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We're tanking because the Jazz FO decided to blow up a perennial playoff team. We're not talented enough to win precisely because of this decision made precisely to ensure that we wouldn't have the talent to win and thus would not have another option. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't maximize...

And yet a lot of people seem to be putting a lot of hope on getting Flagg, notwithstanding the extremely low odds of this outcome.

And yet ...

Cruel irony would be that we tank aggressively to get the best lottery odds but a team with worse odds ends up winning. We'll be wishing we had tried to win more games if this happens. The odds of not winning the lottery significantly exceed those of winning. I confidently predict that we WILL...

To paraphrase, none of the Jazz's six first round draft picks the last two years appear to be a foundational piece, the FO is hinging the success of their strategy on the sheer luck of winning the lottery, and buckle up for one more year of intentional sucking and 2-4 more additional years of...

Well-said. I perhaps exaggerated a bit for effect, but the general sentiment remains.

That was an awful game. The cream of the Jazz draft class the last two years lost to an essentially G-league team. Great for the tank, less great for fueling optimism about the team's future. There's losing for the purpose of tanking, but there's also losing in humiliating fashion to a shiitey...

LOL, you're bound and determined to die on this hill. Props to you.

I agree with most of what you say. However, Kessler's performance against Toronto was still extraordinary, regardless. Again, teams face inferior competition all the time, with different teams resting players or with players injured or just because the team is bad. Yet, we still only rarely see...

Well, %$&#*

Shh, don't spoil my anti-anti conspiracy theory psyops.

I don't see other centers getting similar stats playing inferior competition, of which, there's plenty in the league. While it's obviously a high variance performance (i.e., in the tail of the distribution), it's something few other centers in the league have approached this year, and it...

I'd be interested in whether there's a shred of objectively credible evidence about the diverse NBA conspiracy theories floating around out there. Conspiracies do exist, but not under every rock and in every cranny as conspiracy theorists would have us believe. Just because things happen we...

God, I hate all this tanking talk. Let's tank the *&^#@ out of the rest of this season, get a good draft pick, and get back to trying to win next year. I've a limited time left on this planet, and I'd like to spend it being excited about watching basketball.

You were in the wrong part of town. The central business district around Farragut, McPherson Square, Foggy Bottom, Logan Circle (my old office), L'Enfant Plaze, etc. are indeed dead in the PM. But the areas around Dupont Circle, Gallery Place/Chinatown, Adams Morgan, and others are hopping in...

It's so prolific for a coach to blame a lack of urgency or not playing hard when a team loses that it comes across at times as a catch-all cliche. Similar as the common cliche, "the team that wants it more wins." So obviously false, yet it doesn't stop its repetitive use. Some games a team just...

This game was a God-awful manifestation of stinking putrefaction. I could only stand watching the first half. It's hard to remember seeing this level of ineptitude where it comes to taking care of the ball. I'm not sure what the record is for most turnovers in a half, but they seemed intent on...

I wonder the same thing. I've read/heard countless times that Mitchell was going to leave. But, then we also heard ad naseum that he would likely leave Cleveland, and how'd that turn out? The NBA media ecosystem thrives on rumors and repeating (often uncritically) conventional wisdom. I think...

Well, to be fair, he's likely made a lot of grade trades/signings...almost.

I keep hearing over and over from podcasters, talking heads, NBA insiders, etc. that "the worst" thing is to be "stuck on the treadmill of mediocracy." No, the worst thing is to be stuck on the treadmill of sucking. I'm guessing Detroit Pistons fans would have loved to be stuck on the...