I almost can’t believe it. This franchise refuses to do anything that will bring about long term growth. We spent 3 seasons not making a single trade. We lose to bottom teams. We’ve won 3-5 playoff games in 10 seasons.

Everyone says we shouldn’t “tank” but this is our record when we don’t tank. I just don’t know anymore.

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  1. Don’t worry, some “intellectual” will inevitably come in here and explain why tanking is actually horrible and going 39-43 is the best option.

  2. The biggest issue with tanking is that it’s a crapshoot. Sometimes it works, but a lot of the time it just gets you stuck with a bunch of assholes who can’t play and you have to do it again.

    It’s also awful to watch. Yes I know everyone hates this .500 style basketball, but imagine knowing that your team won’t win a meaningful game for 3 years if not longer. Not “won’t win a lot” or “won’t make the playoffs” but I mean “won’t win over 20 games for the next 3 years.” It truly kills off the love for the team. There’s a reason team subs for teams like the Jazz and the Pacers are functionally dead.

  3. We had to tank this season let Matas run point guard and get 200 turnovers so we can get Dybantsa and revive our franchise. Not sure what happened our old front offices were willing to tank to get the good players but now we just do nothing and go to the play in every season. Smh it’s depressing how do people think we got Rose and MJ? We had to take our Ls strategically and build for a better future but this front office is straight up brainless

  4. It’s time to fire Billy Donovan and hire a coach that can tell that the problem is a lack of good defense. Only a handful of players on the team actually play defense well. The problem is that the starting core is mainly poor on defense and we don’t have any two-way stars.

  5. Shouldn’t you be using 2021-2026? This makes it look like the Bulls did in fact lose a lot which would imply tanking. Also were the Bulls really not tanking back then?

    I see posts on this sub that they weren’t “committed to losing” but what does that mean? I wasn’t paying attention to the NBA much back then.

  8. I don’t understand begging the team to tank. If we didn’t tank while we had a 20m handicap on our roster in Lonzo, and we didn’t tank before that when Rose went down. Then why would our leadership think it’s a good idea to do it now?

    I don’t really get the infatuation with tanking anyway, the success rate is not that high throughout league history.

  12. Our franchise hasn’t been relevant for a decade except for half a season in 2021.

    Since 2016 here are the teams to never at least finish as a top 4 seed in their conference:

    Bulls
    Magic
    Hornets
    Pelicans

    All those other teams have had multiple top 5 picks at least.

    So yeah the bulls have just been the perfect example of a bad to average team that has been irrelevant each season. They haven’t had a superstar or have one that has the potential to become a superstar since Butler left.

    No one looks forward to them because they’re not a good team. No one is also excited for them because they don’t have top prospects from the draft.

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