(04-20-2021, 08:34 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 08:27 AM)Mikey Wrote: what the fart? please cite any example in the history of all sports of a team being accused of tanking for the tenth or twentieth pick of a draft.

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Exactly. If a team truly wanted to tank, they would be bringing guys off the street to take the field. There is a difference between incompetent roster building/management and intentional attempts to lose.

lol Thank you.

The board does this song and dance every single off season. No coaches or players purposefully try to lose games. That's not what tanking is. Tanking is putting out inferior players (or coaches) in order to give your team a better chance at losing. Those players on the field or court are trying to win the game but they're just not good enough. The Sixers did it for years and I think the Jags/Jets tried that this year. 

And for me personally, I either want to have the 1st overall pick or make the playoffs. Continually being 7-9 or 6-10 does nothing for your franchise. "Yea but what about finishing strong!" Nah. There's no correlation between ending the season with a few wins and then continuing that streak the next season.

Regarding that last bit, I'll differ to a degree. A young, up and coming team that is 2-10 will get a lot of value from learning how to seal an otherwise meaningless win. Otherwise, I agree, if you are about to start a complete roster overhaul, those late wins only complicate the process. We've seen that far too often, unfortunately.

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