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Yep. Wouldn't mind tanking next season tbh
It would help lower expectations from not only their fans, but from the people covering the sport.
I actually think constatly making the playoffs hurts this team because the sports world expects you to win every year. This team needs a year or two off in the gutter so they can regain the hunger and grit.
This team also is in dire need of fresh faces and a fresh playbook.
For a team like the Spurs making the playoffs is useless if they're always going to get bounced in the first or second round. By low seeds no less.
Yep. Wouldn't mind tanking next season tbh
A tank year could do wonders.
lol
Constantly making the playoffs hurts this team because they literally have not drafted better than 20th since Duncan (Kawhi was a trade) and the league has caught up on international scouting that the Spurs were able to take advantage of to bridge the divide.
It's not the "weighty expectations". Hunger is still there, they just lack the bodies. Don't love how many picks seem to have been wasted on Euros who stink or are a long way from coming over either when you've got prime Kawhi.
Tanking will get Kawhi Leonard buying his new House in LA.
Tanking would be catastrophic to this team now that I think about it
If free agents curve you when you're good, they ain't going to Fat Antonio when the team sucks. Same goes for the fans.
Besides. Not worth tanking when RC Buford is behind the wheel, no pun intended. He'll draft a Hezonja-type euro bust... stash him till he's 32.... bring him over only to cut him after the 2029 summer league. Rinse and repeat.
no need to tank, just reload
wtf
It's almost like someone and their alts.
Spurs won't miss the playoffs for quite some time. The rest of the league is too weak and Pop's system is built for the regular season.
You're a paranoid, old fat man.
I dont use any alts on here.
Tanking doesn't usually work out for teams that go that route. I look at my home team the hornets that have been mediocre to lottery over the last decade and it hasn't netted them any great prospects. As a front office you have to have the mindset of getting the best players possible through development, trades, free agency, drafting but not intentionally tanking for lottery picks. If the Spurs do get eliminated they will have to retool like they did after the '11 loss to the grizzlies. Take a risky trade that gets them a good draft pick or make a trade for a young prospect. They will also have to focus on developing young guys like Bertans and Murray.
OP, you sounding like a real right now.
Calling for missing the playoffs with a 60 win team = stupid.
Shadowflames: You can change the name but the got remains.
Holy what a re ed thread.
Just like you cant change being a fat finger cheeseburger eating got.
The only reason that would help us is because we would be able to draft someone good. Other than that this would hurt us. Spurs have a standard and that motivates everyone to try to live up to that standard.
Even with the spurs ability to find gems in the draft it's not guarantee they get a great prospect if they tank and get a lottery pick. The draft could be a ty draft like the 2013 draft where there is no great prospects.
The Spurs are the most winning team in all team sports for the last 20 years- baseball, football, hockey, basketball. It's difficult for the most winning team in all team sports not to make the playoffs.
Now I will say I'd save a pretty penny not buying all these playoff tickets! So perhaps that is a more reasonable argument. 'Think of all the money you'll save Spurs fans if the Spurs don't make the playoffs!' Then again we could just stop enjoying basketball all together.
But cheeseburgers are good. Missing the playoffs is bad.
Only way Spurs miss playoffs in the next 6-7 years is if Kawhi gets injured
If he's not already Kawhi is gonna be the leagues best player. I see a ton of potential in our young guys.
Pink yourself.
Very ironic coming from a guy who cant start threads.Pink yourself.
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