[Casciaro] Putting ball in Poeltl’s hands in situation when Clips were gonna be fouling to avoid a 3 – rather than just drawing up play for quick/c&s 3 – was…not ideal. Again, Darko has this team playing incredibly hard & doing some good stuff on O, but game management stuff is concerning
November 10, 2024
[Casciaro] Putting ball in Poeltl’s hands in situation when Clips were gonna be fouling to avoid a 3 – rather than just drawing up play for quick/c&s 3 – was…not ideal. Again, Darko has this team playing incredibly hard & doing some good stuff on O, but game management stuff is concerning
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But is he trying to tank?
they even passed to him again after the initial foul. No other NBA coach would even have YAk in the game in that situation.
Masterclass tanking
We’re not trying to win a championship this year. It seems more like Darko is letting the players do what they want in crucial end-of-game situations. I feel like it’s more to develop their decision-making at the end of games.
He deserves credit for the development + having a team buy in but I think this is a factor of his staff being very green by NBA standards.
That’s fine
It’s all part of the plan. We want to tank but don’t want ppl to think we are tanking. Losing 2 pts every game is the most ideal tank job you can ever wish for.
The VC retirement game they were up 3 with seconds to go and I said they should foul the Kings and play the FT game but they played it out and gave up 2 3pt looks esp good one from Fox.
Luckily they missed but I think most coaches at that point foul so the opposing team can’t get potential tying 3pt shot.
But yes if they are trying to tank I guess maybe these end of game decisions are low key tanking
I don’t think it’s concerning right now as we are getting development from Darko and securing a top pick for this coming draft.
Darko will either gain experience and develop this skill set for when we want to seriously compete (probably 2026-2027) or he will be replaced by someone that can
Is it possible he did it knowing they would get fouled right away anyways , and knowing they would need to try the intentional miss on free throw?
Darko thinking ~~two~~ tank steps ahead of everyone 😎
Draft management 101
It’s possible the clippers would’ve fouled anybody who got the ball and played the free throw game anyways
why so serious?
Remember everyone, Darko and em still haven’t really gotten the chance to coach the team they’re supposed to be coaching with all of the injuries so maybe instead of Jak on the floor in that play call, it’s supposed to be Scottie catching the inbound or Kelly and they just had to make due with who they had available. The first time coach who’s just 92 games in is developing just the same as the players. Let’s see if he gets better from here
I’m not sure we are too interested in winning games in the clutch this season.
We all got what we wanted. A close entertaining game, our young guys getting meaningful minutes, and a loss through ethical tanking by prioritizing development over winning.
In the last play where Jacob missed on purpose, all the other players got put in a last play situation to develop.
Lol people think coaches have code of honor and will never tank like they are samurai or something. He’s getting paid to tank. Coaches that care about their record don’t take the job. He knows what he’s doing
Darko = Charlie Montoya I feel
Everyone is saying this but it almost worked out perfectly. Maybe Jak is the best at missing intentionally and getting his reb and darko just believes in Jak that he will hit his first which he did. If he got that put back this would be a different tone and he was actually really close to pulling it off…. So maybe this was a sound strategy
I was thinking this too, especially after the first foul to give
I pray to god he was intentionally trying to tank cuz if he was trying to win the game by inbounding to yak twice in a row we may be in big trouble
Y’all are bitching but that decision almost sent this game to over time
You know what’s crazy? I don’t think it’s a bad idea given the situation. Yeah, the best outcome is to get an open 3 by running a good play, but that is not likely to happen given the defense will likely front every defender and switch everything (given they don’t care about the 2). Now Poeltl obviously isn’t the best FT shooter, but apparently he’s really good at intentionally missing. Even if he misses the first FT, if he can reliably miss the 2nd you can get your team a better 3pt shot than on an inbounds play. There’s so much criticism for one play where the outcome gave us a really good shot to tie it and he just happened to miss
Have you considered that they didn’t want to win?
