NBA’s perhaps the hoarding of losing losses – Lauri Markkanen again on the bench

Utah On Thursday, Jazz held on to the last place of the NBA Basketball League league chart by losing to Houston Rockets 110-121. Lauri Markkanen Didn’t play.

Jazz, who fell to the bottom of the western block, has won 16 matches and lost 58, with the Washington Wizards in the eastern slot, who have collected 16 wins and 57 losses.

The last few weeks of the regular season before the second half of April may be one of the worst of all time the defeat refueling periods, says ESPN:n Interviewed by the NBA club leader who spoke anonymously.

The three weakest teams in the NBA regular season will receive a 14 % likelihood of winning the number one choice for the summer booking in the lottery.

The number one American winger Cooper Flagg On Thursday, he threw 30 points and led to the 100-93 victory of the Duke University in Arizona in the NCAA final tournament.

In addition to Flagg’s exceptional talents, refueling has been increased by the fact that the flight of more than 76ers, Spurs and Pelicans has broken off injuries. These teams have therefore turned their goal towards the tail end of the league during the season.

Markkanen This season has played 47 regular season matches of 74 possible. At this rate, the Finn will remain in the lowest number of matches in his career.

In early March, NBA fined jazz for keeping Markkanen on the sidelines without the actual injury of the league.

Since then, Markkanen has played a few games, but has stayed more on the exchange bench, especially at the time of the match.

According to ESPN statistics, Markkanen has played only four minutes after the February star break at the tight end of the match.

This definition means the last five minutes or overtime of the actual game time and the difference between up to five points between teams.

The NBA changed the probability of the booking order in 2019 in 2019 with the intention of reducing the motive for refueling. With the current rules, access to the three worst is enough for the best opportunities for the number one booking, and jazz no longer gives up its place in the jumbo trio.

But Another question is how jazz reconstruction continues after the summer booking. Jazz started from a clean table in the summer of 2022 to sell it Donovan mitchell and Rudy Gobertin.

Even in three years, Jazz has not yet been able to build a clear frame of young players.

“Even if Utah would hit the Gold Room next summer’s reservation, it may still be far from the playoff team,” ESPN Brian Windhorst recalled a couple of weeks ago.