Pelicans Lottery Possibilities

[nolaslim213]

I think they can coexist since both can shoot wide open jumpers. They both can play off the ball.

Agreed.

[IamQuailman]

I hope y'all are right! haha

[PELICANSFAN]

Well just from the games I've seen Burke play in, he seems to need the ball in his hands (as he should, being a point guard, facilitating the offense, and all)... but Gordon is kind of the same way in that he's ball-dominant. Just don't know how those two would play together

I think they could co-exist. Gordon is not a PG, so he would need to co-exist with one and the PG is going to need the ball. I think it would work (if Gordon even stays here though).

[HornetGuru]

gordon and burke can not only co exist but they would excel with each other on the floor, both unselfish, both have drive, shoot, pass, set up other bigs, and spread the floor for each other. Neither are selfish either, it would be awesome to have them together, westbrook and durant both need the ball to be good, the thunder are doing so terrible aren't they...

[HornetGuru]

gordon got cold tonight with the ball, the only time he was making shots was off ball or getting good passes while cutting to the rim, burke and gordon would be an awesome combo, people say they wouldnt really dont know what they are talking about im sorry. the only problem u could argue is that they give up size, but gordon never gets bullied by big SG's and i think monty will turn burke into a fine defenseman.

[AD23forMVP]

I'd personally trade our pick straight up for Bledsoe.

[Soundwave]

I'd personally trade our pick straight up for Bledsoe.

I'd wait to see where we fall in the lottery. Anything top 3 and I say no. Anything below and I say yes.

[ramsters60]

I think they can coexist since both can shoot wide open jumpers. They both can play off the ball.

I won't mention any names since Burke couldn't be included, but if we keep the other one, Slim needs to be right about the offseason/ next season....we can't afford to have him miss approx. 60% of them....

[HornetGuru]

I'd personally trade our pick straight up for Bledsoe.

If otto porter, trey burke or ben mclemore would be available for our pick I just couldn't do it. If we land the 6th pick I could do it then but not for any of the top 5 guys

[42]

So dumb how having the 5th pick actually means #6 is more likely. hahaha

We don't have the fifth pick. We have the fifth slot.

None of the top 3 slots have max probability in the top 3. All of these are reasons to make sure that `tanking' is not a good thing . . . and it isn't.

Also, about that expectation . . . it's meaningless. It means that if you have 100 5th slots, your picks will add up to 469, give or take. It says nothing about a single outcome.

Expectations only really have meaning in the context of large samples or in theoretical applications.

[Luke's Pelicans]

So dumb how having the 5th pick actually means #6 is more likely. hahaha

#6 may be the most likely scenario if we're looking at single numbers, but there is a 55.3% chance that we have a top 5 pick, including 27.2% chance for a top 3 pick. I like the odds to be happy with who we get.

This, You still have a better chance of getting 5 or better than 6 or worse. It's almost a coin flip though.

[HornetGuru]

if we wanna go by percentages ya we have a higher chance to land the 6th pick than the 5th but if u wanna play it that way we have a much higher chance at a top 5 pick and the 6th pick. Don't worry, in 2014 the first pick by the pelicans will be either burke, porter or oladipo.

[nolaslim213]

#6 may be the most likely scenario if we're looking at single numbers, but there is a 55.3% chance that we have a top 5 pick, including 27.2% chance for a top 3 pick. I like the odds to be happy with who we get.

This pretty much sums it up.

[HornetGuru]

This pretty much sums it up.

hey slim i want ur opinion, burke, porter or oladipo?

[nolaslim213]

hey slim i want ur opinion, burke, porter or oladipo?

I'll answer it in your thread. Just saw it

[HornetGuru]

I'll answer it in your thread. Just saw it

thanks

[MRider]

I wouldn't say it's meaningless, but I would say it'd become more meaningful with a large data set. Statistics is all about sample size, yup.

It does say something about our distribution. That calculation was more of a response to the 6th pick having the greatest probability than anything.

[42]

It says there's no 4, which skews it.

Of course, the distribution was specified and is pretty simple: close to 50% shot of moving back . . . nearly equal shots of staying put or moving up to some degree.

So the expectation tells us that 1-3 are more accessible than 7-8. No real insight.