WHO ELSE IS SICK TO DEATH OF ALL THIS TANKING BS?

Revisionist history is awesome.

 

We need to

 

I agree with your sentiment and personally feel the same way. Honestly I've been coming here less recently because it's so frustrating to see 2/3 of the board clamoring to lose as much as possible when we are at the very worst in the thick of the playoff race. Ask the Magic and Cavs how their initially successful '03-'04 tanking projects turned out in the long run.

 

Me, and I'm getting tired of all the people posting depressing and negative comments. This is clutchfans, not some place for so called rockets fans to hate on them. That's all posts have been for the past year, and it's made this site very trashy and hard to visit. I'm a rockets fan win or lose for life.

 

Quetions for the anti-tank crowd:

Name 1 contender that hasn't tanked?

 

Are you serious? Their tanking projects were fantastically successful. Each team got seven years out of a pair of top-10 prospects, each was a perennial contender, and despite terrible roster-building by their respective front offices, each made it to the NBA finals. Cleveland whiffed on return for LeBron, but Orlando will most likely stock up on picks and young talent when they trade Dwight, rapidly decreasing the time it will take them to recover from his loss. Any Rockets fan would take that in a heartbeat.

If you're looking for examples of why not to tank, I suggest you look elsewhere.

 

Miami, Boston, and both L.A's.

 

Clippers - 19-63 in the 08-09 season. that not tanking

 

Morey should change his name to Frank...

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After ten years of adding pieces and going through a summer where Dream was threatening to leave the team. Causation is not correlation.

 

True. I'd rather suck for one season than keep building mediocre teams that either lose in the first round or just miss the playoffs.

 

im sick of it

 

I know there are a trendy pick right now but the if the drubbing they took from the Spurs last night is any indication the Clippers are not contenders. They are also-rans just like us.

 

Most folks calling for tanking really mean rebuilding, which is just trading off aging, high value vets and rolling with the young guns. Give the PT to the youth and see what you have. If they win, that means somebody outside of Lowry blew up. So good. If they lose, then the team drafts high. Which is good. Both results are better than barely missing or barely making the playoffs.

As for contnders who haven't rebuilt: I cannot think of one for whom a top 10 pick was not a factor in their rebuilding project. Dallas, LAL, Miami, Boston all utilized top 10 picks as they built their core. All these teams held their breath and stunk it up for at least a single season. Just google a team name and add the words draft history. Top picks were used to select or trade for key players on each team. The Lakers are an interesting case because while Kobe forced a trade to LA and Shaq came via FA, the team had recently drafted #10 just 2 years prior. They were adding talent to the Eddie Jones and Van Excel core.

There is a reason even the freaking GM of the team admits the most tried and true path back to contention is rebuilding.

 

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If we can't get free agents and we can't avoid being blackballed in our attempt for a star, we have no choice but to tank. Screw everyone that hates this.

We might as well do it during a short year and with a deep draft. We need to trade assets for some picks, but that's easier said than done.