Pointgod wrote:YogurtProducer wrote:Los_29 wrote:
If you had to tank for 15 years then that’s not very successful. lol.
Yeah minny is a horrible example.
All we gotta do is win 3 lotteries in 8 years AND WE ARE SET.
The current front office of Minnesota has only been in place for 2 seasons so they actually weren’t the one tanking. Minnesota has 3 core pieces: Edwards, Gobert and KAT, two of those pieces were a result of tanking. Make no mistake, none of this works without Edwards so yes tanking does work because it puts the majority of teams in the best position to grab a franchise talent.
You cannot possibly look at Minnesota and say they are a good example of tanking working though. This is a franchise with 1 series win since 2004 (maybe two here soon), and 16 trips to the lottery in that span, including FOUR seasons of less than 20 wins. Eventually it worked out, but no franchise is tanking going "well, it might take 16 years but EVENTUALLY we will hit on enough lottery picks to make the playoffs!"
Even though the current FO did not necessarily tank, does not mean they did not benefit from Ant, KAT, McDaniels, etc. Now they are all in. If this fails, they have no picks until 2028.