Game 1: Bucks @ Sixers 10/23 @ 7:30 pm ET ESPN Thread

[Iscull]

We are just too small without Embiid to guard Giannis. I’m totally fine with how we’ve played tho. Maxey could’ve been better, refs sucked, but the role players showed up & the teams playing hard.

Honestly, the game is basically Prince not missing a shot and our guys ice cold from 3.

::EDIT:: Also if Joel were in Lopez wouldn't be able to camp the paint.

This and the no calls for Maxey

[Iverson Armband]

This is a statement game from the league. If you rest your stars during big national TV games, expect to be penalized by the refs.

lol get this nonsense off this board. In general, it’s loser mentality to blame the refs. It is even more ludicrous to think, in the era of sports betting, the internet, etc, that the league and refs are somehow in cahoots to penalize us. This is like beyond conspiracy theory. The refs aren’t why they are making threes and we aren’t.

Yeah, let’s not start the loser talk game 1 lol. There’s plenty of legit reasons they lost, namely PG and Embiid being out.

[Black Mage]

This is a statement game from the league. If you rest your stars during big national TV games, expect to be penalized by the refs.

lol get this nonsense off this board. In general, it’s loser mentality to blame the refs. It is even more ludicrous to think, in the era of sports betting, the internet, etc, that the league and refs are somehow in cahoots to penalize us. This is like beyond conspiracy theory. The refs aren’t why they are making threes and we aren’t.

Then Doris and RJ must be losers b/c they've been calling out the refs for not giving Maxey calls. And if you don't think the league influences things like that as retribution then I got a bridge to sell you.

[AI_Efficiency]

This is a statement game from the league. If you rest your stars during big national TV games, expect to be penalized by the refs.

lol get this nonsense off this board. In general, it’s loser mentality to blame the refs. It is even more ludicrous to think, in the era of sports betting, the internet, etc, that the league and refs are somehow in cahoots to penalize us. This is like beyond conspiracy theory. The refs aren’t why they are making threes and we aren’t.

Then Doris and RJ must be losers b/c they've been calling out the refs for not giving Maxey calls. And if you don't think the league influences things like that as retribution then I got a bridge to sell you.

Maxey has gotten a rough whistle most of his career. I’m not saying he shouldn’t get more calls. I’m saying the refs didn’t take a call from Adam silver telling them to screw us. Could you imagine if that happened and came out. The integrity of the league would be ruined forever. It’s just absolute insanity to think that happens. No one can keep a secret in this business. That stuff would leaked almost immediately.

[ivysixer2000]

Lowry is ballin....how NN started Gordon is beyond me

He’s over thinking it. His rationale was he doesn’t want redundancy in the SL. Do the Celtics care about redundancy in their damn lineup? No. The more guys who can dribble, pass and shoot, the better. Gordon can sometimes do one of those.

Gordon and KJ were horrible tonight,..he better change that immediately or we might lose every game til those dudes come back

[Sixteen]

Maxey having the same amount of FTs as a plodding slow footed center in Brook Lopez lol. It's not like Maxey doesn't drive and draw contact. He's usually the quickest guy on the court, beats his man and still doesn't get calls when there's contact. very frustrating to watch

[Sixteen]

and please don't tell me Eric Gordon will be Nurse's PJ Tucker.

[Black Mage]

lol get this nonsense off this board. In general, it’s loser mentality to blame the refs. It is even more ludicrous to think, in the era of sports betting, the internet, etc, that the league and refs are somehow in cahoots to penalize us. This is like beyond conspiracy theory. The refs aren’t why they are making threes and we aren’t.

Then Doris and RJ must be losers b/c they've been calling out the refs for not giving Maxey calls. And if you don't think the league influences things like that as retribution then I got a bridge to sell you.

Maxey has gotten a rough whistle most of his career. I’m not saying he shouldn’t get more calls. I’m saying the refs didn’t take a call from Adam silver telling them to screw us. Could you imagine if that happened and came out. The integrity of the league would be ruined forever. It’s just absolute insanity to think that happens. No one can keep a secret in this business. That stuff would leaked almost immediately.

Oh come on; it's well documented how the league deploys Foster in playoff series when they want it extended. You really think the head of officiating can't give a code word or indication to refs before a game how to call it?

