Strategy-- Is Losing in 2016 Necessary?

[DesertDweller]

jmen788 said, "Isn't the draft next year supposed to be really good?"

That's quickly becoming an every year statement I'm really getting tired of hearing!!!

[jonaslopes]

The problem as I see it is really the "simulate" feature on all the 2k and nba live video games. Yes on there the best strategy might be to lose games and get a top pick. But in real life it is a terrible idea. Losing creates losing. Thank God the players dont think like some of the fans. Yes getting a number 5 pick this year would be much better than a number 10 pick. But, it is very easy to slip into a losing culture like we had after Bird and like the Clippers have seemingly always had until the last few years.

You need to bottom out to get better yes. But you don't need to stay on the bottom. Being a .500 team is only bad if you are stuck there. To climb a staircase at some point you need to be on the middle step. Its ok. Our old Walker PP team was stuck at .500. Our team now is just approaching it and with shrewd moves we can get better and better.


Thankfully we are doing things the right way. It is a superstar league. But you don't need to suck while you wait for a star. I think we are in a spot where with just small moves we could make our team into a top 5 in the east year after year team while we wait for a star to hit the market. A la Detroit before they got Sheed.


On a side note, what annoys me is the use of the term tanking. Really we will only be tanking if and when we are eliminated from the playoffs. Then, yeah, lose as much as you can, its only a few games. To advocate to tank a whole season before the current one is done is just foolish imo.

Great post, TP.