76ers setting themselves back 10 years with this tanking campaign

[AlbertPullhoez]

This franchise aint won shyt in 30 years of course they support this fukkery.

 

[Leasy]

Hawes just got there you cant expect him to start right away and Turner isn't that bad and could start for alot of teams in the NBA. All I'm saying is who ever you draft in the 2nd round has a good chance they never become as productive as Hawes and Turner were. Just go through the list of dudes drafted in the 2nd round of the last couple of drafts and of lot of them are either in the Dleague or overseas. You could of still tanked with them on the roster just by the up and down no defense style of play your new coach implemented.

So you willing to give Turner 10 million a year breh? You willing to give Hawes 8 million a year? Yes or No just answer the question.

 

[Hollywood Co]

Atleast they didn't decide to tank midway into the season...................

 

[Swagnificent]

Exactly and play for the 9th seed.

nope. never said that. I like what teams like Sacremento and Utah are doing. They are trying to incrementally build contenders through the draft and doing wise trades. They are not trying to intentionally lose and trade away all their players for second round picks. They're competiting and getting better. Because of the lack of talent, they'll get top 10 picks. Hit on those picks and with a culture of trying to win, you can be the surprise Blazers of next year.

the let me trade everyone for second round picks so that we suck strategy ain't real basketball. that is some lame shyt you do in 2K when you already know the ratings of future rookies and can just load up the team with talented youngers. real life ain't like that.

 

[No Homo]

At these hating ass fans because they teams are stuck being mediocre.

In Hinkie we Trust

I know where you guys are going and the assets you have that's how i know how this plays out. Your FO seems more competent than ours with assets so you'll be in good shape

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

At these hating ass fans because they teams are stuck being mediocre.

In Hinkie we Trust

When your franchise is Cleveland status for the next 5-7 years and your draft picks haven't panned out and your players have accepted that losing is okay you will look back and laugh at yourselves.

 

[Tha Gawd Amen]

and what makes you believe Philly's front office is competent?

your right that OKC is the outlier cause they have a competent front office. it just so happens that they and like 5 other teams know what they are doing. the rest of the league is run by idiots with the clown in Philly being at the top of the list.

This...

Sam Hinkie traded Jrue Holiday essentially for 3 lottery Picks: MCW, Nerlens Noel and a possible top 10 lottery pick in 2014

Now whether he picks the right players....

 

[Malta]

No they got CP3 because the league vetoed the Lakers trade (which is where CP3 wanted to go). If there was no veto, CP3 would be a Laker because that is where he wanted to go. He only went to the Clippers cause there was no where else. Remember he only resigned with them in the off-season after seeing that Blake could play.

Stacking up assets mean nothing if the best players are still calling the shots about where they'll resign. Just look at how the Lakers got Dwight. They definitely didn't have a package as good as some of the other teams had but Dwight told Orlando only NJ, LA, and Dallas were on his list.

I think Embiid, Wiggins, and Exum will be superstars, BUT I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. Like I've said a million times. This is real life not a video game. If this was a video game and I could peek at their rating, and I we knew that all 3 would be superstars, you can sign me up for the tank train right now. But we simply don't know. For all we know the best player in this class could be the 10th pick like Paul George. For all we know, someone outside the lottery will get the #1 pick and all of Philly's tanking shenanigans will land them is the 5th pick and Julius "alligator arms" Randle.

You dealing in "ifs" the reality and what happend is that the Clippers still had the assets to trade for Cp3, had they not been awful all those years they wouldn't have the combination to get him.

Nope, stacking assets is how several teams have been built after they got their star player they used young players or picks to get more, how else do you think the Lakers got Pau? So teams aren't built through the draft or assets, so how exactly are they built? You keep saying how teams aren't built, yet offer no solution at all for what the Sixers should have done.

Oh, ok my bad, I forget they will only be sure fire stars if they end up with the Lakers like you've been saying for months. And if the best player is the 10th pick, the Sixers could have a shot at drafting that player too They potentially have TWO lottery picks in this draft, they currently have a 55.8% chance at a top 3 pick, I like their chances at drafting any one of the 3 players you've spent months saying will be stars

 

[Leasy]

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.

When your franchise is Cleveland status for the next 5-7 years and your draft picks haven't panned out and your players have accepted that losing is okay you will look back and laugh at yourselves.

