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

[Lifer11]

Noel can't do shyt dude fukking sucks and is always hurt. 10 pts 7 rebounds? whatever he averages. he sucks

He played 75 games last year, and 62 games this year. He's averaging 11.1 pts on 52% shooting, 8 reb, 1.7 stls, and 1.5 blocks. Solid numbers for someone in his second full season, who's specialty is defense.

Safe to say he should be averaging a double double in a season or two, and most likely getting 2-3 blocks a game.

 

[Lifer11]

We already have a stretch 4 coming, the top player in all of Europe, Dario Saric.



He's shooting near 40% from 3 in the Euroleague and is a terrific ball handler for a PF. He can play with either of our bigs and we can run 4/5 pick and rolls with him and any one of the bigs.

Yea I'm very optimistic about Saric, but I don't want to count him as a sure thing yet.

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

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Wow they could've made playoffs I'm impressed, meanwhile during that time sixers actually were making playoffs without a player a love's calibur.

So? Has there been a team who tanked as hard as the 76ers did? They haven't been trying to hide it for the last 3 years.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

So? Has there been a team who tanked as hard as the 76ers did? They haven't been trying to hide it for the last 3 years.

don't forget that the west is almost always tougher to make the playoffs in as well

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

Start relegating bottom two-four teams

 

[GoFlipAPack]

shyt isn't working at all. MCW has been moved next season after winning ROY.

jojo embiid has yet to play and is already bout to be in his 3rd year. if he is good, he'll be off his rookie deal.

so that leaves them with okafor who they're already talking about trading.

nerlens noel has been decent, but he's not a superstar or showing he is going to be one at this point.

I think Neri s needs more time. That knee injury takes at least one full season to get worked out

 

[SchoolboyC]

So? Has there been a team who tanked as hard as the 76ers did? They haven't been trying to hide it for the last 3 years.

So what exactly should they have done? Bynum trade pretty much backed them into a corner. Should they have given Evan Turner an extension, not traded MCW for what will probably be a top 10 pick and not traded an injured Jrue Holiday for two lottery picks?

They were perennially mediocre for over a decade, they tried a new strategy and time will tell if it works for them.

 

[Hammer]

He played 75 games last year, and 62 games this year. He's averaging 11.1 pts on 52% shooting, 8 reb, 1.7 stls, and 1.5 blocks. Solid numbers for someone in his second full season, who's specialty is defense.

Safe to say he should be averaging a double double in a season or two, and most likely getting 2-3 blocks a game.

numbers like that for being on the worst team in HISTORY is not impressive sorry.

 

[Lifer11]

numbers like that for being on the worst team in HISTORY is not impressive sorry.

Blocks, rebounds, and steals aren't inflated from being on a bad team.

 

[Hammer]

Blocks, rebounds, and steals aren't inflated from being on a bad team.

what are u a sixers fan or something? they have no future or anything

noel sucks.

 

[Malta]

Win what, an 8 seed? Or a championship?

Are you a Sixers fan? No? Then who cares

I think you got me and @Miami316 posts mixed up and quoted the wrong one.

 

[Malta]

Noel, Embiid, Okafor etc. at all suck

all these picks and no studs or real top prospects to show for it

They don't suck, Embiid is the player they're banking on, if he stays healthy everything else comes together really fast. If not, they still have the foundation for building a team, what sucks right now is their wing play, they are far behind there.

If they had better guards they'd be right about where the Magic & Wolves are now.

 

[who_better_than_me]

Why does it bother y'all that the Sixers suck tho?

Because they still manage to beat my squad mutliple times during that time....

 

[duckbutta]

They don't suck, Embiid is the player they're banking on, if he stays healthy everything else comes together really fast. If not, they still have the foundation for building a team, what sucks right now is their wing play, they are far behind there.

If they had better guards they'd be right about where the Magic & Wolves are now.

Magic have a lot of young talent at a lot of positions and a ton of money to throw at free agents in a destination spot...Philly has none of that...

T Wolves have a top flight big man right now and a SF in Wiggins who just needs some better coaching...they know exactly who they are building that team around...Philly has none of that...

Philly has players who haven't done anything but lose since they got in the nba...a coaching staff who hasn't done anything but lose since they got in the nba...and a front office who has done nothing but get rid of good players and tank since they were put together...

So what...out of the blue a coach who has flirted with the worst record in the nba every year he has been there is going to win 40 games...i doubt it

Players who have done nothing but lose are going to start winning out of nowhere...i doubt it

A front office who gets rid of players who show signs of being decent nba players is all of a sudden going to start making good free agent moves...i doubt it...

When the player you are banking on is going to go two full years without playing 1 real nba minute...your probably up shyt creek on a sppedboat...

Gonna look good in that Spurs jersey though:blessedspur:

 

[Malta]

Magic have a lot of young talent at a lot of positions and a ton of money to throw at free agents in a destination spot...Philly has none of that...

T Wolves have a top flight big man right now and a SF in Wiggins who just needs some better coaching...they know exactly who they are building that team around...Philly has none of that...

Philly has players who haven't done anything but lose since they got in the nba...a coaching staff who hasn't done anything but lose since they got in the nba...and a front office who has done nothing but get rid of good players and tank since they were put together...

So what...out of the blue a coach who has flirted with the worst record in the nba every year he has been there is going to win 40 games...i doubt it

Players who have done nothing but lose are going to start winning out of nowhere...i doubt it

A front office who gets rid of players who show signs of being decent nba players is all of a sudden going to start making good free agent moves...i doubt it...

When the player you are banking on is going to go two full years without playing 1 real nba minute...your probably up shyt creek on a sppedboat...

Gonna look good in that Spurs jersey though:blessedspur:

The Magic have talent that does not fit together in the least bit, the way they drafted doesn't make much sense when you consider -

Gordon
Payton
Oladipo


None of them can really shoot, they drafted Hezonja who would have been better anywhere else since Fournier makes him redundant and then ontop of that their centerpiece center cannot play defense. The Sixers have 3 bigs, one of which is basically on the same tier as Vuccimane already, which is an offensive 5 that doesn't defend that well in Okafor. They need better wing players, and I'm certain they take either Ingram, Dunn or Murray in the draft, and if they get the Lakers pick they will most likely get two of those 3 players.

They aren't that far off, Saric comes over this summer so even if Embiid isn't healthy they still have their big man rotation set, they simply need better wing players. I'd put my money on the Sixers before I do the Magic, the Magic are in a position where they're probably going to trade some of these guys.