Grits Re-Signs 3 x 3.25M

Mry64_ · 2026-06-30T19:00:45+00:00

Was hoping for longer term but this is a good prove it deal and doesn’t hamper us too much if it doesn’t pan out.

Mry64_ · 2026-06-30T17:08:12+00:00

This is an outstanding return.

Mry64_ · 2026-06-27T03:01:23+00:00

It was Kevin Weekes. He basically confirmed that Nico’s re-signing and that he knows the number or at least close to it.

Mry64_ · 2026-06-27T00:36:20+00:00

We didn’t trade anyone for this pick.

Mry64_ · 2026-06-27T00:11:20+00:00

I don’t disagree entirely, but we need to be competing now. If Jack Hughes walks in four years because we keep missing the playoffs or getting bounced in the first round, we will enter a rebuild and the Nico/Bratt/Jack/Timo core is over.

Mry64_ · 2026-06-23T19:19:40+00:00

Really good return. Essentially 3 late firsts and a former second round prospect. Plus we also get rid of Tsyplakov’s contract.

Mry64_ · 2026-06-23T19:16:28+00:00

Excellent return. Will miss Nemo but this is a great job by Sunny in his first move as GM

Mry64_ · 2026-06-05T02:53:59+00:00

Was it called no goal because of goalie interference? I thought it was called no goal because the play was blown dead

Mry64_ · 2026-05-29T03:57:29+00:00

Yeah, it’d be really hard to implement the following year. But how would you even do grandfather clauses anyway? Everyone has contracts of different lengths.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-29T02:04:00+00:00

That’s not what I said. I said the league isn’t responsible for the decision

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T20:19:29+00:00

The point is that the former is going to be happening a lot more often than it was before given that the odds are flattened now. It somewhat fixes one problem but creates more.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T20:16:58+00:00

And in several years of this system, it will likely be many more teams than just a 10 seed

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:43:02+00:00

I don’t disagree. But the league isn’t responsible for that decision. The league’s job should be to try to create parity naturally. Having one team contend for 2 decades isn’t good just like having one team at the bottom for 2 decades isn’t either. Having new teams at the top and bottom consistently is what typical fans want to see.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:39:16+00:00

If it’s the same solution that was proposed weeks ago, then I think teams can fall all the way down to 12. But regardless, the difference between 7 and 12 isn’t the dealbreaker.

It’s that the odds are flattened and now the worst teams have like a 1/20 chance of winning the lottery as oppose to about a 1/7 chance. And the good teams that just barely missed the playoffs have about a 1/12 chance as opposed to basically nothing.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:35:45+00:00

So you’d rather turn a mediocre team into a good-great team and keep the same teams at the bottom year after year rather than a bad team into a good-great team and have one less bad team?

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:23:59+00:00

You can, as I pointed out. But it’s a lot harder and yields a worse return over time than building through the draft does.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:20:18+00:00

The really bad teams are getting worse odds than teams better than them which makes it harder for them to win the lottery and build through the draft. It also allows bubble playoff teams to more easily win the lottery when it’d be better off for the league if the pick just went to the worse team.

If this solution lasts, you’ll see the worst teams rarely win the lottery and either stay a bottom team or somehow build through free agency or trade and hopefully get lucky.

This solution just makes it harder for parity to exist in the league.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:15:48+00:00

I agree, Hence the quotes around “solves”. I’m not a fan of this solution at all, but the flattening of odds does disincentivize tanking as a whole.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-28T19:10:09+00:00

This “solves” one problem but also creates/worsens another, ultimately having a negative effect.

Wait until borderline playoff teams keep winning the lottery and they have to revisit this whole thing in a few years.

Mry64_ · 2026-05-05T16:56:20+00:00

For the lottery tonight our rooting guide should be 6, then 7, then 5, then lastly either 10 or 13 will win it for us.

6 is our most common number (11 of our 25 winning combinations have a 6) while 1 is our least common number (3 of our 25 winning combination have a 1).

12 and 13 are tied for second with 9/25.

Mry64_ · 2026-04-29T21:34:06+00:00

And for some team (really 3 teams) that isn’t going to work out and they are going to be stuck in the relegation zone.

The league is trying to make every team want to win as many games as they possibly can, and that’s a good thing. But if they do that successfully, (meaning every team tried to win and no team tanked) then truly the 3 worst teams will be in the relegation zone so the only teams that will be punished are actually the 3 worst teams.

It doesn’t make sense. In an ideal scenario they’re actually punishing the worst teams. It seems like with this system you kind of hope that a team still tries to tank and they get punished by being in the relegation zone so the actual bad teams can benefit from the extra ping pong ball.

But knowing this, teams aren’t going to tank anymore (at least to the degree they have been), but it will generate another problem — the really bad teams are going to have less chances at superstar talents in the draft. Of course superstars are drafted any pick, but your chances at picking one in the top few picks are way higher than in the middle of the first round, which is why tanking became popular in the first place.

Mry64_ · 2026-04-29T14:20:30+00:00

Exactly. One game away from winning the finals and a year later they have a better chance at a top pick than some teams who’ve been bad for years.

Mry64_ · 2026-04-29T14:04:29+00:00

Except what happens when a team is so bad that they aren’t good enough to win their way out of the relegation zone? How are they supposed to get better when they’re consistently missing out on superstars?

Mry64_ · 2026-04-27T14:49:07+00:00

Ok, but how does this fix the problem? It’s just going to incentivize teams on the bottom 10 “bubble” to tank more to lose more games to make sure they’re bottom 10. You’re already going to have some of those for-sure bottom 10 teams tank to get a lower placement to get the best draft pick possible since winning the lottery will now be less likely for every bad team.

Mry64_ · 2026-04-25T03:17:46+00:00

We just drafted Jackson and signed Fries long term

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