I really would like to know others opinions on tanking. there is no doubt it is prevalent, to say the least, in the NBA. what im wondering is why isnt it viewed more harshly by Stern and his cronies? why are teams able to so obviously flaunt the rules in this way. in our Australian football league just over the past couple of years tanking has become a hot issue and teams have to deny tanking as it is seen as a serious allegation, and I think that it should also be considered a serious matter in the NBA. it brings the game into disrepute, and yet it seems almost a joke to say a team is tanking.
Milwaukee has lost 19 of their last 23 games, they're probably the biggest tank job I've seen this season. Herb Kohl sure wants some draft picks, bet he still feel great about Yi.
Miami's tank job is pretty up there too It's pretty much a Varsity team out there, I was gonna say D-League but I found that disrespectful to the D-League . Riley going on scouting trips? Seriously?
me as a paying fan would be so mad that there are more things more important to riley than showing up to coach his team. thats the worst tanking job in history
if we tank every year, we could have lebron, dwight, paul and durant. could you imagine that.........
He mentioned Roy's year because that season, we had reason to tank, but we didn't. The other years, we were playoff teams so your counter-argument/attempt to be funny has FAILED! Please move on!
Making a mockery of the game is bad... no doubt. Players on the court should never be throwing a game -- example: Mark Madsen shooting 60 three-point attempts in the final game of the year in 2006. However, how some define "tanking", giving your younger players extended minutes/experience in preparation for next season, is the way to go in my opinion if you're a hopeless NBA team. Play to win, but baptize your young guys by fire and if you lose, so be it. Unless the league fixes something with the lottery/draft, tanking by that definition gives the team a better chance to be improved in the long run (in my opinion). The point is, ladies and gentleman, that tanking, for lack of a better word, is good. Tanking is right. Tanking works.
Nice Gordon Gekko reference, always loved that line. Rockets fans need to remember how we got Sampson and Hakeem.
^ bring back the "One team, one dream, TANK" sig while you're at it....... Hee hee, my favorite was the fake article about the T-wolves the year threw a game and they out-balled us back in 06 (and then ended up with the wrong guy, did they mean to trade for Roy and not Foye? )
Tanking cuts through, clarifies, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Tanking in all its forms -- tanking for life, for money, for luv, for knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And tanking -- you mark my words -- will not only save the San Antonio Spers, but also its mermaid apparition called the Admiral.
The system encourages tanking. If you penalized bad records, nobody would tank. I know this will never happen here. I have advocated a two-division (or two-tier, whatever you want to call it) system. The worst two teams in Division A get demoted to Division B. Division B don't get lottery picks. The best two Division B teams are promoted to Division A and get into the lottery. All lottery teams has the equal number of ping-pong balls. This system will make tanking non-beneficial. And the bottom teams will still have something to fight for. Also, if Division B teams get less revenue share, that means it penalizes them on the business side too. That would make teams more accountable for their competitiveness on the basketball side. Right now, some owners don't really care about winning as long as they make money. (The fact that teams would trade away good players for business rather than basketball reasons is just bad.) That should be discouraged by the system too.
