Something more interesting happened in this year's lottery

AIRZOOMKOBE2k5

For the 3rd straight year, the worst team with the best odds won it again.

They're 3 to 1 underdogs against the field yet it still happened. You do the math and it was a 1.5% chance that this could happen.

Imagine, had we tanked correctly we'd have a young core of KAT, Simmons, Fultz.

I'm not saying it rigged because it definitely isn't. The lakers ourselves have been lucky.

We jumped to #2 from #4 in 2015
Stayed at #2 in 2016
And jumped again to #2 this year

Boston won so it's bittersweet but I'm just glad we get to keep the pick to expedite our rebuild.

Here's to #tankisover

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We might not have been bad enough if we drafted KAT.

Mamba Mentality · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 8:45 am Post subject:

greenfrog · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 9:27 am Post subject:

If you want to get conspiratorial, I believe the drawing has only been released to the public since 2013.

ElginBaylor · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 9:29 am Post subject:

Another random thoughts about the draft thread.
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AIRZOOMKOBE2k5 · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 9:42 am Post subject:

Chronicle · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 9:45 am Post subject:

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saetarubia · Star Player Joined: 06 Jul 2014 Posts: 6208

We would have been never bad enough to win 10 games like Philly last year lol. Besides, like pointed out, if you draft KAT, we might not even finish 3rd worst let alone #1.
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Villain6Activated · Star Player Joined: 22 Dec 2011 Posts: 6697

You can look at the glass being half empty for every situation in life but that just leads to a pretty unsatisfying life.

I like to look at life with a glass half full mentality because that's all you have at the end of the day. We could have fell out of the top 3 of those three years and only have 2/3 of our best pieces, we could have fell out of the top 3 two years and only have 1 of these guys or we could have never gotten a single pick and be completely (bleep) for the future.

Luckily we ended up with Ingram, DLO and Lonzo which gives us alot of hope and we drafted well with our late first and seconds giving us alot to work with. Luke Walton also chose our starting job over continuing to ride with a championship contender. We could have ended up with Thibs who wouldn't make this defensive roster much better and run our young guys into the ground.
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ElginBaylor · Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 10:00 am Post subject:

KindCrippler2000 · Franchise Player Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 15821

The 2 win improvement from the Twolves from 2015-2016 to 2016-2017 means KAT, Lavine, Wiggins have a lot to work on to be legitimate 2-way players in this league. Nothing they showed me this season impressed me. There were nights where KAT and Wiggins combined for 80 and still lost. One can argue they even regressed on the defensive end. If the past season is an indication of how they'll perform in the coming seasons, they really aren't any further than other rebuilding teams. I think even Philly has the better future tbh.

I'm sorry but I'll take my chances with Ingram-Ball-Russell here. I don't think people realize how good Ingram is going to be, and how much of an enabler Ball is going to be for them.

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