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David Locke - Utah Jazz are NOT tanking

seems like you're saying the jazz are more competitive than those teams? maybe even a lot more competitive? is that fair?
Than what teams? Those around us? We own tie breakers against many of them so yeah. Warriors might have pedigree to go further as well as Pels with a healthy Zion.. but other teams around us are pretty much equally competitive to us. Thats why we are here.

None of us is winning a chip this year though.
 
And yet we made a trade that would hurt our ability to compete... that's weird. We also lost to one of those non-competitive teams at home. Huh...
We did, but it fid not make us non-competitive..which is the definition. We are 4-3 since the trade.
 
They are in a rebuild, but also tanking. You dont finish below 20 wins with a competitive team. They never had a chance... Pops said it himself pretty directly early season after Spurs had won a few games.
Wait so we lost to a non-competitive tanking team that is so bad they lost 16 straight games? I have a hard time believing that. I mean they played Doug McDermott last night and he's old... tanking teams would have offloaded that guy.

I guess we were just short handed last night... man how did we go from the best bench in the league to being so short handed we are playing two way guys and guys on 10 days? Weird.
 
We did, but it fid not make us non-competitive..which is the definition. We are 4-3 since the trade.
wrong sir... competitive is having a strong desire to be more successful than others. Both teams seemed to really want to be more successful than the other... so both were competitive... yet one is tanking?
 
Last night was the first time I thought to myself we were intentionally tanking.

What other reason would Hardy leave that horrid lineup in until we lost a double digit lead and we’re down 6 in the 4th?
Yeah that was puzzling.. but we were also depleted after Ochai got injured. Hardy probably wanted to try something out and thought our starters can rally us back (which they did before we blundered it away).
 
Wait, has it been peer-reviewed or published at the Journal of Sports Definitions? I would like to read the essay :D
No my definition is in line with the general definition found in the internet.

HH definition with multiple shades of tanking is unsupported by credible sources.
 
Every team in the NBA is competitive... unless someone arbitrarily declares they are tanking based on the results of their season. Every GM knows exactly what they will get when they make trades and is able to predict results with precise accuracy.
 
And why were we depleted?

Where was Beasely?
We have players that are better than the ones we traded lol... those guys we traded don't even matter.
 
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