Truly stellar work by Madsen here who was 1/9 from deep up to this point in his career:
Victor's coming! Tanking teams need guidance.
Remember the time Mark Madsen went 1-for-15 in the 82nd game? He missed 7 threes in 2 OT's as Minnesota scraped out an L to move up in the draft.
Fans yelling "DRAFT PICK!", visiting Grizzlies in disbelief. An unbelievable game. pic.twitter.com/PnNtE2qXAR
— Reinis Lācis (@LamarMatic) December 1, 2022
Long story short, the tanking Minnesota Timberwolves were playing their last regular season game of the 2005-06 season. Up by 3, with 30 seconds left, they suddenly turned to Madsen who launched a rare jumper. Next play he loses Brian Cardinal for a 3 and the Grizzlies force overtime.
During the two overtime sessions Madsen goes 0-for-7 on a sudden rampage of threes. Pretty surreal seeing the announcers and the whole crowd fully into it. At one point Jim Petersen even audibly encourages him to “let it rain”.
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Lol love it, thanks for sharing
Unpopular opinion, tank basketball is way more fun than competing basketball. As a wolves fan I miss it 🙁
Another elite tanking moment was when the Rockets were tanking for Hakeem Olajuwon and they played 38 year old washed up Elvin Hayes [53 minutes](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198404130HOU.html) in a game
Timberwolves of course shrewdly used that pick on Randy Foye
This is incredible content.
Madsen was a crowd favorite for his hustle. He earned that moment. Also one time I remember him eating a salad on the bench during a game
He did his best
Daniel Otoru tanking the Clippers into a playoff matchup with Dallas is the goat tank game IMO.
Mad Dog Madsen >>>>> Scalabrine
Madsen GOAT
Watching the Grizzly bench laughing is an incredible part of that video.
Brian Cardinal was playing in a game? 😳