Sixers' tanking took a toll - was it worth it?

[Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD]

So Coli,

You laugh when team is 'stuck' in mediocrity with no hope of top 5 picks

And you laugh at teams who tank every year?


Nikkas, which is it, Oochie Wally or One Mic??

 

[Kliq_Souf]

That 10-11 season was a blast, idc what nobody say.

Brand was balling, coming back from those injuries and people writing him off

Jrue was emerging as the teams future

Iggy was triple dub threat every night and made the all star

Jodie Meeks draining treys

Lou Will and Thad killing it off the bench

We was #1 in the east for a minute and Collins was coach of year candidate. Then shyt fell apart second half.

Holiday not panning out hurt me bad man...i liked bull.

 

[Kliq_Souf]

That whole Bynum fiasco set us back 5 years...

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

That whole Bynum fiasco set us back 5 years...

Lakers finessed us

 

[Lifer11]

Like hell they cant

If you pick in the top 5 two consecutive years issue a win quota for the 3rd year and if they don't meet it they're stripped of their pick. See how many teams do this blatant tanking shyt then

See how many bad teams in small markets ever become good teams then. There'd be even less parity than there is now.


Then after you strip them of their pick who gets that pick, does it just move down? So a team that was just slightly better ends up benefitting greatly? No one complained when the Cavs got 3 out of 5 1st overall picks.

 

[Regular_P]

Lakers finessed us

 

[Regular_P]

But we need another piece to entice Durant and Whiteside

But who am I kidding? Nobody wanna play with D'Tective

The bigger tragedy is D'Tective came through and crushed the nickname buildings. Soft Body and Dough Boy will be forgotten.

 

[tremonthustler1]

See how many bad teams in small markets ever become good teams then. There'd be even less parity than there is now.


Then after you strip them of their pick who gets that pick, does it just move down? So a team that was just slightly better ends up benefitting greatly?

Then they'll have no choice but to go sign KD, LeBron and trade for Cousins

 

[Lifer11]

Then they'll have no choice but to go sign KD, LeBron and trade for Cousins

Yep, and trade for CP3 and Melo, and sign Popovich as their coach too.

 

[Lifer11]

Lakers finessed us

Really the Magic finessed everyone, I wouldn't say that Dwight Howard did anything to help the Lakers at all.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Really the Magic finessed everyone, I wouldn't say that Dwight Howard did anything to help the Lakers at all.

did they really? haven't they lost 60 games every season since then? this looks like a trade that all parties involved in lost

 

[Lifer11]

did they really? haven't they lost 60 games every season since then? this looks like a trade that all parties involved in lost

They got Vucevic out of it who's averaging 18 and 9 with a 20.96 PER and still managed to add a solid young core around him. Vucevic is only 25, he was 22 when they got him, can't expect a 22 year old with no help around him at the time to turn that team around immediately. So considering that Dwight was gona walk anyway, and they got a 22 year old 16th overall pick who's averaging 14.5 and 10 reb for his career, that's FAR from a loss. One 22 year old can't turn around a franchise overnight. So yes Orlando finessed everyone, got a player who is now arguably better than Dwight, who is also way younger, and was able to build around him since he was too young for them to be good right away.

There's absolutely no way to spin that trade as a loss for the Magic.

 

[thelonious21]

They need to find a coach.. maybe give d'antoni the job. never been a fan of his..but maybe his open style and young players may be successful for him..
Trade one of them bigs for a star perimeter player

 

[Trojan 24]

The bigger tragedy is D'Tective came through and crushed the nickname buildings. Soft Body and Dough Boy will be forgotten.

Dough Boy taking away everything we got

 

[Long Live The Mamba]

That whole Bynum fiasco set us back 5 years...