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  • #1

    I don't get the Embiid backlash

    Who did you want to take at 3? An Australian who nobody has seen play live and who hasn't played competively in a year? Noah Vonleh? Nick Gordon? You really think any of those guys will be NBA superstars? Embiid is the worth the risk if you're looking to build a championship caliber team. He was going to go number 1 before the injury. I trust the Sixers know more about his medical condition than any of us. Maybe it's blind faith, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

    I wasn't crazy about the Saric selection but at that point Stauskas and Randle were already gone. Guys like McDermott and Gary Harris aren't going to make a difference ever, maybe in a few years Saric will. How many years did Sixers fans bitch about being in NBA purgatory? I have no problem with being terrible (again). Did you prefer the Billy King/Stefanski approach of taking guys with the highest floor instead of the highest ceiling?
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    The jokes of "The Sixers are gonna be so good in 2017" are HILARIOUS.

    I don't understand the backlash towards building a team with a realistic timeline either. They weren't winning shit in the next couple seasons either way, so building a roster the way Hinkie is doing it is fine by me.

    They're building a young, athletic team and will take a run at Kevin Durant in two years. I'm fine with waiting.
    Last edited by Sect 236; 06-27-2014, 08:26 AM.

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    • #3
      I think people are mad for the reasons you said. Its really the only move. They tanked and only got #3. No instant gratification. If these moves pan out and they are competing in 3 years, everyone will understand. But for now, its maddening.
      WANGNUTIAN. (pronounced wang-nooshan, martian)

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      • #4
        Wouldn't you agree that packaging picks 3,10 and 32 for Andrew Wiggins was a much bigger "risk" and potential for failure?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by rothdawg View Post
          Wouldn't you agree that packaging picks 3,10 and 32 for Andrew Wiggins was a much bigger "risk" and potential for failure?
          They did the right thing by not dealing up for the number one but I think its presumptuous to say that there weren't any future star players in this draft beyond the first three picks. At least one or two players picked after embid will be a star but lets hope the sixers got one as well.
          "You'll get nothing and like it!" Judge Smails

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          • #6
            They did a great job of getting their first-rounder back in 2017. They know they're going to need it.

            All I know is they had a plan in the beginning of the season and they didn't execute. I don't want to hear the lottery is luck. The Bucks had the worst record in the NBA and they were trying. The Sixers held on to players and tanked too late. Bad form. There is zero chance this was the plan before the season. Zero.
            Last edited by Snakebitten; 06-27-2014, 10:33 AM.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Snakebitten View Post
              They did a great job of getting their first-rounder back in 2017. They know they're going to need it.

              All I know is they had a plan in the beginning of the season and they didn't execute. I don't want to hear the lottery is luck. The Bucks had the worst record in the NBA and they were trying. The Sixers held on to players and tanked too late. Bad form. There is zero chance this was the plan before the season. Zero.
              They could have traded Turner and Hawes earlier, and you would have complained that they didn't get fair value.
              Last edited by Sect 236; 06-27-2014, 10:37 AM.

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              • #8
                I really wanted to see stauskas at ten, they had to take embiid imo. I think they did a good job plus they got another future first.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Sect 236 View Post
                  They could have traded Turner and Hawes earlier, and you would have complained that they didn't get fair value.
                  11-3-14 This team can't even tank correctly. They first step is moving Turner as quickly as possible. Send him to one of those shitty teams ASAP. I don't care what they get back for him. The next step is ask Ed Snider for advice on how to get the least out of your team. That should help.
                  I really couldn't have been more repetitive on here about dumping these players for nothing early in the season. It took me about 30 seconds to find a post about it. I was told to let it play out and I did. They blew it. I guess the next reply is to let it play out and we will see in 2017.

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                  • #10
                    Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Charles Barkley, Allen Iverson

                    Just frustrated to not have anyone to cheer for in a Sixers jersey.
                    Last edited by Two Gap Penetrator; 06-27-2014, 11:12 AM.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Snakebitten View Post
                      I really couldn't have been more repetitive on here about dumping these players for nothing early in the season. It took me about 30 seconds to find a post about it. I was told to let it play out and I did. They blew it. I guess the next reply is to let it play out and we will see in 2017.
                      I don't understand how they "blew it" already?

                      This draft was "The Big 3"

                      They got one of those 3. Sure, there's major "ifs" with him, but there were major "ifs" with the other 2 as well.

                      It's just weird that a guy who wanted to tank for so long is now looking for immediate gratification. That's not what tanking is.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Sect 236 View Post
                        I don't understand how they "blew it" already?

                        This draft was "The Big 3"

                        They got one of those 3. Sure, there's major "ifs" with him, but there were major "ifs" with the other 2 as well.

                        It's just weird that a guy who wanted to tank for so long is now looking for immediate gratification. That's not what tanking is.
                        I never referred to it as the 'Big 3'. I saw it as the 'Big 2'. Actually, I saw it as 'Winless for Wiggins'. Regardless, they ended up with a player at #3 with major health concerns instead of the player they really coveted. They had a plan and they didn't execute. I waited it out hoping for a draft day miracle but it didn't happen. Good GMs execute their plans. This one didn't. If the reports are true, he didn't get the player he really wanted. That's bad form when you spent the entire season trying to sell your fan base on a 'wait-and-see'. We waited, they blew it. This team still can't shoot. I'm pretty sure that's important in basketball. It's not all about defense. Now, it's wait until 2017. I've got to hand it to him, this drawn out process will keep him in town longer than he should be. Let's hope they got different doctors to review the x-rays this year.

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                        • #13
                          Wait...there's more.

                          It's also being reported today that along with those three picks that Hinkie offered a future number one to move up to get Wiggens.
                          John Erlichman, one of President Richard Nixon's closest aides, has admitted America's "War on Drugs" was a hoax designed to vilify and disrupt "the antiwar left and black people" when it was launched in 1971.

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                          • #14
                            Leo Rautins

                            CUSE!
                            John Erlichman, one of President Richard Nixon's closest aides, has admitted America's "War on Drugs" was a hoax designed to vilify and disrupt "the antiwar left and black people" when it was launched in 1971.

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                            • #15
                              It's good to hear Hinkie didn't sound desperate. My god.

                              You Stepfords are eating this shit up. Admit it.

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