12-23-2022, 03:05 PM
(12-23-2022, 02:29 PM)Kammrath Wrote: ... and still am angry that RC screwed the tank during Luka's rookie year .
Bro, you should let that go. That draft outcome was truly a product of bad luck, the worst lottery luck possible, not of W/L position. The tanking was just the right amount to get them precisely where they needed to be. Except for that unimaginable bad luck.
We often forget that when the year ended, going into the lottery the Mavs were tied with NO and MEM at 7th and each had the exact same number of lottery balls. Mavs had to land in 1-4 to keep the pick.
If you wanted the Mavs to have a do-over, you'd actually want them to be in that exact spot, because NO (Zion) and MEM (Ja) drew picks 1 and 2 from there. Being in a somewhat higher lottery spot wouldn't have really helped at all. Pick 3 went to NY (Barrett) with the NBA's worst record (17 wins, and far out of reach of the Mavs with 33 wins). Pick 4 went to LAL (Hunter) from the 11th slot (37 wins).