This was the exhange:
Andy Larsen "What is your philosophy on, for lack of a better term, to be indelicate: tanking, or manipulating minutes and player performance in order to achieve better lottery odds?"
Ainge: "You won't see that this year."
That it. He more or less did just say no. If he...
That’s fair enough, I don’t doubt that Austin is less pro-tank than Danny was. I just don’t think his response to that question is good evidence of it. If a front office is asked if they are tanking or not they kind of have to say no.
I still don't understand why anyone took baby Ainge's response to the question of whether the team would tank, or manipulate minutes, at face value. Andy's question basically painted him into a corner - there's really no other answer he could have given. Remember, a few years ago Mark Cuban was...
This is true of course - the Jazz roster last year was better than their record.
But not actually that much better. Generally speaking, I don't think people appreciate how bad the team was last year even when healthy. We were on a 16 win pace in games Lauri played for example (actual record...
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