Tanking teams and their remaining strength of schedule
January 25, 2026
Tanking teams and their remaining strength of schedule
11 comments
Get on board with the tank, folks. Things are going to be a lot harder from here on out.
If we didn’t go godmode in December things would be looking a lot better. Hopefully we lose as much as possible
We’re going down, baby.
Indiana is not tanking! We just suck. Although, now almost completely healthy we are 5-5 in our last 10 and a nice win over OKC + Boston.
New Orleans has no incentive to tank, they’ve just been ass. I think they pick up a few wins down the stretch bc they’ll be playing and coaching hard. Indiana isn’t as bad as their record suggests either.
Washington and Sac are just truly ass so I don’t have that much hope in passing them up.
The silver lining is we play a lot of the bottom 4 teams moving forward, which means if we really wanted to tank we control our own destiny. Jordi obviously has no interest in tanking but I do think Sean and Tsai have made a stronger effort this season to rest players strategically. The few games left against the teams below us will be massive and have a big impact on our future.
Damn, hate to see that. We NEED to finish bottom 3
There was 8 teams with a worse record than the Mavs last year. We’ll get the pick the league decides it wants us to get.
Let’s go wiz and nets time to lock in the tank
Don’t forget Dallas. 3rd toughest remaining SOS
The only thing about this SoS outlook, is that you need the teams to “ethically tank”. Remember last year 76ers seemed to have an easier SoS towards season end, but they were pretty blatant about racing to the bottom.
11 comments
Get on board with the tank, folks. Things are going to be a lot harder from here on out.
If we didn’t go godmode in December things would be looking a lot better. Hopefully we lose as much as possible
We’re going down, baby.
Indiana is not tanking! We just suck. Although, now almost completely healthy we are 5-5 in our last 10 and a nice win over OKC + Boston.
New Orleans has no incentive to tank, they’ve just been ass. I think they pick up a few wins down the stretch bc they’ll be playing and coaching hard. Indiana isn’t as bad as their record suggests either.
Washington and Sac are just truly ass so I don’t have that much hope in passing them up.
The silver lining is we play a lot of the bottom 4 teams moving forward, which means if we really wanted to tank we control our own destiny. Jordi obviously has no interest in tanking but I do think Sean and Tsai have made a stronger effort this season to rest players strategically. The few games left against the teams below us will be massive and have a big impact on our future.
Damn, hate to see that. We NEED to finish bottom 3
There was 8 teams with a worse record than the Mavs last year. We’ll get the pick the league decides it wants us to get.
Let’s go wiz and nets time to lock in the tank
Don’t forget Dallas. 3rd toughest remaining SOS
The only thing about this SoS outlook, is that you need the teams to “ethically tank”. Remember last year 76ers seemed to have an easier SoS towards season end, but they were pretty blatant about racing to the bottom.