[Senator Clay Davis]

Yeah but again, even dumping Lowry and Gay, they would not have gotten into position to get a top 3 pick. They needed to literally gut the entire roster to be bad enough to tank. Giving away any decent players for scraps and fielding a disgraceful roster. And even that would not have guaranteed them anything, they could have gotten 4th in the lottery.

Now granted had they gutted the roster they might be position for Towns or Okafor this year, but even then outtanking Minny, Philly and the Lakers this year was going to take a gargantuan effort of piss poor play. The NBA has too many teams in a year tanking for tanking to truly be a viable strategy. They just need to find someone from the Spurs system to come in, and just instituting that kind of system alone gets them 5-10 more wins a year with the same talent.