Did The Blazers Engage In "Tank n' Draft" Practices?

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    To GOD's point, I hadn't thought of the "trade away to tank" strategy as "tanking", since whatever players were left on the floor were giving honest effort to try to win. That's all you can ask for, since some teams will be bad and occasionally some will be horrendous. I didn't get the impression in 2005-06 that we were actually good enough to win 25-30 game, but quit to tank and ended up with 21. I had the impression that I was amazed that KP got 5 wins out of his "young player evaluation" period, including the L*kers in the home finale.

    Going along with the "trading the good to stockpile young players for the future", I consider that good team strategy rather than tanking. Sure, you know that you're probably going to get poorer value immediately if you trade talented veterans who aren't getting it done for future chances at success (i.e., PHI trading Iverson for Miller and 2 1sts). I don't see that as tanking. Now, if Ha's the best C we have, and KP's forced to play him b/c of that, that's not tanking to me. If we had Greg Oden and no one else, and sat Greg for Ha just to ensure we'd rack up the L's for more pingpong balls, then that's tanking.
     
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    What's the real difference between the two strategies. In both, the players that are on the court try their best to win, but management has made decisions that they believe give them the best chance at winning in the future because at the moment they are not a playoff team. One strategy gets fans riled up and the other is deemed OK, but to me it really seems like semantics. Both strategies have the same goal of getting higher picks in the draft and setting up the team for the future.
     
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    I'm disappointed in you, Papa G. We didn't trade Jarrett Jack until 2008.
     
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    I thought that's what was being discussed here. The organization tanking, not the players. I certainly don't think the players were intentionally tanking.
     
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    Yep. I meant Telfair. :sigh:
     
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    Telfair. Jack -- same diff ... :wink:
     
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