Why is nobody talking about how screwed the Sixers are?
Half of their most effective bench players have gone on to other teams. Harden wants to leave. Embiid is going to be 30 soon. One of the their biggest rivals in the Celtics have improved a lot by getting the Zingus. Even if the Heat don’t get Dame, there’s no way a worse Sixers team is going to win a series against them.
The Sixers downfall hasn’t been talked about enough on this sub.
I can’t lie I felt very similar to OP at the time, and I think majority of the fan base felt the same. It looked like there was no team cohesion post playoff exit and with everything centered around Harden’s tantrum, yet we ended up more cohesive and complete than expected and had an incredible trade/FA period in hindsight. On paper we were screwed, but this isn’t paper ig