NBA General Discussion: 2025 Offseason

76ciology · Post #161 » by **76ciology** » Sun Dec 1, 2024 2:28 am

Iverson Armband wrote:
76ciology wrote:
mjkvol wrote:
If someone offered you a top 10-15 pick in next year's draft right now, are you making the trade?

Yes.

Derik Queen
Will Riley
Jakucionis

None of them will be better than McCain imo

It will depend on their opportunity and work ethic.

But all three have the tools to be much better.

M2J · Post #162 » by **M2J** » Sun Dec 1, 2024 4:14 am

Iverson Armband wrote:
76ciology wrote:
mjkvol wrote:
If someone offered you a top 10-15 pick in next year's draft right now, are you making the trade?

Yes.

Derik Queen
Will Riley
Jakucionis

None of them will be better than McCain imo

Never heard of 'em

Kobblehead · Post #163 » by **Kobblehead** » Sun Dec 1, 2024 2:58 pm

McCain is a 5 star recruit with a great attitude and early returns on investment. He's a draft day hit. I'm not moving him for an unknown. He's our guy, at this point. Building block with Maxey. We're very lucky to have these two.

Sixteen · Post #164 » by **Sixteen** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 5:31 am

Harden has been damn impressive this season. For some reason he was not getting that same whistle here and he overall just looked gimpy when his shot wasn't falling

76ciology · Post #165 » by **76ciology** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 7:02 am

Sixteen wrote:Harden has been damn impressive this season. For some reason he was not getting that same whistle here and he overall just looked gimpy when his shot wasn't falling

My guess is its due to refs trying to prevent FTA disparity. Refs usually likes to match the number of freethrows on both teams. He gets more FTs now because Kawhi and George are out.

the_process · Post #166 » by **the_process** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 4:40 pm

Kobblehead wrote:McCain is a 5 star recruit with a great attitude and early returns on investment. He's a draft day hit. I'm not moving him for an unknown. He's our guy, at this point. Building block with Maxey. We're very lucky to have these two.

Except... playing Maxey and McCain together is death defensively.

At best you get Lillard-McCollum out of those two; but seeing as how this is the Sixers we're talking about, the reality is almost certainly going to be much worse.

NearingZero · Post #167 » by **NearingZero** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 5:07 pm

the_process wrote:
Kobblehead wrote:McCain is a 5 star recruit with a great attitude and early returns on investment. He's a draft day hit. I'm not moving him for an unknown. He's our guy, at this point. Building block with Maxey. We're very lucky to have these two.

Except... playing Maxey and McCain together is death defensively.

At best you get Lillard-McCollum out of those two; but seeing as how this is the Sixers we're talking about, the reality is almost certainly going to be much worse.

Lillard/McCollum got 53 wins and a WCF appearance with Al-Farouq Aminu, Nurkic, Evan Turner, and Moe Harkless playing the 3rd-6th most minutes.

I'm also not convinced that's their best case, though it's probably close to it.

the_process · Post #168 » by **the_process** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 5:41 pm

NearingZero wrote:
the_process wrote:
Kobblehead wrote:McCain is a 5 star recruit with a great attitude and early returns on investment. He's a draft day hit. I'm not moving him for an unknown. He's our guy, at this point. Building block with Maxey. We're very lucky to have these two.

Except... playing Maxey and McCain together is death defensively.

At best you get Lillard-McCollum out of those two; but seeing as how this is the Sixers we're talking about, the reality is almost certainly going to be much worse.

Lillard/McCollum got 53 wins and a WCF appearance with Al-Farouq Aminu, Nurkic, Evan Turner, and Moe Harkless playing the 3rd-6th most minutes.

I'm also not convinced that's their best case, though it's probably close to it.

This is the goal now? No thanks.

NearingZero · Post #169 » by **NearingZero** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 6:01 pm

the_process wrote:
NearingZero wrote:
the_process wrote:
Except... playing Maxey and McCain together is death defensively.

At best you get Lillard-McCollum out of those two; but seeing as how this is the Sixers we're talking about, the reality is almost certainly going to be much worse.

Lillard/McCollum got 53 wins and a WCF appearance with Al-Farouq Aminu, Nurkic, Evan Turner, and Moe Harkless playing the 3rd-6th most minutes.

I'm also not convinced that's their best case, though it's probably close to it.

This is the goal now? No thanks.

No? I listed those 4 players for a reason.

Negrodamus · Post #170 » by **Negrodamus** » Mon Dec 2, 2024 6:25 pm

the_process wrote:
NearingZero wrote:
the_process wrote:
Except... playing Maxey and McCain together is death defensively.

At best you get Lillard-McCollum out of those two; but seeing as how this is the Sixers we're talking about, the reality is almost certainly going to be much worse.

Lillard/McCollum got 53 wins and a WCF appearance with Al-Farouq Aminu, Nurkic, Evan Turner, and Moe Harkless playing the 3rd-6th most minutes.

I'm also not convinced that's their best case, though it's probably close to it.

This is the goal now? No thanks.

TBF, we wouldn't be facing Curry, Green, and Klay in their prime.

76ciology · Post #171 » by **76ciology** » Wed Dec 4, 2024 2:51 pm

Three-Pointers Made This Season:

Payton Pritchard - 78
Stephen Curry - 67

76ciology · Post #172 » by **76ciology** » Fri Dec 6, 2024 2:52 am

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76ciology · Post #173 » by **76ciology** » Fri Dec 6, 2024 5:52 am

Watch on YouTube

Improved version of our team with doc, biid and harden.

GoSixersBro · Post #174 » by **GoSixersBro** » Fri Dec 6, 2024 2:44 pm

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Centel satire, but on a real note, did anyone see this experiment actually going differently? Still early, but lol.

GoSixersBro · Post #175 » by **GoSixersBro** » Fri Dec 6, 2024 2:46 pm

Warriors clearly just need to cut Draymond's playing time. Kuminga's potential is being hindered. Whether he's actually good or not, let the kid show out and you can still trade him.

Jailblazers7 · Post #176 » by **Jailblazers7** » Fri Dec 6, 2024 3:03 pm

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Good example of how obsession with threes has hurt some players. Giannis was shooting 4 threes per game at one point in a quest to be a shooting threat. Now he just takes a couple steps in & focuses on hitting a 15 footer to much better success.

76ciology · Post #177 » by **76ciology** » Fri Dec 6, 2024 3:11 pm

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76ciology · Post #178 » by **76ciology** » Sat Dec 7, 2024 2:43 am

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Embiid better bring back order to this world.

blargh · Post #179 » by **blargh** » Sat Dec 7, 2024 2:57 am

Watching Franz Wagner makes you realize how good Ben Simmons would have been with even the slightest whiff of shooting.

blargh · Post #180 » by **blargh** » Sat Dec 7, 2024 3:01 am

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My prediction is teams will adjust to this: he’s getting wide open looks because defenses aren’t expecting it, but I don’t think that slow release will allow him to be successful when the jumper is contested.