Enjoying yourselves Anti-Tankers?

[Dino Pitino]

we'll be in NBA purgatory for the next few years with a middling team that gets swept every year in the 1st round.

Has a team ever been in NBA purgatory with about $26million below the cap and two first rounders a year for the next 3 out 4 years as well as multiple 2nd rounders and trade exceptions? Has that ever happened?

Nope. TP.

[PhoSita]

More than happy with this season.  But then again, I'm a fan a of actual basketball and not just the GM mode on NBA2K15.

Mike

A fan of being antagonistic with fellow Celtics fans, too.

Some of these people may be Celtics fans, but they're not fans of the sport, competition, struggle or sportsmanship.  They're fans of winning and of finding ways to rig the game so winning becomes easy.

Mike

You mean building a contender?  Building a talented team tends to make winning easy against all but the strongest opponents.  That's what we should want.

[Forza Juventus]

This tanking or not tanking debate is getting old.

[jonaslopes]

This tanking or not tanking debate is getting old.

Agreed. I would love to stop the debate. If the tankers don't create new threads about tanking I promise I won't criticise tanking.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

What you fail to realize is we DID try to tank. Did you forget that we traded away two of our best players in the season?

If you're mad because we got to the Playoffs and got swept, be mad at thé players and coaches who competed and had a big sense of pride to not lose on purpose. Go tell them off as to why they decided to play hard instead of just giving up. Go ahead. I dare you. Because they're the reason we made the Playoffs, not the "anti-tanking" bunch. They didn't want to lose, they wanted to compete. So go tell them that what they did was the wrong thing to do and they should have just gave up on the season and not compete.

Tell them. PLEASE! I beg you to tell the players and CBS that trying to win was a stupid decision.

We on the other hand, will enjoy real progress, Jae Crowder and Marcus Smart, along with a lot of room to improve.

[Scintan]

I 'enjoyed' them missing the playoffs last year, and I would have preferred they miss them this year, as well

Erase the quotes. Don't be a hypocrite.

I have no need to erase the quotes, and I'm not being a hypocrite.  My post stands just fine as I wrote it.  I can separate short term and long term, and can appreciate strategy.  You might want to try it yourself.

[LooseCannon]

This tanking or not tanking debate is getting old.

It's better than threads that involve unrealistic trade ideas or trying to sign a restricted free agent who will get any offer sheet matched by his current team.

[Forza Juventus]

This tanking or not tanking debate is getting old.

It's better than threads that involve unrealistic trade ideas or trying to sign a restricted free agent who will get any offer sheet matched by his current team.

Yeah the threads saying we could get Kawhi or Love or Draymond Green got old too. 

[Scintan]

I'm enjoying myself




Do pro tankers EVER enjoy themselves?

I 'enjoyed' them missing the playoffs last year, and I would have preferred they miss them this year, as well, which puts me in the company of Danny Ainge, the team's GM.

And what does Ainge himself think of his performance as a GM and his ability to manufacture a championship team out of all the assets in his control now? I'm guessing he is very happy with himself and very confident about his ability. As he should be. Whatever preference he had for missing the playoffs over making them must have been a weak preference. Because he probably realizes there are different ways to build a titlewinner besides grooming players you yourself have drafted high in the lottery. Like the way he himself used 8 years ago. I doubt he's bothered much by picking a few places higher. I doubt he thinks it will significantly affect his chances to build a winner. I doubt he's not enjoying his situation.

Being a singleminded tank commander is NOT being in Ainge's company.

Ainge gets it, about the draft picks v. playoff fodder, even if the more homeristic Celtics fans prefer to ignore it.  Ainge understands that, especially without the ability to plumb the high schools for the likes of Perkins and Jefferson,  higher draft picks is the most likely way that this team is going to turn into a contender. 

"It’s not my objective to be an eighth seed in the playoffs,” Ainge told the Herald. “My objective is to win championships, and we’re a long way from that.”

[oldtype]

I watched meaningful games at the Garden, cheered my team on, and had a great time. I got to go to a playoff game in a year where I expected us to be irrelevant by December.

So yeah, I think I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

[PhoSita]

This tanking or not tanking debate is getting old.

[SHAQATTACK]

Yup....loved the young guys being in the playoffs.

There is not tanking much left,  other than Bass and Wallace and Gigi......DA may trade some young talent for a pick ..but that's not tanking.....throwing the team to trash the season 

Pro tankers can dream on.......if your to thick headed to accept the the fact ......DA isn't selling off his good young players in order to take a risk on a lottery pick by losing.   

Celtics is about winning the right way ...not silly gimmicks

Stevens is not a loser or losing coach .....losing is not in his DNA .....he ll play every game towin.

Get use to it ....your dreaming if anybody thinks he ll ever be part to a 76 ers fiasco


The approach to rebuilding starts with Owners and GM ......sooner your thick skulls can absorb that FACT will make you much happier people or kids .

Sorry your too absorbed into being losers to enjoy the playoffs .

I hope this team makes the playoffs again .......no more miserable years of waiting on the lottery as he high point .....that's sad way to live.

[jonaslopes]

Was it worth it? Did the crew gain "valuable playoff experience!" Newsflash, nobody on this team will be here when we are back to a championship level so it won't matter. We could be crossing our fingers for a top 3 pick right now to help speed up the rebuild but nope. Sorry. Try again next time. At least we have the Brooklyn pick next year to rely on. Ainge is so bad at tanking maybe someone else can do it for him.

(Sorry in advance, this thread was just too easy NOT to make)

Well, for the last time, then: I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOvSBjNWYsw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjTgwXRKZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlZ6cfimoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbE7oAw6soQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D68sxl04Mcw

[Mazingerz]

I enjoyed it very much; Thank you for your concern;

[Onslaught]

I had a great time. Kept it much closer then I thought we would. We have cap space, draft picks and showed off some of our guys for future trades. Impossible for us to get a top pick this year and I don't know of a game changer coming out this year anyway. So it's all good for me.

As a plus it's possible that with injury's and suspensions we could've hurt the Cav's in the next round. So that's icing on the cake.