Patrick Kinahan: Inane NBA Lottery System Crushes Jazz

Salt Lake City – Name an aspect of the NBA that does not require an overhaul – continue, we will wait.

Here are some of the problems:

Regular season: Broken due to the charge management, a embarrassment for the legions of former players, on the shoulders of which the league is built.

All-Star game: A shameful exhibition of the competition that is mocked by professional basketball mockery.

Strategy: A Ph.D. is not necessary to understand three as two. However, the simple arithmetic also shows that two are better than zero. The point is that the number of missed 3-point shots has become a minute tendency. If you watch the best athletes in all sports, run on a potential Fastbreak on the 3-point line, just to brick another shot from a distance. Showtime is not.

Tanking: If you get this, the teams want to lose as much as possible to land a higher design position. Pay months in advance for a ticket to play the stars – sorry, the team has to lose so that the best players relax in street clothing. And get millions to be paid to sit at the front of the seats.

Lottery: What a new concept was to limit the number of teams that rate the positioning of the designs when winning. Theoretically sounds, except that it doesn't work. In many cases, the lottery system exacerbates the miserable regular season, while others (we look at them, San Antonio) continue to be lucky every time they are in the lottery.

Yes, all of this groan correlates directly with the terrible Monday evening for the Utah jazz, which deliberately stumbled through the worst season (17-65) in franchise history in order to select the first time in the draft of the next month. Sure enough to design the dream to design franchise changer Cooper Flag.

With the worst record, the jazz could only guarantee that the jazz in the design warrant would not fall fifth. Fifth place is exactly where they landed.

It does not seem to be worth expanding the reasons for almost half of the season for almost half of the season. But on the bright side he will rest this summer, at least for the Finnish national team.

And how senseless was it now to “rest” Walker Kessler? As if the extended low season is not sufficient for a 23-year-old.

Do not take this as a criticism against jazz. After the new billionaire owner had signed the decision to send two all stars in the flower of their respective basketball life, the garbage dump was switched on.

Despite all the conviction of Ryan Smith that jazz no longer plays in a unattractive small market, there is a likelihood that differences with his team will be a long shot.

Team's executives insisted that Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell were on the pitch, a claim that only fools believed, so the best option seemed to send both players and recharge.

The design, which is sprinkled with some clever acquisitions, remains the best way to build another championship candidate. In the last two seasons, six draft picks have started to reconstruction, but the team urgently needed a top three election this year.

Despite the bitter disappointment, jazz officials will pursue a work -like approach to their honor. The task of choosing a good player remains unchanged.

“The reconstruction is on the right track,” said General Manager Justin Zanik during a zoom availability after the lottery. “It has always been.”

Good for him, the team tries to negotiate the system. The problem is that the rules stink.

Since the NBA flattened the lotteries in 2019, the system has no longer rewarded the worst teams. The Dallas Mavericks had only one chance of 1.8%to win the lottery, but jumped by 10 places to make the top election, which marked the biggest step of every team in the lottery story.

Allowing Dallas to make the first choice for force jazz back to the tank next season. For Utah fans, however, not everything is lost -the newly baptized mammoth starts her second NHL season in five months.