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Got a fun fact for you.
Shutting down your most important players with the season over?
That is purposely trying to lose. What you mean is, you're okay with us trying to lose as long as we try and orchestrate that loss pre-game instead of in the middle of the action, which is frankly a distinction without function.
There's more negative energy among die-hard fans for this totally meaningless, stupid, inane victory than there would have been for a loss. Other teams have been tanking for 6 years straight over in Phoenix, and Philly spent almost the same length of time competing with itself for most disgusting season of all time. We ask to tank for what, 15 games and suddenly that's too much and coaches can't countenance it? Pull the other one.
Do I think it'll help Gentry? Hell no. Far as I'm concerned, he's already gone. Do I think Gentry would rather go out showing he can win with some also rans so he can find his way onto another team next season?
Yeah. probably. And like my other post has said. I would hate to find out the Pels brass wants us to deliberately lose, rather than incidentally.
A coaches job is to win as many games as he can. No coach worth their salt is going out on any night with the intention to loose the game. There is no difference between coaches and players on that matter. Both should do what they can within the rules to put a “W” up.
The front office handcuffed Gentry enough to loose this game. There was not a single starter quality player at Gentry’s disposal tonight, and yet this team won. That IMO is a reflection on how bad Sacramento is than anything else.
It sucks that we won, but blame it on Sacramento and their crappy play/players, and not on our players and coaches.
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Ain’t going to happen. Coaches are not suppose to intentionally loose games. That is how a coach will find themselves never getting a coaching gig in the NBA again.
Again, the FO handcuffed the team to where they should not have had a chance to win this game. It’s not this teams fault that Sacramento sucks.
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If a General Manager tells their coach to tank, and that coach tries to win every game anyway, that coach gets fired.
Don't pretend like coaches are never in on tanks. That's blatantly false, and I'm not hearing it. You think Brett Brown was going out for Philly actively trying to win every game? No way. Philly was tanking. It was ''The Process'' and the coach knew it and he KNEW it was his JOB to guide the team in accordance with the wishes of the management.
If Gentry was told to tank, and he actively tried to win, he deserves to lose his job. And if Gentry WASN'T told to tank, then Ferry deserves to lose his job too.
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