Yeah, they already “clinched” a 60 loss season with about 4 games left. Very impressive

Mathurin was a solid pick though, he helped get us Zubac. Paolo or Chet on the Pacers would be interesting but kind of a pipe dream, otherwise I’d say that one mostly worked out.

…… this was the year to do it too. Wish another team would do the same

Oh Emperor Silver will not allow this. Pacers are not a big market team and do not fit his narrative.

Remember when they were saying in the first half the year “we just need to go on a 13 game win streak”.

They just couldn’t win tho 😂

And the class is good. Excited to see who yall pick, if it’s a high pick maybe AJ, Peterson, etc.

But you never know how it’s going to fall. Spurs got wemby, won over 30 games a couple years ago and landed the #2 guy in a good draft. Fucking bullshit.

Feel bad for Atlanta fans, got zacks mid ass as a #1 guy. But hey, nba has a lot of luck sometimes

Not doing it the Paul George injury year was the biggest mistake.

Having a shot at KAT instead of drafting Myles would have significantly changed our future.

Smart, strategic tanking is what youre talking about. Some teams can do it.

Regardless of how the ping pong balls fall, I’m glad that the Pacers utterly embraced the tank for a single season.

The Pacers tried to compete early on, had a couple of decent showing including a win over the Warriors, but they quickly realised the roster just isn’t good and that tanking was the way to go. I’m really curious what their summer will look like.

The Pacers were smart. They didnt try to fight the inevitable

Meanwhile the disaster show that are the Bulls are where they are bc they refused to accept reality. So obnoxious

Yeah, now we’ll have a solid draft pick most likely AND Hali back next season: East gonna be sweating

You heard it here first Adam Silver. u/drjisftw has admitted to the Pacers tanking. Lock em up like the other tanking teams.

it completely changed the Spurs franchise back in 96-97. Some bad injuries, embrace the tank, draft an all time great, profit…

It’s bittersweet. I’m glad for you and all the other Pacer’s fans, but it sucks to see the Pacers embrace the tank after resisting for so long.

Doesn’t help when you have 9 guys on your injury report. We were giving starting minutes to multiple g-leaguers at the same time. They took the thunder to double OT on opening night when they were down 2 starters in Hali and an unreplaced Myles.

If we didn’t have terrible injury luck we could’ve made the play in at least, but I think once the bottom fell out and we got in contention for top picks in a generational draft there wasn’t exactly much reason to make the push

Yeah they were terrible even the 500 min Nembhard/Nesmith/Siakam all played. I dont really have a greater point here but was looking at preseason O/U’s before the season Boston’s was 41.5 Indiana’s was 37.5 had forgotten the gap was so small. Just completely different directions. The same ways you can try explaining away Indiana’s season I think people wouldve done for Boston had it gone that way also. Now I dont fully buy it, even w all the injuries this was just a team that played worse than expected its fine to say that, but variance is interesting to look back on

Best thing from the season was probably how Nembhard was able to figure handling a clearly oversized role with the improvements in playmaking and 3 pt shooting at the heavier volume.

1 franchise*. The Kings are over here ruining there draft pick and winning all of these games that don’t matter.

Because we have no energy with which to fight back

Pacers West. Rarely terrible, but too often mediocre.

Next year I have Boston-Indy grappling for the East. Too many question marks with everyone else.

Tanking never fixes a poorly run organization. I saw this with the Knicks in the 2010s. Also there are some teams with just insanely poor lottery luck, the Wizards are one of those teams.

But I do like them buying extremely low on Trae Young and Anthony Davis, even if they both don’t work out it’s not a big deal since they practically gave up nothing for both.

I legit think the Wizards got a directive from ownership to get out of the shitter, and buying low on both Trae and AD allows them to do that while also getting one last tanking season in.

The problem with tanking is that that’s still the best way to get out of the shitter. I think flattening the lottery odds was a mistake because it’s led to teams like the Jazz and Wizards that get stuck since the ping-pong balls didn’t fall in their favor.

The funny thing is the NBA community basically begged the Wizards to tank for years when they tried to figure out a way to be competitive around Beal.

most proper rebuilds/tanks are 3 years, in a different situation you’d see more gradual improvements but i wouldn’t judge the rebuild results until next year

I think it they get a healthy AD next year, they’re a playoff team. If not, I think theyre at least a playin team

Pacers for sure, they’ve had several teams and players in that stretch that you love to root for. Wizards have been pretty forgettable or awful outside of MJ’s comeback and the Beal/Wall peak. They haven’t even been in the ECF since the 1979. Obviously I’m biased though.

Wizards are also an objectively terrible mascot, especially with the original jersey design and knowing they had a much better name in the past.

As an Eagles/Pacers fan, prior to 2017 I’d have said they were sports twins, as they had both been mediocre to great teams but never won it all.

More bad teams than mediocre. I can only recall like 7 years of mediocre teams

Most wizards fans were not old enough to remember 79 so I’m going to say Pacers. DC is one of the better cities to live in as far as the NBA goes though, so that’s our trade off.

Correct, but they at least have a little bit of hope for next season.

I’d argue the most embarrassing stretch for any team in NBA history was the Grizzlies never hitting 30 wins for 8 straight seasons. They had to move the team it was so embarrassing.

It’s fine honestly. Does suck to watch

Woof.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Maybe they need to pull a Charlotte and become the Bullets again 

I’ve been saying it for years. #contractthewizards

I asked this question and all 15 of the Wizards fans started sending me angry messages

They all lurk on Reddit apparently

I’d go with whatever franchise Isiah Thomas is running

Hornets are far worse

It’s the Browns. Remember when they had the first AND fourth picks in the draft with Saquon Barkley and 4 top QB prospects…and they used the 1st pick to take the QB they could’ve got at 4.