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Barkley wasn’t Jordan but that’s something he has in common with everyone else.

kuclas wrote:

LloydFree wrote:

kuclas wrote:
1986 sixers trade (s) sept the sixers back for 10 years. I have no reason why they traded the number 1 pick. What is the point of picking up Roy Hinson who played same exact position as Barkley.

If they didn’t think moses and Barkley couldn’t play together. Adding Hinson didn’t help either.

Just dumb trades.

Trading the #1 pick is a separate issue and you'll get no argument from me except that again, Roy Hinson shot from the elbows and top of the key, which was about as "stretch" as big men were back then. He wasn't glued to the Post like DrJ and Moses were.

Either way, I would have effd that too. Because I was a Len Bias fanatic. I would have picked him #1, and Barkley might have been packing his bags. LOL

1986. Sixers management probably thought their window was closed to win. Especially with Boston showing no signs of decline. (Ironically Kevin mchale injured foot the following season and bird back acted up shorted after)/rise of the pistons

They knew dr j was at the end. I mean I get the trade for jeff ruland trying to get younger. But Moses wasn’t that much older than ruland and been much healthier (31 years old vs 27 years old)

It’s like the equivalent of trading a 27 year old Joel
Embiid who would have had 2 injury plague seasons playing a combined 70 games during ages 25 and 26 for a declining age 31 shaq. U take 31 year old decling Shaq over a broken down 27 year old Joel embiid.

The window was closed. They had 5 future Hall of Famers on the roster, but three of them were well over 30 and only one could hit a shot outside of the paint. The game was changing and they were trying to get ahead of it. They just misjudged the amount of backlash they were setting themselves up for, by trading a legend for an injury prone borderline star.

Today I don't think the team would get nearly the amount of criticism, because the fans are more educated about transactions and team building. I was a teenager and I know I didn't understand it at the time.

But back to topic:

Barkley, then Moses, then Embiid who is just slightly ahead of Greer, Cunningham and Cheeks.

Embiid has already reached an MVP caliber form. Which puts him in the rare air of just Iverson and Barkley. Now he just needs to sustain his current level of play and rack up playoff series wins. If he wins a title, he'll be vaulted to #1, outright.

Dr. J played 10 years for the 76ers, won MVP, won a Championship, and was THE face of the league for 3-4 seasons. Embiid got a bunch of work to do to pass Julius Erving in status.

I find it weird that he doesnt post any workout videos this offseason.

Maybe he’s trying to focus more on his conditioning?

76ciology wrote:I find it weird that he doesnt post any workout videos this offseason.

Maybe he’s trying to focus more on his conditioning?

People find it weird when people post stuff. Now we're finding it weird that we don't. Sure Jo posted a lot more earlier in his career, but I think now with his GF, and that he has matured more, he's decided to stop doing that. I've thought the same thing, but then realized nobody can ever please anyone with these posts.

eyeatoma wrote:

76ciology wrote:I find it weird that he doesnt post any workout videos this offseason.

Maybe he’s trying to focus more on his conditioning?

People find it weird when people post stuff. Now we're finding it weird that we don't. Sure Jo posted a lot more earlier in his career, but I think now with his GF, and that he has matured more, he's decided to stop doing that. I've thought the same thing, but then realized nobody can ever please anyone with these posts.

Yeah maybe he’s just more mature now.

No food, no energy to post


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With a gf like he's got, I'd have no energy to post either and my conditioning training would be months ahead of schedule...

76ciology wrote:

eyeatoma wrote:

76ciology wrote:I find it weird that he doesnt post any workout videos this offseason.

Maybe he’s trying to focus more on his conditioning?

People find it weird when people post stuff. Now we're finding it weird that we don't. Sure Jo posted a lot more earlier in his career, but I think now with his GF, and that he has matured more, he's decided to stop doing that. I've thought the same thing, but then realized nobody can ever please anyone with these posts.

Yeah maybe he’s just more mature now.

Hopefully that and its not that he still has issues with his knee.

VDT wrote:

76ciology wrote:

eyeatoma wrote:
People find it weird when people post stuff. Now we're finding it weird that we don't. Sure Jo posted a lot more earlier in his career, but I think now with his GF, and that he has matured more, he's decided to stop doing that. I've thought the same thing, but then realized nobody can ever please anyone with these posts.

