Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:05 pm Post subject: Official 2017 Houston Pick/Loss Watch Thread
Now that the Lakers own an unprotected 1st round pick in this year's draft courtesy of the Houston Rockets, their loss is our gain. Currently the pick sits at #27 and save anything catastrophic like an injury (which should never be hoped for), the pick will probably fall somewhere between 25 and 28.
If you ever get tired of being conflicted about rooting for a Laker victory, feel free to indulge in the guilt free exercise of rooting for Rocket losses.
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2/23 @New Orleans - Boogie, Davis and Jrue Vs HOU _________________ Austin Reaves keeps his game tight, like Kobe Bryant on game night.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:15 pm Post subject:
ugh....I was looking at who is behind them and could pass them....and the next team is the Celtics....sorry, cant cheer for them even if it did raise our pick a spot.
Houston has been outplaying their potential all year. Hope to see them regress to the mean as teams lock in for the playoffs.
Actually, they started 31-9 and have gone 9-9 lately. Let's say they only play 500 the rest of the way, they end up 52-30, 63.4%, which would be the 6th best overall, and 4th in the West, playing and hopefully losing to the Jazz in the first round. That would be about the 22nd pick...fingers crossed.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:30 pm Post subject:
parsons777 wrote:
Don Draper wrote:
Houston has been outplaying their potential all year. Hope to see them regress to the mean as teams lock in for the playoffs.
Actually, they started 31-9 and have gone 9-9 lately. Let's say they only play 500 the rest of the way, they end up 52-30, 63.4%, which would be the 6th best overall, and 4th in the West, playing and hopefully losing to the Jazz in the first round. That would be about the 22nd pick...fingers crossed.
I thought draft order was based on regular season records....is that wrong?
Houston has been outplaying their potential all year. Hope to see them regress to the mean as teams lock in for the playoffs.
Actually, they started 31-9 and have gone 9-9 lately. Let's say they only play 500 the rest of the way, they end up 52-30, 63.4%, which would be the 6th best overall, and 4th in the West, playing and hopefully losing to the Jazz in the first round. That would be about the 22nd pick...fingers crossed.
I thought draft order was based on regular season records....is that wrong?
Shoot i think you are right, not sure why but i thought if they went out earlier in the playoffs they dropped, so really if they end up at 6th best record they pick 25th
Looking at their struggles over the last 18 games, they seem to have trouble with teams with decent bigs. They lost to MIN, MEM, ATL and MIA twice. They have a lot of those types of teams coming up: NOP 3 times, MIN twice, SAS, UTA and GSW twice (no great big but tough games) and LAC twice. I can easily see them under 500 across their last 24 games.
Opponent, Proj Outcome, Record this Season
@ NO, L, 1-0
MIN, W, 1-1
IND, L, 0-1
@ LAC, L, 1-0
MEM, L, 1-2
@ SAS, L, 1-2
UT, W, 1-1
@ CHI, W, 1-0
CLE, L, 0-1
LAL, W, 1-1
@ NO, L, 1-0
@ DEN, L, 1-0
DEN, W, 1-0
NO, L, 1-0
OKC, W, 2-1
GSW, L, 1-1
@ POR, W, 2-0
@ GSW, L, 1-1
@ PHX, W, 3-0
DEN, W, 1-0
DET, W, 1-0
@ SAC, W
@ LAC, L, 1-0
MIN, L, 1-1
11-13, i think
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lol people are really excited about a bottom 5 pick?!
25 Jarell Martin Clint Capella Reggie Bullock Wroten Marshon Brooks
26 Nikola Milutinov PJ Hairston Andre Roberson Miles Plumlee Jordan Hamilton
27 Larry Nance Bogdan Rudy Gobbert Arnett Moultrie JaJuan Johnson
28 RJ Hunter CJ Wilcox Livio Perry Jones Norris Cole
29 Chris McCullough Josh Huestis Archie Goodwin Marquis Teague Cory Joseph
30 Kevin Loony Kyle Anderson Nemanja Ezeli Jimmy Butler
Houston has been outplaying their potential all year. Hope to see them regress to the mean as teams lock in for the playoffs.
Maybe, maybe not. MVP level Harden took an injury riddled squad to the #2 seed two years ago, so it's not a complete shocker that we are winning so many games with him beasting again. We had a rough time before the ASB, so hopefully this trade will help and provide more scoring. We also had one of the hardest schedules in basketball before the ASB.
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Thorough 51 games we played the 5th most road games in league history, Also a top 10 most games played in that time span.
To start the season we a had the most road games by any team in 47 years. We've also played the most b2b games.
lol people are really excited about a bottom 5 pick?!
