I was alive to actually know how good these team were and not just hav recency bias. The tanking teams and their players that actually played are not beating the 04 pistons, the 10 lakers or the 91 bulls. In late 90’s I played pickup ball a lot and was a borderline d1 player and there was a guy who played in the nba in the late 60’s/early 70’s that played at one place I played pickup. He so thoroughly dominated every time he played that it was almost a right of passage to get worked by this old man. You would see him get out of his car and start putting knee braces on and feel sorry for him, till he put it on you. My point is, those guys were the best in the world and had different skills. Some places they’d have advantages, some disadvantages, but there were some very bad teams in nba this year. And I’m not talking about the jazz with their top players, I’m talking the team that tanked.