SmellingColors wrote:Silver Man wrote:KF10 wrote:Don't like tanking one bit.
Tanking means to deliberately lose on purpose.
If Gay & Cousins are out for a long period of time, we will be bad regardless.
Call it what you'd like or not like to, the point is even with Cousins and Gay playing it'd take almost a miracle to make the playoffs or come close.
As much as it sucks we are better off tanking or whatever term you'd like to use, and hopefully get a good draft pick, make some moves in the offseason, and get ready for next year.
We can fantasize about the playoffs and whatnot but the fact is we are not going to make the playoffs is year. The west is too deep and too stacked.
But there is a difference between tanking and just losing. Tanking implies that our FO has deliberately put a bad product out on the floor to lose as many games as we can. That is not happening here. If Cuz and Gay are out for extended periods, we will lose, but not because the FO is trying to lose. Just because of bad luck. I think that's an important distinction. And it's not about making or not making the playoffs, it's about the mindset you approach to the game.
On the other hand, I would also say our organization should make sure Cuz and Gay don't rush back too quickly because we need them to be fully healthy and wins don't mean anything this year for us. It's just a biproduct that it will also help our draft position.
Couldn't have said it better.
100% agree.
