Most blatant attempt of tanking EVER?

[The Frozen One]

There's gotta be some sort action taken against the Pelicans. They didn't score the last 6 minutes of the game. What's worse they kept letting the Lakers score 3 after 3. When all they could have done was foul Howard.

Doesn't make sense being up 25 points and then just playing not to lose.

Blatant job of tanking. Absolutely disgraceful to the game of basketball.

 

[#StarkSet]

 

[01King]

Its NBA, teams go up by 20+ and lose all the time.

 

[vegetarybrownrice]

 

[Azul]

Maybe they just suck that bad breh.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Oh, make no mistake about it, it wasn't them tanking. It was just Kobe.

 

[The Frozen One]

Oh, make no mistake about it. it wasn't them tanking. It was just Kobe.

Kobe effect would have been negated by just fouling howard until the last 2 minutes of the game. that kills any of the lakers offensive groove.

any competent nba coach knows that.

i'm not taking anything against the lakers. they won. good for them. it's just the way the pelicans lost was disgraceful.

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

I wasn't watching. Did they have their starters / best five in towards the end of the game?

If so it's not tanking, at least not nearly as blatant as you try and make it seem.

I swear on this board it's always laugh at the Lakers when they lose, blame the refs, tanking or make excuses when they win.

 

[theoretic]

Why would a team that's tanking go up by 25?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Kobe effect would have been negated by just fouling howard until the last 2 minutes of the game. that kills any of the lakers offensive groove.

any competent nba coach knows that.

i'm not taking anything against the lakers. they won. good for them. it's just the way the pelicans lost was disgraceful.

naw. all dem pelicans were at what kobe was doing. they weren't thinking straight.

 

[The Frozen One]

naw. all dem pelicans were at what kobe was doing. they weren't thinking straight.

they'll be in the highlight reel for a looooooong time then.

what a joke of a franchise.

 

[Rigamortus]

How the fukk did every player line up on the wrong side during that one inbounds?

 

[bl2k8]

The Laker hate runs deep

 

[Bilz]

No points in the final 6 something minutes. I haven't seen a team fall apart on offense so badly late in a game since I watched the Lakers play the Thunder last night.

 

[pete clemenza]

It wasn't a tank but real talk that shyt was weird as fukk. It was like a corny sports movie or some shyt. Like on some " this wouldn't happen in real life, this movie is azz". But it did happen