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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

straight up brolic posted:

well then you're buying into being actively terrible for 5 years as a strategy, which no owner would sign up for.

If Hinkie had drafted any presently good players with his myriad of high firsts (Noel, MCW, Saric, and Embiid have played like a combined season for the sixers) they wouldn't have been bad enough to draft high enough to get Okafor or Simmons.

I will say that Hinkie was very good at turning his gently caress ups into future value.

They literally refused to sign a pg last year on purpose to get Simmons .

It worked.

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Wait , straight up Brolic? Man you are a legendary hater.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

They had vets they had no point guards.

That's how you tank. Have no point guard in the NBA.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Kibner posted:

Or have your three deep at that position all get injured.

Tony wroten and Kendall Marshall were the 1-2 PGs mate. Neither are playing pro basketball ATM.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Tony wroten came back healthy and lost his jobs to Ghost Roster Spot in December on team that won 10 games

Marshall lost his job to an Extra from the movie the Hoosiers.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Whether or not Simmons actually is a star is irrelevant to whether the process worked. The point was to get players like Simmons (consensus 1.1s). Process is over. It worked.

Now it's player development and injury luck and finding supporting players. But that is different and normal and mundane . That can still fail.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

MourningView posted:

"Consensus" is kinda pushing it. He was consensus top 2 in a draft no one liked. And also that other stuff is important! One of the criticism of The Process is that it can "work" in the "getting high draft picks" sense without actually working in terms of "getting great players who contribute to a winning team" sense, which is presumably the actual goal

The goal of every team is to win .
The goal to the process was how to transform the roster that was garbage post Bynum into one with superstar assets ( because super stars win in the NBA). This is what happened. Whether they actually turn into superstars is just regular team building .

The Sixers are a normal team now.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Declan MacManus posted:

They were a normal team before they Kafka'd themseves into a joke for four seasons. It doesn't take that long to rebuild

I'm done arguing about but where did you get 4 seasons .

It was always going to take at least two IMHO and now they are done at only 3.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

How has Portis looked? I didn't see much Chi last year.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

McW at the .... 2?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Lockback posted:

I dunno if this is a joke I am not getting, but he played next to Rondo a whole lot so I expect he'll keep playing a lot of off-ball.

2 guards who can't shoot tho

How does this work

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

aBagorn posted:

Embiid through 37 minutes of NBA play

34 points
9 rebounds
4 blocks

44% FG
50% 3PT
83% FT

Against Steven Adams and Dwight

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

cravius posted:

Curry had the greatest shooting season ever. Not the greatest PG season ever.

Greatest regular season

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

It certainly was a memorable and exciting regular season for the Ws.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

straight up brolic posted:

well he isn't one already i can tell you that much e: also here's my current list in order

Hassan Whiteside
Al Horford
Marc Gasol if he is healthy and keeps shooting and making threes
Rudy Gobert
Deandre Jordan
Karl Tony
DMC
Dwight

then Adams?

this is just from memory though, so I might be missing people

Blake Griffin is p dang good at passing

I think your center list is right on. Might add jokic and Drummond as right there in that tier or under

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Thunder have given up on resigning Kevin Durant

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

tanglewood1420 posted:





Goddamn Spurs will win 55 games forever

And they signed Aldridge in his cap hold too right

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Picking up ersan should help

Embiid is the only guy hitting shots

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


That's a lot for jerami grant

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Tacit admission that Dario saric is not ready to play starters minutes

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Metapod posted:

I'm really confused why we traded Ersan

I think they are under the cap now

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Metapod posted:

Okay phili answer these grant questions for me please:
Can grant pass well?
Is grant a good decision maker?
Can he finish around the rim?

No
No
Yes

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Official name is now the Process

https://twitter.com/sixers/status/793592291579559942

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

kiimo posted:

Embiid is Muad'Dib, Simmons is Leto II.

/nerdalert

Hinkie is Duke Leto

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Best strategy to win a ring still seems to get three really good players and a versatile bench.

Bored sports bloggers talk a lot about a certain style taking over the league but I see teams playing lots of styles every night and in the playoffs. You have to be versatile and have dudes who can win one on one matchups.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

No non Sixers fan has ever agreed with me in the NBA thread

This is a day of joy and reflection

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Plus minus stats should be banned

Nate Duncan needs to stop using them too.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

pylb posted:

What happens to the Process nickname when he moves to another team?

gently caress this

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

He's getting the 5 year extension next October.

He's here for another 6 years at least

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


Hahahahah

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

One sad thing is that Clyde played in a time before lots of National games. I barley saw him play.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Russ is on fire. He could just pull it off himself.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

ESPN ranked embiid as the 58 th best player lol.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The NBA is the best league

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Cleveland is insanely good

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Lebrons block on iguodala is still the most amazing sports moment ever .

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

It's not like Danilo would have put the Knicks over the top or anything

Nothing they traded away was all that important. Their drafts sucking was more of an issue.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Also Amare fell apart.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The worst part of the rose trade was acquiring his bird rights .

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I always hated long haired dirk

He looks nice now as a kempt middle aged man

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