KP4Life wrote:Suns, Cavs, and Bulls were just pathetic last year with their tanking. I have no idea how Stern doesn't do something about it. Meanwhile, we win an extra 3 games at the end of the season and lose out of Doncic. Is this finally the year we tank for real until the end of the season or will the knicks just mess it up again and let Tim Hardaway Jr get hot and let him win like 10 extra games for us? But why do the Knicks just REFUSE to blatantly tank like the the fore mentioned teams?
David Stern is no longer Commissioner.
I fail to see how the Cavs tanked last year. Feel free to give your reasoning as to that.
Western teams are an entirely different animal. The bottom rung Western teams get the **** beaten out of them because the West is so strong.
Knicks play in a gutted East. Less talented teams tanking and playoff teams resting their cores at the end of the season mean more back end wins. The Bulls can trade Jimmy Butler for young assets and negate Butler's ability to help generate wins. No one wants Kanter, Lee, Hardaway Jr, etc but those players will help the team generate a few wins.
When you have ****ty contracts no one wants, you cannot "organically tank"
Boston organically tanked. They traded off Garnett and Pierce and Rondo. They got draft picks and other young assets. They negated players who would help them get wins, improving their draft positions.
The Knicks cannot organically tank because of a ****ty roster based on it's stuck in the mud contracts and play in the Conference that is weaker, getting them more wins.
