76ers setting themselves back 10 years with this tanking campaign

[Hammer]

MCW
who cares
wiggins/parker
julius randle
noel

 

[McPiff]

hinkie the gawd

 

[SwagKingKong]

for this disgusting blatant tanking, i hope they dont end up with the top pick

thats all i want from this season

 

[jaguar paw]

I love how Noel just slides in there as a plus when no one has seen this kid at that the pro level and his weaknesses were pretty obvious going into the draft.

I hope y'all aren't expecting him to hit a little bit of weights and work on his jump shot and become Anthony Davis.

 

[Rob's al Ghul]

I get it and I'm totally on board with this. It's not like the players have quit....they've pretty much given 100% from the jump. But Hinkie's following through on a plan to set this team up for the future, and he's done it by the book. It's all about assets at this point, and he's building 'em up: a T3 pick, NO's pick, 4 (or maybe 5) #2's, and $30M in cap space.

 

[mrken12]

Philly is doing it right... With how crappy the East is, they can get back to the playoffs with a new young core as soon as next year.

Hitting on those picks is critical and that's step 1. Don't want to be like the Wizards in 2011 taking Jan Vesley after tanking in Wall's rookie year

They should have canned Grunfeld after that awful decision.

 

[jwinfield]

The Bucks who have less wins than the Sixers are in better position and all they had to do was get rid of 2 overrated players and keep most of there role players. They got Sanders to protect the rim, Ilaysova is serviceable, they got a decent rookie Giannis with loads of upside and Brandon Knight there PG has a good chance of winning most improved player this season. You add in Parker or Wiggins or Embiid with there cap space and they got something. Philly on the other hand is rolling the dice and they will pay for it when the fans disappear.

Ilyasova regressed big time, shooting 39% and 29% from 3 and he's making 8M.

Sanders numbers are down across the board, 8/7 and next year he starts making 11M

Brandon Knight looks to be a solid player, averaging 17 but on 41%.

The bucks have money tied up in some scrubs as mentioned by @Malta How are they in a better position?

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Yall seem to be ignoring the huge amount of cap they got. Not sayin they gettin Lebron or no shyt like that but it's pretty big.

 

[who_better_than_me]

No they're not, they're in great fukking shape.

that have MCW, noel, and probably two top ten picks in this draft and cap space out the ass.
they got so much cap space they could sign the number pick in this draft along with bron and melo

All they need is for a big free agent to sign there and they are going to be set. even if they dont, they still got crazy options.

Its better to be bad now with a bunch of young cheap labor and salary cap out the ass than being a treadmill 7th seed with cap issues.

No big time free agent is going to sign with them anytime soon with all these young player. Philly might have a nice future but they going suck for a few seasons. Hell, some of them young core pieces might become assets for trade and Philly will repeat this vicious cycle again in 2 years.

Ppl think everybody can do what OKC did. Ain't no durant, Westbrook, or even harden in this thread. There might be a Jeff Green in within but green was the first playr moved outta OKC.

 

[beenz]

the sixers are doing the tank thing by the books. I don't see anyway they can lose here. wish the bulls were doing what the sixers are this year. one miserable year in exchange for likely a bunch of good ones to come.

 

[Swagnificent]

You nikkas are clowns. When/if they pick the wrong players, you gonna laugh at them.

There are ways to build a team and the best way is certainly not when there are not any true star players in the year you draft. Parker would probably be the best fit there, but outside him, Wiggins and Embid ain't gonna do sh*t on that squad.

co-sign. Cavs had 4 top 4 picks in 3 seasons and missed on all but one of them. This intentionally losing strategy is pathetic and there are other ways to build contenders.

The Pacers did it by drafting good players in the mid-late 1st round (George, Hibbert), signing decent vets (West), and making wise trades (Hill). Then they built the group up methodically having them get better year by year. Heat did it by clearing cap space and signing big-time free agents. The only contender to build through high lottery picks was OKC and unlike Philly they weren't intentionally tanking. They just happened to get 3 top 4 picks in 3 seasons and hit on all 3 (Durant, Westbrook, Harden).

 

[AAKing23]

I love how Noel just slides in there as a plus when no one has seen this kid at that the pro level and his weaknesses were pretty obvious going into the draft.

I hope y'all aren't expecting him to hit a little bit of weights and work on his jump shot and become Anthony Davis.

Nobody is expecting that breh

Noel is an athletic hustle and energy big who is a defensive centerpiece, his floor in my opinion is at the very least a Deandre Jordan or Tyson Chandler


His ceiling is probably a more athletic Joakim Noah

 

[Swagnificent]

Most excite I been since 01 year. This is beautiful. Hinkie has done a excellent job and he sky is the limit.

Great coaching staff in Brett Brown and his crew
Great GM
Cap Space
4 Lottery picks

Just all in one year. Amazing.

so you welcome a culture of intentional losing?

look at the Cavs post-Lebron and what happens when you spend every year in the lottery

4 top 4 picks and all but one is a bust.

the Sixers in 3 years will be cleveland right now. the GM will be fired and the fans will be wondering how it all went wrong.

 

[Swagnificent]

They will have gotten 3 lottery picks in 2 years, and if they get the Pelicans pick that makes 4 lottery picks. You're not making much sense, they were losing with Turner, Hawes, Holiday and Young last year so what exactly were they supposed to do when two of those players wanted to get paid this summer and the other 2 have a lot of money owed to them. Nobody was willing to give up any assets for Hawes or Turner, and they got TWO lottery picks for Holiday.




The only players on the Bucks worth keeping are Wolters, Giannis, Henson and maybe Middleton, they were trying to get rid of Sanders before he got hurt and Brandon Knight isn't a starting caliber PG. They are not in a better position, more than half their caproom is tied up between Sanders, Ilyasova, Pachulia and Mayo up to 2017

no their strategy is MORONIC. this isn't a video game.

2 draft classes is not gonna change Philly into a contender. I can't think of one champion or contender in the last 20 years that won the title based on gutting their roster to be epically bad so that they can rebuild through 2 draft classes. The closest we can get to it are the early 90s Orlando Magic (when they got Shaq in '92, Penny in '93, and made it to the finals in 95) and the current OKC (when they got Durant in 07, Westbrook in 08, and Harden in 09). These two teams are the exception. Most champions/contenders are built like the Lakers/Heat/Spurs. Its based on free agency, building through wise draft choices, and building a team with veteran leadership.

the intentional destruction of a team in hopes of building it back is something for video games not real life. you're better off building a culture of winning and gradually improving through smart choices like the current Pacers than intentionally losing.

The only teams that intentional tank jobs help are someone like this years Lakers or the 97 Spurs. Those teams were forced to tank because of injuries. They already had in a place vets who knew how to win and a culture of winning. Once they got the top draft pick they could plug him right in and it would help them win immediately.

Philly strategy will blow up in their face like we're seeing right now with the Cavs.

 

[Detroit Wave]

fukk tanking, root for your team to be in NBA purgatory/limbo 8th/9th seeds every year with no good picks brehs