Tanking in the NBA doesn't work

[tremonthustler1]

Stop it slime tanking wasn't even a thought back then

Look at that warriors roster. They couldn't win if they tried

I could say that for a lot of teams now, but apparently there's no such thing as a God awful team anymore. We just assume everyone tanks and if they tried they'd all win 40.

 

[Stop_It_5]

nygga thought the 95% number would get the most daps and rolled with it

 

[Flex Grossman]

We just gonna gloss over this blatantly wrong piece of info that was your foundation for this thread

Lebron
Kyrie
AD
Wall
KD
Harden
Love
Melo
Russ
Boogie

All picked before 6

That's 10 players out of the 25 picked this year aka 40%. And Hayward, Kemba, PG, DeMar, and Steph were all still top 10 picks so that's 60% of the field who were top prospects

I was thinking the same thing breh. Like, 95% is all but 1 or 2 players out of 24. Bron, KD and Anthony Davis immediately came to mind as top 2 picks, then reading this whole list

 

[jwinfield]

Cleveland wasn't tanking back then

Ex-coach Lucas: Cavs tanked to draft LeBron

 

[havoc]

They tanked like crazy to get LeBron

And your point about the all-stars is as well, out of the 25 players 16 of them were lottery picks

No, they didn't. The franchise hasn't been in the playoffs in several years before the acquistion of Lebron James. The franchise was so terribly awful in the east.

 

[the cool]

They tanked like crazy to get LeBron

And your point about the all-stars is as well, out of the 25 players 16 of them were lottery picks

i said 6th pick or later

 

[Malta]

No, they didn't. The franchise hasn't been in the playoffs in several years before the acquistion of Lebron James. The franchise was so terribly awful in the east.

Leading up to LeBron the Cavs were -

30-52
29-53

And then the year of LeBron's draft they were 17-65. Why are yall trying revisionist history with this one?

Ex-coach Lucas: Cavs tanked to draft LeBron


The Cavs invited him to a workout when he was 17 and a JUNIOR, and later fined $150,000 they knew what he was long before anyone else and made sure to be as bad as possible the year of his draft.

 

[the cool]

We just gonna gloss over this blatantly wrong piece of info that was your foundation for this thread

Lebron
Kyrie
AD
Wall
KD
Harden
Love
Melo
Russ
Boogie

All picked before 6

That's 10 players out of the 25 picked this year aka 40%. And Hayward, Kemba, PG, DeMar, and Steph were all still top 10 picks so that's 60% of the field who were top prospects

 

[Malta]

i said 6th pick or later

We just gonna gloss over this blatantly wrong piece of info that was your foundation for this thread

Lebron
Kyrie
AD
Wall
KD
Harden
Love
Melo
Russ
Boogie

All picked before 6

That's 10 players out of the 25 picked this year aka 40%. And Hayward, Kemba, PG, DeMar, and Steph were all still top 10 picks so that's 60% of the field who were top prospects

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

We just gonna gloss over this blatantly wrong piece of info that was your foundation for this thread

Lebron
Kyrie
AD
Wall
KD
Harden
Love
Melo
Russ
Boogie

All picked before 6

That's 10 players out of the 25 picked this year aka 40%. And Hayward, Kemba, PG, DeMar, and Steph were all still top 10 picks so that's 60% of the field who were top prospects

Just a few more players in the top ten in their drafts:

Kareem, Magic, Larry, Duncan, Wade, Dwight, Curry, and Patrick Chewing. High picks are what you need for building block type players.