Duffman100 wrote:Los_29 wrote:nikster wrote:If you think tanking is just being bad then the Warriors were basically a tanking franchise since 1995. 13 years of being **** and largely drafting in the lottery with several high picks before they lucked out and got Curry at 7. What a model to emulate
Yeah it always makes me chuckle when people bring up the Warriors. They made the playoffs once in 12 years and then two years later drafted Curry followed by Klay and Green. They were an awful franchise that were treadmilling when they got one of the best point guards of all-time. That's not really a viable blueprint to follow.
And they were trying to win.
If you're going to go back to 1995 then its a totally different ballgame. I think this is where basing the tanking argument on history somewhat falls down a little. In the 1990's far more picks after 20, sometimes 15 were usually trash, with a few players being able to stick. That changed a little maybe around 2003/4/5, and changed alot in the 2010's.
Maybe it was when the entire world became the pool of players, maybe it was just the poplarity of the game and no expansion for 27 years. Or all of it. But it seems to me now that there is far more talent in the last 10 years at the bottom half of the first round and the 2nd, and even after the draft itself.
I'm just saying at one point, maybe further back, there was little you could get if you missed the lottery.
