Wolves gonna win both the western conference finals and eastern conference finals

I think we’ve been underdogs for every series except the Mavs and Warriors I think. And we lost the Mavs series

And conservationist said reintroduction would be a good thing for the ecosystem. 

Underdogs were winning even less in the 90s and 2000s but that’s the point of the post— front offices can’t build or at least maintain super teams anymore

its been 2 or 3 the last few years which is pretty normal. In the 90s there were a couple 1 player years and 06 had 4

playoff games per year didnt really change much and i mean we’ve been best of 7 for 23 years now

if you inject an injury into a series with a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance of either team getting player injured then you have now created a possibility that the favorite’s star player gets hurt and they lose the series. If there was no injury then that possibility doesnt exist

talented role players is that theres more variance in every game because a guy on the bench can get hot on 1 day.

Tbf we get flopping too!

The lottery goes past just 4 teams now, and the odds got flattened further.

If you’re a bottom 5 team, it’s a very real possibility that your shitty season results in your team picking in the 10-14 range. This lottery form is just going to make it harder for the worst teams to get top talent and they’ll stay in the basement longer because of it.

Meanwhile, you’re now more likely to have a lottery outcome like this year where the Mavs, Spurs, and Sixers (teams already with talent who were not at the bottom) got all the best prospects. This just widens the gap between the basement and the near basement teams. Making it even harder for teams to get out of the basement.

This lottery reform proposal is going to cause more issues than it is going to solve IMO.

The draft is supposed to redistribute talent across the league evenly which helps create parity. By flattening the lottery odds and preventing the worst teams from getting top talent, those bad teams are likely to stay at the bottom for longer. Bad teams either have two choices: pray they hit on a 5-10% chance and get a good prospect that can pull them out of the basement, or try to build a team with insufficient young talent and becomes the play-in Bulls of the last 5 years.

The new lottery format will basically kill the ability to consistently build a good roster through the draft with high picks, and it will become much more difficult for small market teams to get multiple stars at once.

I absolutely hate this new draft reform for this very reason.