More Misery - abandon all hope ye who enter here

[Kim Malo]

At 10:39 AM 4/5/2007, Ryan, Patrick S Maj RES USAFR 439 MSG wrote:
>Kestas and I throw the little digs at each other on this, and I CAN see the
>absurd nature of the lengths teams will go to for perceived satisfaction,
>but since it already happens NOW it makes no difference if the draft were
>based on record versus a lottery system because they still view it as a
>guarantee by their actions even though it isn't based on pure record!

It's not just that either/or however. The draft lottery originally 
was each team not in the playoffs had an equal, single shot at the 
top pick. So once you were one of the lucky 13, didn't matter if you 
were the worst or the best of the bench, not even statistically. But 
then, *because* the worst team so rarely won, they decided to weight 
it. And of course, the worst team continued to rarely win.

>When
>you already play a Kevinn Pinckney 25 minutes there isn't a lower absurdity
>standard to drop to so what's the difference?

Why? People can dump on the current owners and Ainge all they want, 
but only a few years ago that's what most of our team was made of 
because of a truly cheap owner, or rather one milking the team for 
all he could. And that included cutting corners on things like staff. 
Never understood why people say "it can't get worse". It can 
**always** get worse.

Kim