confidential to those pissed about the Sixers' pick

[Irish George]

Do you even watch college basketball?

[Overbrook]

Can't see where anyone (with a brain) would be pissed.

Do you even watch college basketball?

The young man can play.

I'm getting a load of laughs out of all these talking heads expounding on the death of the big man just because the Warriors happened to win with prissy 3 point shooters.

Try putting together a small team to win, then get ready for years of misery.

[RSE]

Here is a sentence no one has ever said: You can have too many good big men.

[Irish George]

How about the idiot who said

The young man can play.

I'm getting a load of laughs out of all these talking heads expounding on the death of the big man just because the Warriors happened to win with prissy 3 point shooters.

Try putting together a small team to win, then get ready for years of misery.

Imbiid and Noel were "just as good?"

The thing the Sixers have needed since Moses Malone is an inside FORCE. And If I'm a free agent stud guard I want to come to a team with big men to throw the ball to.

[Irish George]

A-fucking-men

A-fucking-men.

[Overbrook]

It's silly to even say it, but......

Imbiid and Noel were "just as good?"

The thing the Sixers have needed since Moses Malone is an inside FORCE. And If I'm a free agent stud guard I want to come to a team with big men to throw the ball to.

Maybe LaBron wants another ring. Hehehehehe.

[IronEagle]

I don't watch much college basketball but I can't be upset with the selection.

They took the best player available at the time.

Only thing derogitory I will say is it seems to me like the NBA, in a McMahon like manner, is trying to limit the value of big guys in the paint, and enhance the value of three point shooters.

[phillyeagles36]

Agree. Bilas thought Okafor was the best player in the draft and I have to agree when it comes to producing right now. The guy is a fucking stud down low. His touch around the hoop is rare and has the size and footwork to dominate in the NBA. Love the pick. I don't understand how you cannot.

[FuriousXGeorge]

I don't watch much college basketball but I can't be upset with the selection.

They took the best player available at the time.

Only thing derogitory I will say is it seems to me like the NBA, in a McMahon like manner, is trying to limit the value of big guys in the paint, and enhance the value of three point shooters.

What doesn't reek of McMahon in that league? The Lakers getting the first pick was about as subtle a sign of potential funny business as a McMahon announcing themselves the special guest referee.

[J_Cuz31]

Imbiid and Noel were "just as good?"

The thing the Sixers have needed since Moses Malone is an inside FORCE. And If I'm a free agent stud guard I want to come to a team with big men to throw the ball to.

Seriously, Embiid and Noel are far better defensive players. I cant even see how thats debatable. I understand that okafor has some real nice moves around the basket but some of that is gonna be negated against better players in the NBA. So yeah, Noel and Embiid (if healthy) are just as good.

I'm sorry but a GM who keeps shuffling players at the same position as his team piles up losing seasons doesnt impress me. He could have maneuvered down and picked up a player that meets his teams needs better.

This idea that they have to take certain players every year because everyone else sucks will be revealed to be incredibly short sighted in three years.

A guy like Hezonja will be helping his team win games while the Sixers are still trying to get fair market value for whichever Center they can move from their roster.

Hinkie just isnt as smart as you think.

[Dim Bulb]

None of them

Do you even watch college basketball?

are as good as Shaq.

[Ground_Meat]

What doesn't reek of McMahon in that league? The Lakers getting the first pick was about as subtle a sign of potential funny business as a McMahon announcing themselves the special guest referee.

They got the 2nd pick.

[rothdawg]

They took the best player available in the first round. The second round is a total crapshoot, it's laughable that people are bitching about it.

[J_Cuz31]

A general managers job is not to pick the best player available or the best college player, it is to pick the best player for HIS team three years from the date of selection. This is the problem i have with Hinkie.

Anybody can sit on their thumbs and select the consensus best player available, at the time, and say they did their job (and no one should criticize). But the best GMS, the true 'geniuses' have an ability to envision who will contribute in the most meaningful way to their team down the line.

In 2008 Thabeet was a center considered the bpa when he was selected number 2 overall. Sadly for memphis they passed on harden and curry.

To be frank, it isnt about Okafor as a player, its about Whats becoming very painfully obvious with each passing day: Sam Hinkie has no plan to make the Sixers a winning organization.

[RSE]

People would have bitched if they passed on Okafor. Negadelphia.