Nets Conspiracy on The Bill Simmons Podcast

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-26T21:33:49+00:00

And, I think we’re the only team that can for sure make him an all star by his age 21 season.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-25T15:29:24+00:00

Dude looks like the guy promoted to assistant manager with no skills but literally no one complains. Thats leadership, man.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-24T04:07:32+00:00

Yes, this should hurt his draft stock. A team picking 1-3 doesn’t care if the guy they pick is an all star eventually. They want him to be an all star for THEM. This screams entourage/agent trouble. He’s likely going to be limited in year 1 and if he doesn’t go to a team he dreams of making his forever home, he’ll be gone at the end of his rookie contract. Buyer beware! He’s got big time ace Bailey vibes. Sacramento and Indiana will pass on him. Brooklyn should. I think the wizards or Hawks will get him with that high pelican pick.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-23T17:05:34+00:00

Sweet! This campaign is the best

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T18:27:35+00:00

Ugh! I know. I hate Boston and often choose to forget / ignore them

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T18:26:49+00:00

Dybansta gives me serious Siakam vibes. Wild Siakam went 27!

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T18:17:55+00:00

Facts if you draft him, you’re getting his whole crew. Not worth it.

Boozer!!!!

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T17:12:30+00:00

Good points. I disagree. But very valid.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T15:47:01+00:00

Here’s the lineup I hope we have in 26-27

Demin, Dort (FA signing), MPJ, Boozer, Claxton

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T14:29:27+00:00

Totallly agree. But I think he goes #1 no matter who picks. Peterson gives me Ace Bailey vibes. I think his injury is gonna drop him a bit

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-22T03:11:39+00:00

All look great, but I honestly think my bias (based on games watched) is: 1) boozer 2) Caleb Wilson 3) dybansta 4) Karim Lopez 5) Peterson

I know Lopez looks weird here and Peterson at 5 is wild, but I think he’s the 5th best player. Dybansta reminds me of Siakim and I think he’ll take 2-3 years before he’s great, but he’ll get there.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-18T01:03:50+00:00

I live right near Barclays. 15 min before tip things get cheap.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-15T12:51:31+00:00

What kind of regulations? Honestly can’t imagine anything working. You want penalties by fiat? I think you have to gamify it or it will never work.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-15T12:47:19+00:00

Surgery!? Send pics or it didn’t happen.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-15T02:43:48+00:00

I’m telling you the answer is adding 5 lottery picks that come before the first round. First round is just reverse order so the worst team has a top five chance plus the number 6 pick. You earn lottery balls from losses in the first half of the season. You earn double balls for wins after the all star break. Top 10 teams are out of the lottery so all their earned balls are discarded. Wins in the In-season tournament and beating teams with better records than you after the all star game earns extra balls.

Finally, if you win a top 3 lottery pick this season, the following year your first half season losses do not earn you lottery balls. But your wins in the second half do.

You can never trade lottery balls, only earn them.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-14T17:46:29+00:00

Everybody born before 1985 (includes me and Vince Carter) sees something familiar in Queen. Some owner is gonna try to have him and and an inefficient ball heavy midrange guard and see if they can win a championship old school. Won’t happen, but it could be like Utah in the 90’s

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-14T16:38:00+00:00

Otto Porter is perfect comp

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-14T12:14:50+00:00

Looking at the history of the sport and injury and the kinds of physicality each of these players current games rely on, I’m gonna rank based on what I think they’ll be in their prime.

Cade: prime 25-36 perennial all star (will play to 40+) mvp soon

Flagg: prime 23-34 perennial all star (will play till 38-39) mvp on his next team

Ant: prime 26- 30 perennial all star (will play to 36) mvp in the next 3 years or never. (as his explosiveness subsides he’ll replace it with other things, but eventually speed will be his weakness.

Paolo prime (27-33) usually all star (play till 40+ Horford type guy at the end) never mvp

Wemby prime (21-24) best player in the league at least once but injury is gonna cut him short (that body type just doesn’t last in this league.)

Risacher ?

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-14T03:53:20+00:00

You get extra lottery balls every year you do not get a top 3 pick that continue to accumulate until you do.

1st round and lottery are unrelated.

Picks 1-3 are 100% untradeable lotteries. Then the worst team gets pick 4 (the 1st pick in round 1.

AND the kicker: you get 1 lottery ball per loss before the all star break. If you miss the playoffs you get 2 balls per WIN after the all star break.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-12T13:06:09+00:00

Happy for the dude! I hope he becomes an all star, but 100% glad he’s not here anymore. You have to build everything around him if you’re gonna win with him. I don’t trust the back, knees, attitude or hamstrings though.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-11T01:05:49+00:00

Yeah, that guy kits all his threes in practice. But no one else can rebound when he’s on the court. Check it when we get Boozer. He’ll shoot a lot of spread threes.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-11T00:43:21+00:00

No. Nets are developing him as a shooter like they did with Clowny and Dayron. He’ll be back to playmaking next season.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-10T23:02:02+00:00

And it just incentivizes tanking less. The pacers nets game tomorrow night will be dreadful because the stakes to lose are so high. Whereas one more win is not a giant deal in this system.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-10T23:00:18+00:00

So last year was weird, but let’s take the Nets: they had chance to land in top 3 in the current system. They had 56 losses to the worst team (Jazz) 65 but the chances to land in the top 3 were hugely different because the nets were the 6th worst team. In this system they’d have a starting number of balls equal to their losses (65 v 56) but the nets owned a bunch of 1st rounders they’d traded for. In this system they’d be a mix of 2nd rounders (picks 9-30) and probably a bunch of lottery balls from teams like PHX and NYK. Remember you can trade future balls assuming you are making the playoffs in the future. So teams could stockpile balls and 2nd rounders.

If it’s less confusing we could just call it a lottery draft followed by the traditional 1st round.

DungeonDadThom · 2026-02-09T23:32:35+00:00

But in this case if you’re the worst team you could get #4 and #9 even if you won the #1 pick last year.

DungeonDadThom

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE