I think this current sixers roster may end up being worse than the horford roster.

Embiid is the MVP.

Maxey is a high-ceiling up and coming young talent. I see many calling for a MIP/all star season from him, but if he’s forced to play PG full time, there’s a higher likelihood that we see his game suffer vs thrive, imo.

It’s also going to have a direct, negative impact on Embiid’s performance. It took Embiid having the regular season assist leader feeding him easy buckets to get him over that MVP hump, that’s gone, and replaced by a scoring guard with great handles running the offense.

After that, the talent drop off is significant.

We’ve got 2 quality role players in Melton and Harris. Melton is a great fit as a two-way 3&D wing player. Harris’ fit is often called in question, but i think (contract aside) he fits in the “quality role player” bucket.

After that? This roster is paper thin and suspect as fuck.

Paul Reed is a quality young player that has shown promise in the regular season and post season, but will have to prove that he can be relied on to slide up into that “Quality role player” slot with Melton and Harris.

Tucker is a body at this point in his career but i’m reluctant to put him in that “quality role player” bucket after last season/the post season. Proving to be one of morey’s dumber moves so far imo.

Springer is a complete and total question mark. Maybe he can provide some useful minutes, maybe not. We literally don’t know. He looked ok in pre-season, certainly better than he has in previous seasons. But korkmaz also put up 40 points in a summer league game once. Pre-season performance is not a good indicator of regular season success with fringe role players. calling him a question mark is frankly generous, because he’s really not shown many flashes in actual game play.

House is a body in the same way that tucker is a body.

Oubre Jr looks promising in preseason but see above note about preseason performance and also his play for the last 5 seasons. Just like beverly, there’s a reason he’s available on a vet min contract and is being bounced from team to team.

Danny Green round 2. no comment.

Mo bamba might somehow be the absolute worst backup center they’ve ever found for embiid. I pray to god he is the 4th option at back up center behind Paul Reed and then PJ Tucker. Aside from being a large human, i don’t understand how mo bamba has even made it this far in the NBA. Like a young, dumber, slower Greg Monroe.

Pat Bev is ass and there’s a reason he is always available and on dirt cheap contracts. People are really overhyping his presence on the team. We don’t need dogs if they’re all bite no bark and that’s him in a nutshell. The worst part is, he’s also the “best” actual point guard on the roster.

And then there’s furkan “trade request bombah” korkmaz.

My only hope for this season is that embiid doesn’t request a trade before the deadline, but looking at this roster construction, couldn’t blame him one bit.

EDIT: Replacing Doc Rivers with Nick Nurse is a definite upgrade, but it’s a tall order for nurse to coach pretty much everyone from Harris and below to be a contributing, functional player on the team. There’s a universe where we’re going to see lineups of Beverly - Springer - Green - Reed - Bamba. prepare accordingly.