I could handle 66 games of tanking

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Tank it Suns!! Start Telfair, bench anyone who has any inclination of hussling, yes that's you Gortat and Dudley. Trade Nash for Fields.

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Tank it Suns!! Start Telfair, bench anyone who has any inclination of hussling, yes that's you Gortat and Dudley. Trade Nash for Fields.

Who's on board?

Not me!!! It goes against everything I believe in regarding competition. HOWEVER, I have no problem with trading every player that has value and getting future value in return. I don't have a problem with management taking the long view (in fact, I'm very much in favor of it) but I'd hate to see a player or a coach approach each game with anything other than an intense desire to win.

Steve
 

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Me neither. If we can retain Hill, I'm happy with our offseason. I'll look forward to watching these guys compete.
 

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... bench anyone who has any inclination of hussling, yes that's you Gortat and Dudley ...
Good one, jagu. Are you keeping track of anyone who thought you might be remotely serious? ;)
 

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Good one, jagu. Are you keeping track of anyone who thought you might be remotely serious? ;)

It might have been a bit tongue-in-cheek but I'm also sure he was at least partially serious. And he's not alone, either.

Steve
 

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The Suns do not need to tank. They will do quite nicely on their own.
 

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Jokingly or not, the only legit way to tank is to trade all the old ass OGs for young ass talent, talent being the key word. When this is done correctly, the growing pains come with some nice draft picks, and that killer piece to the puzzle if you can draft/trade properly. Look at Portland, had the genuine bad record with genuine youth on the squad, if they had gone with my boy (Kevin Durant) and kept a couple pieces....man.

That's all Haley's comet chit though, it comes when it comes, you can't get a whole to team to suck on purpose, and if you just try and coach badly enough to make the team lose....you aint gonna be around for the draft picks. But people will still talk the crazy talk, and I will hope they are joking.
 
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I wasn't very serious, but competitively losing wouldn't be so bad. We need to look to the future now.
 

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