The NBA lottery draw day ended successfully yesterday morning. The Magic won the No. 1 pick and the Kings unexpectedly jumped to the fourth overall pick. There are teams happy and sad. The Pistons dropped to the fifth overall pick, while the Pacers and the Trail Blazers were forced to drop a rookie player due to the Kings’ jump in the draft, slipping to sixth and fourth, respectively. seven. This article will first outline what happened on lottery draw day, and then analyze the current situation for the Pistons when they unexpectedly slipped, and see how to deal with the current situation with the fifth overall pick.
Lotto Draw Day Results
The Magic won the first-round draft position with a 14% chance of getting the first pick. In other words, the team can use the first team in the draft at the end of next month to select the team that it thinks is the strongest and most suitable for the team. rookie. After the Magic was the Thunder, who had the second overall pick. They had the fourth-worst record in the league on lottery day and won the second overall pick in the first round, skipping the Rockets and Pistons, who had worse records. team.
The third and fourth picks are held by the Rockets and the Kings. Let’s start with the Rockets, who have the worst record in the league this season (20 wins, 62 losses), although they can’t make the wishful thinking of getting the No. 1 pick with the worst record in the league (the three teams with the worst record in the league have the highest 14% chance of getting the No. 1 pick), but they were able to keep the top three overall, leaving them with only one of the three standout players this year (Chet Holmgren Jabari Smith Paolo Banchero). It’s just a matter of looking at the faces of the top two teams, the Magic and the Thunder.
The Kings, which originally had only 32% of the top four picks, unexpectedly broke into the fourth pick. On the contrary, the Pistons, which originally had 52.1% of the top four picks, lost the top four picks and could only select rookies with the fifth pick. You must know that the Pistons have the third-worst record in the league, while the Kings have the all-rounder. A team with the seventh-worst record in the league, you might think that’s a little unfair, after all, the Pistons ended up with the fifth overall pick in the draft.
On the contrary, the Kings who traded Domantas Sabonis in the middle of the season were supposed to set off towards the goal of the playoffs and even the playoffs, but the final result was unsatisfactory and failed to enter the playoffs. However, it is not a blessing for Sai Weng to lose his horse. Their efforts this season have been seen by the lottery gods, and they have been favored by him and thus won the fourth overall pick, which is one place higher than the fifth overall pick of the Pistons.
Fairness among lottery draws
However, this is also the beauty of the lottery draw. The team’s draft position is not directly inversely proportional to the team’s performance, that is, the team with a worse record will get a higher draft selection. In addition to the surprises on the lottery day, the team is also encouraged not to be sloppy for a while, and to improve the quality and excitement of the entire league game.
At the same time, the Pistons were the team that held the No. 1 pick in the first round of the last draft, and they also obtained the core of the team, Cade Cunningham, with this draft right. If three of the players, Chet Holmgren, Jabari Smith, Paolo Banchero, are A, and the second-ranked Jaden Ivey is A-, Cunningham, who was the No. 1 pick in the draft last year, is an S, especially with his floor ratio. It’s higher than the top 3 players in this year’s class.
Therefore, although the Pistons slipped from the first pick with a chance to the fifth pick in this lottery, after all, the team got the coveted rookie Cunningham in the draft last year, so even if the team is in the No matter what the results of this year’s draft are, the draft results of the past two years are still successful for the team.
Coincidentally, the Magic and Thunder, the two teams that fell lower than expected on last year’s lottery draw, had good luck on this year’s lottery draw. The Magic had the third-worst record in the league last season, but slipped to fifth overall and picked point guard Jalen Suggs, and ended up with the No. 1 pick this season. The Thunder, who were expected to get the fifth overall pick last season, took the sixth overall pick after the lottery and drafted Josh Giddey, also a point guard, and ended up with the second overall pick this season. So the lottery draw brings surprises and surprises to teams, excitement and a lot of reverie for fans, and if it’s one year’s draft that surprises you, maybe the next. Bringing joy to you, just like yesterday’s Magic and Thunder.
