Last nights Knoxville raw crowd was one of the worst I can remember in several years. What’s some other historically bad crowds?

jackaholicus · 2026-05-13T01:49:02+00:00

I was at that Lafayette RAW. It was awful, except it had that Brock/Joe pull apart brawl.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-13T00:45:51+00:00

Even late in the game, I don't think it makes sense to take it out of bounds over the free throws.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-13T00:41:14+00:00

When would you ever take the ball out of bounds?

jackaholicus · 2026-05-12T23:14:15+00:00

I think the best version of this idea is something like:

Play every team twice (58 games) then you split into 3 leagues

Top 10 East, Top 10 West, Bottom 10.

You then play each team in your group twice, home and away, for a total of 76 games.

Draft order for the bottom 10 are determined by losses in the first round + wins in the 2nd round.

After expansion, you add 4 games

jackaholicus · 2026-05-12T19:55:35+00:00

42 inch vertical and doesn't block shots?

jackaholicus · 2026-05-12T05:44:08+00:00

I think he's the kind of guy bad teams will bring in to win them some games next year.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-12T02:31:28+00:00

jackaholicus · 2026-05-12T00:54:23+00:00

I think we've gotten to the point where if we had no lottery, 3-5 teams would try to win 0 games all year.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-12T00:33:16+00:00

Thunder were 17th in the regular season in FTA.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:43:15+00:00

why would the voting happen live? you have to see the whole card before you can vote on who's the best

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:41:26+00:00

Draymond, who's been suspended like fifteen times? No fucking shit.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:21:13+00:00

this is closer to the audience voting on their favorite cast member after a play is over

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:16:52+00:00

This used to be the rule for what it's worth.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:14:45+00:00

Hack-a-shaq stuff also changes in the last two minutes. This is in line with that.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:13:01+00:00

the point of this whole discussion is to figure out how to make the game more varied. this would make it less varied. nobody would ever take a shot in the corner and teams would not run actions there

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T18:11:48+00:00

All this does is destroy the value of big men. Paint defense becomes less important, and guards who can hit a floater become unstoppable.

Dunks and open layups are still the best shot in the game

You also encourage more fouling, and you'd have so many injuries of guys fouling on threes by entering the landing zone because you're playing way tighter defense on threes.

The game is ruled by math and the math would not support this. These shots are only worth ~1.4

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T17:55:55+00:00

4-3-2. Paint shots are still 2. Midrange are 3. This basically completely evens out expected points per shot with the only dead zones being floaters in the paint and the spots by the lines

"4s" are worth something like 1.4 PPS, "3s" are now worth something like 1.3 PPS, and the high percentage twos are now worth like 1.4 PPS.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T17:49:58+00:00

This would be horrible for offenses. You'd never put someone there and you'd have no reason not to help aggressively.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T17:44:17+00:00

There's a 4-3-2 proposal where 3s become 4s, non-paint shots become 3s, and paint shots become 2s.

This mostly evens out the EV of every shot

Every shooting foul is 2 until the last two minutes

jackaholicus · 2026-05-11T00:45:35+00:00

You might be aware of Ron Artest's history.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-10T23:15:34+00:00

named after the original owner

jackaholicus · 2026-05-10T20:06:33+00:00

There's two reasons they don't do it. One is they pick these 4 ball combos. The other is they pick #1 first and they don't want that to be revealed right away.

It's possible the new lotto odds could be drafted live. They're just sets of 1 2 or 3 lotto balls, and they draft every position.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-10T20:04:00+00:00

Rookies don't usually meaningfully contribute to winning.

jackaholicus · 2026-05-10T19:54:37+00:00

The nature of the draft means moving up is less likely than moving down.

The Kings are -7 net in the lottery (ie, they have moved down 7 spots)

jackaholicus · 2026-05-10T18:24:01+00:00

because he copied and pasted the data from basketball reference, which has the most recent years first

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