This is LTG. I had Jorr deactivate the account so I logged in under another name.

I know its sort of fashionable to diss tanking around here but tanking works. I always has and always will. The Bulls have 6 rings due to tanking.


Here is the proof.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/new ... f0mwz7jrtd

Carmelo Anthony sucks.

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Long Time Guy sucks

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I've never met a liberal lion.

This was the topic you chose for your grand return?

Hit up the Patrick Williams and NBA Draft threads

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This isn't LTG btw, Sanfratellos? Come one now...

I think I went to a couple of those games later in the season when the Stadium was almost empty.

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this is proof that polls on this board are skewed by fake posters.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Jordan wouldn’t win 1 title today

Yup. He'd win at least 9.

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Of course not, he’s 57 years old.

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That isn't proof they tanked.

I loved Reggie but I think he was deep into that culture the Jordan described in The Last Dance that was present when he arrived.

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But back to OP, tanking definitely works. Probably more in the NBA than anywhere else, where you typically can’t win a title without an all time great (or two) on the roster.

But it absolutely sucks in real time and makes watching the game a miserable experience.

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I know you are an anti tank guy so figured it was time to debunk this pernicious myth once and for all.

Players now treat the NBA like AAU. After a few years they leave to join with a different groups of friends. Free agency and forcing trades is the new tanking.

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That isn't tanking.

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Not sure I'd call blowing up a team that wasn't going anywhere half way through the year tanking, but wouldn't really care if someone else did.

Every real sports fan is an anti tank guy.

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Bu can he still beat LaVar? That’s all that matters.

After all, LaVar said he’d just back MJ down into the post and deliver sky hooks.

How isn't this tanking?

How isn't this tanking?

Real Sports fans don't wear plaid though.

Tanking involves intentionally losing for 1, but most likely more than 1 season in order to be good some point in the future. Trading away your best player during the season when you've proven you aren't going to be good this year is not tanking.

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So is this really LTG?

Can we get a confirmation on this?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

That's a weird definition you have cultivated in an attempt to isolate Theo as the tanker in chief

Tanking: Not trying to win as much as possible because it helps your draft position

Its that simple. If the Bulls reason for trading Theus inuded any reasoning about the draft, it was tanking.

Yeah I’d think that intentionally making a bad team worse fits the bill.

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Your definition of tanking is just as weird. Any trade no matter what that will have even a short term loss in expected wins, in this case 33 games of an 82 game season, is tanking. The Bulls were 21-28. They weren't going to win that year.

I don't view a trade deadline deal in a season where you aren't winning while trying to win as tanking.

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No, it's not. It's the widely accepted and logical definition.

If you're trying to win every game you are not tanking

If you don't mind losing because it improves your draft position, its tanking. And most often it's just a one year thing targeting a certain player.

What type of voodoo math are you using Brick? They were 27-55 that year and your conception of tanking is rather skewed to put it lightly.

You also contradict yourself by stating that they " weren't going to win that year".

This is all the more reason that I know I am correct about this.