Re: Playoffs vs Lottery

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

The playoffs would lift the pall hanging over Boston. That town is so sports
depressed it needs Prozac in the drinking water.

Dan F
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kokubo" <Ken_Kokubo@harvard.edu>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Playoffs vs Lottery


> As I understand it we have a choice between....
>
> #14 our pick and an 8th seed in the lottery
> #11 Denver pick (protected anyway so ping pong balls are moot)
>
> Or
>
> #11 Denver
> #10 Our pick and miniscule # of ping pong balls
>
> Basically, the Pacers, C's, and Denver are the only teams in the .400-.500
> range right now and it doesn't look like another team will affect this
> grouping so one of the 2 above scenarios should come true.
>
> I'd rather make the playoffs. I know we got Peirce at 10, but how often is
> 10 the cutoff rather than just good luck/evaluation and picking a gem
> anywhere. I think the latter happens more frequently. Name a year recently
> when 2 picks were combined for anything above the 6th pick or 2 picks were
> combined for an impact player...I can think of Nowitzki but this worked
> against (IMO) the team trading the 2 picks (Traylor #6 for Dirk #9 and
???)!
>
>  From Duncan onward I'll never believe the ping pong balls will bring
> goodwill to the leprechaun!
>
> Basically, I'm saying they have just as much chance (or more likely not)
of
> getting a superstar in either scenario.
>
> That's my semi-statistically enhanced, voodoo economics, objective view of
> the situation :^) I really believe it is far more important for a young
> team building some serious chemistry and maturing slowly to reach this
> major milestone (to them only maybe) and use it as incentive next year to
> push it further.
>
>