I get what you're saying, but I think we've already seen that this team plays hard for each other and they seem to like playing under Stotts, but at some point maybe upper management needs to set a mandate to play the bench a lot more and get some answers on what they've got? That may sound like "tanking," but to me that's the difference between long-term strategic planning and short-term thinking. Olshey has to decide what's best for the health of this club. Making the playoffs might generate a little extra revenue (though not much as an 8th seed) and give guys like Damian a little taste of the big show, but more than anything this club still needs talent; the cheapest, highest percentage way to get real talent is through the lottery.
Fuck it, whatever happens is going to happen and it won't be the end of the world, but in a year where this team has two likely scenarios (getting an 11th or 12th pick, or forfeiting a 13th or 14th) and an unlikely one (squeaking into the playoffs and probably getting clobbered in 4 or 5 games) it'd be nice to see them take a knee so to speak and potentially improve their odds of actually being competitive in subsequent years.
