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Would you rather make the playoffs or keep the pick?

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What is your preferred outcome?

  • Make playoffs and lose our 1st round pick

    Votes: 51 44.7%

  • Miss playoffs and keep our 1st round pick

    Votes: 63 55.3%
  • Total voters
    114
Rich said:
A remarkable turn around.

From telling me I was gonna eat crow when they get a top 4 seed about a month and a half ago to openly rooting for them to lose the play-in games.
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Rich said:
A remarkable turn around.

From telling me I was gonna eat crow when they get a top 4 seed about a month and a half ago to openly rooting for them to lose the play-in games.
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I was wrong it happens. Short memory and all that.
 
Rich said:
A remarkable turn around.

From telling me I was gonna eat crow when they get a top 4 seed about a month and a half ago to openly rooting for them to lose the play-in games.
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I'm telling you your chances are not good but, I mean, lose tomorrow and the Cavs still have a 3.4% chance at a top 4 pick. That's better than 1 in 1,000,000 and better than 1 in 100.
 
We really could use the lottery pick this year
 
Rich said:
Pop's mentality has always been mine tbh.

The actual act of competing is the point of playing. You should always be competing to the best of your ability, even if that means you can't/won't win a title. The title is a prize, but the competition itself is the purpose.
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Well said. To extend it further - isn't that why we watch sports? I want to beat the shit out of the Hawks and their foul seeking butt ugly star Trae. They went to the ECF a year ago and we get a chance to send Trae home. I'm going to hedge my support because of a draft pick?

Then there's the first round experience for our kids, plus the confidence boost for making the playoffs vs losing that last game at home and ending a promising season on a very sour note.

14th pick with a less than five % chance of moving up. Big deal. Gimme the playoffs and Trae's head.
 
2 For The Brew said:
Well said. To extend it further - isn't that why we watch sports? I want to beat the shit out of the Hawks and their foul seeking butt ugly star Trae. They went to the ECF a year ago and we get a chance to send Trae home. I'm going to hedge my support because of a draft pick?

Then there's the first round experience for our kids, plus the confidence boost for making the playoffs vs losing that last game at home and ending a promising season on a very sour note.

14th pick with a less than five % chance of moving up. Big deal. Gimme the playoffs and Trae's head.
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If we were going into playoffs completely healthy….hell yeah. But right now as short handed as we are going in it would a first round sweep! What experience do you get from a sweep except the knowledge of knowing you weren’t really prepared for the challenge. I want to win as much as anybody here but this could our last shot (with this year’s lottery pick) to add another good young piece to the core of this team. If I’m weighing a first round sweep against a lottery pick…..I’ll take the pick.
 
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Rich said:
Pop's mentality has always been mine tbh.

The actual act of competing is the point of playing. You should always be competing to the best of your ability, even if that means you can't/won't win a title. The title is a prize, but the competition itself is the purpose.
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Pop learned everything he knows about coaching from me tbh.
 
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Rich said:
A remarkable turn around.

From telling me I was gonna eat crow when they get a top 4 seed about a month and a half ago to openly rooting for them to lose the play-in games.
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A healthy roster would have been a 4 seed... you cannot expect to stay in the running if 4 starters and your 6 man general, loses a ton of time cause of injuries...
 
Ohioplayer00 said:
If we were going into playoffs completely healthy….hell yeah. But right now as short handed as we are going in it would a first round sweep! What experience do you get from a sweep except the knowledge of knowing you weren’t really prepared for the challenge. I want to win as much as anybody here but this could our last shot (with this year’s lottery pick) to add another good young piece to the core of this team. If I’m weighing a first round sweep against a lottery pick…..I’ll take the pick.
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But its not likely to be a much higher pick than the one we will get the very next year. We are giving up a 1st one way or the other (unless we suck next year which brings a whole different discussion). Win, pay off the great year we've had with a playoff spot, and get the 20th pick next year or lose, continue our identity of non-Lebron losers, and get the 14th this year? That's not a hard choice for me. We need to win this game or the year that was so promising just a month ago adds up to us just being a bad basketball team - again. And not even bad enough to get a decent lottery pick to compensate.
 
Dr No said:
But its not likely to be a much higher pick than the one we will get the very next year. We are giving up a 1st one way or the other (unless we suck next year which brings a whole different discussion). Win, pay off the great year we've had with a playoff spot, and get the 20th pick next year or lose, continue our identity of non-Lebron losers, and get the 14th this year? That's not a hard choice for me. We need to win this game or the year that was so promising just a month ago adds up to us just being a bad basketball team - again. And not even bad enough to get a decent lottery pick to compensate.
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And the other thing is if Jarrett can play at a high level, this is as healthy a team as it was since Sexton was hurt. Rubio (who was great pickup, but also a 36% shooter) and Wade (many DNP-CDs this year) gone, but replaced with LeVert and Rondo. That's about a wash. So the whole "we're banged up" mantra is not exactly correct right now.
 
Dr No said:
But its not likely to be a much higher pick than the one we will get the very next year. We are giving up a 1st one way or the other (unless we suck next year which brings a whole different discussion). Win, pay off the great year we've had with a playoff spot, and get the 20th pick next year or lose, continue our identity of non-Lebron losers, and get the 14th this year? That's not a hard choice for me. We need to win this game or the year that was so promising just a month ago adds up to us just being a bad basketball team - again. And not even bad enough to get a decent lottery pick to compensate.
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I think the way this team played all year (and people will understand the injury bug) we won’t be looked at as losers. If Koby does his homework we can get a very good player at 14! There’s a huge difference from a player taken at 14 than 20 or lower. And who knows the way the lottery goes we might luck up and get in the top ten
 
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