lol like 7 years ago.
Fuck you, Doofus.
Gotcha. You also can't lump OWGs criticizing KemPom and tanking with everybody outside of the Sixers criticizing tanking.
This is just asinine. You have to realize this, right? It literally does not make sense. Wouldn't a participation trophy mentality for losers support the kind of step-by-step team-building that most often results in mediocrity and early play-off exits in the NBA? That way the team can sell the fans every year that this year is going to somehow be different and when they inevitably lose in the first round they can pat themselves on the back and say they tried. Assets doesn't shift the focus from winning. Winning is the ultimate goal. Tanking isn't losing for the sake of losing. I can understand people questioning the morality or gamesmanship of being noncompetitive for multiple consecutive years in the hope of increasing the odds of building a contender, but you are out of your mind if you think tanking teams don't actually want to win one day considering how much this costs in the short term.
Pretty sure only Harrison Barnes is the only person that uses black Falcon. He's been using it since UNC.when did this happen?
All perfectly reasonable critiques of tanking that have nothing to do with what you originally said.
Oh, it most certainly does. The tank is just a long con by the GM/owner. They know they suck at drafting and aren't going to actually improve by going about it a normal way. So they come up with this fabricated methodology to dupe fans into thinking that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It is all a diversion / excuse / justification for the losing that was going to happen anyway. Packaged as a #process to con the fans into keeping interest.
Advanced stats are very similar, the only difference is that the fans are conning themselves instead of forcing the team to do it for them. By focusing on the fabricated stats, the fans are trying to justify the losing to themselves. "We may not win many games, but we got dat PER and WAR! Those OWGs that root for winning teams without those #metrics are just fooling themselves, its all smoke and mirrors because the #stats don't support the wins, so they'll come back to the norm sooner or later and then the last laugh is on them! Suckers!" And if your metric du jour don't support that position, just come up with another calculation method that does. It's all just a diversion from the actual losing of games to keep interest, which is exactly what tanking is. If you root for an actual winning team, the absolute last thing that matters is how somebody adds/subtracts/multiplies/divides their raw stats.
The Cavs, Warriors, Thunder, Clippers, and Wizards all got to where they are today by sucking for years. And those teams picked dudes like Anthony Bennett, Jan Vesely, Ekpe Udoh with high lottery picks and still got good, because that's what happens when you suck for years, you get lots of cracks at it.
Hinkie's problem is he wasn't happy with just being half-heartedly shitty like these other teams. He had to get greedy and maximize his chances every single year. And that might be his downfall. Throwing a fucking joke on the court every night instead of a typical shitty team that no one gives a fuck about for half a decade.