Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

tho who know maybe theyll keep stockpiling centers! (noel prob a forward tho)

i'm interested to see what happens when the sixers are winning about 35-40 games on the raw talent of embiid or okafor or someone and he has to assemble actual basketball players into an actual team but for now he seems fine

yeah agreed see if he can put together the right supporting cast, right coach, make all the little moves

i like okafor better than embiid especially considering injury history

the teams that tanked and shot to the top are much more rare than teams that just assembled parts naturally and congealed over a period of time

okafor obvs gonna be a monstrous offensive player and is more of a sure thing but embiids defensive potential where okafor doesnt have much is what puts him over the top for me, def more of a risk tho

the teams that tanked and shot to the top are much more rare than teams that just assembled parts naturally and congealed over a period of time

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:15 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehhh i mean i think "assembled naturally" comprises any number of approaches where youre basically saying all the other ways of assembling a team put together are better than this one way, also its situational, some ways other teams did it were prob not available to the sixers, celtics tanked to put together the big three, spurs tanked to get duncan

its a legit way to get good players, and in some situations is the best way

celtics also tanked to get duncan lol wha whaaaa

it's sorta weird ppl are so outraged by tanking now, it's not like it's a new phenomenon and it was arguably worse and more effective when the #1 pick was some college senior who could come in and very probably make the allstar game the first year and instantly make yr team 25 wins better.
--balls

it's true it has definitely been around for a longass time but the way hinkie is doing it smacks of flying by the seat of one's pants for guaranteed job security, as well as miserliness to an obscene degree beyond just savvy spending/nonspending (the kj deal, the salary floor thing) that just makes me feel gross

gross feeling could also just stem from imagining hinkie's smiling face tbrr

ya this has to be the most extreme tank job ever, also ppl been mad abt tanking tho more the other kind where teams try to lose individual games at the end of the season usually not playing their best player to improve draft position rather than this kind which is done by the gm instead of the coach

breaking theres a leak in the ceiling in atlanta

other diff (which may be subjective, other ppl seemed not to be as bothered) that philly openly tanked on the court in full view of cameras immediately after that fucking MCW players tribune story, whereas other bad teams that are rebuilding or will have to are just playing poorly, not actively trying to lose or openly not giving a shit

*is that

really i wasnt under the impression that philly were purposely playing bad they just have no talent, like theyve been dece at D

of course no one has actually seen them play so its hard to say

like it's a game and we know what's going on but at least try and sell the fallacy a little bit better, FFS. this also makes the MCW trade more baffling is that he was clearly willing to tank on the court and wait it out! (and yes is an actively bad shooter but still)

I'm referring most blatantly to MCW's refusal to play defense in the dallas mavs game, the one skill he's legit really good at, also in the first sixers-celtics game I watched he was blatantly taking shots everyone knew he couldn't make to the point where he had to be doing it on purpose unless he's a complete moron (which is possible; he did after all write a players trib story that said "don't talk to me about tanking)

well someone has to take the shots and none of them can make them

i mean the fact that philly is not even the worst team in the nba has to be proof that theyre not intentionally losing

kool-aidey attitude of the hinkiehead fans also making me disinclined to feel anything other than contemptuous of the team that once had my fav player of all time

they are the worst offensive team but theyre 14th in defense! above average!

could just be to throw silver off the scent *dons tinfoil hat*

the players aren't playing bad on purpose why on earth would they do that

yo minny is totally gonna sign kg for another two years just to yell at their young players lol

the yelling skill ages very well iirc

isnt that just called... a coach

lol jared sullinger has apparently vowed to get in shape

lol was just gonna post that

omg sullinger is on tv right now vowing to lose weight while hes injured "im tired of seeing how i look on tv"

haaa xp

paging lagoon sully is fatshaming himself

lol

"how bout jonas jerebko" - not words I expected to hear

he's planning on losing weight/changing his body while noting that he can only ride the stationary bike for a while, not sure how this is going to work

Isaiah Canaan appears to be an inferior NBA player to KJ McDaniels

shock of the century: the sixers acquired a markedly bad player known to be markedly bad

he can shoot 3s apparently but in every other aspect of the game he seems terrible and he's a midget

the Hinkie defenders are about 8 months away from needing to stfu imo

i think weve got another couple years

the congratulations he got for the MCW trade were pretty ridiculous. Great job trading your bust!!! So savvy!

it's good he didn't pick giannis, then he wouldn't get a chance at uh.... Thon Maker?

if he really is a bust then that was a good move!

yes but it's a good move for a GM who should be on the hot seat

I was getting into it with the covington-mcdaniels stuff but now I guess they're just gonna trade covington for dellavedova and a second rounder

Noel looks ok I guess. Embiid is apparently fat and on the block tho.

really enjoying the name "thon maker"

same

Feels like a pulp fantasy novel deity, A+

Btw Hawks are hawking all over the mavs rn