This Sixers really stink this year, but Rodney Carney doesn’t think it’s possible to lose games on purpose so that the team has a better chance at drafting John Wall or Evan Turner in the lottery.
“It’s impossible,” he said. “You get out there, your natural instincts are to try to compete to win the game. Rather than, ‘Oh, I’ll miss this shot.’ No way.”
Carney added: “You hear about it, but you don’t want to do it. We want to win every game we can, regardless of some higher draft pick we could get. We don’t worry about that, and we don’t want to think about it, either.”
Don’t get me wrong – I love Carney’s competitive spirit – but he’s going about tanking the wrong way. It’s not about missing shots on purpose, because you still need your stats so that you can get paid. Nah, tanking just comes down to not trying or giving shit, something almost all of us can relate to. You don’t have to miss a shot, just, you know, stop playing defense. Have to dive for a loose ball? Fuck it, let someone else scrape his elbows. Crash the boards? Yeah, right.
Rodney Carney really has so much to learn about being a professional basketball player. And really, I suppose, about being an American. After all, if you don’t try and stop giving a shit, tax payers will help you out. It’s the American government’s very own lottery system. So thanks to all you Wall Street guys busting for your asses and working crazy hours just so half your paycheck can go to help people like me. If you woke up at 9:00 am and wrote a shitty sports blog instead – i.e., tanked – you’d see that it doesn’t take much effort to get rewarded in life.
