DILEMMA: Is Michael Porter Jr. TOO GOOD For The Brooklyn Nets To Successfully TANK This Season?
Erik Slater and Lucas Kaplan react to the Brooklyn Nets’ win over the Chicago Bulls, analyzing whether Michael Porter Jr. is playing too well for the team to successfully tank and how they feel the front office should operate moving forward.
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20 Comments
What is your top takeaway from the Nets' win over the Bulls? Are you worried about the team's tank?
Brooklyn is 100% not the worst team in the East. Some fans gotta accept that we are gonna get wins. With this amazing young core we have i’d love a nice lottery pick to add onto it but we dont NEED it. Some fans just gotta let go of the pessimism lol
Honestly this team has a lot more talent than Chicago, we should have a better record than them
MPJ's success is just a product of Jordi Fernandez's coaching
Yall need to take a deep breath and calm down. Winning winnable games is better than js straight up losing for 2 reasons. The locker room, and 26/27 foundations. I hope i dont have to explain that further. The tank will stay unaffected, really. Its called lottery odds for a reason. In all honesty, Atlanta and Dallas' no.1 picks back to back as teams that were in no way competing shows even tho being bottom helps, its not guaranteed. Unless we stat pushing play in or sum which is HIGHLY HIGHLY unlikely yall need to stop worrying and enjoy these promising performances and wins
Clearly they get rid of MPJ they will lose considerably but there are other players that have stepped up that Marks didn’t probably anticipate. Noah Clowney and Claxtons reemergence. Also, Jodie’s offensive season is just tailored made for some of the players on the roster to thrive. Cam Johnson is not the same player this year that his was with the Nets.
I’m not changing my mind about the Tank people. It is the number one priority and should be. It would be absolutely catastrophic if the Nets don’t get a top three pick this season. BUT there are other effective methods to tanking besides trading away good players. This is where Marks comes in and ownership. Players and coaches don’t tank but organizations can create mandates. Marks and ownership will need to step in to control the situation. Rest days against lower appoints etc. Utah did it last year. Philly did it. You take the fines.
Fuck the tank just play ball whatever happen happen stop promoting losing and promote hard work/development and leader ship
Imagine what Jordi can extract out of a top 3 pick this year
I feel like I have to apologize to Ben Saraf, who looks like a different player since his recall from the G-League. You can see a much better court vision developing among the four rookies. Add Porter and a developing and improving Noah Clowney, this does not look like a tank tram
Still one of the 5 or six worst records in the league. Not time to panic
We never learn
The NBA is a mess with all these teams tanking. It’s awful for the league!
Can you stop with the tank. That’s why everyone stopped watching the last 2. The rookies are showing signs of improvement. And you barely cover it. You know what’s good for development? Winning
Fuck the tank let’s build a winning culture with the rookies & Clowny MPJ is great man
Fuck tanking. Play basketball. Tanking garuantees you nothing. SGA was the 11th pick, lower than Egor. Play ball, win games, develope your players, & make the most of your pick.
Donovan Mitchell was the 13th pick. Giannis and Jokic went even lower. We're talking about MVP's here.
Tanking is cooperate style thinking, not a mentality that fans nor coaches should adopt.
What world am I in where people want their team to lose? Smh. Twisted
Bro really called the 5 – 16 Nets ''too good to tank'' in the weak xss East 😂😂😂Buddy the Nets are terrible, they only have a few wins because the Eastern conference is straigh garbage. All their wins are vs the East LMAO
we must keep this team, if we win we win let them cook. If we achive play in at the east is a top 8 pick for sure.
I think they need Porter for next season to compete. His game works for the new rookies because of his gravity.
Absolutely not
Tanking is for cowards. Get Tre. Develop the rookies you have and go for the chip this year!