OldFan wrote:Seems like tanking comes up in almost every thread and I think it's a bad idea.

I'm a Knick fan, but I'm also a basketball fan. Who wants to watch a league where 20% of the teams are tanking?

That's kind of irrelevant. No matter what, 20% of the teams are to be a very bad. You'll never have a league (the NBA, NFL, MLB) in which a decent percentage of the teams aren't very bad, regardless of their intent.

In 1986-87, the Knicks, Nets, Clippers, Spurs and Kings all won less than 30 games (23% of the league). Just part of the game.

smackeddog wrote:Come up with a better idea to get free elite talent. This is the last year you can tank anyways

OldFan wrote:Seems like tanking comes up in almost every thread and I think it's a bad idea.

I'm a Knick fan, but I'm also a basketball fan. Who wants to watch a league where 20% of the teams are tanking?

I want to see my team compete. I want to see the opposing teams compete.

I think the NBA should be doing everything in their power to remove the benefits of tanking. It degrades the game.

Agree it is not good for a team to tank from the start. However, dont agreee that the Knicks are in tank mode. They are definately younger but thats just the path they feel they need to be on. We have a deep athletic squad. Grant it, all guys that have something to prove and have yet to do so but they are decent NBA players. A couple are even fringe stars. JH is definately trying to win. Full Tank mode alert would be Noah, LT, Mcbuckets, Baker and Jack starting.

We finally have management that realizes we're bad, and that we have to start rebuilding the right way.

Which includes keeping our draft picks, and building with youth.

That's not tanking.

Now- maybe you can say at the end of the year, you have KP dinged up, makes sense to sit him vs. play him. That is tanking.

But, that is small time.

SupremeCommander wrote:I tend to agree, but I want to get another player on par with KP

I heard an interview with a Philly reporter. He said in his entire career, across all sports, he never saw an issue divide generations the way tanking and The Process did. I found that interesting

Hard to accept tanking in the beginning of the season...but if there seems to be no chance of a playoff spot with 15 games left...things change.

We love KP, but would we rather have Towns?

Would you rather have had a chance to take certain other players over Frank?

Curry or Hill? I know there were others we could have taken, but we all wanted Curry.

I get upset when we lose now, even though I can see that in the big picture we might want to lose and get a top 3 pick. Hard not to want to win... and if this is true for a fan, you know players and coaches don't want to lose games for a higher draft pick.

franco12 wrote:We're not tanking, we're just bad.

We finally have management that realizes we're bad, and that we have to start rebuilding the right way.

Which includes keeping our draft picks, and building with youth.

That's not tanking.

Now- maybe you can say at the end of the year, you have KP dinged up, makes sense to sit him vs. play him. That is tanking.

But, that is small time.

HofstraBBall wrote:

OldFan wrote:Seems like tanking comes up in almost every thread and I think it's a bad idea.

I'm a Knick fan, but I'm also a basketball fan. Who wants to watch a league where 20% of the teams are tanking?

I want to see my team compete. I want to see the opposing teams compete.

I think the NBA should be doing everything in their power to remove the benefits of tanking. It degrades the game.

Agree it is not good for a team to tank from the start. However, dont agreee that the Knicks are in tank mode. They are definately younger but thats just the path they feel they need to be on. We have a deep athletic squad. Grant it, all guys that have something to prove and have yet to do so but they are decent NBA players. A couple are even fringe stars. JH is definately trying to win. Full Tank mode alert would be Noah, LT, Mcbuckets, Baker and Jack starting.

I think we have a disconnect. I wasn't commenting on if the Knicks were or were not tanking. I was saying as a fan I don't want the Knicks or any other team to tank. I want a league with teams playing to win.

It seems many posters are on board that tanking is ok, for me, it takes away from my enjoyment of the game.

HofstraBBall wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

OldFan wrote:Seems like tanking comes up in almost every thread and I think it's a bad idea.

I'm a Knick fan, but I'm also a basketball fan. Who wants to watch a league where 20% of the teams are tanking?

That's kind of irrelevant. No matter what, 20% of the teams are to be a very bad. You'll never have a league (the NBA, NFL, MLB) in which a decent percentage of the teams aren't very bad, regardless of their intent.

In 1986-87, the Knicks, Nets, Clippers, Spurs and Kings all won less than 30 games (23% of the league). Just part of the game.

Its not irrelevant. Its his opinion. And he was commenting on a couple of points.

Funny how your MO is to take parts of the post and try to make some other point to prove you somehow know more. What's irrelevant is posting the above when a guy comments on:

How he does not agree with tanking. (Which is a valid position)
Doesn't want to watch a league where 20% are tanking. (So he knows the percentage but thanks for the 1986 ref)
How he does not want to watch his team tank but rather compete. (Most fans do)
Thinks the league should find a way to address this. (Which has been discussed and they did)

And the fact that 20% of the league is bad does not address the point of "Intentionally losing" i.e. Tanking.

So watching a team lose 57 games by an average of 12 points is better if a team is trying as opposed to watching them lose 57 games by an average of 12 points if they're tanking??

I was making a pooint made later. First of all the word has become way overused and the idea over estimated.

Two, it really doesn't affect the quality of basketbal actually played.

Knicks have been terrible for years. I don't think that they were trying and awful anyway made them any more pleasing to watch.

You?