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Central tank command : the official thread

People, people. We need some good young players badly. Let DM develop this year, and add another stud in the lottery. It's a waste fighting for the 8th spot and get swept in the playoffs.

Give Gobert a ton of rest, aim for a top 10 pick, and maybe the balls will fall our way.
 
I'd consider trading Gobert for the Brooklyn pick and filler. Not sure if Cleveland would.

We'd (hopefully) land two top 5 picks.
 
They at least need to blow up the roster. Start putting together trade packages of anyone not named Gobert or Mitchell. Though at this point i'm not sure any package we put together could actually net us a good return...
 
I don't think we need to try so much to tank. We're not going to win much. We just lost back-to-back home games to Philly and Miami, during which Rubio is shooting like 20%.
 
MVP said:
Well, if we need to suffer this year to get Doncic then yes, what the heck, lets do it.
Oh and got negged by Cappy's resurrected alt Freakazoid... mods are you doing anything about alts?
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Crappy's an a-hole. Once he doesn't like you, he just starts negging you for anything you write. And you can't send him a PM because his mailbox is full and apparently he won't empty it. It's people like him who make the site contentious and ruin the camaraderie and good feeling. So, he's the former Freak. I used to like most of his posts. Wonder what happened to Crappy that he turned into such a jerk.
 
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Catchall said:
I don't think we need to try so much to tank. We're not going to win much. We just lost back-to-back home games to Philly and Miami, during which Rubio is shooting like 20%.
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I don’t want to “like” this post, but I agree.
 
We do not need to tank. We need to trade our mediocre assets for somebody who can grow with Gobert and Mitchell.

I want you guys to do something. Go to this site and go team by team and look at salaries. http://www.basketballinsiders.com We are the only team in the entire league with 2 expiring salaries over $10 million for players that are expendable. In other words, we have incredible dump guys. We could take back $28+ million just for expirings of Favors and JoeJ.

Assets come in many ways. Sure, we dont have multiple 1st rounders or a slew of young talented players. However, we do have assets. We just need the balls to use them in order to get valuable picks or a young player.

Do not tank but get creative DL. Make a move

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Draft an All Star.
Recruit a couple free agents.
Earn the 4th seed in the west.
Make it to the 2nd round of the playoffs.
Lose the All Star.
Miss the playoffs by a few games.
Draft in the late lottery.
Rinse.
Repeat.
 
The thing is tanking doesn't always work.

The Sixers sucked for a season, then ended up drafting #6 in 2013 and took Nerlens Noel.
They sucked again for the next season and ended up drafting #3 in 2014, taking Joel Embiid.
They sucked exotic wang for the next season and ended up drafting #3 in 2015, taking Jahlil Okafor.
Then they sucked some more, ended up drafting #1 in 2016 and took Ben Simmons.
Then once more did they suck in order to trade up to #1 this year and draft Markelle Fultz.

That's 5 years of full-on tanking, to draft 2 or 3 guys who are solid impact players.

In other words, the hit rate even at the top of the lottery is around 50% or 60%. You have to take multiple swings at it.

That said, there are good players available in the middle of the draft. You just have to be daring enough to draft them.
 
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