So far we 2 for 2 breh. MCW rookie of the year and Noel's gained 15 pounds and have a 15 footer now and all we did was get rid of a turnover prone inconsistent PG in Jrue Holiday who is schedule to make over 10 million next year lmao wooooooooooo

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

You guys' assumptions are killing me. Why do you think Hinkie's accumulated all of these picks and hired a player development coach? It's to increase the team's chances of finding a star in the draft. Drafts don't just provide talented players; they provide talented players AT A SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT. In this era of free agency, those assets are considered to be GOLD. So even if they don't become superstars, they can be traded in the future for a star (See Boston trading Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes et. al for Kevin Garnett, Marc Gasol and junk for Pau, or Eric Gordon and Aminu for CP3)

Even if you find on superstar they will still be surround by trash. Go take a look at Cleveland who has the All Star MVP and a bunch of lottery picks on there roster and how many games have they won in the past 3 season. Again breh you need a balance of veteran players and young guys you can't just take a bunch of lottery picks and expect them to compete in the NBA. There's a reason why the same teams are back in the lottery year after year. You guys are building a losing culture and its gonna come back to haunt you guys.

 

[Leasy]

@No..Money..Mo..Problems answer the question breh you will give Evan 10 mil a year and spence 8??????

 

[Swagnificent]

You people are idiots

we're going to get Wiggins and on the low Nerlens noel could be ROY next season.. and we have the ROY for this season ... and we have mad cap room

Wiggins could be the next Wesley Johnson and Noel could never fully recover from the knee injuries like Oden.

this is what you clowns don't understand. you can't turn piss into wine. building a contender requires patience, hard work, and luck.

the Philly tank job is an attempt at a quick fix for what is a hard job. you can't turn a team that won less than 20 games into a title contender in 2 years based on 2 draft classes. OKC was like a once in a lifetime aberration and even they didn't do an intentional tank job. they got lucky in 07 with KD, were terrible with Russ, and finally got better after getting Harden.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Even if you find on superstar they will still be surround by trash. Go take a look at Cleveland who has the All Star MVP and a bunch of lottery picks on there roster and how many games have they won in the past 3 season. Again breh you need a balance of veteran players and young guys you can't just take a bunch of lottery picks and expect them to compete in the NBA. There's a reason why the same teams are back in the lottery year after year. You guys are building a losing culture and its gonna come back to haunt you guys.

For fukk's sake read the damn post again. You're thinking this process takes 2 years; the ownership is committed to this takin longer than that.

 

[Malta]

No. I got no problem getting rid of players that suck or trying to get value for guys who'll leave you in free agency. I simply woulda traded them for other places that I like rather than for second round picks then cutting the player included in the deal to make the salaries match and replacing that roster spot with NBDL players so I can get more ping pong balls. I don't have a problem with rebuilding. I have a problem with the video game rebuilding strategy this cac is using.

Just look at the Lakers trade with Golden State. Rather than trying to get worthless second round picks in some lame tanking ploy, we got young players that were being underutilized in Kent Bazemore and Marshon Brooks. Young players who've shown they can hang in the league unlike most players you can get in the second round. Now its only 2 games but I'm really liking them as potential bench players. So what if they help us win some irrelevant games like against Boston, I'm still getting value, experience, and the potential that they'll be productive.

The Lakers are doing it the right way. You can see the difference between a guy whose played the league, been a GM for 2 championships, and knows what it takes vs. some fat cac that prolly only played video games before getting this GM gig.

Nobody was giving up anything for Turner or Hawes, why is this so hard for you to understand? Blake is going to be getting the vet minimum or maybe a 2 year $6 million deal, where as Hawes and Turner are going to want market value for their production and age.

The Lakers are doing it the right way? Word, so the Suns getting their first rounder next year is the right way? You're basically strengthening the roster of a division rival, that looks to be on the upswing, that is the right way to you? Having a gang of NBDL level players and two 30+ year olds one of which is has 2 years and half your capspace is the right way?

And what if the Lakers are the ones that end up with Randle, then what?

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

So far we 2 for 2 breh. MCW rookie of the year and Noel's gained 15 pounds and have a 15 footer now and all we did was get rid of a turnover prone inconsistent PG in Jrue Holiday who is schedule to make over 10 million next year lmao wooooooooooo

MCW is far from being legit. Dude is putting up numbers on a fast paced lottery team that plays no defense in one of the worst draft classless in history so lets not gas that nikka up to be some future all star.