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2024-2025 Tank Race

I have said that NOP have enough talent that even with their injuries we should still be able to slip below them. I've changed my mind, this team is emotionally dead right now.

They've got people coming back slowly like Murray/TM3/McCollum, but I think BI might just pout until he's traded. This is mind blowing to me given the deep talent on the roster but injuries broke an entire team.
 
I've updated the OP. I've decided to use it as a snap shot of the bottom 10 every 10 games or so. Dropping out of the tank race for now is SAS. Being added to the tank race for now is PHI, and NOP. Even though Sacramento is technically in the bottom 10 I'm not tracking them yet.

From Last Night:
UTA loses by 1
POR loses by 6
NOP loses by 33
TOR wins by 3
BKN loses by 8
 
Stupid Minny playing actual defense. The Lakers have lost 4 of their last 5 and 5 of their last 7 so it wasn't a terribly convincing win for the Wolves. Still, Ant whining to the media got them back to 10 / 10.
 
Dunks and threes (great site btw) does some predictions. Injuries are factored in, but it's not too rigorous in that area. Here are the predicted rankings:

1. WAS - 19.1
2. UTA - 23.0
3. NOP - 26.1
4. POR - 28.0
5. TOR - 30.3
6. CHA - 30.4
7. DET - 31.9
8. CHI - 32.8
9. BKN - 33.1
10. PHI - 35.3

Bonus - T-Wolves with 16.8% chance of missing play in, 44.8% chance of missing top 8. Currently projected to be 17th in draft position.
 
The Jazz Wonderbra said:
Stupid Minny playing actual defense. The Lakers have lost 4 of their last 5 and 5 of their last 7 so it wasn't a terribly convincing win for the Wolves. Still, Ant whining to the media got them back to 10 / 10.
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They won by 30... How much convincing a win can you get?

yeah, it was probably a schedule loss for the Lakers. Long travel B2B, but still a dominant win.
 
I think it's a damn near guarantee the Jazz are tanking for at least one more year. Currently Walker Kessler is the only surefire starter from the last 3 rookie hauls. Given how far the young players are away, without showing much potential to even make them viable trade pieces, I wouldnt be shocked if Lauri gets traded in 2025 off-season.

Keyonte cant play defense to save his life. Taylor Hendricks will struggle to ever reach his potential (and I'm not sure the potential was ever there) given his catastrophic injury. Williams looks like Jarret Culver 2.0. Filipowski, while very talented, is probably more of a 3rd big. Collier looks like a backup guard given his broken jumper. Brice Sensabaugh looks like an offensive talent, but not sure he's good enough at anything else.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
New ORleans showing signs of life
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My dude. They have lost 15 out of 16 and lost by double digits to a mid Atlanta team that shot 26% from 3 last night. They ded dead.

Their next 10 are all against playoff teams too. They may get a couple easy games with the NBA cup games get added in the next week or whatever (I bet we end up playing them in an epic tank showdown).

They are so cooked.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
My dude. They have lost 15 out of 16 and lost by double digits to a mid Atlanta team that shot 26% from 3 last night. They ded dead.

Their next 10 are all against playoff teams too. They may get a couple easy games with the NBA cup games get added in the next week or whatever (I bet we end up playing them in an epic tank showdown).

They are so cooked.
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They were up by double digits when I posted that.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
They were up by double digits when I posted that.
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every team goes up double digits in the NBA. Pels are firmly a tank team. Ingram gets moved. Zion gets managed even if he's healthy. The rest of the roster if fine but they won't win much until january and will be like 10+ games out of the play in.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I think it's a damn near guarantee the Jazz are tanking for at least one more year. Currently Walker Kessler is the only surefire starter from the last 3 rookie hauls. Given how far the young players are away, without showing much potential to even make them viable trade pieces, I wouldnt be shocked if Lauri gets traded in 2025 off-season.

Keyonte cant play defense to save his life. Taylor Hendricks will struggle to ever reach his potential (and I'm not sure the potential was ever there) given his catastrophic injury. Williams looks like Jarret Culver 2.0. Filipowski, while very talented, is probably more of a 3rd big. Collier looks like a backup guard given his broken jumper. Brice Sensabaugh looks like an offensive talent, but not sure he's good enough at anything else.
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Yeah, the top 3 of 2026 being so good and having legitimate Utah connections (with AJ playing HS ball in Utah and maybe playing college at BYU while Cam is Boozer's son) and the team being so bad basically guarantees another tank unless something really weird happens.
 
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