Tanking means trading off all players with positive trade value for picks or prospects either before the deadline or during the offseason. Not tanking doesn’t mean going all in to win. It means remaining patient and keeping a competitive team, even though you won’t be a contender. Personally, I much prefer the latter, as tanking is rough to watch and we already have more picks than any team not named OKC.
Tanking means creating a toxic culture of losing when competitiveness, development and responsibility aren't welcome. No I don't want to tank. I want our young player to work hard, learn from vets and play to win.
Hate to be cliche, but remain flexible. If all of a sudden a star becomes available and victor + picks can get him, jump on it. If young players with potential becomes available for some of our guys, take it. The likelihood of us going from this team and making upgrades to a championship contender is low, so the most likely route is compete hard this year without sacrificing future assets and tank 2022/2023 with the intention of competing (playoffs +) 2024+
Not a fan of tanking. Wish they eliminated it from sports but this team isn’t tanking for a top 4 pick whether people want them to or not. No idea if they make the playoffs, but I don’t think this team will be bad enough/lucky enough to have the ping pong balls lead to a top 4 pick.
I think they make the Play IN. New format, precarious times. 7-10 seeds. Or come close at 11th or 12th.
I agree. I think this is the understated cost of tanking, all for the very low probability you get a transformational player in the draft. Don’t get me wrong. If we had no draft assets and a bad team, I’d be all aboard the tank train. But we don’t have to go that route to still have big upside.
For those that say tanking creates a toxic culture.... Literally none of the players that would be in the tank would be a part of the next great team we have. You leave the tank when you have the foundational piece. Consider the Astros, were the past few years of awesomeness worth the tanking years? ABSOLUTELY.
consider Philly though. Tanked. Created a losing culture. No Championship. It’s not clear it was worth the years of losing.
Philly is in a much better position than we are. Lol they have a superstar in Embid and they can trade Simmons for assets if he doesn't work out.
And the only actual "young" assets we have are Mason Jones. Woods and Tate are gonna leave/be traded in 3 years. You wont be paying them. My opinion is to go all in on tanking. We need that generational super star and that is the gamble worth betting on.
You do realize Philly started tanking the same year we got Harden right? You're gonna tell me that they came out better than we did? LOL
We got Harden in very lucky circumstances with very competent management. Philly has also had very very incompetent management. Had they kept Hinkie, who knows how good they actually are. They are in a very good position right now.