Literally, look back at Magic Johnson AND Walton slipping up and admitting they were told their pick wasn't going to fall outside of its protected range days or weeks before the lottery.

Hell, the Sixers ticket office was telling people, including me, that the Sixers were going to have the 1st overall pick the day of the Ben Simmons Lottery and even Dikembe slipped up and congratulated the team on winning the lottery hours ahead of schedule.

Or how about our former owner admitting David Stern forced him to join the ownership group so the league would have someone they "owned" involved in ownership?

There's tons of pubic instances of the league rigging things and never once has it been investigated.

[Black Mage]

Maxey having the same amount of FTs as a plodding slow footed center in Brook Lopez lol. It's not like Maxey doesn't drive and draw contact. He's usually the quickest guy on the court, beats his man and still doesn't get calls when there's contact. very frustrating to watch

Maxey needs to learn how to downshift his gears so chasing defenders crash into him from behind. Him racing like a sports car and always ending up on the ground b/c of that makes it easier for refs to swallow a whistle.

[Jailblazers7]

I think the universe demands balance & Maxey is paying the cosmic price for Embiid’s foul grifting.

[Iverson Armband]

Then Doris and RJ must be losers b/c they've been calling out the refs for not giving Maxey calls. And if you don't think the league influences things like that as retribution then I got a bridge to sell you.

Maxey has gotten a rough whistle most of his career. I’m not saying he shouldn’t get more calls. I’m saying the refs didn’t take a call from Adam silver telling them to screw us. Could you imagine if that happened and came out. The integrity of the league would be ruined forever. It’s just absolute insanity to think that happens. No one can keep a secret in this business. That stuff would leaked almost immediately.

Oh come on; it's well documented how the league deploys Foster in playoff series when they want it extended. You really think the head of officiating can't give a code word or indication to refs before a game how to call it?

Literally, look back at Magic Johnson AND Walton slipping up and admitting they were told their pick wasn't going to fall outside of its protected range days or weeks before the lottery.

Hell, the Sixers ticket office was telling people, including me, that the Sixers were going to have the 1st overall pick the day of the Ben Simmons Lottery and even Dikembe slipped up and congratulated the team on winning the lottery hours ahead of schedule.

Or how about our former owner admitting David Stern forced him to join the ownership group so the league would have someone they "owned" involved in ownership?

There's tons of pubic instances of the league rigging things and never once has it been investigated.

Honest question, not trying to be funny, why do you even bother watching then if you question the integrity of the game? Believing that would totally kill it for me, but to each their own.

[Sixteen]

Maxey having the same amount of FTs as a plodding slow footed center in Brook Lopez lol. It's not like Maxey doesn't drive and draw contact. He's usually the quickest guy on the court, beats his man and still doesn't get calls when there's contact. very frustrating to watch

Maxey needs to learn how to downshift his gears so chasing defenders crash into him from behind. Him racing like a sports car and always ending up on the ground b/c of that makes it easier for refs to swallow a whistle.

so basically, stop and twerk on the defenders like Brunson and Trae Young do and get rewarded for.

[Sixteen]

I think the universe demands balance & Maxey is paying the cosmic price for Embiid’s foul grifting.

I want to believe this but Dame still gets calls despite Giannis just running into people while traveling and getting phantom calls.

[AI_Efficiency]

Maxey has gotten a rough whistle most of his career. I’m not saying he shouldn’t get more calls. I’m saying the refs didn’t take a call from Adam silver telling them to screw us. Could you imagine if that happened and came out. The integrity of the league would be ruined forever. It’s just absolute insanity to think that happens. No one can keep a secret in this business. That stuff would leaked almost immediately.

Oh come on; it's well documented how the league deploys Foster in playoff series when they want it extended. You really think the head of officiating can't give a code word or indication to refs before a game how to call it?

Literally, look back at Magic Johnson AND Walton slipping up and admitting they were told their pick wasn't going to fall outside of its protected range days or weeks before the lottery.

Hell, the Sixers ticket office was telling people, including me, that the Sixers were going to have the 1st overall pick the day of the Ben Simmons Lottery and even Dikembe slipped up and congratulated the team on winning the lottery hours ahead of schedule.

Or how about our former owner admitting David Stern forced him to join the ownership group so the league would have someone they "owned" involved in ownership?

