22 games to go. Let’s either make a strong playoff push or tank the hell out of these remaining games! Regardless, this season has been full of lots of fun and many pleasant surprises and the future is bright! Would’ve liked to see where we’d be right now without Hali’s injury.
by BenDover-___-
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I personally would like to see us go for a playoff push. I’m of the opinion that tanking can be bad for the development of young players and can build bad habits.
TAAAAAAAAANNNNNNKKKKKKKK
I think we are gonna finish the season in the 5th lottery spot
I’d much rather be drafting one of the top wings in the draft than getting blown out in the first round. So tank.
All aboard the tank train! It’s brutally obvious how flawed our team is and we’re going nowhere fast as we are so lets position ourselves to grab another great young talent.
As KP recently said, the team “[isn’t trying to punch it in to the 10th, 9th, 8th spot](https://reddit.com/r/pacers/comments/10zfe13/kevin_pritchard_on_the_teams_direction_we_dont/).”
It’s pretty obvious the team will be mostly tanking from here on out.
I exercise this cognitive dissonance where I compartmentalize winning and tanking separately.
I root for the tank in the macro, but still root for the win in any given game… I sleep at night.
Either outcome is a win-win in my opinion. But, the biggest win would be getting nice draft position and getting one of those wings on our team then making a playoff push next year.
I suspect we will “tank” but I’m not gonna be mad if we somehow end up in the play-in. The important thing to me is that the young guys get minutes. Wherever that leads us is fine by me
Get in losers. We’re going tanking.
I’m not expecting playoffs but I do want them to sweep the Celtics. We got a shot tonight! LFG! T-HOG! MOUNT UP!
It’s crazy to me that this team doesn’t have a legit power forward type player on the team and I think that if we rrreeeaalllyyyy wanted to we could make it to the play-in. I think if we just are patient and stick to the plan getting someone to fill that role and use our draft capital to make deals at draft time with a little added lottery luck could really propel this team forward and be even more exciting than we already are.
I think we just let the boys play and whatever happens, happens. It isn’t so black and white as tank or playoffs. Tanking is the worst thing we could do for the morale of the team. I’m not saying fight for a playoff spot but winning is never a bad thing.
Tank
That’s what sucks why can’t the league reward teams that don’t just tank every year?
wanting to make a playoff push is why dudes like oladipo left lol
We could probably trade our first two picks of the first round along with a player and still end up with a top 6 pick if we do somehow start winning
i’ve seen enough of this team getting bumped around in the playoffs. let’s go for a pick. Look at what Mathurin has done for this team, maybe we’ll get lucky again