Posted by Cosmic:

Posted by GKFv2:

Losing helps your status in the lottery. There is a difference with 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th. Big difference. You get more opportunities to finish in the top 3. Unfortunately now it's all over. A lottery is a lottery but would you rather pick numbers while blindfolded or pick numbers you believe will be the winning numbers? I'd like to be assured of having a good draft pick. If we had 4th, the worst we would be is 7th. Now that we have 6th, the worst we can go is 9th. But of course, it was all worth it to get those extra wins and finish out the season "strong."

Of course it does but there's nothing one can do about where the team is going to finish. Besides, we've been in 5th place the majority of the season it is not like we went from 1st to 5th over night here.

Again, it's a lotto so you never know where you will place. You also have no idea if the player you pick will be good or not.

For all we know we could move up to 3rd and get the best player in the draft.

In that I find it incredulous that so many are not only so worked up over our 4th victory in 21 games - but - are willing to attack and destroy our team and the individual players that have a pulse.

I just don't get that. I have no problem with people suggesting it's in our best interests to have a poor record yet I have a BIG problem with those that are hammering guys like Chandler and Nate for having good games.

And, again, any and all bitching and moaning and praying for losses has absolutely no bearing on what the team will actually accomplish.


So, yeah, again, I don't understand people destroying their team over a couple of wins.

Posted by Cosmic:

Posted by franco12:




No one is destroying the team.

And while our pick is random, there is a greater chance to do better with more losses. This is a concrete connection, not some random event.

These last 2 wins took us out of 4th place and now position us to possibly fall to 6th place. The difference between ping pong balls is huge, and while it is random, the percentages none the less are REAL!

Come'on man, plenty of people are in an uproar, not just here but other sites. Hell, a handful of people purposely destroyed the thread I made about Nate's good play over this insanity. I've really never seen anything like it. Personally I'm happy that Nate had a solid game the other night and that Chandler is showing some promise.

I understand the ramifications of placement within the draft order but there's far too much over reaction to something that cannot be controlled and does not warrant responses that are as bad as if not worse than comments from fans of other teams that hate our team.

We've been in 5th nearly the entire year. And again, it's a lotto, not a set-in-stone selection order, and who knows what player will be "the one" out of this draft? We just don't. So many variables and the reality we'd been hovering at 5th the majority of the time surely doesn't warrant such responses to a win does it?

...yeah I realize I'm fighting a losing battle with those who want Nate strung up by his balls, Chandler dumped in a vat of sulfuric acid, and any other player having a good game cut into four pieces and buried at the four ends of the earth --- for to them it's a certainty that last nights win stole the biggest super star since Jordan from our grasp and has relegated us to the depths of 15 win hell for the next decade.

Yeah, I'm being melodramatic.