Mavs .5 game out of playoffs, chose to tank to maybe keep a fringe top 10 pick
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The Blazers shut Dame down with like 2-3 weeks left in the season when they were only 2 GB from the play-in and didn’t catch as much heat as the Mavs are getting
Danny Ainge traded half the Jazz’s team at the deadline because they were winning too much, and have been sitting Markkanen for like 2 weeks
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It's hard to believe that this the same Mavericks organization that had that 2011 run.
Crazy things happen when you get to the play-offs and your team goes nuclear. If anybody knows that it's probably Luka and Kidd.
Kyrie and Luka going nuclear puts a lot of teams away. Then you got other nuclear players like Christian Wood. Not to mention all the other factors like the potential injuries that may occur to your rivals and the potential bad match-ups that clear the team you have a bad match-up with. You win one more to get the play-in. Then a couple more to make the play-offs. Grab another game 1 or game 2 on the road and next thing you know you're in the WCF.
Draft pick argument is stupid. In the NBA, players drafted in the top 15 have about the same championship win rate as players drafted 15-30. Raptors didn't even have a top 10/lottery player on their team when they won.
Bottom line they sold right at the doorstep without even giving themselves an opportunity. That's weak and makes the league look weak.
Crazy things happen when you get to the play-offs and your team goes nuclear. If anybody knows that it's probably Luka and Kidd.
Kyrie and Luka going nuclear puts a lot of teams away. Then you got other nuclear players like Christian Wood. Not to mention all the other factors like the potential injuries that may occur to your rivals and the potential bad match-ups that clear the team you have a bad match-up with. You win one more to get the play-in. Then a couple more to make the play-offs. Grab another game 1 or game 2 on the road and next thing you know you're in the WCF.
Draft pick argument is stupid. In the NBA, players drafted in the top 15 have about the same championship win rate as players drafted 15-30. Raptors didn't even have a top 10/lottery player on their team when they won.
Bottom line they sold right at the doorstep without even giving themselves an opportunity. That's weak and makes the league look weak.
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They didn't catch as much heat because your statement is wrong. They had less than 0.1 percent of a chance to make the last play-in spot.
13th place, 5 games back of 10th with 7 games left, less than 0.1% probability to make the playoffs .... them making the play-in at this stage would be a miracle.
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My bad, I thought they were closer than that at the time
On the other hand, the same link you posted is giving the Thunder an 8% chance to make the playoffs out of play-in. The Mavs already had small odds of passing them up, and then would’ve had similarly small odds just to make it out of the play-in. All for the grand prize of getting smoked by Denver and not having a 1st round pick.
That said, I would’ve been completely fine if they went for it. But I also get why the front office went the direction they did, even if it is unethical.
My bad, I thought they were closer than that at the time
On the other hand, the same link you posted is giving the Thunder an 8% chance to make the playoffs out of play-in. The Mavs already had small odds of passing them up, and then would’ve had similarly small odds just to make it out of the play-in. All for the grand prize of getting smoked by Denver and not having a 1st round pick.
That said, I would’ve been completely fine if they went for it. But I also get why the front office went the direction they did, even if it is unethical.
The site updates daily and archives weekly, you can go back to the standings on the 25th, just before he was shut down. They were already down to 0.2%
I don't care what anybody says, that made the NBA look bad.
When was the last time a team tried to tank to avoid the play-offs, in any sport?
Play-offs are the time to do something special and these clowns didn't want to go for it.
Ain't that a fine and a lost pick? Man, if the league enforces that, this whole season was for absolutely nothing.
Let's see if they enforce it though
The only thing the league might do is create a Play-In for the Play-In Tournament
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All that expanding the play-offs for teams to try their hardest to avoid making the play-offsThe only thing the league might do is create a Play-In for the Play-In Tournament
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All that expanding the play-offs for teams to try their hardest to avoid making the play-offs
I bet if only teams in the play-in had a shot at the top pick that they would take it more seriously.
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This is worse than the Sixers tanking years ago
Gonna keep expanding it until a G-League team ends up making NBA playoffsAll that expanding the play-offs for teams to try and avoid making the play-offs
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One of the worst coward moves of all time!
