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kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

eyeatoma wrote:

kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

Maxey already has more pop than Bledsoe dude. He does not remind me of Bledsoe at all. Maxey is a ball of energy, but he's not a wrecking ball either. He is a contortionist at the rim, has a great floater, has a quick first step, is very fast in the open court, and has an improving 3 point shot that seems on a better trajectory than Bledsoe. Also, can't forget he seems to have the mentality and desire to want to get better every day. The difference in the play he displayed last year and now is night and day. He has had one of the quickest rates of improvements on this team since Jo, and that's saying something. At 20 years old, I don't think you can already start assuming that his ceiling is Eric frickin Bledsoe lol.

kuclas wrote:

eyeatoma wrote:

kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

Maxey already has more pop than Bledsoe dude. He does not remind me of Bledsoe at all. Maxey is a ball of energy, but he's not a wrecking ball either. He is a contortionist at the rim, has a great floater, has a quick first step, is very fast in the open court, and has an improving 3 point shot that seems on a better trajectory than Bledsoe. Also, can't forget he seems to have the mentality and desire to want to get better every day. The difference in the play he displayed last year and now is night and day. He has had one of the quickest rates of improvements on this team since Jo, and that's saying something. At 20 years old, I don't think you can already start assuming that his ceiling is Eric frickin Bledsoe lol.

We basically traded fultz for what turned out to be the 20th pick in 2020 nba draft (maxey).

We just need someone to be able to put pressure on a defense to free up space in half court. We all know the issue with a Simmons lead half court offense in the playoffs. I know it sounds crazy and I’ve posted on this several times.

Simmons is still extremely useful for the first 3 quarters of the playoffs game. He just can’t play down the stretch in the fourth quarter. How do we make that happen. It’s a blow to his ego. But the coaches just refuse to play other guards down the stretch outside of jimmy butler handling the ball in the fourth during 2019 playoffs.

ProcessDoctor wrote:While I’m high on Maxey too, I don’t think we can assume he’s going to be a 1B (or even #2) option on a championship team this season or next.

We should know by now not to over-react to summer league games.

Arsenal wrote:

ProcessDoctor wrote:While I’m high on Maxey too, I don’t think we can assume he’s going to be a 1B (or even #2) option on a championship team this season or next.

We should know by now not to over-react to summer league games.

So what? Does the world end in the next 2 years?

VDT wrote:I would still not expect much from him but i am certainly open to be suprised by him.

Maxey is still at the point where he just has some good performances here or there. He first needs to become consistent and he needs to still to keep being good after he gets scouted. And then he needs to do these things in the postseason. He is still very far away from being a player we can depend on in the playoffs and i would be very surprised if he could be that in the next couple of years. We are just desperate for half court creation so we see every young player (korkmaz, Shake, Maxey etc) that had a good game or two as our half court savior.

kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

eyeatoma wrote:

kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

Maxey already has more pop than Bledsoe dude. He does not remind me of Bledsoe at all. Maxey is a ball of energy, but he's not a wrecking ball either. He is a contortionist at the rim, has a great floater, has a quick first step, is very fast in the open court, and has an improving 3 point shot that seems on a better trajectory than Bledsoe. Also, can't forget he seems to have the mentality and desire to want to get better every day. The difference in the play he displayed last year and now is night and day. He has had one of the quickest rates of improvements on this team since Jo, and that's saying something. At 20 years old, I don't think you can already start assuming that his ceiling is Eric frickin Bledsoe lol.

sodmoraes wrote:I´m confident that his 3 pt will be good. Maybe isnt that consistent this year, but next one he should be a good 3 pt shooter. I´m a bit worried if he will ever be a decent passer. If not, his ceiling is greatly reduced, since he will be more of a 6th man kinda of player( like a lou willians), insted of our starting pg.

Sportfan73 wrote:

kuclas wrote:

eyeatoma wrote:
Maxey already has more pop than Bledsoe dude. He does not remind me of Bledsoe at all. Maxey is a ball of energy, but he's not a wrecking ball either. He is a contortionist at the rim, has a great floater, has a quick first step, is very fast in the open court, and has an improving 3 point shot that seems on a better trajectory than Bledsoe. Also, can't forget he seems to have the mentality and desire to want to get better every day. The difference in the play he displayed last year and now is night and day. He has had one of the quickest rates of improvements on this team since Jo, and that's saying something. At 20 years old, I don't think you can already start assuming that his ceiling is Eric frickin Bledsoe lol.

We basically traded fultz for what turned out to be the 20th pick in 2020 nba draft (maxey).

We just need someone to be able to put pressure on a defense to free up space in half court. We all know the issue with a Simmons lead half court offense in the playoffs. I know it sounds crazy and I’ve posted on this several times.

Not a fan of sticking our MVP caliber Center behind the 3 point line. Ideally, Embiid Maxey needs to work on the pick and roll. Ben needs to sit on that corner 3.

Simmons is still extremely useful for the first 3 quarters of the playoffs game. He just can’t play down the stretch in the fourth quarter. How do we make that happen. It’s a blow to his ego. But the coaches just refuse to play other guards down the stretch outside of jimmy butler handling the ball in the fourth during 2019 playoffs.

He can play, in the pick and roll with Maxey every play down the floor in the 4th. Jo isn’t as much of a pick and roll guy, so you use Ben. When you do use Jo for the pick and pop Ben can then be at the dunker spot for the lob or in a (wishful thinking) perfect world one of the corners. Just use the offense the hawks just torched us with.

Madd Squabbles wrote:

eyeatoma wrote:

kuclas wrote:The real issue is whether maxey will end up like a Eric Bledsoe type of guard. Good but not great. Is that enough? Bledsoe never a great shooter. But he was pretty solid. Can we live with that?

Maxey already has more pop than Bledsoe dude. He does not remind me of Bledsoe at all. Maxey is a ball of energy, but he's not a wrecking ball either. He is a contortionist at the rim, has a great floater, has a quick first step, is very fast in the open court, and has an improving 3 point shot that seems on a better trajectory than Bledsoe. Also, can't forget he seems to have the mentality and desire to want to get better every day. The difference in the play he displayed last year and now is night and day. He has had one of the quickest rates of improvements on this team since Jo, and that's saying something. At 20 years old, I don't think you can already start assuming that his ceiling is Eric frickin Bledsoe lol.

Maxey reminds me of Sexton which is good because I really like Sexton. I was willing to trade Simmons for him but we may already have him in Maxey.

HotelVitale wrote:

Madd Squabbles wrote:

eyeatoma wrote:
Maxey already has more pop than Bledsoe dude. He does not remind me of Bledsoe at all. Maxey is a ball of energy, but he's not a wrecking ball either. He is a contortionist at the rim, has a great floater, has a quick first step, is very fast in the open court, and has an improving 3 point shot that seems on a better trajectory than Bledsoe. Also, can't forget he seems to have the mentality and desire to want to get better every day. The difference in the play he displayed last year and now is night and day. He has had one of the quickest rates of improvements on this team since Jo, and that's saying something. At 20 years old, I don't think you can already start assuming that his ceiling is Eric frickin Bledsoe lol.

Maxey reminds me of Sexton which is good because I really like Sexton. I was willing to trade Simmons for him but we may already have him in Maxey.

Fellas, Sexton just averaged 24+ ppg on solid efficiency, Maxey averaged 8 on meh efficiency. I get that if you squint there are some similarities but let the guy be a decent rotation player first before deciding who or what he is.