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Rise mf'ers!! Ill go 1 season of intentional tanking if we land a top 2 pick
In the world of basketball, we've seen several teams choose to tank for years, waiting patiently to make their grand comeback. Honestly, as a passionate fan, I've reached my breaking point! I implore our team's management to abandon this tanking approach after this season, regardless of the players we might bring on board. It's time for a change, and it's time for us to rise once more.
Rise mf'ers!! Ill go 1 season of intentional tanking if we land a top 2 pick
I honestly think we have a team now to compete but they are being held back to secure a top spot. I don’t think these guys are this injured if it were a regular year. I think we are out of this tank mode next year. And in reference to Top 2 picks, I feel the safest pick is number 3. Assuming Miller is cleared, Miller seems like a sure thing verses Vic and Scoot. I’ve seen Scoot play and not impressed. Vic is impressive but i question his longevity. Then there is Amen. But his compe ion is questionable. Number 3 seems like the Elliot type pick where that year the number three pick was the better pick.
The next couple of drafts project to be bad, so I doubt the tanking plan would last for more than 1 year. How good the team would be even if they try to win is another question.
Hoping the Spurs will land 1st or 2nd then I would say this is the only season when they will intentionally tank then they will try hard to win next season and next next but will still fall to around 22nd to 26th bottom due to lacking of experience and veterans. Honestly the NBA is quite loaded now and even if the Spurs able to land Wenby or Henderson, they're still far but that's what the future picks they've gathered are for so hopefully they'll be able to build the team nicely throughout the draft.
Even if Spurs were to land Wemby, they need to bring him slowly and avoid any injuries till he’s NBA strong. So I think one or a couple more years will still be “stealth tanking” for the Spurs, depends on Wemby’s development. I’m not against it, getting a couple more lottery picks while Wemby getting stronger.
It’s a different situation in 1997 with Timmy coming into a DRob playoff team, after 4 years of college and NBA body. We have a 19 yrs old kid coming in a very young team. There’s too much risk to push in the 1st year, Chet’s injury comes in mind. So yeah I think Spurs would be cautious
Last edited by John B; 03-16-2023 at 07:21 AM.
The problem is, the next couple of drafts are ass. You’re tanking for a 1/7 chance at…what? They may be in the lottery, but it’ll be the back half.
A couple months..
2025 is the Boozer and younger Wembanyama class I believe... but next year is considered to be a down year. I think it makes a good case to use assets in next years draft + our two 2nd's this draft to either move up for an additional 1st this year or buy another bite at the apple in 2025.
Definitely not swinging for the top pick. The Spurs need to be a little more compe ive next year though or run the risk of a losing culture, but not good enough for the playoffs to still get a chance at a lottery pick. I don’t think they go all in next year. Too risky and could be catastrophic for Wemby getting injured.
Boozer under the current CBA is 2026. He’s 15 r/n. We have the unprotected ATL swap.
How are they going to abandon the tank? Have you seen how this roster is? How many games do you expect to win when Devin Vassell is the best player on your roster?
Sochan is the best player. When they play the full roster, he scores close to 30 most times. He’s got the whole tool set.
Hard to imagine this team being in the play in even with Wembanyama.
A trade with Utah makes sense.
Utah has three first round picks this year and no first round picks next year.
Trade next year's Toronto pick to Utah for a mid first this year.
Utah may do this to get a first round pick next year as they still will have two other first round picks this year.
I agree with this ^
76ers tank for their process and get multiple good picks...
Spurs tank and didn't even get a top 5 pick in recent years
The tank will end only when you stop masturbating.
F that. That Toronto pick could be as high as #7 overall and still convey. We have enough prospects without wasting assets. If you have 5 FRPs in two years, you have 5 extensions that come up in two years.
The 76ers got Joel Embiid. Nerlens Noel sucked. Jahlil Okafor sucked. Simmons turned into a headcase, and now sucks. Fultz sucked. That was also when the worst team had 25% odds on pick one, not 14%.
Projecting drafts this far out is completely senseless. You're setting your expectations on the unobserved, not-happened-yet physical and skill development of kids who aren't even seniors or juniors in high school? You're depending on ranking agencies who are lazy, depend on AAU circuits and word of mouth from people with ulterior motives, and which jacked Bronny James to like #10 because of pressure? Rating agencies never see players like Victor Oladipo or Stephen Curry or Ja Morant or Jeremy Sochan. They completely miss them.
Last year was supposed to be a terrible draft and it pumped out like a dozen of promising players already. This draft was supposed to be a generational draft and it's looking overall pretty iffy.
I think the point may be that with generational type players, you see them a year out. It was so with Zion and with Wemby, and next year, there's no one to really tank for. The draft may be OK or even good, but it's probably not worth tanking for, since that's the thread subject. You could get a good player in the back half of the lottery, winning 35 games.
Rating agencies gave us Marvin Bagley. They miss Antetokuonpo, they miss Jokic. They miss practically every star in the NBA. All they do is give a sense of who is good going into college and, now, G-League. Michigan had the #3 ranked class last year due to such exceptional players as Caleb Houstan and Moussa Diabate (and Kobe Bufkin, still in school). The #1 ranked class was Memphis, with Jalen Duren (good) and Emoni Bates, whose stock tumbled and Josh Minott, who was drafted in the middle of the second round.
That pick is going to be no where near 7. It's going to be a pick in the 20s.
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