IQ, RJ, Scottie, Cooper
It felt intentional honestly. They ran the same “play” twice in a row and they knew the Clippers would do the same thing twice in a row.
Also to be fair, it worked. He hit the first and rebounded his own perfect miss on the 2nd. It was actually a hell of a play by Jak at the end, just didn’t finish.
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But is he trying to tank?
they even passed to him again after the initial foul.
No other NBA coach would even have YAk in the game in that situation.
Masterclass tanking
We’re not trying to win a championship this year. It seems more like Darko is letting the players do what they want in crucial end-of-game situations. I feel like it’s more to develop their decision-making at the end of games.
He deserves credit for the development + having a team buy in but I think this is a factor of his staff being very green by NBA standards.
That’s fine
It’s all part of the plan. We want to tank but don’t want ppl to think we are tanking. Losing 2 pts every game is the most ideal tank job you can ever wish for.
The VC retirement game they were up 3 with seconds to go and I said they should foul the Kings and play the FT game but they played it out and gave up 2 3pt looks esp good one from Fox.
Luckily they missed but I think most coaches at that point foul so the opposing team can’t get potential tying 3pt shot.
But yes if they are trying to tank I guess maybe these end of game decisions are low key tanking
I don’t think it’s concerning right now as we are getting development from Darko and securing a top pick for this coming draft.
Darko will either gain experience and develop this skill set for when we want to seriously compete (probably 2026-2027) or he will be replaced by someone that can
Is it possible he did it knowing they would get fouled right away anyways , and knowing they would need to try the intentional miss on free throw?
Darko thinking ~~two~~ tank steps ahead of everyone 😎
Draft management 101
It’s possible the clippers would’ve fouled anybody who got the ball and played the free throw game anyways
why so serious?
Remember everyone, Darko and em still haven’t really gotten the chance to coach the team they’re supposed to be coaching with all of the injuries so maybe instead of Jak on the floor in that play call, it’s supposed to be Scottie catching the inbound or Kelly and they just had to make due with who they had available. The first time coach who’s just 92 games in is developing just the same as the players. Let’s see if he gets better from here
I’m not sure we are too interested in winning games in the clutch this season.
We all got what we wanted. A close entertaining game, our young guys getting meaningful minutes, and a loss through ethical tanking by prioritizing development over winning.
In the last play where Jacob missed on purpose, all the other players got put in a last play situation to develop.
Lol people think coaches have code of honor and will never tank like they are samurai or something. He’s getting paid to tank. Coaches that care about their record don’t take the job. He knows what he’s doing
Darko = Charlie Montoya I feel
Everyone is saying this but it almost worked out perfectly. Maybe Jak is the best at missing intentionally and getting his reb and darko just believes in Jak that he will hit his first which he did. If he got that put back this would be a different tone and he was actually really close to pulling it off…. So maybe this was a sound strategy
I was thinking this too, especially after the first foul to give
I pray to god he was intentionally trying to tank cuz if he was trying to win the game by inbounding to yak twice in a row we may be in big trouble
Y’all are bitching but that decision almost sent this game to over time
You know what’s crazy? I don’t think it’s a bad idea given the situation. Yeah, the best outcome is to get an open 3 by running a good play, but that is not likely to happen given the defense will likely front every defender and switch everything (given they don’t care about the 2). Now Poeltl obviously isn’t the best FT shooter, but apparently he’s really good at intentionally missing. Even if he misses the first FT, if he can reliably miss the 2nd you can get your team a better 3pt shot than on an inbounds play. There’s so much criticism for one play where the outcome gave us a really good shot to tie it and he just happened to miss
Have you considered that they didn’t want to win?
IQ, RJ, Scottie, Cooper
It felt intentional honestly. They ran the same “play” twice in a row and they knew the Clippers would do the same thing twice in a row.
Also to be fair, it worked. He hit the first and rebounded his own perfect miss on the 2nd. It was actually a hell of a play by Jak at the end, just didn’t finish.