25 Jarell Martin Clint Capella Reggie Bullock Wroten Marshon Brooks
26 Nikola Milutinov PJ Hairston Andre Roberson Miles Plumlee Jordan Hamilton
27 Larry Nance Bogdan Rudy Gobbert Arnett Moultrie JaJuan Johnson
28 RJ Hunter CJ Wilcox Livio Perry Jones Norris Cole
29 Chris McCullough Josh Huestis Archie Goodwin Marquis Teague Cory Joseph
30 Kevin Loony Kyle Anderson Nemanja Ezeli Jimmy Butler
Capella, Gobbert, Nance, Butler - not bad
4 out of ???
There is a far greater change the player will end up in the d league in 3 years than to make a starting roster
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:59 pm Post subject: Re: Official 2017 Houston Pick/Loss Watch Thread
Laker's Fan wrote:
Now that the Lakers own an unprotected 1st round pick in this year's draft courtesy of the Houston Rockets, their loss is our gain. Currently the pick sits at #27 and save anything catastrophic like an injury (which should never be hoped for), the pick will probably fall somewhere between 25 and 28.
If you ever get tired of being conflicted about rooting for a Laker victory, feel free to indulge in the guilt free exercise of rooting for Rocket losses.
Next Up
2/23 @New Orleans - Boogie, Davis and Jrue Vs HOU
Did you intentionally make that rhyme? _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
lol people are really excited about a bottom 5 pick?!
25 Jarell Martin Clint Capella Reggie Bullock Wroten Marshon Brooks
26 Nikola Milutinov PJ Hairston Andre Roberson Miles Plumlee Jordan Hamilton
27 Larry Nance Bogdan Rudy Gobbert Arnett Moultrie JaJuan Johnson
28 RJ Hunter CJ Wilcox Livio Perry Jones Norris Cole
29 Chris McCullough Josh Huestis Archie Goodwin Marquis Teague Cory Joseph
30 Kevin Loony Kyle Anderson Nemanja Ezeli Jimmy Butler
Capella, Gobbert, Nance, Butler - not bad
4 out of ???
There is a far greater change the player will end up in the d league in 3 years than to make a starting roster
Yeah, it's 13%. So, let's say our draft intel doubles that ( fingers crossed ) , we get a 1/4 chance of a good player.
lol people are really excited about a bottom 5 pick?!
25 Jarell Martin Clint Capella Reggie Bullock Wroten Marshon Brooks
26 Nikola Milutinov PJ Hairston Andre Roberson Miles Plumlee Jordan Hamilton
27 Larry Nance Bogdan Rudy Gobbert Arnett Moultrie JaJuan Johnson
28 RJ Hunter CJ Wilcox Livio Perry Jones Norris Cole
29 Chris McCullough Josh Huestis Archie Goodwin Marquis Teague Cory Joseph
30 Kevin Loony Kyle Anderson Nemanja Ezeli Jimmy Butler
Capella, Gobbert, Nance, Butler - not bad
4 out of ???
There is a far greater change the player will end up in the d league in 3 years than to make a starting roster
And? That is the draft. You try to find diamonds in the rough. Sometimes they don't work out. Sometimes you can pull a role player or even a star.
lol people are really excited about a bottom 5 pick?!
25 Jarell Martin Clint Capella Reggie Bullock Wroten Marshon Brooks
26 Nikola Milutinov PJ Hairston Andre Roberson Miles Plumlee Jordan Hamilton
27 Larry Nance Bogdan Rudy Gobbert Arnett Moultrie JaJuan Johnson
28 RJ Hunter CJ Wilcox Livio Perry Jones Norris Cole
29 Chris McCullough Josh Huestis Archie Goodwin Marquis Teague Cory Joseph
30 Kevin Loony Kyle Anderson Nemanja Ezeli Jimmy Butler
Capella, Gobbert, Nance, Butler - not bad
True many time those low picks become incredible players. The draft is a total crap shoot. Players at the top are so over hyped that GM's have no choice to pick them even if they have major flaws.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 12:13 am Post subject: Re: Official 2017 Houston Pick/Loss Watch Thread
CandyCanes wrote:
Laker's Fan wrote:
Now that the Lakers own an unprotected 1st round pick in this year's draft courtesy of the Houston Rockets, their loss is our gain. Currently the pick sits at #27 and save anything catastrophic like an injury (which should never be hoped for), the pick will probably fall somewhere between 25 and 28.
If you ever get tired of being conflicted about rooting for a Laker victory, feel free to indulge in the guilt free exercise of rooting for Rocket losses.
Next Up
2/23 @New Orleans - Boogie, Davis and Jrue Vs HOU
Did you intentionally make that rhyme?
It was originally vs Harden and Lou _________________ Austin Reaves keeps his game tight, like Kobe Bryant on game night.
I actually like Houston. I wish they are the ones to knock out GSW. Preferably it's Westbrook, but harden will do. KD is a (bleep) (bleep) _________________ Billions Billions Billions
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