Welcome to Down to Dunk, I'm your host Andrew Schlecht, part of the Athletic Podcast

Network, solo pod today friends, it's got my co-host dropping like flies out there.

It's not a great situation, but I'm still here, still standing, hope everybody else

is doing okay, today it's Monday, it's a little gloomy outside, but that's okay, we're all

gonna make it, even if the thunder aren't any good, we're gonna make it, and perhaps we'll

make it because they are not any good.

So let's dive in, I ask for questions on Twitter, you guys delivered, as you always do, and

we are going to just get after it, we're gonna try to answer as many of these questions

as possible, I think there's upwards of 40 questions.

So here we go, let's start doom and gloom with deluge data, what is the worst case scenario

for your forecasting of this thunder rebuild?

The worst case scenario would start with the draft lottery this season, obviously Houston

keeps their pick, maybe they're in the top three, maybe they get the number one pick, let's

say we're talking worst case scenario, that's probably the worst thing, that could happen,

they get the number one pick, and then if we stay about where we're at around five,

we could follow as far as eight, and so the eighth pick, which there's not a projected

superstar there, it doesn't mean there's not a superstar there, but then you're back

at it next season, all you have to show for it is eight and like 20 maybe in the draft,

not to say that those couldn't become something real, but it doesn't give you anything tangible

at this point, and then you find yourself in a spot where you basically have to tank

again because this isn't enough, that situation is not enough, and you have to roll in the next

season and try to figure it out, but you still have Shay and Dord, and they're going to play,

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