I have no fucking clue what Joe is doing and I just hope it makes a lot more sense next season. If he moves forward with the rest of the rebuild it won't be such a blatant tank as much as we'll be the youngest team in the league and won't win a lot of games before the trade deadline and then we might see some tanking by sitting Deandre and whoever else is risking wins but young fun to watch players will still be playing. Maybe Joe tries to get more win now vets and we struggle around .500 this season with a bullshit two timeline catastrophe. We don't realize we won't make the play-in until it's too late to tank so we finish off the season at around .450 and 12th or 13th place in the West.
I hope the plan is to trade the vets for draft capital and then the tank will come naturally. Then replace Chauncey in the Summer of '25, leaving him with the worst winning percentage of any non-interim NBA coach ever.
I think most of what Joe is doing is posturing: ‘we like our vets’ = ‘you have to pay up if you want to trade for them.’ I don’t believe for a second he wants to win next season.
I voted no because I have no faith that Cronin will accept that the only road to success for Portland is to build through the draft, which entails tanking. Now, if he is smart and trades Ant, Grant, Brogdon, Thybulle and even Time Lord then they will not be tanking. They will be a young rebuilding team developing assets around Ayton, who is a keeper at this point for me. I actually believe that ownership along with Cronin's insistence will knowingly go into purgatory. Portland tried "retooling" with Dame a couple times. Never worked. They need to trade the players mentioned for draft assets and expiring journeyman vets that can play a supporting role and help teach the young players. Portland should not win more games next season than they did this one.
One more tank year and we'll have one of Flagg, Bailey, Gonzalez or even Edgecombe as wing options. Far better talent than this year's stock.
Cronin did not trade Grant and Ant when they were healthy and doing fairly well. So I doubt if he will trade either this summer. He may have traded Brogdon but I think I think he was injured right before the deadline and would not have passed a physical. With their injury histories, I doubt he can now get value for either Brogdon or Williams. So will probably keep both. So I don't think they will plan on tanking at the beginning of the season. But if there are more injuries and/or disappointing play, I think they will go into tank mode.
The Kings replaced the Blazers as 1st round fodder. Good for them, the beam keeps getting lit, while the Blazers light up the draft room. It's not tanking, it's rebuilding. They rebuilt the players cafeteria, rebuilt the floor scheme, and added Moses Brown to the roster. The team doesn't need direction, it's Blazer fans who need direction. Moses = this team tapped out, good luck winning 30 games. Even if Moses is playing in close games, the opponent can play hack-a-Brown to widdle away a Blazers lead. Is a 29% FT shooting Center the worst in Franchise history?
those numbers are for the rosters. It might be more germane to have averages of starters and rotations, but I don't know where to find those
He does appear to have a complete game. But is he KD or LBJ or Wemby? Probably closer to a Banchero....which is still pretty good. I would laugh my ass off if teams tanked for him and he decided to stay a 2nd year at Duke.
well, if he was the #1 pick (likely?), he'd be giving up a guaranteed 58-60M to play a 2nd season at Duke. That's a pretty uneven scale
Sorry, guys, we won't be tanking. You need to get yourself into a head space where endless Grant isos are OK.....
