Recent content by GunterD

Well at least Boler will be able to pronounce his name. Over under on the number of times he says something to the effect of “Jazz have an Ace in the hole!” over the course of the season?

I'm actually not saying the pick is the most valuable asset because I think the Suns will be bad by the time it comes around and we will be able to use it to draft a good player. Its valuable as a trade asset because it doesn't convey for 6 years. The variance therefore contains a non-trivial...

Ah but that's the beauty of the draft. You can say that about every potential guy the Jazz could bring here. The draftees though don't get the leverage to make that kind of request for 5-6 years and everyone else can do it in 2-3.

Kinda tough to say, but I'll say worse (I am viewing this exercise as comparing our potential immediately after that trade was made, and today). Its just the nature of the stockpiling pick game, the assets depreciate. Its speculative gambling on the quality the picks turn out to be, and most...

However things shake out with changes, this lottery was absolutely an example of why the current system is the most absolutely worst thing they could possibly do, aside from a system that further flattens the odds. All the teams that got bumped out of the top slots are now just going to...

Man, if we managed to trade Lauri for #2 and kept #5 I would be ecstatic, that would totally erase the disgusted feeling I've had since the lottery. If we managed to trade him for #3 or even #4 I'd also still be pretty happy. As it is right now I've been assuming the lottery results are...

I mean, if you're grouping them, then its more likely that someone in just either the 6 or the 7 spot will win the #1 than we do individually. So, yeah, much better chances that someone in the 4-8 spot will end up #1 or #2 if you are combining all of them. We still have a better shot than any...

There's some kind of rounding error going on in this chart though. Some of the teams percentages (2 and 3 in particular) don't add up to 100%

I mean, we have a slightly better chance of landing 1-4 (52.1%) so technically we will "probably" end up better than 5. But yes pretty close to a coin flip.

You can't build a team around Giannis and Flagg. Not on the same timeline, Giannis will be able to leave before Flagg can hit his prime. If you're trading for Giannis, you have to have a winning team in two years. If you're building around Flagg, you want to peak in about 5 years. Not...

I dunno the problem with trading for him is you have to cash in a lot of your resources to get it done. But he's only got 2 more years left on his deal and if you can't get him to re-sign in that time, and can't assemble the rest of a championship team on that timeline, you basically just lost...

I remember really hating Bolerjack as an announcer. Then one year for league pass I decided to do a thing where I watched all of the games with the home team's broadcast team. I don't hate him as much anymore. Don't remember specifics but there's some really terrible announcers out there...

I dunno its like, in a strategy card game, you want to set up your deck to give yourself multiple ways to win. My optimimum is to get this combination of cards, and if I do I will win. But if I don't get that combination of cards, I want a backup plan involving a different combination of...

For Charlotte..... Made the playoffs twice in that 15 year period. Draft odds were .17% 25% 19.9% .17% .8% .8% 1% 6% 1.8% 1% 12.5% 13.3% 14% in that period That factors out to be.. about a 35% chance they didn't win in that time period. Certainly not lucky but not horrible odds it happened...