There's tons of pubic instances of the league rigging things and never once has it been investigated.

Honest question, not trying to be funny, why do you even bother watching then if you question the integrity of the game? Believing that would totally kill it for me, but to each their own.

If you think all this stuff is fixed you can just go to Vegas and get rich. For example, you brought up the lottery with the number 1 pick. If you think it’s fixed like that, you can literally go to Vegas, bet your life savings on it, and profit. The line tonight was Milwaukee 3.5. If you knew we would be punished, just bet it all on the Bucks. I feel like you won’t be convinced by this though and just want someone to blame which probably feels better. Believe what you want I guess.

[NYSixersFan]

This organization better be careful to completely not disregard the regular season.

[FireMorey]

I don’t think this season is going to be a deal where whenever Embiid and PG don’t play, they lose. I think tonight was a bit of a fluke, they’ll shoot better than this on most nights.

[Mik317]

bad shooting night from Maxey. Team won't survive those without Jo and PG...thats the short version.

The longer version is that everything still has to be worked too hard for IMO. Maxey's shot diet is a lot of tough shots in general and until he learns to grift better he will have nights like this....which sucks because then he'd probably have to lean more into that which sucks to watch lol...so selfishly I just hope he makes more stupid deep threes and tough layups at a high %...which yeah.

But my apathy was the fact that we will rely on 2 dudes who are aging out to stay healthy and play a major role for us and Nurse also will have to other senior citizens in the rotation too (Lowry played well tonight tho)

I'm not putting my already declining mental health on that working out lol

(as for the refs; it sucks to complain about them but if there was a night to get a tech tonight needed to be one)

[Black Mage]

Oh come on; it's well documented how the league deploys Foster in playoff series when they want it extended. You really think the head of officiating can't give a code word or indication to refs before a game how to call it?

Literally, look back at Magic Johnson AND Walton slipping up and admitting they were told their pick wasn't going to fall outside of its protected range days or weeks before the lottery.

Hell, the Sixers ticket office was telling people, including me, that the Sixers were going to have the 1st overall pick the day of the Ben Simmons Lottery and even Dikembe slipped up and congratulated the team on winning the lottery hours ahead of schedule.

Or how about our former owner admitting David Stern forced him to join the ownership group so the league would have someone they "owned" involved in ownership?

There's tons of pubic instances of the league rigging things and never once has it been investigated.

Honest question, not trying to be funny, why do you even bother watching then if you question the integrity of the game? Believing that would totally kill it for me, but to each their own.

If you think all this stuff is fixed you can just go to Vegas and get rich. For example, you brought up the lottery with the number 1 pick. If you think it’s fixed like that, you can literally go to Vegas, bet your life savings on it, and profit. The line tonight was Milwaukee 3.5. If you knew we would be punished, just bet it all on the Bucks. I feel like you won’t be convinced by this though and just want someone to blame which probably feels better. Believe what you want I guess.

One, you can rig things here and there to send messages (no calls b/c of Joel thing; Sixers getting 1st overall pick in return for Hinkie getting ousted, ensuring Lakers have path to staying relevant by not losing its pick).

Second, I don't think; I know it happened. I literally was called and told the SIxers would give all new season tix holders a signed basketball from the 1st overall pick. I specifically asked if they just meant the Sixers 1st rnd pick or that the SIxers would have the 1st overall pick. The Sales rep put me on hold to check with their supervisor and came back and confirmed it was the latter. So yeah, someone in Sixers HQ knew the lottery was going to fall in favor of Sixers. I bought my tix and now have a worthless basketball signed by Ben.

How about looking at another sport, the NFL. It's well documented that Goodell's investigators found a room filled with taped practices. Goodell rather than let all of it come to light had the tapes destroyed immediately. Some people care; but ultimately not a single thing was done to investigate Goodell or the NFL.

The point is, as long as a league doesn't outright rig everything; they'll be allowed to get away with affecting outcomes here and there.

[Mik317]

if it is rigged then they should rig it in favor of us for once lol

new stadium. Biid is a perfect heel...and that wears off if he never gets to the top to be knocked off lol. Hell If it was rigged then his Team USA service should get him extra brownie points yo.

[FlyingArrow]

I heard Embiid missing game 1... and I had no problem with that. Free bonus rest day. Missing 3 games? Now it sounds like an injury.