Game 75: DAL (36-38) @ CHA (24-51)

[KillerLeft]

I have to think (hope?) that the franchise has been tanking for some time, and continues to do so. You don't ever give your players a mandate to play bad, but odd rotations and using players in ways that don't fit their strengths are a way to frustrate a team's effort and add baffling losses to keep the tanking goal within arm's reach. Just a thought.

I hope you’re right, but my heart and brain are 99% sure you’re not.

I think it’s as simple as this:

Bad coach, bad culture (happened very quickly), role players being allowed and encouraged to do things they shouldn’t (“just play basketball, this game isn’t hard”), a superstar with much to learn whose immaturity has stalled him a little (although at an already mile-high level) but to whom the entire team and city seems deferential (before he’s ready to succeed in that environment), and finally, the death sentence - just a bad all around organization run by a clown.  

I think they’re really, really trying to win and cannot.