Official New Jersey Nets #1 pick Status Thread..........

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  1. LameR

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    Smart man, thanks for the recap!
     
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    not to quibble but gonna anyways :)

     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I bow down to your genius! How do you know all this shit FAMS?
     
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    Here's some other stats on the history of the Lottery since it was implemented in 1990. The number of times teams have won the lottery (picking 1-3) based on their record:

    http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-draft-lottery-history/
    (Plus adding in 2010 and 2011)

    Based on record starting with worst: (No. times won lottery to pick in top 3)
    Worst: 15
    2nd: 9
    3rd: 9
    4th: 8
    5th: 11
    6th: 6
    7th: 2
    8th: 2
    9th: 1
    10th: 1
    11th: 1
    12th: 0
    13th: 1

    The fifth-worst team has actually won more than the fourth-worst, and even second and third worst. Interesting to see if anything.. like playing roulette.
     
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  6. handiman

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    alex42083, thanks for the stats. I've always said 4th or 5th is where you want to be for the best chance of winning the lottery, and for the most part, your numbers support that. Obviously, they don't quite match the odds of 1st, but there certainly isn't any meaningful dropoff from 2nd and 3rd.
     
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    As it stands now, NJ has the 5th worst record.
     
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    why lol? karma for not tanking as much as the worst 3 teams?
     
    crowTrobot, Mar 25, 2012
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    Well looking at history it says #5 wins most. Doesn't mean anything.
     
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    it means the 5th spot has been very lucky in the past. obviously that has nothing to do with the odds for future lotteries. 4/5th still gets less PP balls than 1-3 : )
     
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    I remember living in NYC back in the '80's. That first lotto where the Knicks "Sternistically" won the lotto and drafted Patrick Ewing!
     
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    Would be crazy to see us get NJ's pick at #4 and through some non-Sternistic luck, wind up with the #1 pick by finishing 12th.
     
    BoomChakaLaka, Mar 25, 2012
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    I'm thinking it might go down the other way . . . NJ tanks and end up with a top 3 (and gets to keep the pick), plus Portland limps into the 8th seed playoff spot missing the Lotto altogether. Who would have that making the playoffs could be part of a "worst case scenario"? It would be if we don't end up with any lotto picks. Doesn't matter how much cap space you have when you're Portland. We have to build through the draft.
     
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    Nets losing against a team that went to 4OTs last night in NJ.

    Starters in the first quarter are 0-11, with 7 TOs.
     
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    Poor new jersey. The basketball gods will reward them with no pick for tanking. Good for us though
     
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    Utah has been maybe the hottest team in the NBA over the past couple weeks.

    Favors is coming along, Millsap and Jefferson are a solid 1, 2 punch and dare I say Gordan Heyward is another solid white NBA player.
     
    MickZagger, Mar 26, 2012
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    It's a sad day that Utah passed us. I remember last year many celebrated when Utah and Denver traded their stars thinking they would suck for years. Now it's the blazers who will suck for years. The jazz and nuggets have done what all of us know the blazers will not, rebuild quickly. Very sad day for this blazer franchise that the they are now worse team in the northwest. Really hard to watch jazz make post season. That was our spot.
     
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    If Roy was healthy, you think we would be lotto bound? How about if Greg oden actually was healthy?
     
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    We'd be contenduhs!

    <<<<But we're not.
     
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    They're not on the team anymore, and Raymond Fucking Felton is now running the team.

    Clown Town
     
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