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Chr1s1anL wrote: View PostYes, I'm talking about how this tanking bullshit isn't right.
1.) Your team just sucks anyway, and would have a bad finish regardless.
2.) You are able to FLEECE other teams in trades for your star players. None of this stuff about dealing Gay for an expiring and a protected late lottery pick. If that's the best you can do then screw tanking. Those same pro-tankers would be blaming Ujiri a year later when our 2014 pick turns out to be a role player and Gay is putting up 20 a game on a title contender.
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Chr1s1anL wrote: View PostYes, I'm talking about how this tanking bullshit isn't right.
One of the best examples for tanking was the Cavs tanking for Lebron. The lineup they trotted out in 02-03 was terrible. Just terrible. And it worked. They got to draft their native son, their basketball saviour, their ticket to the promised land.
And then he left them, in the coldest, most agonizing, most embarrassing way possible.
Karma in effect?
Who knows. But just like we think that there's no way Wiggins would ever dare leave us, his home city, to go play somewhere else once we got him - well, that's exactly what Cleveland thought about Lebron.
So f**k it. I'm switching sides. Mid-post, I'm switching sides. Let's go 2013-2014 Raps! Let's go fight for that eighth seed!"Stop eating your sushi."
"I do actually have a pair of Uggs."
"I've had three cups of green tea tonight. I'm wired. I'm absolutely wired."
- Jack Armstrong
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JimiCliff wrote: View PostI do agree that, for whatever reason, it doesn't seem right. I'm pro-tank, but I admit that it makes me a little queasy. Maybe that's the feeling of karma warning you in advance.
One of the best examples for tanking was the Cavs tanking for Lebron. The lineup they trotted out in 02-03 was terrible. Just terrible. And it worked. They got to draft their native son, their basketball saviour, their ticket to the promised land.
And then he left them, in the coldest, most agonizing, most embarrassing way possible.
Karma in effect?
Who knows. But just like we think that there's no way Wiggins would ever dare leave us, his home city, to go play somewhere else once we got him - well, that's exactly what Cleveland thought about Lebron.
So f**k it. I'm switching sides. Mid-post, I'm switching sides. Let's go 2013-2014 Raps! Let's go fight for that eighth seed!@Chr1st1anL
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Mediumcore wrote: View PostThey aren't tanking. If they were, Ujiri would have started tearing down the roster during the summer trade frenzy. Makes no sense to wait until trade deadline unless you think every player on the roster is going to play themselves into a position of value.
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JimiCliff wrote: View PostI do agree that, for whatever reason, it doesn't seem right. I'm pro-tank, but I admit that it makes me a little queasy. Maybe that's the feeling of karma warning you in advance.
One of the best examples for tanking was the Cavs tanking for Lebron. The lineup they trotted out in 02-03 was terrible. Just terrible. And it worked. They got to draft their native son, their basketball saviour, their ticket to the promised land.
And then he left them, in the coldest, most agonizing, most embarrassing way possible.
Karma in effect?
Who knows. But just like we think that there's no way Wiggins would ever dare leave us, his home city, to go play somewhere else once we got him - well, that's exactly what Cleveland thought about Lebron.
So f**k it. I'm switching sides. Mid-post, I'm switching sides. Let's go 2013-2014 Raps! Let's go fight for that eighth seed!
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Xixak wrote: View PostI mean, we don't have to tank to make a good team. Star players are made available for trade pretty much every season it seems. With Jonas growing into a star himself, and Rudy and DeMar's Team USA Experience (World championships for Rudy and Summer Camp for DeMar), maybe Ujiri can bring some of those stars in via trade and those two can convince them to stay.
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Fully wrote: View PostHow are you going to trade for an all star without giving up JV, DD or Gay?"Stop eating your sushi."
"I do actually have a pair of Uggs."
"I've had three cups of green tea tonight. I'm wired. I'm absolutely wired."
- Jack Armstrong
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The team is capped out, has almost 0 expendable assets to improve and a growing number of pundits STILL have them on the outside of the playoff picture in. I honestly can't wrap my head around why people want to keep trudging on with this roster.
Pointing to teams like Indiana, or Memphis, or whoever else as "proof" that we can turn this team into a contender is incredibly nonsensical. Completely different scenarios. Different mix of players making different amounts, different assets to improve, different cap space, different coaches, different seasons, etc.
Beyond that, from a macro view... why would Colangelo get run out of his job (and so publicly none the less) if Leiweke was planning on spending the next 3-4 years plowing along with the core that he put together? It doesn't make sense. And it shouldn't. BC put together a bad team, making a ton of money, and Ujiri was brought in to clean up the mess. Not to tinker around the fringes of it and swapping out players 8-12 on the roster.
I can't wait until they start tearing this thing down.
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And is it true that star players become available every year on the trade market?
Outside of the three recent players (Anthony, Howard & Paul) who forced their way to a specific location (which eliminates the Raptors as a landing spot)... How often do all NBA performers get traded? Pau Gasol is literally the only one I can think of from recent times. It certainly doesn't happen "every season".Last edited by Fully; Wed Aug 14, 2013, 10:48 PM.
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