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[Snidely FC]

"These next few weeks," one NBA executive said, "could be the worst tanking stretch we've ever seen."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44378503/can-nba-fix-tanking-why-worse-season-plus-5-solutions

[KembaWalker]

The league will do anything to curb tanking, as long as it’s not providing teams like us an alternate route to acquire cost effective talent. Nope, you get to pay second and third tier guys max money on extensions and free agency. Every decent player on the trade market costs you four first round picks. All the good buyout players that are again cost effective go straight to the already good teams

Gee I wonder why teams tank

[yosemiteben]

Here's my tanking proposal - before the season starts, teams can elect to count all their games for the season as losses. If any teams do that, they are grouped together and given equal lotto odds, and they are exclusive so no one else can get in the top X (where X is the number of teams that elect to count all their games as losses before the season starts).

My thought process in that is that it will disincentivize tanking teams from trying to be bad because they can just elect to get all losses at the beginning of the season and thus during the season they can truly try to develop and build their team without worrying about being too good. It also would serve to help message expectations to fans.

This will also disincentivize teams who get injuries or just have randomly bad starts from completely mailing it in, because they'll be boxed out of the top picks unless no other team elected to tank before the season

I actually don't see a down side to this approach. Curious to hear thoughts on it.

[NMBSurfin]

"These next few weeks," one NBA executive said, "could be the worst tanking stretch we've ever seen."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44378503/can-nba-fix-tanking-why-worse-season-plus-5-solutions

actually came here to post this. Funny at the first part where they talk about the usual suspects that tank, the Hornets were listed.

[Diop]

Here's my tanking proposal - before the season starts, teams can elect to count all their games for the season as losses. If any teams do that, they are grouped together and given equal lotto odds, and they are exclusive so no one else can get in the top X (where X is the number of teams that elect to count all their games as losses before the season starts).

My thought process in that is that it will disincentivize tanking teams from trying to be bad because they can just elect to get all losses at the beginning of the season and thus during the season they can truly try to develop and build their team without worrying about being too good. It also would serve to help message expectations to fans.

This will also disincentivize teams who get injuries or just have randomly bad starts from completely mailing it in, because they'll be boxed out of the top picks unless no other team elected to tank before the season

I actually don't see a down side to this approach. Curious to hear thoughts on it.

thats interesting, so you can start the season forfeiting the possibility of making the playoffs but you automatically go into the lottery at a certain %. So the win loss is meaningless for the year apart that its more fun to watch your team win.
I don't hate it.

[Diop]

Watch on YouTube

he definitely is an awesome athlete. looking stronger too.

[JustBuzzin]

Unless something crazy happens these next few weeks we seem to be locked in that 3rd spot for worst record. Pelicans are 2 games up on us for the 4th spot.

Lucky #3 this the year we finally get #1 Boyz!

[Snidely FC]

Here's my tanking proposal - before the season starts, teams can elect to count all their games for the season as losses. If any teams do that, they are grouped together and given equal lotto odds, and they are exclusive so no one else can get in the top X (where X is the number of teams that elect to count all their games as losses before the season starts).

My thought process in that is that it will disincentivize tanking teams from trying to be bad because they can just elect to get all losses at the beginning of the season and thus during the season they can truly try to develop and build their team without worrying about being too good. It also would serve to help message expectations to fans.

This will also disincentivize teams who get injuries or just have randomly bad starts from completely mailing it in, because they'll be boxed out of the top picks unless no other team elected to tank before the season

I actually don't see a down side to this approach. Curious to hear thoughts on it.

thats interesting, so you can start the season forfeiting the possibility of making the playoffs but you automatically go into the lottery at a certain %. So the win loss is meaningless for the year apart that its more fun to watch your team win.
I don't hate it.

Only downside I could see is fans being turned off by a team abdicating the season, thereby chilling season tickets and other sales. But not sure that’s worse than the current undeclared yet blatant tanking approach. Compelling idea!

[fatlever]

kai jones
- has he figured it out
- meaningless march games, he's still a one trick pony
- hornets were correct in moving on given his bizarre behavior
- hornets gave up too soon

[JMAC3]

kai jones
- has he figured it out
- meaningless march games, he's still a one trick pony
- hornets were correct in moving on given his bizarre behavior
- hornets gave up too soon

Same Kai Jones as ever.

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[fatlever]

kai jones
- has he figured it out
- meaningless march games, he's still a one trick pony
- hornets were correct in moving on given his bizarre behavior
- hornets gave up too soon

Same Kai Jones as ever.

Read on Twitter

lol
well, i was def leaning towards
- meaningless march games, he's still a one trick pony
- hornets were correct in moving on given his bizarre behavior

but its funny seeing twitter overreact to kai.

[luciano-davidwesley]

kai jones
- has he figured it out
- meaningless march games, he's still a one trick pony
- hornets were correct in moving on given his bizarre behavior
- hornets gave up too soon

Same Kai Jones as ever.

Read on Twitter

Haha he has **** for brains. The correct/only decision was waiving him.

The real mistakes we made were drafting him in the first place, then exercising his third year option, in that order.

[Diop]

one of the greatest choke jobs by Lebron today.

he really has to be the GOAT of everything in basketball doesn't he

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[KembaWalker]

funny how a consistently good overachieving coach gets fired from a WC playoff team and people here are happy with Mr Rogers togetherness and youtube guru catch phrases

[JustBuzzin]

Lol

[yosemiteben]

funny how a consistently good overachieving coach gets fired from a WC playoff team and people here are happy with Mr Rogers togetherness and youtube guru catch phrases

Yeah it would almost take actually trying to understand what's going on to understand it.

[Liver_Pooty]

Something definitely going on behind the scenes in Memphis. I’ve never seen a coach get canned a couple weeks before the playoffs start. Wild.

[Hornet Mania]

If Jenkins didn't do anything wrong I'd much rather have him than Lee. Just saying.

[KembaWalker]

funny how a consistently good overachieving coach gets fired from a WC playoff team and people here are happy with Mr Rogers togetherness and youtube guru catch phrases

Yeah it would almost take actually trying to understand what's going on to understand it.

We aren’t trying to win therefore an awful coach is perfect! Big brain strats

I concede to your deep level of strategic understanding

[Braggins]

da fuq... I thought Jenkins was one of the better coaches in the league...