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

o nice

agree that simmons in the post makes sense but yeah what do you do with embiid--his skills on the perimeter have been severely overstated

― call all destroyer, Thursday, May 10, 2018 2:01 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hes just got to shoot better and make better decisions do decisive one dribble drives and so forth, his game is so undisciplined right now, he can def get there but its..................a process

feel like these numbers are connected philly was forcing it in the post for lack of a better option where the celtics were using the post in the flow of their normal offense

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:24 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, way too many possessions where boston took out their first option or two and just dumped it to embiid with 8 on the shot clock.

the number of turnovers embiid makes from doing pointless shit is out of control, badly needs to hone his game down to stuff hes actually good at / get good at more stuff

im not worried about the 76ers yet. they need another year to develop and see what fultz has to really be able to see what they will be imo. pretty good results for year 1 of the current iteration all things considered. embiid REALLLY needs to drop 20 lbs he looks completely gassed at the end of every game

embiid needs to tone down the eurostep he's gonna break his foot again!!

his TOs are so bad. theyre not the 'acceptable' type of young player TOs either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1PqyJ_F4CM

lol i wonder if taps are a philly exclusive thing

joel needs to get serious def stop fucking around

also needs to stop thinking hes cute talking shit online/in press conferences everyone in the league is gonna hate him, tho from a fans perspective it is pretty funny

simmons and embiids personalities seems like they cld end up clashing

you gotta know when to turn it off tho.xp

simmons and embiids personalities seems like they cld end up clashing

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:38 AM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last night i saw some stuff that put this thought into my mind as well!

what was it

btw after the game when the teams were milling about congratulating each other and so forth simmons was smiling and being magnanimous and seemed like not maybe a total asshole, embiid had already fled

embiid missed simmons on a couple cuts to the hoop, one where he was wide open and simmons threw a little fit both times.

reddick snipping at mcconnell after he got in his precious way was a bad look too.

embiid walking away seemed kinda out of character to me? he was congratulatory on twitter after tho

obvs the raps have to be ready to blow it up which im not sure really makes sense for them

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, May 10, 2018 1:23 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To not run into give or take the best player of all time every post-season.

yeah its just they have all these other big contracts even if they unload lowry theyre kinda still in the same boat just not as good

tho getting whatever they can for their guys going full rebuild and waiting out the contracts they cant move is prob the best plan, def a bitter pill to swallow when u finish first in yr conference, idk maybe masai can work some magic and rebuild the team on the fly w/o bottoming out, tough task in this case

The perspective of a Raptors fan like me is that it's never been as good as the past 4-5 years and finally there is some basketball at the forefront in Canada, to blow it up might send us back to the dark ages.

could just shuffle the deck you know, lateral trades with other players stuck in similar situations?

Also Masai is very good and really in the end I blindly trust him.

it's not his fault his top 3 players wet the bed when it matters most.

At night I go to sleep and I'm smiling because I know that what I'll be dreaming of is Boogie signing to Toronto as a FA don't wake me up you monsters.

man i would want NO part of boogie post achilles tear

yeah thats a might risky path, tho if you could get him on a two year deal with a team option for a third it might be a worthy hail mary for the raps, prob have to do a sign n trade with the pelicans for valanciunas + filler

cld def see boogie taking a big short deal since prob no one will want to commit long term, tho the political situation if brow is demanding he be brought back cld force nolas hand

we're gonna learn what kind of GM skills brow has. is he draymond or is he lebron...

he seems really loyal to boogie but he cld just be talking that way for appearances sake who knows

i mean looking at how they played after boogie went down and then learning anything about recovery from a ruptured achilles shd send anyone running in the opposite directions but maybe brow just doesnt think like that

really the best thing wld be for him to force a trade to the celtics

theire ceiling is higher w boogie but yeah, they should just invest in putting the right pieces around brow.

the right pieces around brow are gordon hayward jaylen brown kyrie irving et al

actually its steph, klay, kd and dray

hmm no that seems bad

FA Boogie is as much about Boogie than it is to convince, at least to ourselves, that Toronto can be attractive place for FA. I think the window has very obviously shut for this generation, but that it can use the talent to build goodwill around the franchise.

I say this and I am not aware about how bad an achille tear is :’(

basically the worst injury a basketball player can get

if the dubs added brow i think they cld go undefeated

most athletes do it in their mid 30s so there is some hope there. the only positive ones i can remember are dominique wilkins and i guess uh michael crabtree?

if the dubs added brow i think they cld go undefeated

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:47 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

only way this happens is if KD wants out at some point

yeah theres no way from a salary pov but imagine if he was just magically on the team next year, or even better if he was on last years team

the number of turnovers embiid makes from doing pointless shit is out of control, badly needs to hone his game down to stuff hes actually good at / get good at more stuff

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, May 10, 2018 2:32 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

embiid shooting 3s and euro stepping and stuff is cute but he really needs to learn like how to pass out of a double team and also how to... pass out of a single team

ha yes

Philly gonna have some FA juice now at least.
Nobody's mentioned Brett Brown. My buddy loathes him. Unfair to place the blame on him but do think he's a middling coach at best.

xp Embiid is so young and relatively inexperienced. He seems smart tho and hopefully he's coachable.

gotta ride w brown at least for one more season i would think. 76ers should be going full bore at paul george imo.

yeah not real impressed with brown as a coach, love his olde timey maine accent tho

oh yeah george wld be perfect for them

hey no hoop for three days, what should we do?? how about run another feature about lebron vs mj!!!!!

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23456720/is-lebron-james-michael-jordan-greatest-nba-player-all

lol its been two weeks since our last update

.@joelembiid said he's 281 pounds. His target weight is 270-275.

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) May 10, 2018