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The official: Please tank properly this year.

Only way to trank properly is to trade Lauri and probably need to trade couple of others as well. Doing that and burying this iteration at this point would be the most ridiculous overreaction in the history of any sports.

Everyone sees where the warts in this team are:
Our best guard is THT and we have to give 6th man caliber Clarkson superstar leash and minutes because thats all we got.
 
Its pretty simple what we are doing. We have a great all-star/all-NBA player entering his prime. We want to win around him. We dont quite have enough talent to be good but we can be a play in or above that team once we get going. Then use our million picks to make a big trade or 2 big trades for great players when they become available. We are in a great spot right now.

We cant tank without trading away Lauri. Its very dumb to trade him away.
 
On my opinion, things are more complicated that it seems. Getting star players is pretty difficult if not impossible for small market as us. When i look at OKC, Minny..... they ended beeing pretty good because of the draft and add one or 2 relevants pieces. But i do not believe we have a chance to land a star in SLC. So sayinng that, i think there is only 2 options :

- Thanks hard one year and hope get a gem at the draft as did SA.
- Use all our pick to get valuable player ( Conley, Rudy level., we won't get higher that that). Work on chemistry, and if Keyonte, THT and the young core keep improving, we may be very good in 3 years.
 
HermanG said:
Only way to trank properly is to trade Lauri and probably need to trade couple of others as well. Doing that and burying this iteration at this point would be the most ridiculous overreaction in the history of any sports.

Everyone sees where the warts in this team are:
Our best guard is THT and we have to give 6th man caliber Clarkson superstar leash and minutes because thats all we got.
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In a less competitive west you would be correct that we would need to trade Lauri to tank properly but in this west that is definitely not the case. As currently assemble this team is probably a bottom 5 team in the west. To tank properly this year all we really need to do is trade Olynyk and Clarkson once he is able to be traded and make a concerted effort to get all the young guys in the rotation. Then you just strategically rest guys to give some of the young guys heavy minutes games. The only team that we may be have a difficult time out tanking are the blazers if Scoot continues to struggle. You can already make a case that the spurs may be better than us and the rockets have no interest in tanking with their pick only being top 4 protected. Right now the griz are awful but they get a superstar back after 25 games which should make them very competitive.
 
sip said:
In a less competitive west you would be correct that we would need to trade Lauri to tank properly but in this west that is definitely not the case. As currently assemble this team is probably a bottom 5 team in the west. To tank properly this year all we really need to do is trade Olynyk and Clarkson once he is able to be traded and make a concerted effort to get all the young guys in the rotation. Then you just strategically rest guys to give some of the young guys heavy minutes games. The only team that we may be have a difficult time out tanking are the blazers if Scoot continues to struggle. You can already make a case that the spurs may be better than us and the rockets have no interest in tanking with their pick only being top 4 protected. Right now the griz are awful but they get a superstar back after 25 games which should make them very competitive.
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Another oversimplification. Why would Lauri sign a renegotiation/extension in a scenario like that? He would be signing away the rest of his prime, with a near certainty that the losing would continue for several years at least.

Of course, it may be that Markkanen is in fact not a critical centerpiece anymore for the next, post-tank iteration of this team. Ainge may hold that opinion, for instance. But in that case, he should be traded ASAP if tanking is on the menu anyway. His immediate value right now is off the charts and he could bring back an up-and-coming player with obvious star potential.

That is the logical, if drastic, move.
 
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sip said:
In a less competitive west you would be correct that we would need to trade Lauri to tank properly but in this west that is definitely not the case. As currently assemble this team is probably a bottom 5 team in the west. To tank properly this year all we really need to do is trade Olynyk and Clarkson once he is able to be traded and make a concerted effort to get all the young guys in the rotation. Then you just strategically rest guys to give some of the young guys heavy minutes games. The only team that we may be have a difficult time out tanking are the blazers if Scoot continues to struggle. You can already make a case that the spurs may be better than us and the rockets have no interest in tanking with their pick only being top 4 protected. Right now the griz are awful but they get a superstar back after 25 games which should make them very competitive.
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He talked about proper tanking, and to me that means getting to the top 4 group in lottery odds. East cellar teams matter in that math as well.
 
MT Steve said:
I am shocked that a poorly coached team has communication issues on crucial inbound plays.
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Might be a consequence of putting a rookie in that situation.
 
str8line said:
We played Denver tight and could have beat the Magic tonight. Let's talk in about a month.
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Ya im not ready yet. I might get there but its too soon.
 
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