>team know they can't get a playoff spot >start losing

>>76785165
tanking is good because it speeds up rebuilds

the retarded teams are the ones who overpay vets just to go .500 every year

>>76785183
losing on purpose is against the very spirit of sports

It's not so much losing on purpose to the guys on the court. The guys on the court are still playing hard for future contracts while the better players may receive extended games off to rest injuries that they'd play with if they were in the hunt.

>>76785220
losing on purpose is losing on purpose no matter how you wanna spin it

>>76785165
Americans are stuck with this no matter what happens so they'll defend it, pretty logical
They can't enjoy the patrician league system where each game matters, even for the lowest teams (to avoid relegation), the mid teams (to get an international cup spot) or the top teams (to be champ)

>>76785244

The players are not losing on purpose. If you'd like to look at it as a black-and-white issue with no grey area, I'm sorry I replied. Next time I'll just bang on the keyboard to come down to the level of a black from Argentina.

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>>76785165
>team knows they need a win or a draw for the championship
>start parking the bus and playing keep away
>start diving to waste time and draw cards
>goalie catches the ball in the air and falls on the ground for a minute
>take 2 minutes to walk off the field for a sub
>start stretching each other out with the clock running
>yuropoors will unironically defend this semen slurping sport

>>76785328
literally nothing of that happens

there are rules to prevent all of that, goalies can only keep the ball for 6 seconds, if players go out walking they get a yellow and they add extra time


in basketball they just hold the ball in the mid court for 20 seconds and then make a penetration and search contact for 2 free throws, that's way worse

>>76785351
>literally nothing of that happens
You can't actually believe this. I see at least 3 or 4 of those in every game.

>>76785328
Goalies can only keep the ball for 6 seconds max. It's a yellow if they do it any longer. And I have never seen people diving to waste time, seems like a pretty retarded thing desu. Parking the bus is also a tactic that teams do to make sure they win, not to waste time. Only thing I agree with you is the stretching an "injured" player and taking 30 seconds to walk off the field.

>>76785165
You subhuman baboon. You literal nigger.
How dare you speak, you swarthy jungle monkey. How dare you open your big lipped, rim encrusted, menthol cigarette smelling mouth?
You are human trash, Diego Tyrone LeShawn de Maradona. Universally despised, derided and mocked. Your nationality and skin tone offers no hope to the world that South America can ever prosper. Crawl back in to the Brazilian jungle you came out of, you literal orangutan.
I hope you decide to sail your grandfathers skip to the Falklands and rape some sheep, as is in the negroes nature. It would still be the whitest pussy you ever had. Give Nigel and Robert a chance for some target practice, your sole use to the world. Argentinians obsession with a few windswept islands in the Atlantic is hilarious but sad. Coincidentally its the only worthwhile contribution Argentina has made to the medical field. The MUH LAS MALVINAS sentiment in the average negro Argentinian is both an early warning sign of autism in children, and early on set Alzheimer's in adults.
Take your black hairy fingers off your keyboard, and never talk about the human species again, you mockery of our supposed shared ancestor.. No amount of olive oil and wheat flour slabbed on your face every morning will make you white. It's about as delusional of an idea as your daydreams of European heritage.
You nigger.
You make Bolivia look like a beacon of civilisation.
You are the Baltimore of South America.
Go fertilise the pampas with you and your families corpses, its the best you can hope for in life. For the first time in your life, nigger, you have a job making food for beings vastly superior to yourself. Uruguayan cattle. Coincidentally, it would be the first time an Argentinian "man" provided for a family.
Die, Diego. No one would miss you. Except for Australian Aboriginals, who now would have no one to make them look good.

>>76785351
Oh right, that never happens.

What also never happens is the fucking coach interfering and sending his aid to tell the ball boys to wait and not pass the ball to continue the game.

And when that shit doesn't work the GK tells them anyway.

Yeah, that sort of shit never happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP6JxvYZ2u0

>>76785297
The players are not to be fair but the managers will give more minutes to their weaker players to both develop the younger player and achieve a lower league standing so they essentially are losing games on purpose

>>76785244
If you think the players are losing on purpose with the contracts involved you have no idea what you're talking about. It's the most minor of problems in the mgs and that's it. There are no guaranteed contracts in the NFL, baseball picks are too much of a crapshoot to worry about, same to a lesser extent in mhm plus most teams stay in some sort of contention most of the year.

>>76786646
Nba/mgs

>>76786646
Teams lose on purpose all the time in your leagues
http://www.thesportster.com/basketball/top-10-most-obvious-tank-jobs-in-nba-history/

>>76785165
>Caring about the NBA

>>76786693
> NBA
And water is wet.

>>76786718
>This isn't the case.
>…
>Well.. yeah, that's the case there, duh. But who cares?

nba should introduce relegation

>>76785165
If a kid wants to play football or basketball or whatever, dont you guys have teams? Does it have to be through school?

>>76786919
There's amateur stuff but not nearly as developed as NCAA

The NCAA has 3 divisions and then there's non-NCAA schools that play in separate conferences

The entire infrastructure is built around schools. The NHL and MLB draft quite a few people out of basically high school level but those two sports have extensive minor league systems

>>76787071
is the d-league professional? can you play in the d-league if you weren't selected by an nba team?

>>76786919
No there are clubs and academies here for football however prices start at around 1.5k to 3k USD a Season. Huge barrier to entry over here.

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>It's another "shitskin has a self-important opinion on American sports" episode

>>76789281
So, basically, it's American /sp/ talking about their sports then.

>>76785165
i don't love that either, but let's not pretend its fun to have the same couple richest clubs competing every year for the title simply because of their resources.

>>76789360
see
>>76789281

>>76785183
tell that to the golden state warriors, they were bad for many years before klay got drafted but not tanking bad and still got to build themselves a champpionship team.

>>76785165

Honestly, teams rarely sandbag like this

>>76787112

If you were good enough to make it from the D-league, you most likely would have been scouted and would be training with AAA teams. It's possible to go from relative obscurity in hockey, I know, to training with a decent team and making it all the way, but even then you'd need to be higher in the hierarchy than what your "D-league" is implying.

>>76787112
they renamed it the G-league
http://gleague.nba.com/faq/
scroll down to items 17 and 20

>>76789443
see
>>76789360

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>>76789517
>literally changing the name of the league to gatorade league
who's playing, the florida disneys and the arkansas walmarts?

>>76789467
Warriors were since since like Rick Barry, they got lucky and got a bunch of 11th pick top tier players.

>>76791019
The Falklands Whites.

>>76786707
/thread.

>>76786693
That list doesn't disprove anything of what he says. Teams don't lose on purpose at all, players can't half-ass their jobs or they're out of the league, simply as that. The GMs did assemble a shitty team, but just because the players are shitty it doesn't mean they're not playing to win.
Just look at the Lakers hilariously putting up a winning streak at the end of the last season to the despair of the whole front office.

>>76792889
The whole point is rewarding the losers, and teams purposefully losing to profit from this system. Players who lose purposefully could be punished, but their team will always be rewarded.