07-23-2021, 07:42 PM
(07-23-2021, 10:29 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: No they simply screwed up the year before. If they had drafted Tatum, Ball, Markkanen, Isaac or Fox everything would be fine, but they had to get cute, rise from the top odds in January to 8th and screw up the pick, too.
Honestly you can chalk it up to bad lottery luck too. Yeah they could have done better in tanking in various years. But they were tied for the record with the Hawks in 2018 and tied with the Pelicans and Grizzlies in 2019. They lost the same # of games as the teams who had better luck.
2019 you would have kept your pick... But you still wouldn't have been at the top of the draft. Now I'd love to have one of those players in the 2019 draft, some solid guys... but the real prize was Ja and Zion and there is no scenario where losing the exact # of games to win the lottery is known. We'd have better assets at least.
Also 2017 they could have taken Donovan Mitchell too. But they may still trade any of those guys for KP when he popped up as available.