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Originally Posted by OzSome
TANKING is very unprofessional. If you are a season ticket holder and paid big amount of money to go to the game, how would you feel if the team throws the game? You are not a fan of the game if all you want is for the team to lose the game just to get a high draft pick.
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Then there have been a great number of unprofessional teams in the NBA and other leagues. In a setup where losing as much as possible gains you the best possible player then just being mediocre is maybe professional but stupid.
An intelligent fanbase would realize that there must be some short term pain for long term gain. They would go to the games to watch their young players develop and to watch good players on other teams.
Plus these teams do not throw games. Raptors, as an example, are hustling but BC skillfully gave them absolutely no bench. Tanking is an art as well as any other strategy. It has to be sold as something else. This year BC is using the "build" as the code word. For the casual fan that means they are looking to the future by developing their youth(which is true to some extent). To us hardcore fans it is a more than obvious tank job.
I don't think, if done right, that tanking is unprofessional at all. It is simply a strategy to be employed. The team, coach etc. are still trying to win. The GM just makes sure they are incapable of doing so.