So like.... are we too good to tank now?

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  1. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I don't even know if we can fight it at this point.... gonna have to bench the whole team to lose games.
     
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    Won too many early. Should have tanked harder to start the season.
     
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    all we have to do is play the young guys, oops never mind that’s not going to work lol.
     
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    no.
     
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    This is the worst Blazer team
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Nah that was a few years.... god that team was bad. Why do you have to keep bringing up those bad memories tince? That's just cruel man.
     
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    To think, that team finished 12 games above .500. I hope it never gets that bad again!
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Exactly. Terrible. Bad vibes. Glad we got away from that!
     
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    Cronin is on a 10 year rebuild plan. Maybe we will get lucky being the 14th pick with a 1%Chance for the top spot!
     
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    Tanking the last few years post all-star break was simple - sit a couple guys and we had a G-League roster on the floor. Now we have a roster full of legitimate NBA players.
     
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    We are only one game behind being the #10 pick, what a disaster.
     
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    I'm wondering if we can win 30 games, and how you all would feel about that. Personally, I see 30 wins by a very young team puts them squarely on the path of legitimacy.
     
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    We are in purgatory. Too good to tank and to bad to compete. Let's hope the basketball gods rewards us
     
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    We’re starting to take shape as an elite defensive team. Hard to lose games when you play great defense and ball out for 48 minutes. That said our schedule has been weak lately and this is the time of year where teams start to turn it up a few notches.
     
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    SOME teams turn it up a notch, others turn it down several notches.
     
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    Yeah, if we get 30 on the strength of our youth then we probably had no business tanking.
     
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    Go to a game.
     
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    We've certainly sacrificed enough knees to them
     
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