Game 58, Sixers @ Bulls, Feb. 22, 7pm ct 2am cet

[samwana]

Bring on the tank

Payne
Grant
Blakeney
Vonleh
Felicio

vs

Simmons
Redick
Covington
Saric
Embiid

yeah okay, it will probably be Dunn, Holiday, LaVine, Markkanen, Lopez even though it will cost us.

[bearadonisdna]

Lol i kinda wanted to make the game thread since i made it for the last tank win.
So this better be a loss.

[HearshotKDS]

Finish the season strong Bulls, just position yourself to get a high pick in this draft and then you can comfortably go back to trying to win as many games as possible.

[bearadonisdna]

Tank rotation: Some of these minutes are done hastily but i dont think it really matters if most of the roster is in the gleague.


Dumb-24 Pain-24
holiday-18 Jerian Cant-30
Lowfind-30 holiday-18
Bore-ri - 24 Poor-tis-24
SlowLo-30 Poortis-18

Bench-Dumb-leh(dnp)

G-league-Only guy id call up is arnie for backcourt help because,for this tank run , Having pointguards playing shooting guard minutes will help them lose.

Arni
Nwaba
Valentine
Zipser
Felicio

[bearadonisdna]

^^^^^Thats all on tongue in cheek guys.
I thought it was funny to give them tank nicknames.

[cool007]

I love me some Mark Cuban. He went out of his way and had meeting with the players and is open to tank now. He wants to get the highest pick possible.

Why can't GarPax do this? I mean not say in the public but atleast have Fred control the minutes for good/great players and play more the guys like Payne/Zipser/Felicio/Noah etc. Not saying don't play Lavine/Dunn/Holiday/Lopez/Markkanen etc but limit Lopez and Holiday to 20 minutes a game, Dunn/Lavine and Markkanen to 25-30 minutes per game - they will still develop but you have to take a look at the long outlook of this team. Get a top 3-5 pick in this year's draft and go from there.

[Axolotl]

Best case scenario: our starters play hard and give a good show against their starters, but 2nd unit and the players "under evaluation" tank-win the game for us.

So I assume our regular starters. Unless a decision is made to make sure of the tank-win, in which case we start with a small-ball five and have Embiid to drop 40 on us. Alternatively, start Felicio.

[contestedlayups]

Bring on the tank

Payne
Grant
Blakeney
Vonleh
Felicio

vs

Simmons
Redick
Covington
Saric
Embiid

yeah okay, it will probably be Dunn, Holiday, LaVine, Markkanen, Lopez even though it will cost us.

Where's the love for Asik in the "Tank Starting 5"? Guy is averaging under 2 points a game and under 3 rebs a game this year! Perfect to go and get smoked by Embiid.

[Axolotl]

Asik in the "Tank Starting 5"?

Now that would be a True Tank Move. We want Asik!

[Ccwatercraft]

finally getting back to playing some games eh!!!

it feels like its been forever.

[JimmyJammer]

Paxson just said that Felicio and Nwaba will be starting from this point forward. Full tanking mode is on!

[patagonia]

dunn - nwaba - lavine - lauri - felicio ?

[StunnerKO]

Payne is the new back up

[NZB2323]

This is a very losable game, and either the Magic or Knicks have to win tonight because they're playing each other!

[TheHrvReport]

Oh wow. Tank mode is on hardcore

[FriedRise]

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[Rerisen]

Cmon Pax, just be honest like Cuban.

[GimmeDat]

Beyond tanking, it'll be interesting to see if any of these guys actually prove to be worth keeping.

I want to see some Vonleh now as well.

Philly's a good team, should lose this one.

[RedBulls23]

Finally, the tank rotations I've wanted.

Hopefully Holiday will have his minutes cut big time as well.

[Mech Engineer]

Cmon Pax, just be honest like Cuban.

He is building equity with Adam Silver.