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I Think We Can Officialy Put "Tanking" to Rest?

I am not familiar with Houston this year.
but re: OP
GS tanked, it appears, based on seeing some games.

Just because some players did not tank some games,
this does not mean no players tanked some games
 
northeast said:
Just because some players did not tank some games,
this does not mean no players tanked some games
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i never said that nobody associated with the franchise tanked. of course they did, that much is obvious. my only point is that a tanking franchise can still accidentally win a game when a guy who doesn't care about draft picks decides to have the game of his life, like charles jenkins did last night.

even reading jenkins' post-game comments (coach encouraged me to just keep shooting, stay aggressive) makes me wonder if they won that game precisely BECAUSE jackson figured that encouraging charles jenkins to shoot the basketball was a good tanking tactic. giving a guy like jenkins an unconditional green light is a pretty good recipe for tanking, i'd say... it just backfired because he actually started making shots.
 
That's why I wanted Ty to get the ball to Kanter when the Jazz played GS.
I think GS would still have lost, but Kanter would have gotten much needed experience and confidence scoring.

Maybe Mark wanted jenkins to make his shots, but he was willing to take the risk giving an unproven player a green light in a game he didn't mind too much losing. Maybe he had less fear of resentment from other players letting the new guy get lots of shots in such a game.
 
I mentioned this in another thread, but the Ws have lost 20 of their last 25 games, a winning percentage of .200 and one of the bottom two or three winning percentages in the league during that stretch.
 
Catchall said:
I mentioned this in another thread, but the Ws have lost 20 of their last 25 games, a winning percentage of .200 and one of the bottom two or three winning percentages in the league during that stretch.
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Yes. They also had one of the hardest 2nd half schedules and are one of the worst teams.
 
Stoked said:
Which is a result of the FO tanking as even you have admited.
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Well if you refer to the original post, that is basically what I was referring. "I Think We Can Officialy Put "Tanking" to Rest?", note the question mark. This was suppose to be a discussion as to what exactly tanking is. Some people on the forum act like the players are missing shots on purpose and throwing games, that is not the case.
 
That is just your opinion. You might be right, but I think you are wrong. They looked like they were playing badly on purpose and throwing games.
 
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Cyrone Torbin said:
Well if you refer to the original post, that is basically what I was referring. "I Think We Can Officialy Put "Tanking" to Rest?", note the question mark. This was suppose to be a discussion as to what exactly tanking is. Some people on the forum act like the players are missing shots on purpose and throwing games, that is not the case.
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I think there may be a little of that but the real problem is that players were never put into a position to win.
 
Cy, We are going around in circles. I will give a variation of my previous point:
Just because they did not tank every game, that does not mean they did not tank some games.
 
northeast said:
Cy, We are going around in circles. I will give a variation of my previous point:
Just because they did not tank every game, that does not mean they did not tank some games.
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So why would they tank all those past games, just to win one of the more key games to lose?

This isn't like winning, it isn't hard to to do. I know we all joke "Warriors suck so bad they can't lose", but losing isn't hard.
 
It is hard to be certain, but I saw the Warriors play the end of some very winnable games, looking like they were not trying to win.

Just because they did not tank some games, does not mean they did not tank other games.

Just because some players did not tank some games, does not mean other players did not tank other games.
 
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Cyrone Torbin said:
So why would they tank all those past games, just to win one of the more key games to lose?

This isn't like winning, it isn't hard to to do. I know we all joke "Warriors suck so bad they can't lose", but losing isn't hard.
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I am going to say that their owner and the FO wanted them to tank and to some extent they did tank at times. A 5-20 stretch to end the season was a bit telling.
 
trigg3r said:
I am going to say that their owner and the FO wanted them to tank and to some extent they did tank at times. A 5-20 stretch to end the season was a bit telling.
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So they players were tanking games, then recently got mad at the FO and said, **** it, we are going to win a game?
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
So they players were tanking games, then recently got mad at the FO and said, **** it, we are going to win a game?
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More likely they ran into a couple of games where they got some nice leads. Or that they have ran into other teams tanking harder than they are. I have seen some VERY weird plays from the Warriors late in close games. VERY WEIRD! In the end, I hope they didn't lose enough games. We'll see if that works out.
 
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