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Too good to tank?

Are we too good to tank?

  • Yes

    Votes: 26 49.1%

  • No

    Votes: 27 50.9%
  • Total voters
    53
Tremendous Upside said:
Cody is the worst player in the NBA and the current Taylor isn't much better, unfortunately. You can ostensibly "develop" kids in the league by playing them instead of established vets, but once the kids get this bad, it's just too obvious of a tanking move. They might just as well pick a random guy out of the stands and insert him at small forward.

People like to talk about the PT the vets get, but I mean... we just let WCJ run an NBA team for like 40 minutes and he'd been absolutely terrible this season. I wouldn't call that playing it safe.
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Huh… Walt played 21 minutes.

Teams play highly drafted guys in the name of development all the time. OKC ran out guys like Poku, Maledon, Bazley… we can do that… it’s not hard.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
We are soooo stupid. Like so dumb. Just roll out Cody and Taylor for 30 minutes instead of Svi/Love for 40+. Can still be competitive and lose under the guise of development.

We are going to FAFO and it’s gonna hurt for years. But the vibes lol.

Also, if you think Nurk isn’t a rotation level center you don’t know ball. @Saint Cy of JFC
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Nurk is a bad center who is capable of good games.
 
I dunno, this team is kind of fun to watch but as a fan it's getting a little frustrating watching this team tank for years now and when they need to tank the most, they aren't tanking. I'm guessing Ainge has a plan but it this team loses the pick this year, they will be stuck in mediocrity for at least another year and even then the team is good enough to not be a lottery team but not good enough to so anything in the playoffs.
 
Losing out on our 2026 draft pick would be awful. Not just from a standpoint of we need good players, but also from the fact that we would be losing out on a premium asset.

On the other hand, there aren't more than 8 guys in the 2026 draft that I would be really sad about losing out on right now. That could change as the season goes on, but right now I'm only really excited by a handful of guys in the draft.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
We are soooo stupid. Like so dumb. Just roll out Cody and Taylor for 30 minutes instead of Svi/Love for 40+. Can still be competitive and lose under the guise of development.

We are going to FAFO and it’s gonna hurt for years. But the vibes lol.

Also, if you think Nurk isn’t a rotation level center you don’t know ball. @Saint Cy of JFC
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Nurk was never a tank commander on defense, and once he stopped shooting like 35% from the field he wasn’t a tank commander on offense either. I said this would be the case before the season. Numbers don’t lie!
 
KqWIN said:
We may lose the pick, but imagine how happy Ryan feels right now.
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Cut to a twitter post in 6 months when we give the Thunder the 9th pick where Ryan says some cheesy bull **** about letting out a gutteral scream and then realizing we got this cuz #Utahstrong.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Losing out on our 2026 draft pick would be awful. Not just from a standpoint of we need good players, but also from the fact that we would be losing out on a premium asset.

On the other hand, there aren't more than 8 guys in the 2026 draft that I would be really sad about losing out on right now. That could change as the season goes on, but right now I'm only really excited by a handful of guys in the draft.
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This isn't the right way to look at it imo. We have the chance to win 5-6 less games and get one of those top 8 guys. Or we can hand a pick in the 9-12 range that at very least is a good trade asset to a team that will be at the top of the food chain for a while. Its all or nothing... the top 8 guy may matter a lot in 3-4 years... the vibes from winning an extra 5-6 games will not.
 
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