Wtf fuck is going on??? it wasnt easy to convert mentally to full on tank l, but i did it. I got myself to buy into full tank and prep for next season. Now we gonna start winning games?? I feel like an overtwisted pretzel over here. Now just pour on the salt…. shit… cant we just do something right????
Trust your own instincts. NO way Chauncey Billups and Dame allow this team to purposely tank. Anyone who's played sports knows it's a cardinal sin to do so. This team is auditioning for next year, not "know draft pick" according to Dame.
I know i know. Ive just now set my goals on a high pick for us but thats slipping from us. And were not doing anything in the playoffs this year, even if we get there.
Just posted this in the Chauncey style thread.... after the next 5 games (which are difficult) we have the easiest schedule in the league the last 20 games of the season. We legit could make a run at the playin. Look at this breakdown of the opponents we have to finish the last 20 games of the season: 7 games WAS IND DET HOU HOU OKC OKC - against tanking teams, we might even be more talented 5 games SAS NOP SAS SAS NOP - against fellow playin competition, wins effectively count twice 4 games MIN MIN ATL NYK - against flawed playin teams 3 games BRK DAL UTH - when good opponents might suck, Brookyln has lost 11 straight, Dallas and Utah are the last two games of the year so they may have nothing to play for and sit starters. 1 game out of 20 that is against a legit playoff opponent, at Utah March 9th So we either suck at winning the above and keep our pick, or we make a run at the playin, get valuable experience for our players. We could potentially see Dame return for the postseason and clear up the pick we owe Chicago. Then we would be free to keep or trade any of our future picks.
this is way too close for comfort. if we somehow end up in the play-in, you know Dame is going to be angling to play.
Yeah, I think the next 8 games are extremely difficult. You say that Minny is flawed but we're far more flawed with far less players that can take over games. Also Minny is only a game and a half out of the sixth spot which they will be fighting like hell for. So yeah those two Minny games after the five you identified as difficult but I would say are very very likely losses, we have Utah who at that point will definitely still be playing for playoff position. The following three games are all against teams that we can beat but all have better records than we do, so we're hardly favorites in those. They'll all be fighting for the play in and I don't think we will by that point. By the time we really get to the games that are against teams that we should beat (Indy will probably be tanking but they might also be trying out that new core they just built and just talent for talent I don't think we "should" beat them)... we should be so far out of it that we're the ones trying to out tank the teams we're playing by resting guys. So I can see us losing a lot of those eleven straight games against teams that we currently have a better record than. The final two games against Dallas and Utah that you say they might have nothing to play for are almost definitely losses in my opinion because I think we will almost definitely have something to lose for and the two of them might be fighting it out for HCA in their own first round series. All of this is obviously speculation, maybe we'll be beating the tough teams going forward and play our way into meaningful games... who knows? I just think given the fact that we're ten games below .500 now and are likely to fall to 15-18 games below .500 by March 9th, we might have reason at that point to keep playing Ant but play him with guys like Keon, Didi, Elijah, CJ, GB3 and Trendon for the majority of games going forward from that point.
More concerning is... Remaining SOS : https://www.tankathon.com/remaining_schedule_strength Sac 7 - bad for the tank SA 15 - OK for the tank PDX 27 - bad for the tank Pels 4 - great for the draft pick!
Sac and SA have both won their last two and made moves to make their teams better at the deadline. So I think they will likely jump us during our next five terribly hard games and the three hard games that follow those. At that point with the team closer to .300 than .500 we might see our vets start to get rest and the focus shift to developing our young guys.
wonder if we start sitting Nurk. I kinda want Ant to get more P&R reps with him, but it's affecting our tank. I can't bring myself to actively root for losses, but if we put out shit lineups, Ws/Ls should be taken care of on their own.
that's the ideal. drop below SAC and SA to the 6th spot in the lotto. I don't think there's any feasible way for us to catch Indy/OKC to get into the top 5 before the lotto. #6 Gives us >40% odds at landing top 4. It's also the same lotto seed we had in 07.
of course norm gets on board the tank as soon as he leaves..... https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...-powell-indefinitely-fractured-bone-left-foot
i wanna see how long it takes for Willie Green to figure out CJ needs to play PG on that squad. NOP is gonna start winning sooner or later, but first step needs to be to put CJ at PG and another longer defensive guy at SG like Temple. I think that squad is ripe for a long win streak regardless of schedule if healthy.
OK, tonight we want SAC to beat Brooklyn, SA to beat Chicago, us to lose, I don't care about Houston or Orlando cuz we can't catch them.