Yeah maybe he’s just more mature now.

Hopefully that and its not that he still has issues with his knee.

It was tendinitis. I can't see it being an issue still with no info coming out about it. Even for the sixers that would be malpractice at the highest level. Especially given that we just replaced our medical staff.

Well, he needs to improve his offensive arsenal if we want to win the championship. Good luck with Tobias Harris as your go to scorer in crunch time, and while I can see Ben improving his half court offense, one year is too soon to see massive improvements in his shot.
So Embiid just needs to play better in crunch tome and against the tough centers, he just has to.

Bum Adebayo wrote:Well, he needs to improve his offensive arsenal if we want to win the championship. Good luck with Tobias Harris as your go to scorer in crunch time, and while I can see Ben improving his half court offense, one year is too soon to see massive improvements in his shot.
So Embiid just needs to play better in crunch tome and against the tough centers, he just has to.

It’s hard for embiid to battle quasi fake double teams sagging off him cause the guy guarding Simmons who we all know won’t shoot, that defender is cheating in.

Some of it is on embiid. He’s got to make quicker decisions. But some of that indecisiveness is due to Simmons man cheating in. He’s thinking too much. Embiid needs to make a move and make it quick.

I think he just needs to ignore the cheat defender. Pound it quick. But this Is where Simmons needs to react. Once embiid makes his move. The defense will close in quick. Simmons needs to crash the rim from the opposite site/weak side. I see it a few times. Simmons gets easy buckets. But not enough

kuclas wrote:

Bum Adebayo wrote:Well, he needs to improve his offensive arsenal if we want to win the championship. Good luck with Tobias Harris as your go to scorer in crunch time, and while I can see Ben improving his half court offense, one year is too soon to see massive improvements in his shot.
So Embiid just needs to play better in crunch tome and against the tough centers, he just has to.

It’s hard for embiid to battle quasi fake double teams sagging off him cause the guy guarding Simmons who we all know won’t shoot, that defender is cheating in.

Some of it is on embiid. He’s got to make quicker decisions. But some of that indecisiveness is due to Simmons man cheating in. He’s thinking too much. Embiid needs to make a move and make it quick.

I think he just needs to ignore the cheat defender. Pound it quick. But this Is where Simmons needs to react. Once embiid makes his move. The defense will close in quick. Simmons needs to crash the rim from the opposite site/weak side. I see it a few times. Simmons gets easy buckets. But not enough

That’s why he’s much better being a face-up player. He also need to have a reliable hook shot.

So all the while I thought Jokic was a good perimeter shooter. But looking at the numbers, he and Embiid has the same 3pt% while comparing average shot distance Embiid shots are 11ft away from the rim on average compared to Jokic’s 10.4ft.

https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-joel-embiid-reveals-he-has-lost-25-pounds-this-summer/

This is great, I just wish he told us what his weight was lol.

If I recall he said he was at 275lbs at the start of last season. But I think he might have gained about 10 lbs when he was out with tendonitis before the playoffs.

Take that into account and his weight could be any where between 250lbs to 260 lbs. I'm confident he's below 275, which should be gravy. I'd be very surprised if he was 300 lbs during the playoffs.

I was waiting for this. 25 pounds shed before training camp confirmed. Horford at 34 years old should relieve Embiid just enough. He's the face of the franchise, the face of trash talking. With absolutely zero mention of load management, I think at 25 years old with a very healthy ego he may just be prepping himself for an MVP run. For the first 1-2 months of last season, he in was firmly in the MVP race/discussion. Cannot wait.

He certainly looked more than 300 when he came back after the all star game.

250 was his weight in college, i would be surprised if he will ever be anywhere near that again.

JJJgoat wrote:I was waiting for this. 25 pounds shed before training camp confirmed. Horford at 34 years old should relieve Embiid just enough. He's the face of the franchise, the face of trash talking. With absolutely zero mention of load management, I think at 25 years old with a very healthy ego he may just be prepping himself for an MVP run. For the first 1-2 months of last season, he in was firmly in the MVP race/discussion. Cannot wait.

MVP's are for guys who want to stand out on teams. I hated all the MVP talk last year... his focus should be on winning championships and not on winning MVP's. The scoring load should be coming off him not increasing.