The Official Tank Thread - 2019 Edition

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  1. LTLakerFan

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    Like Game Day with the love / hate comments based on what have you done for us last 60 seconds.

    :Laugh:

    Oh and stay classy Kareem bagging on sirron not being there to jinx us any more after LBJ killed his man ..... errrr ....fanhood. :Magicwow4:
     
    LTLakerFan, Feb 22, 2019
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    Little did i know...
     
    Kenzo, Feb 23, 2019
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    who would of thought
     
    ThizGuy83, Feb 23, 2019
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    Sirron deserved to be bagged, Gob bless his soul...Let's just be happy if we win and happy if we lose...lots of good things either way
     
    KareemtheGreat33, Feb 23, 2019
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    Pelicans making bad decisions after bad decisions. We’re only 3 games behind them in the Tankathon standings now.
     
    Helljumper, Feb 23, 2019
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    Is there space for another one in the tank?? Imagine somehow we got Zion, lol the league would riot!
     
    OmarE, Feb 23, 2019
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    Yup it would be glorious to get the top pick
     
    KareemtheGreat33, Feb 24, 2019
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    Tanking seems to be natural progression for this team. They don't need to actively work for it. They are terrible enough to naturally get there.
     
    KB24, Feb 24, 2019
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    Yeah, we are very close to this thread being relevant now. Such a bummer that we are at this point. 45-50 wins looks like complete pipe right now. Honestly, I thought that was a realistic and conservative goal at the start of the year. Not sure right now if we get over .500 on the year. There is still some time for us to make a run but we just don't look like we have it in us.
     
    lakerjones, Feb 24, 2019
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    50 doesn't look like complete pipe. It IS complete pipe.

    We can't even beat teams like the Cavs, Knicks and Hawks consistently. We lose against the good teams and we lose against the bad teams. You don't make the playoffs if you suck azz on the road against the worst teams.

    We even lost to the Knicks and Cavs at home. Embarrassing.
     
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    I'm not disagreeing. That's what I'm saying. More importantly 45 wins looks like pipe. Not good. It's almost official now. We'd have to do a complete turnaround and start winning at a 70% rate and that does not seem possible. We're treading water at .500 barely and I'm not sure we can even keep that up. And that won't get us into the playoffs - we're too far back for that.
     
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    Our record against teams below 0.500

    15-11

    Our record against teams above 0.500

    14-19

    If that is not a lottery team, I don't know what is.
     
    KB24, Feb 24, 2019
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    18-11 at one time...building cohesion. Then the usual spate of injuries hit and here we are.
     
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    Trust the process guys.
     
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    Yes true. The Anthony Davis saga didn't help either.

    With that said we were 18-11 on the softest schedule in the NBA. It was always clear that by the end of January we will be terrorized until April.
     
    KB24, Feb 24, 2019
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    Worst thing is you (mainly) only need to beat the bad teams to make the playoffs and we even couldn't do this .

    6 losses against the 10 worst teams in the league , 11 against the ones below 0.50 as KB24 wrote .

    We would be a 5th seed if we had cut these bad losses in half
     
    wcsoldier81, Feb 25, 2019
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    i'd be curious to see other playoff teams' records against those squads. it feels like only we lose to them, but that can't be, right? i mean those teams will have all won 20-25 games by the end of the season, and they all couldn't have been against each other and us.
     
    abeer3, Feb 25, 2019
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    We play Memphis tonight fellow Tankers. Hope we lose by double digits, hope the locker room implodes, and hope Luke gets fired by the end of the game.
     
    LaVarBallsDad, Feb 25, 2019
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    Against the current 10 worst teams (by my "calculations")

    SAC is 13-3
    Clippers are 11-8
    Spurs are 11-6
    Jazz is 12-4
    Lakers are 13-6

    Vs below 0.50
    Kings 22-7
    Jazz 19-7
    SAS 20-11
    Clippers 19-11
    Lakers 16-11
     
    wcsoldier81, Feb 25, 2019
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    thanks. so others (e.g., clippers) also inexplicably lose to bad teams. but the difference between us and the jazz and kings is that they beat up on the bad teams.

    so yeah, we'd be in the playoffs if we beat up on those bad teams to the same extent that other low-tier playoff teams do.

    that's depressing. and i'm not a "fire luke" guy, but if you wanted to point to data...that would be it.
     
    abeer3, Feb 25, 2019
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