Look at Cleveland. Look at Chicago. Its not just tanking and doing nothing else. Its tanking and taking a gamble on getting a potential franchise player for dirt cheap. 2014 is the year of Andrew Wiggins.
I think we have more talents on our team this year than last year? I didn't really follow the Rockets last year so I'm just guessing.
1. Calm down with the font 2. Learn to use an apostrophe 3. Hire an English teacher, or spellcheck 4. We had one bad game and are going to the playoffs because it's highly unusual for us to score so few points, much less play this badly 5. I'm going to get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or arthritis if I continue to type out all the flaws on your unnecessary panicking, so............. 6. Go be a Knicks fan where they welcome bipolar fans
That's a loser attitude. It's about getting this core some playoff exposure and some confidence. It's for this team to come together as one to achieve a long term goal. Look at all these lottery teams with players who develop losing attitudes over time. They become conditioned to it. Younger players need something to be proud of to build on. We may not make noise in the playoffs but maybe we get a past a round for each new year. Look at the Thunder. Barely came in as an 8th seed, got knocked out in the first round, learned from and got further each successive season.
Those of you predicting doom and gloom, feel free to gloat about how right you were if we miss the playoffs. If we get in, don't show your faces around here anymore. You guys would have been calling us Choke City after going down 2-0 to Phoenix.
It's entirely possible that Morey doesn't even want to make the playoffs and wants the pick instead which is why he made the trade. Maybe a pick is better than being swept in the first round. It's a loser mentality, but that's what is probably going through Morey's mind. He wants a pick that can be used as an asset for the next star.
Chicago really struck gold with Fizer and Curry and Jay Williams and Ben Gordon. GTFO. They were actually good for a couple seasons with Scott Skiles then got incredibly lucky in the 2008 lottery. Cleveland has their shiny new toy in Irving and they're still AWFUL. And becoming a horrible team after LeBron left wasn't exactly a strategy.
This. I have always been a rings over playoffs person and i still am but playoffs for this young team would greatly help each player's confidence which would have been a big boost for the future. They were clicking and having fun. Then the trade deadline comes and we trade away 1/3 of our active roster for questionable players. The chemistry change alone after a change like that will add some Ls to the team so you better make sure it's for the better. But the confidence they lose with each additional L is going to take away even more of the chemistry they have/had.
Would you rather gamble in the lottery or draft more undersized PFs with 14th picks? To be honest I'd rather make the playoffs, but if we keep playing like this we're out.
We got our superstar WITHOUT having to be terrible year after year. I've had fun in each of the last couple of seasons even if they haven't ended the way I'd like. And we're going to make the playoffs this year. Inconceivable to me that there are still people arguing on behalf of tanking when WE PROVED WE COULD GET A SUPERSTAR WITHOUT TANKING.
