Tank World Order (2.0)

TD2FutureStar · Post #1961 » by **TD2FutureStar** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:52 am

Mehar wrote:Raptors play the Magic and Okc this week. 3 game win streak coming. We need to forget about top 5, and focus on picks 11-15. Like I said earlier, Nick Nurse and this organization is simply not committed to "Tanking". They added Birch, and played Siakam and OG today (when they should be resting). Such a shame, but this organization wants to make the playoffs. Pointless to talk about Cade and Suggs anymore.

This is exactly why I never got excited about the draft. We aren't getting a good pick.

Los_29 · Post #1962 » by **Los_29** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:53 am

720 wrote:Welp, today was a disaster for the tank. Our new additions were the reason we won. Masai adding two new centres last second before the playoff eligibility date proves he has a treadmill mentality for this season.

Don't wanna hear any Masai is tanking talk.

edit: Oh and we're for sure beating the Magic and Thunder this week. Huge loss for the tank.

Birch, Siakam, OG, Flynn and Boucher in our starting lineup. No backup point guard, no roster balance and no GTJ, Lowry and FVV. What a powerhouse lineup we fielded tonight. Nurse and Masai showed tonight they are really going for it.

AbC? · Post #1963 » by **AbC?** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:53 am

We got lucky with Kawhi and got our championship.

Need to accept that MLSE and management wants to get back to 50ish wins, a couple rounds of playoff revenue and avoiding luxury tax. That's what they're gunning for.

(I'm just bitter, don't take me seriously)

720 · Post #1964 » by **720** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:53 am

PhilBlackson wrote:
720 wrote:Welp, today was a disaster for the tank. Our new additions were the reason we won. Masai adding two new centres last second before the playoff eligibility date proves he has a treadmill mentality for this season.

Don't wanna hear any Masai is tanking talk.

Seriously just a complete waste of time.

Making Colangelo proud!

#9THPLACEORDIETRYING lives on...

Should have known when he mentioned the whole "this team deserves to compete" bs post trade deadline.

Yeah bro, this team deserves to compete NEXT season after we add a high lotto pick player. :nonono:

This g league center and Birch are temporary. The player we're getting with this pick is long term with potential to have crazy impact.

720 · Post #1965 » by **720** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:54 am

AbC? wrote:We got lucky with Kawhi and got our championship.

Need to accept that MLSE and management wants to get back to 50ish wins, a couple rounds of playoff revenue and avoiding luxury tax. That's what they're gunning for.

They're gunning for a play in tournament birth to get whooped by the Nets or Sixers.

720 · Post #1966 » by **720** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:54 am

Los_29 wrote:
720 wrote:Welp, today was a disaster for the tank. Our new additions were the reason we won. Masai adding two new centres last second before the playoff eligibility date proves he has a treadmill mentality for this season.

Don't wanna hear any Masai is tanking talk.

edit: Oh and we're for sure beating the Magic and Thunder this week. Huge loss for the tank.

Birch, Siakam, OG, Flynn and Boucher in our starting lineup. No backup point guard, no roster balance and no GTJ, Lowry and FVV. What a powerhouse lineup we fielded tonight. Nurse and Masai showed tonight they are really going for it.

No need to add center depth this season. None whatsoever. Masai has been showing treadmill tendencies. idc

Hope he isn't under the delusion that another Kawhi situation is ever happening again for us.

PhilBlackson · Post #1967 » by **PhilBlackson** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:55 am

720 wrote:
PhilBlackson wrote:
720 wrote:Welp, today was a disaster for the tank. Our new additions were the reason we won. Masai adding two new centres last second before the playoff eligibility date proves he has a treadmill mentality for this season.

Don't wanna hear any Masai is tanking talk.

Seriously just a complete waste of time.

Making Colangelo proud!

#9THPLACEORDIETRYING lives on...

Should have known when he mentioned the whole "this team deserves to compete" bs post trade deadline.

Yeah bro, this team deserves to compete NEXT season after we add a high lotto pick player.

This g league center and Birch are temporary. The player we're getting with this pick is long term with potential to have crazy impact.

So insanely frustrating.

dgr81 · Post #1968 » by **dgr81** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:55 am

raps and the bulls each with 22 wins after tonight :lol:

TorontoRapsFan · Post #1969 » by **TorontoRapsFan** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:56 am

PhilBlackson wrote:
TorontoRapsFan wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:Drafting Cade this year is going to be our Tim Duncan moment.

You're in for one hell of a disappointment. For perspective sake:

Duncan's rookie numbers
21pts, 12rbs, 3ast

Well Duncan played all 4 years of college...Cade is coming out as a freshman and I would suspect a big man will have better rebounding numbers.

A fair comparison will be Cade's fourth NBA season lol soooooo

Whatever dude. Look through the years yourself. Find as many Duncans in as many years as you want.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2020_rookies-season-stats.html

720 · Post #1970 » by **720** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:56 am

dgr81 wrote:raps and the bulls each with 22 wins after tonight

Loss column is what matters.

