Keeping Lauri seems increasingly pointless

[The Fresh Prince]

Lauri and Collins will be good mentors for Ace. Keep them around until trade deadline.

 

[fishonjazz]

Basing the success of one's strategy on getting lucky may work for dance hall lotharios, but it's not necessarily the most reliable strategy for building a winning basketball team.

I infer from Houston's action that they were sick of losing, didn't see winning in their near future with the current crop of players or a strategy of continuing to speculate in the lottery ad infinitum, and decided to pivot to bring capable veterans on board, notwithstanding the criticism they initially took for it.

Exactly. Tanking sucks because its based so much on luck. We agree.