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Jaren Jackson Jr. traded to the Jazz

stitches said:
Encouraged that Locke is not trying to sell us the idea that we don't need the pick. He's actually saying ... "29 more games and it's over"... Lets hope we really do tank as hard and as shamelessly as possible for the rest of the year.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTzHIw7XpE
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This is again for the 1000x why you do your work early. The cocky attitude of "we will fix this later" was so damn stupid. The path to tank is a lot harder now. It isn't completely unpredictable that it could get harder. Something can always make your preferred route difficult... even if you can't pinpoint what that one thing will be.

JJJ hard to bench but they can slow play it until after AS break. Lauri and Key will need to really play along. The other thing... Williams and Koncar are going to be much less tanky than Taylor and WCJ imo. We've made tank later much much harder... now that Mil and Mem have joined the fray and we play them 4 times by season end... like we just needed to lose a few extra games and 5th would be a near certainty... right now I think 6th is likely... 7th not out of the question depending on Milwaukee and Memphis.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Tim MacMahon reiterated thr Jazz will try to keep the pick. Bontemps was skeptical.
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Trust MacMahon... he's tied in.

I think they will try really hard to be as low as possible. I just think they played with fire early and then now are in a tough situation because they chased an opportunity. I would hold Key and JJJ out until after AS break. Figure out a plan post AS break and be truly disgusting. Like Ochai at the PG back in the day disgusting. Need to check for contusions like you check for tics... someone's tummy hurts... sit.... heartburn... stay home.

We are in the "if we don't draw a fine for tanking then we didn't go hard enough" territory.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
This is again for the 1000x why you do your work early. The cocky attitude of "we will fix this later" was so damn stupid. The path to tank is a lot harder now. It isn't completely unpredictable that it could get harder. Something can always make your preferred route difficult... even if you can't pinpoint what that one thing will be.

JJJ hard to bench but they can slow play it until after AS break. Lauri and Key will need to really play along. The other thing... Williams and Koncar are going to be much less tanky than Taylor and WCJ imo. We've made tank later much much harder... now that Mil and Mem have joined the fray and we play them 4 times by season end... like we just needed to lose a few extra games and 5th would be a near certainty... right now I think 6th is likely... 7th not out of the question depending on Milwaukee and Memphis.
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We really really need NOLA to become competitive. The only team that has no reason to tank. Maybe send them Nurk for a second round pick or something.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Something can always make your preferred route difficult... even if you can't pinpoint what that one thing will be.
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Yes, but also it was 1000% predictable that the tank race would tighten down the stretch.

Has it occurred to those that are so sure that we’ll be able to keep the pick or move up at this point that other teams think they can do the same thing? And that someone will be right at the expense of the other? At a certain point you just have a better team than your tanking competition and it’s not a question of willpower. We know this. We’ve known this.
 
stitches said:
Encouraged that Locke is not trying to sell us the idea that we don't need the pick. He's actually saying ... "29 more games and it's over"... Lets hope we really do tank as hard and as shamelessly as possible for the rest of the year.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTzHIw7XpE
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I think they will try to keep it. Unfortunately that will still be difficult to accomplish.
Which is why they should have started truly tanking earlier in the year.
 
jom2003 said:
We really really need NOLA to become competitive. The only team that has no reason to tank. Maybe send them Nurk for a second round pick or something.
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We play them 3 more times. We have to start Oscar at point guard for these games.
 
If the Pacers can shamelessly rest 6 players last night (5 starters), we really have to be on that level. Bring Tonje up and play him 40 minutes a game.

We really need Peterson and/or Wagler
 
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