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Rev up the tank!

Tremendous Upside said:
That's the big question. Maybe he's like a slightly demented old man who picks up some pretty pebbles every time he's walking along the seashore. Then after he dies, his family finds his garage filled with millions of pebbles.
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I didn't ask for unlikely maybes.

I asked you why you actually think he has acquired all these picks.

That question is still waiting for an actual answer
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Ron Mexico said:
We were below .500 when the trade happened. We played .500 until we started tanking. That is a higher winning percentage, so yes factually we won more. We started resting players at the point like Clarkson. A player scoring a bunch has nothing to do with tanking. Players don't tank.
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I mean, sometimes it's cool just to say you mis-remembered. It doesn't hurt or anything. The Prez prolly thinks it's 1998.

And no, the Jazz did not "start winning" after the deadline last year. That is a fact.

Lauri scoring 40 means he was on the court. If Lauri is on the court, playing 33 mins, then sure as hell the team isn't full-on tanking.

This team went 19-10 (.655) since Dec 14. The current roster will be lucky to go 10-19 to end the season. Not because the substractions were such big contributors or the replacements so bad, but mainly because I doubt we see much more of the "good" Sexton or the "at least not as horrible" JC and so on. Because: why bother?
 
Tanktastic said:
I mean, sometimes it's cool just to say you mis-remembered. It doesn't hurt or anything. The Prez prolly thinks it's 1998.

And no, the Jazz did not "start winning" after the deadline last year. That is a fact.

Lauri scoring 40 means he was on the court. If Lauri is on the court, playing 33 mins, then sure as hell the team isn't full-on tanking.

This team went 19-10 (.655) since Dec 14. The current roster will be lucky to go 10-19 to end the season. Not because the substractions were such big contributors or the replacements so bad, but mainly because I doubt we see much more of the "good" Sexton or the "at least not as horrible" JC and so on. Because: why bother?
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I simply stated a fact and proved that correct.

We won more, that's the key word after the trade deadline. The numbers confirm that, our win percentage was up over the season and especially the same amount of games before the deadline.

We had to really force our selves to tank. We were tanking after the deadline. We had to shut guys down to tank even harder to start losing more. Yes it's tanking at that point. Lauri it's still going to play when we're tanking if he's healthy. We did start having him take games off.
 
Ron Mexico said:
We were below .500 when the trade happened. We played .500 until we started tanking. That is a higher winning percentage, so yes factually we won more. We started resting players at the point like Clarkson. A player scoring a bunch has nothing to do with tanking. Players don't tank.
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You are correct players don’t tank the coaches do in my opinion ,players go out there to win or score or play good defence if they didn’t they would be worried about losing their spot to an incoming high draft pick rookie if we tanked
 
Its not like the plan is hard to see anymore. This DL made it super clear:
We are lurking in the brink of being competitive while maximizing development for (potential) gems like Keyonte, Sexton, Lauri and Kessler. Lauri is already there, and Sexton is also pretty good... but maybe they can both still get even better? Keyonte and Kessler still need some work, but hopefully one or both of those becomes a major force for us. Next up to join that list of promising big minute contributors is hopefully Hendricks. Even John Collins is young, only the "contributing in a major role" is pretty questionnable for him. And we have like 20% of the tradable picks in the NBA.

If and when a player who can leapfrog us over some steps becomes available, we will jump if we think he is "the guy". But as much as my fellow Finns here like to think so, you just cannot force that stuff to happen no matter how many picks you got.

Plan is not to deep tank anymore than it is to win now. Plan is to develop and lurk on the brink of contention, until we get an internal leap or the big splash deal, which then opens the door for us to really start to build up.

We are sitting where traditional wisdom says you shouldnt sit, but our FO has found a way to get us promising youth and assets while being here. I mean we will now have 2 rookies and 1 sophomore playing big minutes, while fighting for a play-in spot, while having the biggest chest of draft assets in the league. Thats an awesome situation, and far better than last year since we are leasing less and less minutes/contribution from the 30+ yo vets, while having guys with higher ceilings in there.
 
HermanG said:
Our FO has found a way to get us promising youth and assets while being here. I mean we will now have 2 rookies and 1 sophomore playing big minutes, while fighting for a play-in spot, while having the biggest chest of draft assets in the league. Thats an awesome situation, and far better than last year since we are leasing less and less minutes/contribution from the 30+ yo vets, while having guys with higher ceilings in there.
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This
 
If we lose to Warriors on the postponed game and mess up with my 12-7 record guess and strip me off my bragging rights I am officialy saying we are tanking! :mad:
 
Mr. T said:
If we lose to Warriors on the postponed game and mess up with my 12-7 record guess and strip me off my bragging rights I am officialy saying we are tanking! :mad:
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That will be upsetting to me as well since that will be the first game I have attended in years

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HermanG said:
Its not like the plan is hard to see anymore. This DL made it super clear:
We are lurking in the brink of being competitive while maximizing development for (potential) gems like Keyonte, Sexton, Lauri and Kessler. Lauri is already there, and Sexton is also pretty good... but maybe they can both still get even better? Keyonte and Kessler still need some work, but hopefully one or both of those becomes a major force for us. Next up to join that list of promising big minute contributors is hopefully Hendricks. Even John Collins is young, only the "contributing in a major role" is pretty questionnable for him. And we have like 20% of the tradable picks in the NBA.

If and when a player who can leapfrog us over some steps becomes available, we will jump if we think he is "the guy". But as much as my fellow Finns here like to think so, you just cannot force that stuff to happen no matter how many picks you got.

Plan is not to deep tank anymore than it is to win now. Plan is to develop and lurk on the brink of contention, until we get an internal leap or the big splash deal, which then opens the door for us to really start to build up.

We are sitting where traditional wisdom says you shouldnt sit, but our FO has found a way to get us promising youth and assets while being here. I mean we will now have 2 rookies and 1 sophomore playing big minutes, while fighting for a play-in spot, while having the biggest chest of draft assets in the league. Thats an awesome situation, and far better than last year since we are leasing less and less minutes/contribution from the 30+ yo vets, while having guys with higher ceilings in there.
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You summed it up well! I would make a small edit to "brink of contention" and change to "develop into a competitive playoff team" I think the "brink of contention" comes after the big internal leap or we get the big fish. Great post.
 
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