Marco20 wrote:if the NBA really care about tanking they should develop a formula based on advanced stats and establish a range outside of which you are considered to be tanking. Maybe it sounds silly but the way they are handling it, just seems to me like they are pointing fingers at random people to make them look bad instead of themselves.
Crap, I'll have to stop using the very cheap Felicio in daily fantasy. I was looking forward to stacking my lineups around him.
They can't base it off of advanced stats, no way they could. It's also pretty obvious when teams are tanking (Chicago is a perfect example). But, just like steroid abuse, they can't bust everybody guilty in the league for it, otherwise you would have a lot of players suspended and it would look horrible for the league, and some of these players are probably big marketable names. So instead, they make it a point to use a player as an example (often times one you wouldn't expect, like Hedo Turkoglu) with the appearance of cracking down on it. The Bulls are that example in the tanking game.
Dallas never looked like they were tanking, and maybe they never did (Cuban said to Dr J that he had just discussed it with them at a dinner), unless you think them playing Maxi Kleiber was tanking... I don't think it was. That roster is just not very good.