Sentences with phrase «tank season the team»

Not exact matches

While the Brooklyn Nets don't own their own pick this year, that's still eight teams likely prepared to attempt an all - out tank during the homestretch of the NBA season.

While tanking has been a not - so - secret aspect of late - season game - planning for the worst teams in the league for some time, this year's tank looks to be the most blatant in NBA history.

The only teams worse in the NBA this season were six tanking clubs and the Clippers.

It certainly wasn't for the game: Sacramento versus Dallas, two tanking teams in a meaningless late - season matchup.

We'll see if any of the three teams tank in the last game of the season to avoid LeBron James.

But with the way both seasons unfolded, you wonder how much either team has left in the tank.

@John, at this point in the season we might as well have gamethreads for the 2 - 3 other teams trying to out tank us...

It's typically only the league's worst teams (like the 76ers, Nets and Kings) that receive such limited public support, but there are some great opportunities to fade these teams as we examined when we looked at late season tanking strategies.

While the new Marlins ownership group hasn't exactly instilled confidence in locals, longtime fans, or their own players, continuing to keep players on the roster who have repeatedly expressed frustration about being part of a team that looks to tank in 2018 and struggle to be successful for a few seasons after that would be escalating an already tense situation.

Yet, we're nearly 300 comments deep on how the team's going to tank next season because Carr left.

Team Wellek as they have during most of the Season was able to start fast here and the exhausted Team Mordini who had basically played 16 innings straight of 1 - run softball just didn't have enough in the tank to catch up..

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

After stunning St. Mary's, there just wasn't enough in the tank for the team to win its ninth NorCal title; Miramonte ended their season with a 73 - 40 thumping.

Knowing that the tanking process will begin within the next few weeks, we believed that we could create a profitable betting system by fading the league's worst teams in late season games.

«[Against] a tanking Philadelphia team on the road at Cleveland last season or a tanking Brooklyn team on the road this season LeBron is likely only worth 1.5 to 3.5 points as they don't need him anyway and he likely wasn't going to play a full compliment of minutes anyway,» Holt continued.

It's smart for bad NFL teams to tank for better draft picks, but is it also smart to bet against teams tanking late in the season?

This trend helped confirm that teams do tank in late season games and, more importantly, showed that these teams also struggled to cover the spread.

This is not to suggest that the scenario most dreaded by the NBA — a possible late - season tank job — has been discussed by any team.