If things weren’t going to well, the question around the Indiana Pacers would have been whether they should have embraced a full-on tanking approach.
The strategy of the All-Out Tank is a popular talking point thanks to the Process Philadelphia Sixers, who managed to nab two potential All-NBA players in Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid — and who knows, maybe one or two others.
Hindsight makes the Process look like a strategy worth trusting: the more losses a team piles up, the higher the team’s draft pick, the greater the chance that the drafted player becomes a high-potential All-NBA talent.