Stacker Sports- Day 161- So You're Saying There's a Chance
819 sats \ 13 comments \ @grayruby 13 May Stacker_Sports
So You're Saying There's a Chance
All the Atlanta Hawks needed was a measly 3% chance to win the NBA Draft lottery. So, how does everyone feel about this? Should a team that was in the play-in be able to get the number 1 pick? I don't think play-in teams should be eligible for 1. If you are rewarding teams by expanding the playoffs to give 9 and 10 seeds a chance to win their way in I think they should be excluded from 1. Maybe make the lottery the top 5 instead of 4 and only seeds 11-15 in each conference are eligible for 1 and then the teams that lost the play in become eligible to move up from picks 2-5 if they win the lotto. Thoughts?
The Pacers and Nuggets have both come back from down 0-2 to looking like they are going to win their series in 6. I expect the Knicks to bounce back in game 5 but I think they are too banged up at this point and it seems the TWolves woke up the sleeping giant Nuggets by beating them twice in Denver because Denver returned the favour in Minny. Maybe the TWolves D needs rarified air to slow down the Nuggets again or maybe they just need their second "star" KAT to show up.
Congrats to @gnilma's Canucks on taking a 2-1 lead in the battle of western Canada series.
Wild Sunday in baseball with many implications to our pool. Some of us escaped a strike by the skin of our teeth with extra inning victories yesterday. Others weren't so luck with Sunday games. I will be posting the week 6 recap from @MLBofficialscorer shortly.
Sats for all, GR
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142 sats \ 7 replies \ @gnilma 13 May
OG is dearly missed by the Knicks. Might have a hard time winning the series against the Pacers without him.
Silovs helped the Canucks conduct blatant robbery and stole last night's game. SOG were 45-18 favoring the Oilers, but Canucks still came up with the win. A masterful heist by the Latvian backup's backup goaltender.
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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby OP 13 May
Is OG confirmed out for the series?
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71 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 May
I think the Knicks are exhausted, either way. The Pacers ran them into the ground.
Slight aside, the last player to play 48 minutes in consecutive playoff games, before Josh Hart, was Jimmy Butler when he played for Thibs.
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63 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby OP 13 May
I didn't see much of that game yesterday but that was ugly. Hopefully the Knicks can grind in front of the home crowd tomorrow and pick up a win. If they do, maybe they should consider taking the starters out early if it begins to go sideways in game 6.
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109 sats \ 3 replies \ @gnilma 13 May
Is OG confirmed out for the series?
I only see reports of him not being likely to play in game 5. Will have to see if he can come back for game 6, but nothing indicating that he will.
I think the Knicks are exhausted, either way. The Pacers ran them into the ground.
Indeed really exhausted, banged up, and undermanned. Pacers fast pace of play doesn't help the Knicks at all. Will see how Knicks respond tomorrow at the Garden. I'm thinking that even if they are able to get past the Pacers, they wouldn't have enough left in the tank to beat the Celtics in the next round.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 13 May
You are counting out Cleveland already?
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71 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 13 May
I counted them out before the series even started. I don't think Cavaliers are beating the Celtics. This might age very badly very quickly, but I stand by my prediction that the Celtics will get through to the eastern conference finals.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 13 May
I am not counting out Cleveland yet but they really needed to win game 3 for me to believe it was a decent possibility. I would say its unlikely at this point and if they lose tonight at home it's pretty much over.
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121 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 May
I hate tanking, so I don't mind higher seeds getting the top seed. I always want teams to be incentivized to win games. I'd rather if they ditched the system where the worst team has the best odds.
Here's my weird idea:
Teams bid on draft picks, but they can only bid up to however much money they still have under the salary cap. Top teams generally would not be able to bid, since they're over the cap.
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69 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 13 May
I don't mind it. Usually the crap teams will have more salary cap to play with anyways so it would add an element of strategy into the process.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 May
It would often be a similar set of teams, but I think it matters that prudent cap management would be incentivized over losing games.
I do think it's a problem that the most talented young players usually start out in losing cultures.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 13 May
Maybe there shouldn't be a draft and they are all FAs but make the cap and rookie contracts very restrictive so the "rich" teams can't just buy the best players.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 13 May
That's probably right, but the draft is fun and it makes a lot of money as a sporting event in its own right.
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