04-04-2023, 09:14 AM
(04-03-2023, 06:02 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: How?
FGump said it better than I can in the Charlotte game thread, but this team's performance the last 2 weeks can easily be explained if they were trying to tank. Kidd's odd lineups and rotations, lack of apparent game plan, etc. all the oddities make lot more sense if the team wanted to try and get that top 10 pick.
But they couldn't just outright say we're sitting Luka and Kyrie when they were still in the midst of the play-in game and could make the playoffs. That would've been prime material to be ridiculed. Instead they let Kidd operate as normal, tank out of the play in, and then shut down Luka+Kyrie when things are out of reach.
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