The Official Tank Thread - 2019 Edition

Can't blame Maj/Rob they have brought in the JV team and convinced LBJ to jump on the tank. They just need to sit McGee now who is playing out of his mind. Javelle is 19.2/14/3.8 blks the past 5 games on .717 shooting on around 30 mins per game dude didn't get the memo

 

I don't blame Luke for trying to win as many as he can as an eff you to the FO before they fire him as the scapegoat for the season.

 

Honestly our South Bay squad play winning basketball plays. We should have saved all the money on Lance, Rondo, Beasely, and even kcp and just used our G league squad as backups. They play harder and are actually talented. And used the money on Brook and kept Randle.

 

Uh no. We need to lose out. We're currently effing 12th (!!!) so we need to get back to 10th at least, and losing out will guarantee that.

 

what does it matter? magic gona trade the pick anyways

 

Exactly. In order to trade it and get something nice back for it...we need it to be as high as possible.

Ideally, you get a top 3 pick and you trade that and one of the kids for AD...but the higher the pick, the more kids we'll need to attach

 

I doubt pelicans give a crap if the pick is 9-12, its all the same value to them, only way they view the pick as more value and therefore reduce their asking price is like you said a top 3 pick.

 

we will definitely lose all 4 remaining games so we will end up dead even with last year @ 35 Right now we pick 11th and the only team I see that can help us is Mini who are @ 34 wins. The T-Wolves have 2 games they could win (@Dallas & an @home vs Miami) and should only need one of those wins for us to advance our pick order they went 3-1 vs us this year and we pick before them in the event of tie record.

Charlotte (35 wins) could hurt us in a tie as we beat them both times this year but they have a few winnable games ahead (Pelicans, Cleveland, Detroit, Magic) unlike us who face far better teams than us . Nevertheless Charlotte could very well knock us down to 12th in the worst scenario, if they go winless or by the Gods we somehow win one. I know we had a knack of beating top teams earlier but let's be real. GSW, Clips, Utah, Portland vs our scrubs.

If Mini helps, they could give us as good as 10th and that is the only other good scenario I see reasonably possible. Otherwise we are 11th. or 12th due to Charlotte. With the following odds based on the new 2019 lotto:

 

assuming the pick lands outside the top 10 i have no doubt magic will try to trade it

although i'm not sure if there will be many teams lining up for that pick given that this is looking like a very weak draft

 

I could see us trade down and take a couple upper class men with later picks (e.g., Clarke, one of the two Tennessee guys).

 

I would normally like this idea best if we could get 2 high 1st round picks for the pick as we pick well there but considering the current game plan and LBJ's window I think it's going to end up on the trade block. If that means we retain one of Ball, Kuz, BI in a AD deal though that's great.