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tlongII said:
It is TIME! We are one of the worst teams in the league now. We might as well go for the gusto and get a top 3 pick. It will make Summer League much more interesting!
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Funny suggestion considering you obviously don't know how tanking works.
 
tlongII said:
It is TIME! We are one of the worst teams in the league now. We might as well go for the gusto and get a top 3 pick. It will make Summer League much more interesting!
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Hell yea I’m so glad people are getting on board with this. We’ll be so much happier in June
 
tlongII said:
What the hell are you talking about then dude?
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You can't just decide to lose. Especially if Dame is healthy. It just won't ever be bad enough to make tanking worthwhile unless he gets hurt seriously (see Steph Curry). They wouldn't have signed Melo if they were giving up. Stotts for all his faults won't ever give up.
 
hoopsjock said:
You can't just decide to lose. Especially if Dame is healthy. It just won't ever be bad enough to make tanking worthwhile unless he gets hurt seriously (see Steph Curry). They wouldn't have signed Melo if they were giving up. Stotts for all his faults won't ever give up.
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Sure you can. Just like Popovich did in 97. This team is horrible right now. We need to restrict Dame’s minutes to protect him from himself. There won’t be enough time left when Zach and Nurk get back so limit them as well.
 
If you want to tank when you’re 3 games out of the playoffs, I don’t understand why you even watch to begin with.

Tanking is shameful and idiotic. Who cares if you win a championship when you had to purposely throw games to get the roster to do so? That’s more worthless than KD’s rings.

cheating your own fans out of their money for an artificial chance at a ring... does it get more pathetic?
 
Blazers1977 said:
If you want to tank when you’re 3 games out of the playoffs, I don’t understand why you even watch to begin with.

Tanking is shameful and idiotic. Who cares if you win a championship when you had to purposely throw games to get the roster to do so? That’s more worthless than KD’s rings.

cheating your own fans out of their money for an artificial chance at a ring... does it get more pathetic?
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You’ll agree with me eventually. Book it.
 
So you figure because they waived Pau and now have another roster spot they can fill that they should tank?
I am extrapolating here a bit i realize that.
 
I don't think we really have to try to tank, we suck as is with the generally lousy new players and injuries. Yeah we should not overplay Dame and CJ and make sure they get reasonable minutes but not too many, and then Ant and Nas should get as many minutes as they can handle, and do NOT bring Nurk back too soon and really screw things up. Do that and "tank" will take care of itself IMO
 
kjironman1 said:
So you figure because they waived Pau and now have another roster spot they can fill that they should tank?
I am extrapolating here a bit i realize that.
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I feel our chance to make the playoffs is so remote that we should tank.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
The time to do that was when Luka Doncic was in the draft
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Seriously. Dude had 35 point triple double in 25 minutes tonight. And he’s 20. Jesus Christ. If voting were today, I’d give him MVP with LeBron and Giannis close behind. Damn. The MVP race is tough this year. How many points does Harden need to score?
 
tlongII said:
I feel our chance to make the playoffs is so remote that we should tank.
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Relax. Houston and SA started 11-14 last year and made playoffs comfortably. Jazz were 8-10 and won 50 games. 1994 Pacers were 16-23 and made ECF. Cheeks had a Blazers team that started terribly and made playoffs. I’d have to look it up. And you can’t overreact to the teams that have started strong. Last year at this time, the Grizzlies were 12-5, the best record in the West, and they collapsed before trading Gasol and finished 33-49.

Bottom line is, it’s early. I wouldn’t be surprised if we finish with 55 wins. Hang in there.
 
Tanking will do nothing constructive for our team at this point...our schedule has been brutal and will get easier....our injured Nurk will be back and some other needle mover on a team that's winning will probably get injured before the playoffs...we got our injuries early and the win loss column reflects that...we'll also probably make an impact move at the deadline with Nurk on the roster, we'll make the playoffs and not waste a year of primetime Dame.....I think tanking is for losers....if we suck after the break, we won't have to tank, we'll just get beat but for fuck's sake....try to win every game is the real option….after that let the cards fall where they may...if we aren't making the playoffs, we can still get a good draft pick...Zach should be back by playoff time as well and I'd say our expiring contracts will be traded for a roster upgrade at the deadline..better to struggle now then after December
 
tlongII said:
Starting Melo is the same thing as tanking.
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Not starting him next to Nurk...between Hood and Nurk you can hide Melo's defense..and Melo can rebound but he's here to make shots when teams take Dame and CJ out of the offense...Nas can learn a lot from Melo ...footwork and shooting especially
 
hoopsjock said:
They wouldn't have signed Melo if they were giving up.
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I agree with you in terms of what it signals for their mindset. Of course, signing Melo doesn't actually make them less tank-worthy. Lillard does. There can be no tank with Lillard on the team, unless he suffered a season-ending injury which would be awful.
 
KingSpeed said:
Seriously. Dude had 35 point triple double in 25 minutes tonight. And he’s 20. Jesus Christ. If voting were today, I’d give him MVP with LeBron and Giannis close behind. Damn. The MVP race is tough this year. How many points does Harden need to score?
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I’d give it to Giannis with Luka close behind but could go either way. Anyway it’s early. We’ll see who can keep it up. Amazing and heartening that an unatheletic (sp?) guy can do that.
 
tlongII said:
I feel our chance to make the playoffs is so remote that we should tank.
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Once again, you can't just decide to tank when you have good players. If they lose all their games because they're bad then they can accomplish the same goal of a tank but that's not tanking. You still haven't answered why Dame and CJ would agree to lose on purpose in the middle of their primes.
 
KingSpeed said:
Relax. Houston and SA started 11-14 last year and made playoffs comfortably. Jazz were 8-10 and won 50 games. 1994 Pacers were 16-23 and made ECF. Cheeks had a Blazers team that started terribly and made playoffs. I’d have to look it up. And you can’t overreact to the teams that have started strong. Last year at this time, the Grizzlies were 12-5, the best record in the West, and they collapsed before trading Gasol and finished 33-49.

Bottom line is, it’s early. I wouldn’t be surprised if we finish with 55 wins. Hang in there.
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You could see Houston and Jazz were good teams though, just struggling to make things work at the beginning. Same can't be said about us, we look disjointed, we lack defense and we are honestly just not that good. It seems that defensive edge we lost by letting Harkless and Aminu go was more important than we understood.
 
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