HotelVitale wrote:SixersSince82 wrote:ExplosionsInDaSky wrote:Y'all are crazy piling it on Harris the way some of you do. He's not the answer, but he's far from the problem .
I think he is far and away THE problem. Blew 3 first round picks on him. (Shamet, former first round selection and 2 firsts) Overpaid by almost 20 mil. Doesn't play make, doesn't get to the cup or draw fouls, doesn't shoot enough from distance to be a real floor spacer, doesn't give you any intangibles or bring it defensively. Has ZERO chemistry with Joel.
Dont get me wrong, it's not Tobias' "fault" that the 6ers stupid FO blew ALL their assets on him or gave him that contract. But not being "his fault" doesn't change the fact that his specific skill set (and lack thereof) is a giant problem for a team trying to win a title built around Joel.
Grow up guys, it was a mistake a few years ago within a bunch of other blessings and curses that have made our fate what it is. I hired horrible contractors to fix my house a few times, it sucked and I lost that transaction. I don’t hate my house though, and it’s not why my house has the value it does; you’re gonna lose moves sometimes, don’t be the guy who still gets red faced and annoying whenever anyone brings up everything that could’ve gone better.
In this case, the Sixers gave up two late 1sts for him, plus shamet who sucks. It would’ve been totally reasonable even for Harris haters to trade one of those picks and Shamet to rent Tobias for the PO run, so we maybe overpaid by a late 1st. Cool. We then got gifted that late 1st back for Fultz—but I guess the point is to only take it up the butt when we lose a trade a little bit and lose sleep for years over it, and not see the flip side of the things we won.
We also overpaid for his contract since we had his Bird rights, it’s not like we had some other path to getting him or had some way of getting him cheap and also adding someone better. We also made a much bigger mistake by signing Horford that year, but again I guess folks take some masochistic pleasure in tearing down the castle and screaming at one player. Tobias isn’t an answer on the court and he’s not a good trade chip, but dumping him makes us worse in court and doesn’t offer us any path to being great.
That was your best guess at why we talk about Tobias instead of Horford? It’s because one has been gone for a year, and the other is here playing bad basketball. We posted for a year about how Hortford’s contract was horrible, but now he is not a sixer, hence the lack of Horford talk on the Sixers forum.
