Sit out casey!
We tried sitting out Bargnani! Calderon! Bayless! on and on and on
but it makes no difference in the team! and we are winning games we are not supposed to!
Just give casey couple of weeks of vacation and its a party for tank nation for rest of the season!
this guy is too good of a coach to let his team down for any reason!!
Just keep Solo on the floor and Forbes as the pg and all will be good for tanknation.
Tanknation??? You really think the Raps are purposely holding back their personnel?Bendit wrote:
This is reminding me of The Grinch trying to figure out the the Who's in Whoville were celebrating without presents or food. "He looked at the team, and yelled with dismay...."They won without Bayless...or..Bargs or Jose!"
Do the wins mean as much if they happen without 3 of the teams top players on the floor when it happens? Are they guys on the bench changed by the rest of the teams buy in to the new system? If the 3 contract guys are not back next year, does it mater that they learned and played well in the Casey system? The team that's winning these tough games is made of borrowed parts to a degree, so unless we're keeping a few D-league call ups, I'm pleased, Im impressed, I'm surprised, but I'm not as reassured for what it means for next season, if you know what I mean.
That's awesome, but now I wanna hear the rest of the story!
And what happened then? Well, in Toronto they say
That David Stern's heart grew three sizes that day!
So he whizzed through the night with his lottery balls
And into the machine he put them, one and all.
Stern rigged them, as he did every year.
But this time to make Torontonians cheer.
For a team that keeps winning with d-leaguers and scrubs
Deserves a star player more than sad Bobcat cubs.
And that is the story how David Stern gave us
Our superstar player, young Anthony Davis.
@Mack North: OK..here it is.
He thought of the season, so full of intrigue.
They benched poor James Johnson...Brought in the D-league.
The Grinch was confused, his head was just spinning.
They have no great talent, but just keep on winning!
He checked on the standings and went half insane.
We have no great players, this must be on Dwane!
The one simple fact, and it seems it just missed him.
All of the players....Have bought into the system!!
And he puzzled three hours, `till his mouse hand was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't Googled before!
"Maybe tanking," he thought, "doesn't come from the score
"Maybe tanking...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
And the Grinches eyes became somewhat watery.
When he just realized. The draft is a lottery!
If you look to the past, the team that is worst.
Isnt always the one, that gets to pick first.
And what happened then...?
Well...in Udoh-ville they say
That the Grinch's Air Jordan's
Grew three sizes that day!
And he let go of the balls, on which he'd been banking,
He posted on forums: "My team sucks at tanking!"
And he brought back his old jersey! And lit lots of candles!
And he...
He Himself...
The Grinch...
Gave deRozen some handles.
Last edited by Ion66; Tue Apr 17th, 2012 at 01:25 AM.
Thanks for entertainment, good job, haha.
Lol nice guys
Ion66, octothorp, brilliant! nicely done! Combine these and the RR guys should post it on the blog.
That really is awesome!
Nice work!
And then I scroll down and see this......... lol
There is talent in this board that goes far beyond the hardwood. :-)
Ha - Gold!
All the Grinch poems - Brilliant.
Ok, I had to laugh. Is this the Twilight Zone?
I just looked at the standings and right now they tied for 6th last. The Pistons and Warriors are both a game back but the Warriors are "rolling" with five straight losses. They need to be monitored. Meanwhile further into the abyss you have Cleveland who are just a game and a half in difference, sitting at 5th.
This has officially replaced the classic "bargs is tupac" and "bosh is gay" as my favourite ever
I standby our previous discussion. I also wrote another post last night indicating that this was the first time I truly felt that the tank was sanctioned by Casey and how he employed his personnel.
That is a tough one for a coach.
On one hand, you know he wants to win.
On the other hand, until last night, Alabi had played just 21 minutes this year and the team has an option on him next season.
What do you do?
When the game was competitive in the first half, Alabi was a big part of that..... those are words I never thought I would string together when talking about Solo.
Casey has acknowledged tanking in the past. ESPN wrote an article about tanking and quoted team sources when a team was obvious about tanking.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...tell-the-truth
Here's a blurb from when Casey coached the Timberwolves:
2005-06 Minnesota Timberwolves
The most spectacular tank job in recent memory occurred on April 19, 2006, in a Minnesota-Memphis game that is still a common punch line around the league.
Earlier that month, Chicago Tribune NBA writer Sam Smith had called out the Timberwolves and the league:
The NBA should take a look at this one in the interest of the game's integrity and paying customers. Minnesota needs to have one of the top 10 poorest records to keep its draft pick. Otherwise, it goes to the Clippers from the Sam Cassell-Marko Jaric deal.
In a 103-95 loss to the Jazz at home on Friday, Garnett sat out the fourth quarter after making all of his third-quarter shots. Garnett had 13 rebounds through three quarters, and Minnesota was outrebounded 18-6 in the fourth.
It's reminiscent of the game-throwing days before the draft lottery was started.
In the final game of the season, the Wolves sat Garnett and Ricky Davis, and then turned the game against Memphis into a joke by inserting Mark Madsen and letting him fire away. In six seasons, Madsen had made only one 3-pointer in nine attempts. But in that game he tossed up seven 3-pointers and missed them all -- they were his only 3-point attempts of the season. The Wolves lost the game in double overtime (Madsen started the second overtime with three 3-point bricks in less than a minute) and secured the draft pick.
After the game, Wolves coach Dwane Casey didn’t deny that the team was less than serious about winning the game: "The guys were having fun with it. For what we've been through this season, I thought the guys deserved it. I hope what we did didn't make a mockery of the game."
Was it a victimless crime? By securing a top-10 draft position, the Timberwolves prevented the Clippers from receiving the draft pick that became 2007 Rookie of the Year Brandon Roy (a future three-time All-Star whom the Wolves traded to Portland on draft night). And the Memphis win put the unfortunate Grizzlies (who also might have been motivated to lose the game) into a more difficult playoff bracket -- the Grizzlies started the postseason on the road and were swept by Dallas in the first round rather than having home-court advantage over a struggling Denver Nuggets team (which lost its first-round series to the Clippers).
On the flip side, the draft pick that did not go to the Clippers in 2006 eventually became the pick that allowed L.A. to acquire Chris Paul from New Orleans in 2011 -- and the Timberwolves will not get to use their own lottery pick this season, in part because of that infamous night in 2006.
... Casey has condoned tanking in the past. Can't see why he wouldn't do it now, especially if Bryan asked him to.
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