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msgkings322
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The Wembanyama Wildness has made this more of a thing this year, with all the jokes and talk about teams tanking left and right. But thinking about it, are that many really doing a full Process-style tank? For one thing, tanking doesn't improve your odds like it used to. And really, a lot of teams are just bad, or just in that phase of their cycle:
Spurs: these guys have been bad for a couple years now, are they really tanking though? All they did was trade their best player before having to pay him, and they clearly decided they weren't ready to or didn't want to build around him. So that's not a tank
Jazz: this looks like a team that (correctly) decided their 2 high priced stars weren't getting them very far, so they decided to trade them for lots of picks and rebuild. This is smart team management but it's not tanking. And you can't really call it that unless it goes on year after year.
Pacers: seems more like Spurs/Jazz than a deliberate 'tank'. This is where they are in the cycle.
Kings, Magic: doesn't feel like tank jobs, just perennially bad teams
Thunder: this to me is closest to an actual tank job, because they've been at it for a while and they routinely sit guys for no reason other than to lose games.
Rockets: similar to Thunder, sitting Wall all year, etc.
Spurs: these guys have been bad for a couple years now, are they really tanking though? All they did was trade their best player before having to pay him, and they clearly decided they weren't ready to or didn't want to build around him. So that's not a tank
Jazz: this looks like a team that (correctly) decided their 2 high priced stars weren't getting them very far, so they decided to trade them for lots of picks and rebuild. This is smart team management but it's not tanking. And you can't really call it that unless it goes on year after year.
Pacers: seems more like Spurs/Jazz than a deliberate 'tank'. This is where they are in the cycle.
Kings, Magic: doesn't feel like tank jobs, just perennially bad teams
Thunder: this to me is closest to an actual tank job, because they've been at it for a while and they routinely sit guys for no reason other than to lose games.
Rockets: similar to Thunder, sitting Wall all year, etc.