Tass Mellis

Yeah, but that's a CBA thing.

You can't pay everybody.

Oh, and you're not going to pay anybody knowing your number one guy is up.

Yeah, that was part of it, for sure.

But also...

I agree they shouldn't have been this bad, but they basically never had their full team healthy.

And then in the second half of the season, they traded a lot of the rotation for Zubats and didn't play Zubats.

So they tanked.

I find the tanking, yeah, exactly.

They're this bad.

They haven't been tanking all season, but they have started the tank.

Again, Pascal Siakam was an all-star, and he's played in 60 games.

You could tank way easier than that.

But when it came down to it, they said, yeah, I mean, we'll give up picks and try and get a center who can replace Miles Turner because we couldn't pay Miles Turner.

And it's worked out really, really well.

So, yeah, there was tanking towards the end of the season.

And if there was fewer games, there'd be less tanking towards the end of the season.

There will never be fewer games.

There never will.

I know.