Mik317 wrote:yes.
No one of value will sign with the Sixers in their current state. YOU stated this is the reason Durant or Klay wouldn't come here..and I agree with that. Durant only comes here if Noel is legit and if Embiid is David Robinson. As much as I'd like to think that that is what is going to happen....it's not going to happen overnight (if at all).
So the question is..how does one become that team that attracts FA, right? Noel and Embiid have to pan out. Simple. They don't then Durant or whoever will not even look our way. That is generally how it works out. The only guys that will would be the dregs of the league and vets who are trying to hang on. Why? Because all of the players with talent generally would go to better spots. It is a simple thing, man. So why even bother if thats all that is basically available to us?
Ben Gordon doesn't help us at the moment. Great shooter and can get hot and give this years team a much needed scoring boost, yes....but at the end of the day, we are talking maybe 2-8 more wins..maybe..and that is if he has anything left as he has been awful for the last few years. The question ends up being is that worth taking minutes away from Wroten and KJ, is it worth him being a lockerroom cancer potentially? Is it really? The benefits people constantly bring up is that they can teach the youngins the ways of the NBA.....that is null because JRich, LMM, Sved and hell MCW can all do that...not to mention our coaching staff has been around, this isn't their first rodeos. Sean Rooks is our Bigman coach...he was one of the same journeymen people are clamoring for us to sign....litterally gives us the same "leadership" without taking up a roster spot that can be better used for player evaluation.
So please...list some realistic adds that would make us a better team LONGTERM. You are the one looking at this very simplistically. Bledsoe, Parsons, and Hayward would have been awesome adds but it just isn't realistic.
Well, you agree about who would have been awesome adds, but no, I'm not going to give ground because you are still making categorical statements that show false equivalence. In other words, overly simplistic thinking is your MO in this discussion (but not in general, I think).
I said above that we should not put all of our eggs in Durant's basket because he may not decide to come here. I do not recall implying anything more than that, but you can pick my words to death and see if I am missing some hidden meaning. On Klay, I mean I do not think it's possible that GS lets him go without a king's ransom, over and above what it takes to sign Klay. I did not make any statements about the others you have mentioned...
...except Bledsoe because he was at an impasse with his team. When a team values a player much differently than the player values himself, it creates opportunities for other teams to ply said player away. When PHX got IT, it made it even more likely that PHX would let him go without a king's ransom. Knowing that another Dragic was on their radar decreased Bledsoe's importance to PHX even more.
Simple enough?
