OT: Nats, Wiz, O's, Ravens, Terps, Navy, Gtown, Mystics, Golf, Summer 2024 (Paris Olympics 2024 as well)

[Ovechkins Wodka]

It sure stopping Philly from taking isn’t it?

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

It sure stopping Philly from taking isn’t it?

Still 10 wins more than the Wiz, and no guarantee you hit the number 1.

You can’t stop tanking, you can stop the automatic awarding of the top pick, which the NBA has done.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

With Philly, they are tanking hard because if they finish higher than the six pick it goes to OKC. Top 6 protected

That’s why they haven’t won in like a month.

 

[kicksavedave]

Still 10 wins more than the Wiz, and no guarantee you hit the number 1.

You can’t stop tanking, you can stop the automatic awarding of the top pick, which the NBA has done.

I get the reasoning for having a lottery, but the NBA lottery is messed up, where finishing last gives you much better odds of drafting 5th than 1st. Also all three last place teams have the same odds. I also get that its designed to make teams, even last place teams, try to win, since it won't really hurt their odds. Its still punishing when a team legit just sucks ass like the Wiz do.

 

[ChaosLord]

Because it’s too easy to tank in the NBA when a future HOF talent is there for the taking.

In the NFL, bad teams “accidentally” win a game here or there and it changes draft orders….in the much longer NBA season, a win here or there rarely is as impactful.

The NBA draft means a heck of a lot more than the NFL draft. You've only got 5 players on the court at a time, so you draft a Shaq or a Micheal J or a LeBron and you experience an immediate reversal of fortune. In the NFL you need to stockpile a number of high pick drafts for a couple of years before you start to see success.

This is why I'm advocating the Bullets go aggressively after Flagg.

 

[kicksavedave]

The NBA draft means a heck of a lot more than the NFL draft. You've only got 5 players on the court at a time, so you draft a Shaq or a Micheal J or a LeBron and you experience an immediate reversal of fortune. In the NFL you need to stockpile a number of high pick drafts for a couple of years before you start to see success.

This is why I'm advocating the Bullets go aggressively after Flagg.

Agreed. Plus the NBA stars play 35 minutes out of 48, on both ends. NFL players play, at best, about half the game, while most players except QBs platoon and take plays off constantly. Star hockey players play about 1/3 of the game, and baseball players stand around picking their own nuts for 99% of the game.

Not sure anyone will trade Flagg if they win the lottery, but we can hope the Zards actually win it and make it academic. Flagg, Sarr, Bubb and George would make a nice core.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

I get the reasoning for having a lottery, but the NBA lottery is messed up, where finishing last gives you much better odds of drafting 5th than 1st. Also all three last place teams have the same odds. I also get that its designed to make teams, even last place teams, try to win, since it won't really hurt their odds. Its still punishing when a team legit just sucks ass like the Wiz do.

2025 NBA Draft Lottery: Odds, history and how it works

The official site for the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery. The participating teams and final Lottery odds will be determined at the conclusion of the 2024-25 regular season.

www.nba.com

Team > Odds for No. 1 Pick

• Team 1: 14.0%
• Team 2: 14.0%
• Team 3: 14.0%
• Team 4: 12.5%
• Team 5: 10.5%
• Team 6: 9.0%
• Team 7: 7.5%
• Team 8: 6.0%
• Team 9: 4.5%
• Team 10: 3.0%
• Team 11: 2.0%
• Team 12: 1.5%
• Team 13: 1.0%
• Team 14: 0.5%

Can’t please everyone….

The NBA draft means a heck of a lot more than the NFL draft. You've only got 5 players on the court at a time, so you draft a Shaq or a Micheal J or a LeBron and you experience an immediate reversal of fortune. In the NFL you need to stockpile a number of high pick drafts for a couple of years before you start to see success.

This is why I'm advocating the Bullets go aggressively after Flagg.

We literally just drafted a single guy and reversed our fortunes with JD. It can happen in the NFL.

Unless you get a real superstar, it’s the same thing in the NBA, you draft as best you can, you build the team slowly.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

On Philly tanking hard core to keep their protected pick. Their owner is... Josh Harris. He might know something about how 1 draft can change everything.

