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Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« on: November 28, 2014, 05:36:02 PM »

Offline cb8883

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Nothing else matters other than Okafor or Towns. We need to beat Philly at their own game. Green needs to go. Rondo needs to go. Bass needs to go. Just tank baby!!!

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2014, 05:39:59 PM »

Offline D.o.s.

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At least a goldfish with a Lincoln Log on its back goin' across your floor to your sock drawer has a miraculous connotation to it.

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2014, 05:52:27 PM »

Offline jonaslopes

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Go to Philly. You are welcome there.
It's nice seeing him get exposed as overrated after having argued with fellow fans for years that he was overrated.. but I don't hate him. I'm looking forward to seeing him [...] bounce around to a couple more teams... eventually come back to Boston[...] and helps us as a role player until he runs himself out of the league.
LarBrd33 on Rondo

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2014, 06:25:18 PM »

Offline slamtheking

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saw the title and bet myself I knew who started it.  yup, guessed right.  same garbage in yet another thread

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2014, 07:01:07 PM »

Offline flybono

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Ainge needs to continue the rebuild. We saw last year, losing or tanking doesn't necessarily get you where you want to go.

Smart drafting trading and development is needed and above all Scouting, Scouting, Scouting..
If Ainge is a true talent evaluator he needs to find talent via trade and the draft. The chips are there in Rondo, Green, Bass and if needed KO.

Pacers built a strong Team through the draft without a top 5 pick.. You don't need the Top pick to turn it around!
Smart is a start. When he returns the minutes and point guard position need to be there for him..

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2014, 07:22:20 PM »

Offline Rosco917

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Tanking can become a team habit. It will pop it's head up anytime things don't go your way.

Not on my watch...

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2014, 07:51:32 PM »

Offline cb8883

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It could have been sped up if Danny Ainge made the right choice and didn't pass up on the Greek Freak

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2014, 07:53:29 PM »

Offline cb8883

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saw the title and bet myself I knew who started it.  yup, guessed right.  same garbage in yet another thread

Same garbage? Because your treadmill plan will produce something !!!

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2014, 07:56:44 PM »

Offline Neurotic Guy

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It could have been sped up if Danny Ainge made the right choice and didn't pass up on the Greek Freak

Or slowed down if he hadn't chosen Sully, Rondo, KO, AB, Marcus and Young.

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2014, 08:04:04 PM »

Offline Birdman

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Tanking sure hasn't help the 76ers yet..they been doing it for years and look at them now..still winless
C/PF-Horford, Baynes, Noel, Theis, Morris,
SF/SG- Tatum, Brown, Hayward, Smart, Semi, Clark
PG- Irving, Rozier, Larkin

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2014, 08:23:20 PM »

Offline puskas54_10

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Tanking is not the answer. I tell you how tanking really works:
Year 1: you dump your talented players
Year 2: you are lucky and get a a franchise player
  or not, back to tanking
Year 3: you are in the lottery againg, maturing process
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
Year 4: you reach the playoff, but no real threat
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
Year 5: you can contend, but no guarantee for winning
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
  or your franchise player gets injured, so no winning, he will never be the same, so back to   tanking

The point is tanking will not guarantee anything. Spurs, Mavs, Lakers, the best teams of the last decade did not tanked in the last ten year, even when people said they are done, they should trade their best player, they did not. Duncan, Dirk, Kobe all win championship after some rough stretches, while they past 30.
Charlotte and Sacramento were horrible in the last 10 years. Every year picked high. They never found their franchise player.

Plus Boston is not a cheap team. They are capable spending big money. Why tank like a small market team and be a joke for years?
« Last Edit: November 28, 2014, 08:29:03 PM by puskas54_10 »

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2014, 08:32:08 PM »

Offline Nerf DPOY

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Tanking is not the answer. I tell you how tanking really works:
Year 1: you dump your talented players
Year 2: you are lucky and get a a franchise player
  or not, back to tanking
Year 3: you are in the lottery againg, maturing process
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
Year 4: you reach the playoff, but no real threat
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
Year 5: you can contend, but no guarantee for winning
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
  or your franchise player gets injured, so no winning, he will never be the same, so back to   tanking

The point is tanking will not guarantee anything. Spurs, Mavs, Lakers, the best teams of the last decade did not tanked in the last ten year, even when people said they are done, they should trade their best player, they did not. Duncan, Dirk, Kobe all win championship after some rough stretches, while they past 30.
Charlotte and Sacramento were horrible in the last 10 years. Every year picked high. They never found their franchise player.

Plus Boston is not a cheap team. They are capable spending big money. Why tank like a small market team and be a joke for years?

I agree with almost all of this, but it falls on deaf ears to most of the pro tankers. They just ignore it, and then a few days later start another thread about the pit falls of being a "treadmill team". You know, a treadmill team...like Houston was a few years ago, and Indiana, before they rose to the top of the league the last few seasons.

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2014, 08:39:20 PM »

Offline greece66

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Tanking is not the answer. I tell you how tanking really works:
Year 1: you dump your talented players
Year 2: you are lucky and get a a franchise player
  or not, back to tanking
Year 3: you are in the lottery againg, maturing process
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
Year 4: you reach the playoff, but no real threat
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
Year 5: you can contend, but no guarantee for winning
  or you still don't find your franchise player, back to tanking
  or your franchise player gets injured, so no winning, he will never be the same, so back to   tanking

The point is tanking will not guarantee anything. Spurs, Mavs, Lakers, the best teams of the last decade did not tanked in the last ten year, even when people said they are done, they should trade their best player, they did not. Duncan, Dirk, Kobe all win championship after some rough stretches, while they past 30.
Charlotte and Sacramento were horrible in the last 10 years. Every year picked high. They never found their franchise player.

Plus Boston is not a cheap team. They are capable spending big money. Why tank like a small market team and be a joke for years?

I agree with almost all of this, but it falls on deaf ears to most of the pro tankers. They just ignore it, and then a few days later start another thread about the pit falls of being a "treadmill team". You know, a treadmill team...like Houston was a few years ago, and Indiana, before they rose to the top of the league the last few seasons.
I have no problem agreeing with most of this too, but what's the point since Ainge pulled the trigger a year and a half ago? Whether we like it or not we are a milder version of Philly. Will it work? I don't know, but as a fan all I can do is hope Ainge knows what he's doing.

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2014, 08:40:28 PM »

Offline bmac934

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Absolutely not.  Don't understand how any celtics fan can say this. 

Re: Team needs to keep tanking hard!!!
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2014, 08:46:21 PM »

Offline greece66

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OK we are back to the same old dialogue
-We are tanking.
-How can you say this? You are not a real fan.
-But it's happening.
-No, it's not.
-Look at our win record, it is.
-Things will get better.
-No, they won't.
-Yes, they will.
-No!
-Yes!