Agreed. I hate how whenever anyone says Poole sucks they just repeat that we’re tanking so this is good. No, it’s not good because we want our players with actual potential to get reps in.

Bro people panicking about Poole need to remember how Kuzma looked when he first got here. It takes time to develop into being one of the top options on the team. Poole is younger than Kuz was too. Absolutely criticize the players but realize rebuilding/developing takes time and we need to be patient and not overreact.

Nothing matters, we are tanking anyway.

Yall all need to remember it’s only been 7 games, all criticism is fine, but i think early on a lot of people need to remember it’s too soon to say Poole is trash and that he won’t recover his scoring touch. I’m surprised there aren’t more posts about how Deni has come in trying to keep his starting spot, considering Koulibaly seemed like he’d be pushing for starter minutes from his preseason play. Deni’s been good.

I didn’t really address the question, but, i agree, building winning habits is necessary in addition to playing young players with the intention of them losing. Like, when the second unit came in against the Heat, that was a good moment to see the starters cheer on the reserves while they pushed Spoelstra to put in Butler and Bam. Things like that should he celebrated and pointed out. I’m still not sold on Poole and Kuzma as beacons of hope for the long run, I see them as pieces to move, but that’s up for debate too. My biggest thing is, we saw with the Houston Rockets, you can’t tank AND have a shit locker room. We want to avoid that, and whatever criticism addresses that and other matters of the future success of the franchise are valid. I think a lot of this is younger fans not understanding the reality of tanking, it sounds good in theory, but watching it sucks.