 

[Ajax1995]

2025 NBA Draft Lottery: Odds, history and how it works

The official site for the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery. The participating teams and final Lottery odds will be determined at the conclusion of the 2024-25 regular season.

www.nba.com

Team > Odds for No. 1 Pick

• Team 1: 14.0%
• Team 2: 14.0%
• Team 3: 14.0%
• Team 4: 12.5%
• Team 5: 10.5%
• Team 6: 9.0%
• Team 7: 7.5%
• Team 8: 6.0%
• Team 9: 4.5%
• Team 10: 3.0%
• Team 11: 2.0%
• Team 12: 1.5%
• Team 13: 1.0%
• Team 14: 0.5%

Can’t please everyone….


We literally just drafted a single guy and reversed our fortunes with JD. It can happen in the NFL.

Unless you get a real superstar, it’s the same thing in the NBA, you draft as best you can, you build the team slowly.

And don’t forget Jordan was the 3rd pick. Hakeem went 1st, the Blazers took Sam Bowie with the 2nd pick, and Jordan went 3rd so you never know…

 

[ChaosLord]

nm

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Damn that’s at two tournament leaders I’ve seen get destroyed on a hole this week.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

“Little” Joe Hightower, makes the cut on the number with a late clutch putt on Fri, wins his first on the PGA Tour today….

Poor Jake Knapp….

 

[Ajax1995]

“Little” Joe Hightower, makes the cut on the number with a late clutch putt on Fri, wins his first on the PGA Tour today….

Poor Jake Knapp….

More like idiotic Jake Knapp but whatever…

 

[marcel snapshot]

Yeah, when you find yourself concluding that: “Yes, I can strike a golf ball fully submerged in water and pop it up and onto the green,” that generally calls for a re-think.

Also, if you’re gonna actually do that, why wouldn’t you take a full f***ing swing

 

[Brian23]

So, I guess they aren't getting the backpay?

 

[John Price]

What a surprise, people will actually be able to watch the Nats on TV for once.

Hoping Monumental gets the rights.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Yeah, when you find yourself concluding that: “Yes, I can strike a golf ball fully submerged in water and pop it up and onto the green,” that generally calls for a re-think.

Also, if you’re gonna actually do that, why wouldn’t you take a full f***ing swing

Jake Knapp falls apart late at the Cognizant Classic after opening-round 59

Jake Knapp held the lead on the back nine on Sunday before a brutal triple-bogey took him out of contention.

sports.yahoo.com

“I just think in the moment, even now I don't take it back,” Knapp said when asked if he talked about taking a drop instead. “It's just one of those shots you just have to end up hitting a little bit harder than I did.”

 

[g00n]

He didn't have to hit it just a "little bit harder" but a LOT harder. There must've been very little mud to move behind the ball which would mean the only thing likely pushing the ball was water, and that gets displaced during the swing. It doesn't push the ball out like sand does and he seemed to play it more like a chunk shot out of a bunker than a massive explosion out of water.

The ball is only about as high as the red hazard line at its peak. Not even close to getting out and over the hill/rough.

He should've swung twice as hard, at least.

Or just taken the penalty. But that's hindsight and guys on tour blast partially submerged balls out of water all the time.

If it was fully submerged he never should've tried it.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

He didn't have to hit it just a "little bit harder" but a LOT harder. There must've been very little mud to move behind the ball which would mean the only thing likely pushing the ball was water, and that gets displaced during the swing. It doesn't push the ball out like sand does and he seemed to play it more like a chunk shot out of a bunker than a massive explosion out of water.

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The ball is only about as high as the red hazard line at its peak. Not even close to getting out and over the hill/rough.

He should've swung twice as hard, at least.

Or just taken the penalty. But that's hindsight and guys on tour blast partially submerged balls out of water all the time.

If it was fully submerged he never should've tried it.

Second shot goes plenty high enough, just not forward. I didn’t get to see the first lie well enough to judge, but I agree, if fully submerged, bad decision.

He had 3 options, spot of last stroke, back on the line of relief…or…

Since it’s marked red, he could take relief laterally (2 clubs) at the point the ball last crossed the edge of the penalty area. I wonder where that would have put him?

Might have only saved him one stroke, which would have secured a top-5 and automatic entry into Bayhill.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

BTW Elimination Chamber, phenomenal ending.


Cena turning heel is one of the few ways I could see them giving him the record 17th World title.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Mavs raise ticket costs, cite 'investments' in team

Citing "ongoing investments in the team and fan engagement," the Dallas Mavericks are upping season-ticket prices by at least 8.5% for next season.

www.espn.com

lol ballsy….that’s serving your fans a shit sandwich.