Creating a sense of urgency

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  1. Blazer4ever

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    I feel like we could be 5 wins better if we played stronger. So I decide to call out the team, this roster can make the playoffs in the west even after the slow start. Lets do it
     
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    You show them!
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Aside from adequate talent, this is clearly the missing ingredient. I fully expect a 10 game winning streak now.
     
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    I prefer a top 5 pick vs a small chance of making the playoffs and losing 1st rd and on our way to being a treadmill team
     
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    Who told you we wouldn't bust that pick or that we wouldn't get better value at 18th. There are some players on the team you wouldn't trade for a top 5 pick and if that's important for you you would
     
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    A full roster, on our top strength and if we win some of the games we just give away, we're worth a chance at the playoffs. if we aren't we aren't but no thanks on the tanking
     
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    first of all if we pick 18 we lose our pick, secondly for this team to have a chance to be a contender we have to have some luck, like either a top pick 5 pick becoming a player like Lillard or lucking into the top pick (Ben Simmons). Thats my opinion and if we make the playoffs we lose our pick and those draft "chances" evaporate, this is a "nothing" year so lets develop players and get a top 5 pick. There are no guarantees of anything, but I want the "chance" to get a potentially very good player in the draft vs nothing if we make the playoffs which IMO is a pipe dream
     
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    Speaking of "guarantees": In a world without absolute guarantees, we're guaranteed to suck for quite a while longer if we lose our draft pick this year.
     
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    I find it interesting when people act as if a top 5 pick is worthless, because we'd just pick a bust anyway.

    :dunno:
     
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    I'd trade CJ for a top 5 pick.
     
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    Trade Damian for the #1 pick then draft Oden
     
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    You're going to throw the season for a pick you'd bust on the pick, it's pure basketball karma
     
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    Spurs threw the season when they got Duncan.... God, horrible karma.
     
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    Ive thought alot about this.

    This happened 20 years ago and many many MANY things have changed since then. I don't know if tanking is as relevant anymore. Other than Duncan, does anyone know of a team that has actively tanked and it paid off? We know Minni and Phili are fails so far.
     
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    Tanking was a better bet back when the No. 1 and No. 2 picks were decided by a coin flip.

    Then there is the fact that even with the No. 1 pick, the GM/Owner has to be not a dumb ass.
     
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    Which is why PHI, MIN and pre-Balmer LAC never succeeded.
     
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    This is a playoff team?? Did the team drop down to the NBDL or something?
     
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