We need shot creation more than shooters to be honest, the Sixers are last in the NBA in unassisted fgm and everything is predicated on Simmons passing someone the ball to score.
It’s mind blogging people who make that “they can’t play together take”. We were literally an unlucky bounce away and 2 unnecessary shot clock violations in a row away from the Finals . Because we could have beaten the Bucks. Neither Colangelo, Brett, nor Elton has completely surrounded them with the right guys. People forget how easily Boston disposed of us because we had shooters but nobody who can get their own shoot. Last yr the had the right balance of shooters and people who can get their own shot but only Ben, Joel, and Jimmy could play any defense. And they neglected to get Joel a suitable backup. This year they have more defenders, plus Tobias and J Rich can get their own shot. But they only have one shooter (until last night), there’s no decent backup at pg for Ben. Horford should be Embiid’s backup but they have him starting and it’s killing us at both ends of the floor playing together. The combination of Brett’s system and the owners cheapness has hurt us. They said they would run it back but according to Woj and others never offered Jimmy the max and lowballed JJ. Overpaying Horford was not a suitable replacement as it turns out. I liked the move at the time. But thought they would have signed some more players because they could have before finalizing the contracts of Tobias, Scott, and Ennis. They could have signed people before then used their bird rights to keep those guys
. They knew this roster would struggle to score. Embiid kept saying as much before the season even started.
It’s mind blogging people who make that “they can’t play together take”. We were literally an unlucky bounce away and 2 unnecessary shot clock violations in a row away from the Finals . Because we could have beaten the Bucks. Neither Colangelo, Brett, nor Elton has completely surrounded them with the right guys. People forget how easily Boston disposed of us because we had shooters but nobody who can get their own shoot. Last yr the had the right balance of shooters and people who can get their own shot but only Ben, Joel, and Jimmy could play any defense. And they neglected to get Joel a suitable backup. This year they have more defenders, plus Tobias and J Rich can get their own shot. But they only have one shooter (until last night), there’s no decent backup at pg for Ben. Horford should be Embiid’s backup but they have him starting and it’s killing us at both ends of the floor playing together. The combination of Brett’s system and the owners cheapness has hurt us. They said they would run it back but according to Woj and others never offered Jimmy the max and lowballed JJ. Overpaying Horford was not a suitable replacement as it turns out. I liked the move at the time. But thought they would have signed some more players because they could have before finalizing the contracts of Tobias, Scott, and Ennis. They could have signed people before then used their bird rights to keep those guys
You know how revisionist history work. People will swear up and down that was the best version of the team because they watch ESPN all day lol. That’s all Max ever says is surround Ben with shooters and we’ll be better without Embiid. Then dumb nikkas be like “he right”Breh thank you for bringing that up in the bolded.
Boston fukking washed us with that team full of shooters that everyone wants back, Ersan, Cov, Beli and Redikk all were shut the fukk down when they ran them off the line and they couldn't guard nobody
but forgot before Embiid came back in the 1st round against the Heat they neutralized Ben and ran all the off the line. Embiid was forced to come back early in order to win that series. Boston already had the blueprint after that. I’d love a combination of that roster with J Rich, Matisse, and Tobias instead of Holmes and Simba. That would be a good balance but 
I'm tired of the dumbass dribble handoff offense Brett Brown runsWe got within 6 Embiid was on fire and Brett called a timeout to sit him down. I’m tired of his dumb auto rotations, I tired of his rotations, I’m tired of Ben playing like a hoe and not being aggressive, I’m tired of mopey Embiid, I’m tired of Tobias taking bad shots doing a horrible Melo impression, I’m tired of Korkmaz dribbling instead of taking the open shot, I’m tired of Horford thinking he’s Ray Allen. Getting rid of Brett doesn’t solve all the problems but it solves most of them
