Nets vs Blazers tonight. Hope the Blazers win. Nets should pick up random wins during the ****** part of the tank phase vs other East tankers.
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Tanktastic
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Having lots of picks is not related to tanking. It's a function of having valuable assets and trading them away. Most tanking teams end up tanking exactly because they don't have assets.
You're describing some other Danny Ainge dream scenario you're clinging to and thinking it's actually true.
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I think the Nets become the worst team in basketball from here on out. Blazers haven't telegraphed their desire to tank like the Nets. Personally more worried about Brooklyn. Nets have 11 games left against tankers. Just like us. Portland has 10 games left against tankers. Just looking at the rosters... Nets will move on from Johnson. Blazers will have way more talent imo.
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I disagree with the first paragraph but whatever. This forum is a jazz fan forum. The jazz are as described. It's not a dream scenario. It's literally occuring right now. The jazz have a lot of draft picks coming up and low salary. The timeline is whatever they want it to be rather than this timeline that only ends when they draft LeBron or whatever. Again, there is no rule book for tanking.
At any point they can make the decision to make winning games in the present a priority. I will fully support that decision when they make and root to win every game we play like usual.
You are trying so hard to make this way more complicated than it is.
Let's Go Pelicans!
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Zion killing it.
homeytennis
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Pels with the W. THT helped out by getting zero points for the Bulls. He's all in the tank too.
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If you trade for Zion then I think the reasoning is that you got an all star that can average close to 30 points per game and you use all the draft picks you have to add to the Zion/Lauri/Kessler or sexton core or whatever.
Trading for Zion is saying **** the tank. We are pivoting.
Gross. Nah. It’s as hard to win a tank to the bottom as it is to win a ring and we are contenders right now in that regard.
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I think either we trade Lauri next year or this will be our last year of tanking. One of the best situations to be in is a "treadmill" team with a clean salary book and lots of assets. If we use all 3 picks will have 8 or 9 first contract players. We will have to consolidate at some point.
Jazz probably play to winners year and see how it shakes out. If our young guys suck or Lauri or Kessler gets injured, maybe we pull the plug, which is easy to do in the western conference.
Jazz probably play to winners year and see how it shakes out. If our young guys suck or Lauri or Kessler gets injured, maybe we pull the plug, which is easy to do in the western conference.
Its rare that there are 5 prospects head and shoulders above the rest. That is the only year when worst record truely matters. If there are 1-4 or 6+ then the argument changes.
The "more imperative" is only true when there are more than 4 true blue chip prospects. This year it doesnt seem that way and I'm gonna claim its rare that any draft is that deep on top end talent.