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I think we have a real clear tanking move that we can pass off as developmental... well... it would be legit developmental - just give Ace a ton of on-ball opportunities. Maybe even run the offense through him in certain situations... like... high leverage, end of game, clutchitime situations.

Nah, 29 games is not valuable enough sample, especially on the back end of the season when half the teams are tanking.

In essence, the question here is do we value any of those higher than a pick around 9-12 in this draft. I think I value the pick higher than every single one of those, except for Ace.

Encouraged that Locke is not trying to sell us the idea that we don't need the pick. He's actually saying ... "29 more games and it's over"... Lets hope we really do tank as hard and as shamelessly as possible for the rest of the year. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTzHIw7XpE

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I will believe it when I see it. Walker has not been able to raise the level of this defense either. And neither were Ace or Cody... The hope is that when we get them all together they will suddenly gel into something good. "Not a disaster" is not good enough for what the more optimistic people...

OK, tell me where you expect us to rank next year if we don't get the pick? With all this development, with Kessler back and JJJ in the fold now. With some minimal additions in the off-season(because we won't have the capspace to get anyone higher level than MLE type players). Where do we rank...

Because all those other teams have actual All-star and All-NBA players, most of them have MVP-calibre player. We don't. And we still have not seen vast majority of our players actually play winning basketball. We don't know how they will respond to the expectation of wins every single game...

In most drafts I would agree, in this draft, I think the chance we get a great player in the top 5 is higher. And IMO we still need to find one more truly great... exceptional player. With this current team I don't think we are close to OKC or SAS or HOU or DEN... or... hell even MIN if they...

I really hope the tank optimists(the ones who believe we can still tank our way to a top 5-6 pick this year) are right. I am HIGHLY sceptical. I think multiple teams will get worse by the trade deadline with the express purpose of tanking. I think we just got better in the immediate AND we got...

I don't know if anyone mentioned this but JJJ made the all star last year so he's part of the anti-rest provision by the league. Meaning, if we decide to sit him in any random game we risk accruing penalties(fines) for it.

We've been through this before with a much better defensive player than JJJ. I think in today's league if the PG will be your guy, you need that guy to be truly special. I guess he can still get there, but I won't believe it until I see it. Plus, he still needs to get better on defence.

Tank is over. We are trying to make the play in...

Isn't he like... 35% shooter? Not bad by any means... but one of the best?

B... ish... B+? I can be convinced A-?