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Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #60 on: October 20, 2017, 03:04:34 PM »

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To answer the OP's question, I am not interested in tanking this year and I will hazard a guess that neither are Brad Stevens, Danny Ainge, and all the players on the Boston Celtics.
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Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #61 on: October 20, 2017, 03:37:50 PM »

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About as interested as I am in nuclear war!! ::)

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #62 on: October 20, 2017, 03:45:51 PM »

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If Boston loses Irving after already losing Hayward, what exactly do you think Boston is going to be winning?

Keep trying.  This may be acceptable in the CAVs forums which I wager you haunt, but not in Boston!  Seasons are about winning.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #63 on: October 20, 2017, 04:24:28 PM »

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If Boston loses Irving after already losing Hayward, what exactly do you think Boston is going to be winning?

Keep trying.  This may be acceptable in the CAVs forums which I wager you haunt, but not in Boston!  Seasons are about winning.
And that doesn't answer the question. 
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Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #64 on: October 20, 2017, 04:43:17 PM »

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First off, there's no way we could make ourselves bad enough to compete with all the terrible teams in the league this year. And secondly we need to try to be as competitive as possible to keep the Anthony Davis possibility. He's not gonna want to play for a lottery team, and he's not gonna get traded anywhere he makes clear he doesn't want to be. Thirdly, that's what we have the Lakers pick for. Lastly, I really don't want to watch a awful team this year. So no.

Honestly,  enough of the Anthony Davis talk. Respect the players on the roster. We do not need Anthony Davis to win. He has not even made the playoffs in all his years in the league.

TP. Spot on.

I will start coveting players like Davis, Cousins, Embiid, Towns, etc when they prove that they can win in the playoffs. I'm talking 2nd/3rd round wins.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #65 on: October 20, 2017, 04:51:40 PM »

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First off, there's no way we could make ourselves bad enough to compete with all the terrible teams in the league this year. And secondly we need to try to be as competitive as possible to keep the Anthony Davis possibility. He's not gonna want to play for a lottery team, and he's not gonna get traded anywhere he makes clear he doesn't want to be. Thirdly, that's what we have the Lakers pick for. Lastly, I really don't want to watch a awful team this year. So no.

Honestly,  enough of the Anthony Davis talk. Respect the players on the roster. We do not need Anthony Davis to win. He has not even made the playoffs in all his years in the league.

TP. Spot on.

I will start coveting players like Davis, Cousins, Embiid, Towns, etc when they prove that they can win in the playoffs. I'm talking 2nd/3rd round wins.

I respect the player son the roster enough to think that tanking this year is impossible/ a bad idea. As for Anthony Davis he's a factor whether we want to discuss him or not. He's the one top 5-10 nab player who may soon be availble and get us to the warriors level, theres been numerous reports and conjecture that he's the celtcis target, and you can bet Dany Ainge considers how his actions impact the celtics ability to get him.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #66 on: October 20, 2017, 04:53:36 PM »

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First off, there's no way we could make ourselves bad enough to compete with all the terrible teams in the league this year. And secondly we need to try to be as competitive as possible to keep the Anthony Davis possibility. He's not gonna want to play for a lottery team, and he's not gonna get traded anywhere he makes clear he doesn't want to be. Thirdly, that's what we have the Lakers pick for. Lastly, I really don't want to watch a awful team this year. So no.

Honestly,  enough of the Anthony Davis talk. Respect the players on the roster. We do not need Anthony Davis to win. He has not even made the playoffs in all his years in the league.

TP. Spot on.

I will start coveting players like Davis, Cousins, Embiid, Towns, etc when they prove that they can win in the playoffs. I'm talking 2nd/3rd round wins.

If players such as Davis can hardly be within reach when their teams are bad, you won't be able to covet them if they win in the playoffs.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #67 on: October 20, 2017, 04:54:22 PM »

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No thanks.

This team already bottomed out.  Absolutely no interest going there again.
A one year tank when your two best players are injured is no where near the same thing as bottoming out.

Let me get this straight..... you're already thinking about another season-ending injury to either Kyrie or Horford?

Yikes.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #68 on: October 20, 2017, 05:11:13 PM »

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No thanks.

This team already bottomed out.  Absolutely no interest going there again.
A one year tank when your two best players are injured is no where near the same thing as bottoming out.

Let me get this straight..... you're already thinking about another season-ending injury to either Kyrie or Horford?

Yikes.

This. Times 100.

Seriously.

Not at all interested in tanking this year, or any year.
« Reply #69 on: October 20, 2017, 06:09:42 PM »

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 Just need to land one of Bagley, Ayton, Or Bamba, than one of Porter, Doncic, Jarrett Jackson If we can add two of those guys to Jaylen Brown and Tatum that would be awesome.

The grass is always greener, isn't it, on the other side of the hill? On the other hand, having just watched the Lakers' and Lonzo Ball's debut, it looks to me as though a 2-5 pick next summer is a real possibility.

But the Celtics tanking? Won't happen. No point in entertaining it.

Horford and Hayward just trade them for Boogie and Davis LoL

The Boogie ship has sailed.  Given what it took New Orleans to get him, surely it is safe to say that Danny Ainge could have made that one happen if he'd wanted him. DeMarcus Cousins is poison and will never be a Celtic.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #70 on: October 20, 2017, 06:10:47 PM »

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I'm a little confused by the premise. If Kyrie were to go down for the season, what would "tanking" mean, exactly?

Would it mean instructing players on the floor to not play to win? The answer to that is always no.

Would it mean instructing Brad Steven to not coach to win? I don't think Stevens has any interest in that and I wouldn't trust a coach that did.

Would it mean trading our valuable vets to get young players and assets? If Kyrie goes down, then the whole team is going to be made up of young players and Al Horford.

So is the question, "If Kyrie goes down, should be trade Al Horford?" I say no.
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Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #71 on: October 20, 2017, 06:15:20 PM »

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If you don't play to win a championship why play at all

Disgusting that you even mentioned tanking,  go to the 76ers forums and gloss over the process  8)

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #72 on: October 20, 2017, 06:25:50 PM »

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If the basketball gods take Kyrie away from us this year due to some unfortunate injury, we wont need to tank. We will be God awful. Horford and two players under 21 are not gonna win us many games- lets be real here.


Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #73 on: October 20, 2017, 06:29:16 PM »

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ven if we loose tonight im not tanking......i doubt CBS understands the term.

Re: Anyone interested in tanking this year
« Reply #74 on: October 21, 2017, 11:05:36 AM »

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 If Irving went down with an injury for multiple weeks, I would tell him to sit and play video games with Hayward. Develop Rozier, Smart, Jaylen, Tatum. And raise the trade values of Nader, Semi, Yabu.

 Just need to land one of Bagley, Ayton, Or Bamba, than one of Porter, Doncic, Jarrett Jackson If we can add two of those guys to Jaylen Brown and Tatum that would be awesome.


 Bamba
 Porter JR
 Tatum
 Brown
 Irving

 Horford and Hayward just trade them for Boogie and Davis LoL

no, please stop with the sillyness.
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