05-14-2025, 03:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-14-2025, 03:41 PM by HoosierDaddyKid.)
(05-14-2025, 02:14 AM)Knutsen Wrote: That‘s the goal of the new lottery odds, to not reward hardcore tanking on a regular basis. Their chances of not getting a Top 4 pick were fifty-fifty (for each of them, not for the combination, to be mathematically precise). And the Sixers did well in the end I guess with the third pick, didn’t they?
The point is, it's a double-edged sword. Discouraging tanking which has mostly worked but simultaneously, hurting the chances of the worst teams ever improving. What if there's a bad team that's just bad and not trying to tank? The new CBA makes it harder for even the good teams to stay good, trying to avoid the 2nd apron with its penalties. It's not really fair. The lottery needs to be tweaked again.