Official Wmc Thread: Um Those Too Many W's! Fix The Tank!

I expect it at this point. Sadly, I expect Kobe to miss the buzzer beaters as well, as he hasn't hit one in like, what, 3 or 4 years?

 

Whine, Moan, Complain, I believe.

 

Doesn't count for what I meant to say. I meant to say game winning buzzer beater. He's still clutch, he still hits big shots, he hit one to tie tonight, but that last shot to win it all when tied or down hasn't gone down for him in years if I'm remembering right.

 

Wow. How did we manage to lose this game? We are now officially the very worst team in the West.

 

Honestly some of his decisions just scream either incompetence or that he's leading the tank charge. I don't see how he sits Lin and Davis to end that game without knowing it makes us less likely to win. I just don't think that's possible.

The Lakers are not so secretly tanking this season. We're coming for that top 5 pick.

 

I'm with Doc. It'd be suicide for the franchise to allow their coach to blame the players if it's an organization-wide tank effort. Unless Scott's taking the tank into his own hands...say, at the private urgings of Worthy and Magic. The ultimate company man, the martyr, Judas...I mean, Byron Scott.

 

no one is beating Philly in that race. They live, breath, and think TANK.

 

Pretty much agree. With a guy like Booz as our starting PF and Byron's inability to or reluctance to take him out (either FO decision or his own), this team has little chance to win games. If he took the bold move and benched Booz I think we could actually win games. Until that happens I don't think we will. So either the FO wants us to tank and Byron is on board, or the FO wants Booz to play, or Byron just feels like his hands are tied because Booz is a vet and a free agent . . . whatever the cause for it, I don't think Byron is blind. He has called out Booz's defense and he can see the same things we do. Maybe as others have mentioned, we are trying to keep Davis' price tag from inflating . . .

Anyway, yeah, unless we make some moves at the deadline or something this team doesn't have enough going to win even half their games. I'm now expecting to keep on the current path - win one in every four games. If we were in the east we'd win more, but at this point it's probably better for us to just retain our pick.

 

Totally agree. That was a move you make if you want to lose. I don't think Byron is that incompetent. I may be wrong but it made no sense at all if you were actually trying to win the game and care about defense as Byron purports to. The odd thing about it was that it wasn't for Booz's sake who was still on the bench.