Los_29 · Post #1971 » by **Los_29** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:58 am

720 wrote:
Los_29 wrote:
720 wrote:Welp, today was a disaster for the tank. Our new additions were the reason we won. Masai adding two new centres last second before the playoff eligibility date proves he has a treadmill mentality for this season.

Don't wanna hear any Masai is tanking talk.

edit: Oh and we're for sure beating the Magic and Thunder this week. Huge loss for the tank.

Birch, Siakam, OG, Flynn and Boucher in our starting lineup. No backup point guard, no roster balance and no GTJ, Lowry and FVV. What a powerhouse lineup we fielded tonight. Nurse and Masai showed tonight they are really going for it.

No need to add center depth. None whatsoever. Masai has showing treadmill tendencies. idc

Hope he isn't under the delusion that another Kawhi situation is ever happening again for us.

We added Khem Birch and a 23 year old undrafted G-leaguer. Are you being serious right now? I am amazed with what I am reading in this thread. We rested three of our starters tonight. :lol:

Syd-TK3 · Post #1972 » by **Syd-TK3** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:58 am

Baynes absolutely needs to start playing again and OG needs to sit

raptorforlife88 · Post #1973 » by **raptorforlife88** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:02 am

I'd love to lose a few more games at this point but some of you guys have lost your mind.

They added a g league center because they needed to fill that roster spot and signed Khem Birch who has never averaged more than 5.5 points in a single season in his career.

What are you smoking? They didn't have three of their best five players playing. The loss is on the Spurs failing.

Son Goku 25 · Post #1974 » by **Son Goku 25** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:03 am

Bulls are so trash

T-d0t · Post #1975 » by **T-d0t** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:04 am

blame this on too much parity between mediocre teams

tecumseh18 · Post #1976 » by **tecumseh18** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:06 am

Los_29 wrote:
720 wrote:
Los_29 wrote:
Birch, Siakam, OG, Flynn and Boucher in our starting lineup. No backup point guard, no roster balance and no GTJ, Lowry and FVV. What a powerhouse lineup we fielded tonight. Nurse and Masai showed tonight they are really going for it.

No need to add center depth. None whatsoever. Masai has showing treadmill tendencies. idc

Hope he isn't under the delusion that another Kawhi situation is ever happening again for us.

We added Khem Birch and a 23 year old undrafted G-leaguer. Are you being serious right now? I am amazed with what I am reading in this thread. We rested three of our starters tonight.

Yeah, i honestly didn't expect Birch and Freddy G. to make any difference at all. The only un-tanky move Nurse made was not bringing back Stanley in the second half. But otherwise, I was fine with his rotations.

Spurs were on the last game of a five-day road trip. They just ran out of gas in the second half.

720 · Post #1977 » by **720** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:10 am

Los_29 wrote:
720 wrote:
Los_29 wrote:
Birch, Siakam, OG, Flynn and Boucher in our starting lineup. No backup point guard, no roster balance and no GTJ, Lowry and FVV. What a powerhouse lineup we fielded tonight. Nurse and Masai showed tonight they are really going for it.

No need to add center depth. None whatsoever. Masai has showing treadmill tendencies. idc

Hope he isn't under the delusion that another Kawhi situation is ever happening again for us.

We added Khem Birch and a 23 year old undrafted G-leaguer. Are you being serious right now? I am amazed with what I am reading in this thread. We rested three of our starters tonight.

Didn’t address my point. There was no reason to add Center depth this late into the season. For what reason? Play in tournament aspirations obviously.

OakleyDokely · Post #1978 » by **OakleyDokely** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:11 am

720 wrote:
Los_29 wrote:
720 wrote:No need to add center depth. None whatsoever. Masai has showing treadmill tendencies. idc

Hope he isn't under the delusion that another Kawhi situation is ever happening again for us.

We added Khem Birch and a 23 year old undrafted G-leaguer. Are you being serious right now? I am amazed with what I am reading in this thread. We rested three of our starters tonight.

Didn’t address my point. There was no reason to add Center depth this late into the season. For what reason? Play in tournament aspirations obviously.

You're right, the raps should only dress 4 players and play 4 on 5.

720 · Post #1979 » by **720** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:12 am

We play all our starters big minutes. Lowry wasn’t traded and instead will help us compete. We added two big bodies when Baynes was doing great as the tank commander.

This team isn’t tanking. We’ve lost despite their treadmill tactics. Once Fred and Lowry are healthy watch them go even harder to get a chance to get whooped by the nets.

:lol:

MixxSRC · Post #1980 » by **MixxSRC** » Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:14 am

720 wrote:We play all our starters big minutes. Lowry wasn’t traded and instead will help us compete. We added two big bodies when Baynes was doing great as the tank commander.

This team isn’t tanking. We’ve lost despite their treadmill tactics. Once Fred and Lowry are healthy watch them go even harder to get a chance to get whooped by the nets.

Winning culture is all about losing big in playoffs. That's how its done

At 10-13 where do you stand now?