Lottery pick: #6, 2nd Rnd Picks: #36, and #57

For Gods Sake.

Mods,

Change the damn title and remove #11.

We're jinxed enough. That "for now" is not sufficient.

@PtldPlatypus @Chris Craig @Strenuus

 

Oh for God's sake let the game play out. Fucking ridiculous

 

Longest seven hours ever.

 

Haven't had much positive news lately. Sorry for bringing the morale down further.

 

Sorry but I felt the Pelicans were already the favorite tonight before the PG13 news, they handled the Clips pretty well in the regular season going 3-1 with a +37 point differential over those four games. Granted LA won the most recent game but the two teams just had vibes going in opposite directions before the PG news.

 

wut?

the Pels ended the season going 5-5 over their last 10 games, and those 5 wins came against the Lakers (twice), the Blazers (twice), and the Kings. That's not a team on a roll or a team generating good vibes. That's a .500 team doing .500 things

meanwhile, the Clippers won 6 of 7 games after getting PG13 back, and the one loss was in OT at Chicago

 

Didn't realize LA had won 5 in a row to close out the season, while Pels won 5 of 8 ... just the vibe I got casually looking at box scores. NO was the superior team against over an overmatched SA team, while the Clips did what the Clips do most postseasons and that's wilt down the stretch against Minny. No worries they get to settle it on the court tonight, glad you're more optimistic about LAs chances than some of us.

 

The key tonight is keeping Ingram from a huge night. I think Nic, Morris & Norm can be physical with him and hopefully contain him. CJ will be defended better tonight imo and they have some depth. Losing PG hurts but teams often rally with others stepping up. Plus, Ballmer will give then an ultimatum win and we party, lose and we tear it down.

Clippers 123
Pelicans 115

 

Now you're just being contrary. With Pierce out the complexion of the game is completely changed.

 

Ricky Pierce?....

check what I was responding too. It was about the "vibes" the two teams had before the PG news. The Pels don't deserve much in the way positive vibes for being at home and beating a team that was 14 games under .500; especially considering that they were 5-5 in the 10 games before that and all 5 wins had come against lottery teams that were tanking

 

Good lord, what was I thinking of?? That was a brain fart of epic proportion!

 

And now, back to waiting for the Draft Lottery and the Blazers’ pick.

 

In round numbers, we have a 30% chance to move up and a 50% chance to move down. The term "scam" springs to mind. Also "hosejob" and a few less polite terms.

 

I think it’s funny that some of you believe we will stay at 6. What’s the farthest this pick can drop?

 

It looks like there's a one in a thousand chance that we drop to ten. The way I look at it the most likely scenario has us at 7 or 8 (50.3%) and the second most likely scenario has us picking in the top 4 (37.2%). The most likely pick by a good margin is 7, then 8, then 4, 3, 2, 1 and then 6. The chances aren't high at all that we pick at 9 (3.7%).

 

https://nbadraftroom.com/2025-nba-mock-draft/

 

Wow, thanks for this. So who at 10 do we like?

 

That's a one in a thousand shot but in this draft it might be the same guy we like at 7.

 

So Jaremi Grant?

 

If we won the lotto and got the first pick and that pushed the Thunder out of the top 4. Do you think we would and the Thunder would trade the first pick for the fifth and eleventh? The thing that would then happen if Cronin was still fucking in charge is that we would draft Murray and trade 11 for Grant.

Is Dame, Ant, Grant, Murray, Nurk, Hart, Nas, Winslow, a big with the 35th pick and whoever pops from our young guys better than what we've been playing with the previous 6 seasons before this one? Would Dame, Ant, Hart or Nas, Jabari, Nurk, Hart or Nas, Ingles, Winslow, TPMLE PG and 35th pick big be better than the previous option and would it be getting us closer to contention than we've been during the Dame/CJ/Olshey/Stotts era?

Unfortunately I don't see a lot of pathways for us to get better than we were before this year. I think we are kind of stuck again and those situations above have us winning big in the lotto. If Cronin is still the fucking GM and we get pushed back to 8th which isn't unlikely by any means, he might just send the 8th pick to Detroit for Grant and like the 47th pick. I don't think Dame, Ant, Hart, Grant, Nurk, Nas, Winslow and whoever pops out of our young guys and two second rounders is better than what we've had before this season either.