Who cares about Hinkie stepping down. He's already done irreparable damage to the NBA and the 76ers.

[klutch2381]

Caproom is irrelevant because no free agent worth a damn will sign with a team like Philly. Draft picks also mean little cause the draft is pure luck.

Look at Minnesota. They've been in the lottery for nearly a decade straight and it took the last 2 drafts to land them a potential superstar. And one of those superstars was by trading a disgruntled star.

The problem with Philly's strategy was always the fact that it relied on LUCK. Real life ain't NBA 2K. There are no shortcuts to building a contender. Hinkie thought he was smarter than the game.

You're absolutely, right.

Hinkie's philosophy is a luck based ideal masquerading as a scientific one.

Science is testable, repeatable and measurable. It hopes to remove luck from theory, experiments and so on.

Any reasonable person would agree that the NBA draft is is an inexact science. That's not to say some teams don't draft better than others. What it is saying, is there's an excessive element of luck in draft spots, what players become (or doesn't become) regardless of who's scouted them, who drafts them, etc.

Luck's definition: success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.




You can say he was trying to maximize luck or whatever. It was still some luck driven end game under the guise of something else.

 

[#1 pick]

Wrong again. Too many uninformed people speaking as if they knew the changes Hinkie made.

Iggy and Lou weren't there when Hinkie took over in May of 2013

When Hinkie took over they had already traded Iggy for Bynum (which was a deal in which Hinkie made his presentation based on....he spoke on how that was a bad move for them)

Lou (who I knew personally btw just from being in the clubs I DJ'd at) signed as a free agent in Atlanta.

Once Hinkie took over he made a presentation based on the work he did with the James Harden to Houston trade and since the Sixers' ownership wanted to build a championship team the best way was to bottom out, trade guys for picks (i.e. jrue, thad, evan turner), avoid low to mid level free agents and tank.

Here's a graph of how Hinkie fixed the 76ers future.

Notice the Sixers didn't have their 1st round pick in 2014 or 2016 before Hinkie took over.

You can't be serious? So you are basically saying, we'll the team we have now is better than the team we had when we gutted the team? Well no shyt, you traded everyone for picks and drafted a rookie who was on the IR. Every team should be better than that at this point of the process in terms of assets.

 

[#1 pick]

It can't be both ways, you can't use RPM to put one player down, then just be like "Yeah, but that was different" when it comes to another.


Dieng & Gobert had terrible RPMs, they are both top 20 now.

Gobert is the extremely raw norm as is Giannis, Dennis and Drummond. They were draft with thoughts that they were raw as shyt.

The book still out on Dieng.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

You can't be serious? So you are basically saying, we'll the team we have now is better than the team we had when we gutted the team? Well no shyt, you traded everyone for picks and drafted a rookie who was on the IR. Every team should be better than that at this point of the process in terms of assets.

So keeping Jrue Holiday (who's always injured now), Thad Young, Evan Turner (who is playing solid with Boston......thanks Brad Stevens) is better than having future picks and cap space? When they didn't have this previously and the goal is to build a contender?


Even MCW who he drafted.......Anyone who watches the Milwaukee Bucks will acknowledge that Hinkie did an excellent job at selling high.


Also I'd add, can you even criticize the MCW pick over Giannis knowing that it's very difficult to scout a guy who played against that level of competition? I don't think anyone's kicking themselves for missing on Kelly Olynyk or Shabazz Muhammad. Maybe you can say they missed on Gobert.....but they had Noel

 

[tremonthustler1]

If you ask me Brooklyn and their lack of future should do EVERYTHING in their power to acquire Hinkie.

Brooklyn hired Sean Marks from the Spurs

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Brooklyn hired Sean Marks from the Spurs

Didn't know who they hired after throwing King in the bushes....Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[#1 pick]

So keeping Jrue Holiday (who's always injured now), Thad Young, Evan Turner (who is playing solid with Boston......thanks Brad Stevens) is better than having future picks and cap space? When they didn't have this previously and the goal is to build a contender?


Even MCW who he drafted.......Anyone who watches the Milwaukee Bucks will acknowledge that Hinkie did an excellent job at selling high.


Also I'd add, can you even criticize the MCW pick over Giannis knowing that it's very difficult to scout a guy who played against that level of competition? I don't think anyone's kicking themselves for missing on Kelly Olynyk or Shabazz Muhammad. Maybe you can say they missed on Gobert.....but they had Noel

What have you done with the picks?

 

[#1 pick]

Philly needs what Atlanta got. One really good young vet player to sign with Philly. For Atlanta, it was Joe Johnson. That's what they need.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

What have you done with the picks?

If you read my original post (I criticized his picks but you also have to account for them not getting good luck......Having the chance to draft KAT or Wiggins >>>>>> having a core with an injury prone Jrue Holiday & Evan Turner and no 1st round picks for 2 years)

 

[tremonthustler1]

Didn't know who they hired after throwing King in the bushes....Thanks for clearing that up.

He's gonna go IN on overseas talent who want a shot at the pros.

Seeing the Nets and what they're doing, it won't be soon before long.

If I were Marks I'd beg Teodosic to come over to the league while he's still in his prime.

 

[#1 pick]

If you read my original post (I criticized his picks but you also have to account for them not getting good luck......Having the chance to draft KAT or Wiggins >>>>>> having a core with an injury prone Jrue Holiday & Evan Turner and no 1st round picks for 2 years)

A chance? None of them Sixers tho. Y'all had a chance for Porzingis but he would not work out for you because y'all some shyt. Then Okafor threw the jersey on the floor. That's how bad your rep is. You aren't being realistic breh. Like Hinkie was some shyt.

Colangelo will hopefully bring playoff Basketball to Philly. One of the best fanbases in the NBA.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

A chance? None of them Sixers tho. Y'all had a chance for Porzingis but he would not work out for you because y'all some shyt. Then Okafor threw the jersey on the floor. That's how bad your rep is. You aren't being realistic breh. Like Hinkie was some shyt.

Colangelo will hopefully bring playoff Basketball to Philly. One of the best fanbases in the NBA.

You're one of those people that's so blinded by your hate and things you see in the media that you can't see the facts.



the jersey drop was blown out of proportion, he placed it on the table. It was the angle of the video.

 

[Dwight Howard]

its not hard to gut out your team to the point of point of no return. that shouldnt be considered commendable. bottom line, there was no progress being shown.

 

[LurkMoar]

Boston needs to find a way to get okafor, the fit is too perfect.

 

[triplehate]

The coli.com where people who are not Sixers fans know more about your team than you do because of stats and box scores