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re: NBA Draft Lottery Reform Voted Down
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:21 am to c on z
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:21 am to c on z
Do you understand the concept of tanking? Losing on purpose to secure a good draft pick?
I'm not shocked that you weren't watching the Hornets play their asses off and win games they shouldn't have
I'm not shocked that you weren't watching the Hornets play their asses off and win games they shouldn't have
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:22 am to Hester Carries
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Anyone who thinks NO tanked that year has no idea what they are talking about. We traded CP3 cause we had to, and the results were as predicted. But in reality, the fans wanted them to tank and were conflicted as they watched the organization refuse to do it. Getting AD was a shock and statistical improbability.
I wanted Davis extremely bad, so I didn't mind. Minnesota pissed me off with how they kept winning games that year. I believe they were bottom 5 at some points during the season but kept winning and we only got the 10th pick out of it
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:22 am to PrimeTime Money
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So the Hornets tanked just the same as the Sixers.
What move did the organization make, that wasnt forced upon them by circumstance, that was made to make the team worse?
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:23 am to Hester Carries
I think he's referencing the players on the court tanking.
The NO organization didn't try to tank.
The Philly organization tried to tank.
The NO organization didn't try to tank.
The Philly organization tried to tank.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:23 am to VermilionTiger
Daryl Watkins, Jerome Dyson, and Lance Thomas all played 40 minutes in the last game for the Hornets. But they were not tanking!
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:23 am to Hester Carries
quote:Some serious revision of history by some people in this thread
Anyone who thinks NO tanked that year has no idea what they are talking about.
That wasn't a tank. That team just sucked.
But they played hard. God damn I loved that team, and I won't have a bunch of assholes on here dragging that team's name through the mud.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:24 am to floridatigah
quote:So I guess all those players on the roster that were injured hurt themselves on purpose? For the greater good of the tank?
Daryl Watkins, Jerome Dyson, and Lance Thomas all played 40 minutes in the last game for the Hornets. But they were not tanking!
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:27 am to danman6336
Your team had no intention of being good that year. Give yourselves a medal because you had Jarret Jack and Carl Landry on the roster so you weren't 'tanking' but it makes no difference.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:29 am to Hester Carries
quote:That's a different argument. I'm responding to those saying that the players played hard as if that proves they weren't tanking.
What move did the organization make, that wasnt forced upon them by circumstance, that was made to make the team worse?
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:30 am to floridatigah
quote:If that team was tanking, then every person involved with the tank should win a fricking medal for putting together the most well-crafted, planned, and subtle tank I've ever seen in professional sports. They fricking had me going.
Your team had no intention of being good that year. Give yourselves a medal because you had Jarret Jack and Carl Landry on the roster so you weren't 'tanking' but it makes no difference.
Cause I watched every minute of every game that year and at no point in time did I feel like we ever tried to lose a game
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:31 am to danman6336
quote:You don't know what tanking is when people talk about it in the NBA.
Cause I watched every minute of every game that year and at no point in time did I feel like we ever tried to lose a game
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:32 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:I think y'all are confusing Demps doing a bad job at recognizing talent in his what...2nd year? of ever being a GM in the league and signing bad players on purpose.
That's a different argument. I'm responding to those saying that the players played hard as if that proves they weren't tanking.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:33 am to PrimeTime Money
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That's a different argument. I'm responding to those saying that the players played hard as if that proves they weren't tanking.
If the players are playing hard, and the organizations is not making purposeful moves at the detriment of the team, then how did the Hornets "tank the same way philly did"
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:33 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:Yea dude
You don't know what tanking is when people talk about it in the NBA.
No clue
I have no idea what tanking is, you got me
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:45 am to Hester Carries
quote:I'm talking strictly about the play on the court. Both the Sixers and the Hornets played hard.
If the players are playing hard, and the organizations is not making purposeful moves at the detriment of the team, then how did the Hornets "tank the same way philly did"
Their on-court hustle has nothing to do with tanking.
When people talk about tanking, they are generally talking about management purposely putting a poor team on the floor who is destined to lose no matter how hard they play.
And I don't really believe there is tanking in the NBA. It's just rebuilding. Teams are going to suck while you are waiting for the young talent to develop. That's rebuilding.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:46 am to danman6336
Apparently you don't, because you keep talking about on-court hustle.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:48 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:ok, so please point to an example of a move made by the front office of the team that year that was clearly a tanking move
Apparently you don't, because you keep talking about on-court hustle.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 10:49 am to danman6336
a depressing time on Hornets talk.
looks like most of our gifs from that year expired though.
looks like most of our gifs from that year expired though.
Posted on 10/22/14 at 11:11 am to VermilionTiger
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Do you understand the concept of tanking? Losing on purpose to secure a good draft pick? I'm not shocked that you weren't watching the Hornets play their asses off and win games they shouldn't have
Tanking is done in the front office, not on the court
Posted on 10/22/14 at 11:12 am to danman6336
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That 2011-12 Hornets team was one of my favorite bad teams I've followed
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