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This is all mental masturbation until we figure out where we will draft. The top pick is Ayton. Bagley will probably be #2. The third pick could be one of 4-5 guys including Bamba, Doncic, JJJ, Young. The lower we draft, the more our pick becomes dictated by what is left.

An Orlando win and a Hawks loss all but clinch at least the third worst record for us.

Arguing that Carter is not a lottery pick and that Sullinger was not a first round talent is silly. The fact that Sullinger's career was shortened due to injuries says nothing about what level of talent he had as a prospect and where he was projected to go. The "eye test" is also silly. There are just a couple of guys each year who are eye-popping, but there are 14 lottery choices. Most of them don't become NBA all-stars. That's no knock on them, just a commentary on the rarity of NBA star talent. Carter would be a lottery pick any year due to his size, skill, and production. In years with thinner talent pools, he would be a top-5 pick. Alex Len was a top-5 pick. Absurd arguments here.

That was a ghastly, below average roster that was totally maxed out in player development and salary. Ew. It makes me shudder to think of it. The stink of it still hangs over us with Bazemore’s obscene contract.

We are one season closer to a championship than we were in 2017. The first step was to gut that awful roster. Done.

That was a clutch ass loss. Orlando wins easily. Dallas is ahead in the 4th. This could be an epic night.

A flurry of meaningless wins is just what the doctor ordered. Shades of the Dwight Howard year.

It goes without saying we are in critical territory here. We can absolutely not afford another win the rest of the way. Orlando is showing us who is boss by losing out to a tank-proof schedule.

Someone said the other day that Orlando's schedule was tankproof. They had 6 straight games against teams with less than 25 wins. Orlando responded "hold our beer"

This is our most important game of the year. It will take a concerted effort. We need to focus all of our mental energy on completing this loss. Bud needs to have his tank face on—he may need it for an inspirational halftime speech.

That might be a good analogy if nobody had ever won with KT and the hand never improved after the flop

KB. I know you’re a smart guy. We both went to med school the same year. Remember? You can’t possibly think I was saying my opinion is fact, can you? Clearly I was showing that asserting something subjective as fact doesn’t advance the conversation.

Being in the lottery > being 8th seed with a depressing, declining, dead end, capped out roster. I can assert my opinion as fact just as easily

Yeah, but that team gets to draft a potential star for their efforts, while the pimple on the butt gets to draft a role player to maybe offset the decline of their expensive, core to maybe, just maybe, win 42 games again and play fluffer to Lebron.

That’s a great question. If you moved all in with pocket aces before the flop and lost, was it the right move? If you say no, you’re a results person. If you say yes, you’re a process person. I’m process person. The correct process (read, decision) does not guarantee success.

1) If squawkers read “so you’re saying,” they can bet whatever comes next is a strawman. 2) What is with the escalating font sizes? 3) I do have convictions—I believe tanking was absolutely the right move and I stand by that. I will stand by it even if we strike out in the draft.

Predicting the next ECF isn’t about “guts”, it’s stupidity. This is just baiting people into fulfilling the strawman KB created. How’s this: how many seasons of paying Howard, Bazemore, THJ, and Schröder $70 million to be barely above replacement level would it have taken to get us to the Finals? How many if you add a declining and injured Millsap to make it a cool $100 million?

Lol. And there is the strawman.

We’ve been through this. You equivocate (a third logical fallacy) by using different definitions of “worked” to critique tanking vs continuing with our bloated corpse of a roster we had in 2017. Hey if I get to judge things on different scales l can prove anything I want.

No one has proven you wrong by your own standards which are self-servingly designed by you to be impossible to prove wrong. Your arguments have been mostly strawman building and goalpost moving. Karma? You’ve lost all credibility.

There are 136 pages of this thread that are mostly people telling you what you’re wrong about.

How many rings did Jordan have at 23? At 25? Lol! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

The fact KB made one stupid comment doesn’t mean all his comments are wrong. Nobody is right or wrong all the time.

Whatever. I’m just saying you’re selling him short. He is as good as KB says, and he will probably get better.

We would be very lucky to draft Giannis in this draft. This tank wouldn’t have been necessary if he’d fallen 2 more spots. There have been lots of great players on mediocre teams. One of them was Michael Jordan. Giannis is 23. When MJ was 23 he scored 37 ppg and his team went 40-42. The conversation then was that a selfish player like MJ didn’t make his team better. Lol.