01-31-2023, 04:43 AM
(01-31-2023, 12:01 AM)F Gump Wrote: Barely beating the bad teams in a home game, that's an indicator of who they are. But for purposes of tanking, a W is a W, and each one makes the possibility of a top 10 pick just a bit smaller.
Here's what I wrote above, but with an update --
"Here's the task now. They have to lose about 2/3 of their remaining games to have a solid shot at successfully getting that top 10 pick...[meaning] they can only afford to win 9-10 8-9 games over the entire remainder of the season. When you see it in those terms, and know the PLAYERS are going to play to win, it's hard. You probably have to get Kidd's cooperation in setting lineups to make it work, unless you get lots of help from the injury monster with key players (like Luka)."
Oh they are locked into the play-in. They don´t have the talent to finish top 6 and the Thunder/Lakers/Blazers are not good enough to catch up. Despite the closeness of the standings, I´m pretty confident they´ll finish either 9th or 10th.
Cuban will never get it. Though to be fair, if he´s lost hundreds of millions on the crypto (who knows?) then his motivation for not tanking might be the additional play-off revenue. I wonder whether he still buys all the empty seats. Haven´t heard him brag about the sellout streak for a while. Cause last night the only profession bigger than the soldiers were the empty seats.