hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

sixers fans all having meltdowns over 2 games

RoCo, Embiid, and Simmons are all Hinkie guys, aren't they? Colangelo has done a good job with the short-term patches. RoCo was basically their only 3pt shooter until they filled the gaps, but it's kind of a mirage.

it just seems to me like even putting fultz aside the number of hits the sixers have had vs. misses requires no special talent at scouting or roster building. and if not for embiid getting injured the year of that draft they wouldn't even have him. i like the team bc i like embiid (a lot) and simmons but i can't give a ton of credit to the org.

― Mordy, Friday, May 4, 2018 3:39 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bill simmons and russillo had a really good recent pod where they were talking about the crapshoot nature of the draft and why it rarely makes sense to trade up: you really just want as many pulls on that slot machine as possible, it’s so hard to project 19 year olds

I think the sixers are set up absurdly well for the future tho, no need to handwring over this. they’re going up against a solid team and probably the best in-game coach in the league, maybe the best in a long time

i don't think hinkie would've traded up for fultz, i'm not handwringing fwiw tho i was disappointed about ben last night. i do feel like this whole post season is gravy and it's not really the team's fault if ppl's expectations were a little overambitious and/or early.

imo the sixers have two good players who shd prob be playing the same position, theyve relied a ton on players like reddick and belineli that arent in their long term plans, if fultz pans out theyre in a pretty good spot but if he doesnt theres a lot of work to do and the draft picks are all gone

that deal with boston is looking real bad, celtics get sactos pick next year and got the better player in the draft too lol!

boston a good lesson is what can be accomplished if u find teams willing to make bad deals with you

one thing that danny really understands is the opportunity cost of paying retail, cause if u do some sort of reasonable deal then you wont have assets when someone is ready to be fleeced

simmons shd really just go ahead and switch hands on his jumper, theres no risk since he never takes jumpshots anyway

it's true he could do it and not even tell anyone and people would never know if it worked

*didn't work

he wld be completely fricken unstoppable with an at all functional shot

i think the problem w/ the fultz/tatum trade is that not just that tatum is probably better than fultz -- though that is bad -- but that in philly's system they'd be playing the same exact role. fultz is nominally a PG but with simmons & embiid entrenched his time spent dominating the ball will be very minimal. he is very long for a PG and was a great shooter in college so he can play off the ball and fit w/ their length on defense but uh... that all describes tatum too! it just seems like not only did they misevaluate the players but also didn't quite understand how either would function on their team, which i think is worse.

yeah goo point

also tatum ran point for some stretches late in the season when everyone was injured and did fine which is pretty wild for a rookie whos never played point guard, so if philly was thinking itd be good to have someone with pg skills for lineup flexibility tatum can maybe do that too

i do think that this season/playoffs has shown that if the sixers surround simmons & embiid w/ shooting they're gonna be pretty hard to stop

there was a lot of predraft talk that tatum wasn't a very well-rounded player which has turned out to be complete bs

a lot depends on simmons/embiids development, imo theres reason to worry abt both of them ever maxing out their talent, but on the other hand their ceilings are so high that even if they dont reach them theyll still prob be very good, tho simmons maybe has a lower floor than most are acknowledging (as least those who arent calling him crocodile michael carter williams)

iirc the pre-draft take on tatum was 'sure he's gonna score but is he going to be able to do other stuff' and the answer has been yes

yeah ppl were calling him danny granger and rudy gay

Philly's cap situation next year is pretty great. Covington's deal was front-loaded. Tons of guys coming off the books. Saric and Simmons are cheap for a while.

hey sixers fans who cares about how they are building a team a generational talent will effortlessly ruin it all to the ground /raptors

Philly's cap situation next year is pretty great. Covington's deal was front-loaded. Tons of guys coming off the books. Saric and Simmons are cheap for a while.

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, May 4, 2018 5:39 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

be a good test for their front office to not sign some third tier guys to huge deals if they strike out w bronbron

haha curry

whodathunk draymond and rondo would butt heads in this series

Fly pelicans fly

KD snapping at Steph (who's defense was atrocious in the 1st)

kerr starting javale in the 2nd half again smh. this is not the series for javale. his refusal to just play his best lineups is bizarre.

steph does not look good at all tonight. hope this doesnt play out like 2016 when he came back balled out the first game then was like 75% of himself the rest of the way.

turns out rondo was a great pickup for the pellies in the playoffs

o dang just checking in good show pelicans

"to me, that's preposterous. alligator cheesecake, things of that nature."

everyone is v. mad at steve kerr tonite!

oh no who is mad?

steve is prob not used to that!

all the twitter people! i guess he chooses bad lineups to play?

o dang the twitter horde has turned on steve i read in the nytimes that thats a very big problem i hope he is ok

omg rondos line, kidd cld only dream of a 4-10-21

uh oh jingles comes out blazin

Kerr has always done weird stuff w lineups. Big part of why they lost in 2016. Fans like him but have held a grudge ever since. He just does things that are too cute. Like starting swaggy in q3 last game. Or sticking w javale tonight even tho it was clear from the tip-off this isn’t a series for him to play in.

yeah otm re kerrs rotations, tendencies to be too clever

rockets not joking around here

yeah they look sharp

lol

Draymond Green on his on-court run-ins with Rajon Rondo: "At some point, somebody's got to tell the truth. ... Draymond ain't trying to bait nobody. I'm chilling."

— Connor Letourneau (@Con_Chron) May 5, 2018

haha, rondo did try to straight up trip him tho

rondo is a true basketball bastard, dray cld learn from him

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— James Wobden (@World_Wide_Wob) May 5, 2018

capella has played himself into a max player, no?

oh no doubt