No, this is better, because that SL championship team could've beaten the team we put out there last night.
I can’t tell if you’re being facetious.
I don't think it's Chauncey's job to actually try and lose games, it's the opposite. It's on Joe now to shut Shaedon down.
He's been doing a bad job of it and probably hasn't had the tools to do a good job if he's capable of it but I believe that Chauncey has tried to win every game this season. That's why I am saying that even against a fucking badass team like Memphis, I want to see Shaedon shut down. The dude is getting so much better every game that we don't know when he might put it all together and we cannot afford another win. I think if Memphis has their full complement of players or close to it that Joe will take the gamble and wait until San Antonio to shut down Shaedon and he'll probably get away with it but I think it's irresponsible. I hope I'm wrong and Joe exercises caution but let's wait and see.
Haha. Classic Blazer fan logic.
It's just logic. At this point keeping ourselves in the 5th lotto spot outweighs our need to see one or four more games from Shae. So anything we can do to insure we don't win any of these next four games is the logical thing to do.
And you think the fifth lotto spot is going to make a huge difference, do you? This is the kind of logic that defies logic. The idea that Portland should lose games to make sure it stays in the fifth spot is just silly.
We wouldn’t have Sharpe if we didn’t tank last year. We desperately need talent on this team, and our pick will either bring in another talented rookie, or it will allow us to trade the pick for a good player.
And neither of those things will make enough difference to get the Blazers over the hump.
Not this year. Not next year. But as Sharpe improves he could definitely help get us over the hump down the road.
The point is that intentionally losing games for two years in a row just to get a little better each time is a foolish strategy. If tanking were guaranteed to get us a player like Wemby, who could help us win a title, then I could conceivably go along. But just to move up a spot or two in the draft? No. We’re throwing away games for a player that probably isn’t going to move the needle, and that’s embarrassing and desperate. Are we going to tank again next year, and keep tanking until we make the playoffs?
Down the road as in when Dames almost at the end of his prime?
And what about the impact of our tanking on other teams? If a team fighting to make the playoffs faces Portland a couple of times late in the season when Portland is intentionally losing games, is that fair to the other teams that are fighting to make the playoffs against teams that are not tanking?
