man if only daryl morey employed a whole team of people that could handle such a minor transaction! I ust can’t believe the sixers make morey do everything all by himself. Its crazy

Shaq’s defensive dominance makes him a better overall basketball player than jokic.

For jokic to crack the top 5, imo, he needs to just keep stacking titles/MVPs. I know this sub slobs all over his advanced stats but his defense is ok at best, and when you’re comparing him to all time great centers, most of those guys were elite defensively AND offensively.

Jokic is just so damn unique with his ball handlign/passing/range that its hard to know where to place him.

does his overall offensive prowess offset his defensive shortcomings when compared to the all time greats? That’s the real debate and why its such a fun one, because there’s never been a center like that before.

yea i don’t really care about morris one way or another getting minutes right now, or this game, really.

But backup centers on a Joel Embiid team matter alot. That teh head coach isn’t willing to give Mo Bamba significant minutes in this (by your point) meaningless November game, thats the part that worries me.

Without Embiid our only “big” is Paul Reed, and that’s not enough. That’s my point.

Yea i get that part and think it makes sense for reed especially - he needs as much consistency as possible so he can just keep developing as a player.

But objectively speaking, you look at the roster when embiid is out and your choices for a back up starting center are a 7+ foot young big man in Mo Bamba or a 6’9 old ass marcus morris, and you choose morris, it speaks volumes about how the coach feels about bamba seeing the floor at all.

I wonder if nurse starting Morris in embiidless games is his way of saying morey needs todo better than bamba

embiid’s biggest case for MVP is not his stats, its how awful we are without him

i for one am shocked that a 3x DPOY locked down a rookie.

in real time i thought it was, and if they had called it a fumble instead of an incomplete, i bet the ruling would have stood if challenged.

i still don’t get it. Like conceptually i understand, i just don’t get why anyone cares. Feels like a marketing/advertisement cash in for the NBA more than anything. Wonder how much more an ad spot on an IST game goes for over a regular season game,

This works great for the 20,000 people there and terribly for the millions watching at home.

for whatever its worth, I bought last minute tix to the last regular season game last season against the heat. They ended up costing me more than tix to a playoff game against the nets in the first round.

He’s the definition of “a guy” in the nba. Certainly belongs on an nba roster but in that 11-15th guy off the bench space.

He once scored 39 points in a game against the clippers like 4 seasons ago and Sixers fans on Reddit have wildly over rated him ever since.

Mo bamba has to be in the running for worst player in the league

numbers are hard

Since this is a post about Embiid I’m also obligated to acknowledge Jokic’s obscene statline at 29/14/9 through the first 13 games.

I’m a fan of centers, and the modern NBA is a new golden age for big men, especially as we see the Chet and Wemby coming into the league.

Embiid is averaging a career high 6.2 assists per game. His previous high was set the last 2 seasons at 4.2 assists per game.

You can see this playing out in game as Nurse is really leaning into having the offense flow through embiid from in and around the free throw line. This is taking shape in a couple different ways. Give and go with guards/wing shooters (maxey, melton, batum, oubre before he was out), but also by having embiid find wings cutting to the basket.

Really crazy to see how different an offense looks under a competent head coach.

Next 10 games: (bold = home)

Cavs

Timberwolves

Thunder

Lakers

Pelicans

Celtics

Wizards

Pistons

Pistons

Hornets

Wolves, Thunder, Lakers, Celtics are all playing really good basketball right now. Wolves and Thunder especially are dangerous teams (wolves at number 1 seed in west with Ant looking like he’s turned another corner to level up) and Thunder getting to really see the full potential of that roster.

I’d be happy if we split those 4 games, obviously preferring a win over the celtics.

Of the other 6 matchups, Pelicans, Pistons, Wizards, and Hornets should be wins. That’s 5 wins. Cavs have the highest upside of that bunch, but i still think that’s a win.

6-4 is acceptable over that stretch. Would get us to 15-7.

7-3 would be a great 10 games for us. 16-6

8-2 or more would start to turn heads for the sixers. coming out of this 10 game stretch at 17-5 or more would be outstanding.

There’s a universe where we go 5-5 in that stretch but i don’t want to entertain this morning.

I’ve been saying for about the last 12 months that the FA class after this season is going to be wildly underwhelming and that, unironically, tobias harris is going to be one of the best players available for the sixers (though i’m not sure of specifics of his cap holds - might be prohibitive for us and not sure keeping him around is the right answer - i would absolutely welcome it on a more reasonable deal, though). IN modern NBA and for his production, tobias is easily going to get a 3, 4 year deal in the 80-100 mil a year range though.

I really think whatever trade we make it’ll be with the intent of re-signing the targeted player, taking up a fair amount of cap space. What’s left of that space can be used to max out Maxey + re-sign any role players using bird rights.

Yea honestly if i never have to watch another game with that court, i’m in to lose whatever games we have to lose to get out of that tournament. was an eyesore to look at.

Embiid and Harris are averaging 51.1 as a duo

Maxey and Harris are averaging 48.3