Alex Speers

If the trade-off is that, okay, fine, you get this one year to tear this team down to the studs, but then the next year you're gonna be penalized somehow, like maybe you aren't able to get up into the top four again, or into the top five.

that's going to change how teams operate but if there's a generational draft you could i could still imagine teams deciding okay we're going to tear it down to the studs just for this upcoming season going to go all in on this one draft and then we'll get back to it next year like we and and maybe that will be fine for everyone but you're still going to have teams tanking as long as

draft success is tied or draft standings odds is tied to wins losses which it is they're not i don't think they're going to suddenly do the wheel it's going to be tied to wins and losses in some way you're you're going to have these outcomes um but you know if they can do something to cut down on multi-year tanking i suppose that is a good thing i just worry about and we kind of seen it with some of the like the revised odds

where teams can just get stuck, where they keep falling in the draft.

The Wizards are an example.

They move up that one year.

It's the worst draft.

They get Alex Saar, who's a good player, but then they keep falling back.

We saw this with the Pistons.

They get Cade, but then they kept falling back to five.

Could you see an even worse version of that?

Yes.

Where teams maybe get one pick, but then they're falling back to six, seven, eight every other year because they're not allowed to jump up in the top five.

And, dude, they just get stuck.

in this cycle, I think that would be my concern with any of these changes.

It also encourages multi-year tanking because if, if you're not jumping, if you're not getting a consistently high pick every year, you have to run it back.

Which is what we're seeing this year.

Yeah, the whole third of the league tanking thing is a direct result of the flattened odds.

Well, it'll become apparent in a few years and then we'll, we'll switch back.

People will yearn for the day of the 26th Utah Jazz.