Quote:they're not starting Keenum for that reason, they're trying to see if he's any good

 

Gabbert has had his chance, to say the least

 

Right.  And if we decide to start Stanzi or Scott to "see if he's any good", is that tanking?  If you say no, then great, we have no problem because that's pretty much all the "tankers" have suggested. 

 

Let's be real guys, once you know the season is going nowhere, there is legitimate value in seeing what you have on guys you might not play otherwise.  But doing that when you fully expect them to fail (otherwise, you'd have been playing them all along) is a form of tanking.  And it's one that isn't fully transparent.  Some will choose to ignore the second part of that equation and focus only on the first, but it doesn't change what it is.

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