous event and whatever happened at this event.
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Tell that to them. Lol
 
Bingo Bango said:
Not true. There are odds for everything. If I’m shooting the ball with a blindfold on while standing at half court, and I somehow make it, the odds of me doing that on the next shot go way, way up. That’s what Brandon Roy is doing for us once again: trying to make a shot from half court with a blindfold on.
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It would appear odds that you lack an understanding of statistics go up everytime you make an additional post.
 
Bingo Bango said:
Not true. There are odds for everything. If I’m shooting the ball with a blindfold on while standing at half court, and I somehow make it, the odds of me doing that on the next shot go way, way up. That’s what Brandon Roy is doing for us once again: trying to make a shot from half court with a blindfold on.
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Actually only if you say he will hit it twice before the first time. After he hits it the first time the odds are the same for the second shot before he takes it. Now this however starts to affect the odds if he continues to make it because percentages start to come into play. If he makes 2 out of 100 it’s fairly reasonable to assume at some point in the next 100 shots he will make 2 again.
2% is 2% wether it’s 2 in a row or the 1st and 99th shot.
I hope I said that right. Pretty sure someone better at odds will correct me if I’m wrong?
 
I really dont care or think it matters who's at the lottery. Im good with BRoy and Id be good with Walton, LA, Bonzi, Rasheed, Jody or D Marang the local blazer insider.
 
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Bingo Bango said:
Not true. There are odds for everything. If I’m shooting the ball with a blindfold on while standing at half court, and I somehow make it, the odds of me doing that on the next shot go way, way up. That’s what Brandon Roy is doing for us once again: trying to make a shot from half court with a blindfold on.
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Not correct. Barring any changes in circumstances, like time to practice, your odds of making that shot are the same each time you try. Obviously, if you combine the events and compute the odds of making the shot twice in a row, those odds are drastically worse. But that’s not the case here. The odds of picking first when you’re in the #5 spot are 10.5 % no matter who’s sitting in the chair.
 
Hoopguru said:
I really dont care or think it matters who's at the lottery. Im good with BRoy and Id be good with Walton, LA, Bonzi, Rasheed, Jody or D Marang the local blazer insider.
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Sheed? I don't think I'd want him repping the Blazers at a public function.

He'd probably be the first guy ever to get T'd up at a lottery draw.
 
e_blazer said:
Not correct. Barring any changes in circumstances, like time to practice, your odds of making that shot are the same each time you try. Obviously, if you combine the events and compute the odds of making the shot twice in a row, those odds are drastically worse. But that’s not the case here. The odds of picking first when you’re in the #5 spot are 10.5 % no matter who’s sitting in the chair.
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I don't think we have enough information. Imagine that he's led out onto the court blindfolded, so he has no idea which direction the basket is. So he shoots in a random direction. If that goes in, and if he is told that it went in, then he can shoot the same direction again, rather than in a random direction. That would increase his odds of making it (vs. shooting again in a random direction).

I think it would be more fun, though, to lie to him and tell him it went in, let him shoot again, tell him that one went in also, and keep giving him more shots and lots of praise until his arms get tired or he catches on to the deception.

barfo
 
illmatic99 said:
If Roy wants to be involved in SL, I want Shaedon going down to Vegas. Perfect opportunity to build on his footwork and balance with one of the best.
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chet holmgren got injured in a stupid match and lost a season (it wasnt with okc or summer league team)

injuries can happen anytime, regardless if youre load managing, regardless of how many minutes you play in a game, regardless if its b2b game etc, but i dont want sharpe to play in summer league, we already saw what hes got at this point

lets say b-roy goes to summer league, i dont mind sharpe going there to practice and learn from b-roy, but he should not play in a games
 
Warning, this article can be a trigger for the anti-Roy crowd.

https://theathletic.com/4515130/2023/05/12/brandon-roy-blazers-reunion-lottery/

As it could’ve been easily surmised, he found it hard to deal with his career ending so suddenly and so prematurely on the brink of his prime. He didn’t distance himself because he hated the franchise or city like some on here I have foolishly assumed.

From the article:

“Roy had intentionally distanced himself from the Blazers. There were no hard feelings, no issues, no disagreements. There was just too much pain, too much frustration, too many “why me” moments involved in processing his forced retirement. As a result, in the decade since he left Portland, he had shown his face at a Blazers event once — slipping into a courtside seat in March of 2012 to watch Portland play Milwaukee, a gesture to celebrate the birthday of then-Blazers’ guard Jamal Crawford.

“There’s never been a moment when I felt I couldn’t reach out to the Blazers and be a part of the organization. Never,’’ Roy told The Athletic. “I just wanted to stay away from basketball, or from even hearing my name. It was just hard not being able to play … and I was only 28, 29 years old. So, I just stayed away.’’
 
Mr. Robot said:
chet holmgren got injured in a stupid match and lost a season (it wasnt with okc or summer league team)

injuries can happen anytime, regardless if youre load managing, regardless of how many minutes you play in a game, regardless if its b2b game etc, but i dont want sharpe to play in summer league, we already saw what hes got at this point

lets say b-roy goes to summer league, i dont mind sharpe going there to practice and learn from b-roy, but he should not play in a games
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The only way I want Shae playing in SL is if we get Wemby with our first pick and draft a guy in the second round that is expected to be Dame's backup, let's say Beekman or Sherfield. Then I'd see some value in getting Shae some run with other young guys that he will be getting PT with during the upcoming season. If it's just a bunch of end of the bench guys then I would just have Shae working out with Dame. I'm not going to be mad if he's there though. If the coaching staff wants to work on some things with him in live game action then I don't see why not. There is no difference than there would be scrimmaging at our practice facility.
 
No one cares but the only Blazer jersey I own is red 7 Brandon Roy. One afternoon I saw Andre Miller at the Adidas employee store (now corporate office) and I asked him to sign it, which he did but he was probably not thrilled, he only scribbled AM, lol. It was just before the playoff series against the Nash-era suns
 
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