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Its Time to Tank

So now that the season is just about over, all the early goodwill has been intentionally destroyed and we're watching G-League guys pretend to be NBA players while the coach keeps repeating "I tought we didn't give up" like a robot with a thousand yard stare... how do we feel about wasting a year of the prime of one the league's top players?

For all intents and purposes, this looks like a rebuilding team that has its sights on 3 or 4 years down the road. We have tons of picks, a couple of promising rookies, some very young players who may be long-term pieces... and then there's the giant elephant in the room called Lauri.

26 years old in a few weeks, in the absolute, red-hot prime of his career, wants to win and get to the playoffs ASAP, extension eligible soon. On the trade market, his value is through the roof as one of the most efficient scorers in the game that you can pair with absolutely anyone. A deal with a win-now team would probably bring back a huge haul of assets, including a rising star type of guy who's more in line with the timeline of the rest of this team.

I think we'll be very bad next season. Most likely the rookies we draft won't be difference makers, at least for a couple of seasons, and the FA market looks dry this offseason. There may not be a way to improve this roster quickly.

Ainge has a lot of selling to do. I have no idea how he'll convince Lauri to sign that extension if next season too turns sour. Might be mission impossible.

If we look like **** to start next season, the calls about Lauri will start coming. At which point will DA start picking them up?
 
Tremendous Upside said:
So now that the season is just about over, all the early goodwill has been intentionally destroyed and we're watching G-League guys pretend to be NBA players while the coach keeps repeating "I tought we didn't give up" like a robot with a thousand yard stare... how do we feel about wasting a year of the prime of one the league's top players?

For all intents and purposes, this looks like a rebuilding team that has its sights on 3 or 4 years down the road. We have tons of picks, a couple of promising rookies, some very young players who may be long-term pieces... and then there's the giant elephant in the room called Lauri.

26 years old in a few weeks, in the absolute, red-hot prime of his career, wants to win and get to the playoffs ASAP, extension eligible soon. On the trade market, his value is through the roof as one of the most efficient scorers in the game that you can pair with absolutely anyone. A deal with a win-now team would probably bring back a huge haul of assets, including a rising star type of guy who's more in line with the timeline of the rest of this team.

I think we'll be very bad next season. Most likely the rookies we draft won't be difference makers, at least for a couple of seasons, and the FA market looks dry this offseason. There may not be a way to improve this roster quickly.

Ainge has a lot of selling to do. I have no idea how he'll convince Lauri to sign that extension if next season too turns sour. Might be mission impossible.

If we look like **** to start next season, the calls about Lauri will start coming. At which point will DA start picking them up?
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Not sure if serious…
 
I probably way over think this stuff, but the OKC loss has me worried they end up losing out. They were actually trying to win that game, playing SGA while Indiana was sitting Haliburton. They have a tough schedule ahead, although Memphis might be resting players on their last game. The game we have with them coming up might be an epic tank game.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
So now that the season is just about over, all the early goodwill has been intentionally destroyed and we're watching G-League guys pretend to be NBA players while the coach keeps repeating "I tought we didn't give up" like a robot with a thousand yard stare... how do we feel about wasting a year of the prime of one the league's top players?

For all intents and purposes, this looks like a rebuilding team that has its sights on 3 or 4 years down the road. We have tons of picks, a couple of promising rookies, some very young players who may be long-term pieces... and then there's the giant elephant in the room called Lauri.

26 years old in a few weeks, in the absolute, red-hot prime of his career, wants to win and get to the playoffs ASAP, extension eligible soon. On the trade market, his value is through the roof as one of the most efficient scorers in the game that you can pair with absolutely anyone. A deal with a win-now team would probably bring back a huge haul of assets, including a rising star type of guy who's more in line with the timeline of the rest of this team.

I think we'll be very bad next season. Most likely the rookies we draft won't be difference makers, at least for a couple of seasons, and the FA market looks dry this offseason. There may not be a way to improve this roster quickly.

Ainge has a lot of selling to do. I have no idea how he'll convince Lauri to sign that extension if next season too turns sour. Might be mission impossible.

If we look like **** to start next season, the calls about Lauri will start coming. At which point will DA start picking them up?
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Few points:
  • Lauri is a late bloomer and is figuring out how to self-create, draw fouls, pass and score besides spot ups or silver platter feeds. His prime is still few years away.
  • Improving is easy when the bars are set by: THT, Fontecchio, Gay, Dunn, Juzang, Dok, Jones, JTA. Hell even the rookies we draft might improve us immediately.
  • According to many we are trying to be bad now but standings look like we are too good to tank. So saying we will be bad next year while trying to be good seems silly.
It would be nice if you once provided "your plan" or "an actual good NBA player" youd like to target in trades instead of hating all options and yelling "the sky is falling" at every turn.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
So now that the season is just about over, all the early goodwill has been intentionally destroyed and we're watching G-League guys pretend to be NBA players while the coach keeps repeating "I tought we didn't give up" like a robot with a thousand yard stare... how do we feel about wasting a year of the prime of one the league's top players?

For all intents and purposes, this looks like a rebuilding team that has its sights on 3 or 4 years down the road. We have tons of picks, a couple of promising rookies, some very young players who may be long-term pieces... and then there's the giant elephant in the room called Lauri.

26 years old in a few weeks, in the absolute, red-hot prime of his career, wants to win and get to the playoffs ASAP, extension eligible soon. On the trade market, his value is through the roof as one of the most efficient scorers in the game that you can pair with absolutely anyone. A deal with a win-now team would probably bring back a huge haul of assets, including a rising star type of guy who's more in line with the timeline of the rest of this team.

I think we'll be very bad next season. Most likely the rookies we draft won't be difference makers, at least for a couple of seasons, and the FA market looks dry this offseason. There may not be a way to improve this roster quickly.

Ainge has a lot of selling to do. I have no idea how he'll convince Lauri to sign that extension if next season too turns sour. Might be mission impossible.

If we look like **** to start next season, the calls about Lauri will start coming. At which point will DA start picking them up?
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Haha, we can always count on you to act like an idiot. Hopefully you aren't so negative in your real life.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
Nice argumentation. You really convinced me.
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Why would I try to convince you silly? I mean this season we still might make the playoffs trying our absolute hardest not too. That is really the only point that should be needed to convince you. I know it wont though lol.
 
Wow. I guess the truth really hurts.

Bunch of lazy ad hominem attacks in response to a post arguing an actual point... oh well, when it turns out I was right all along, I promise I won't rub it in.
 
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