Around The League: 2021-2022 Season 1.0

[Kobblehead]

Luka really is the next LeBron. Carrying a bad team in the playoffs each year off the strength of his performance.

[Kobblehead]

Devin Booker is averaging more blocks per game in this Mavs series than DeAndre Ayton.

Ayton is trash lol.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Boston looks awesome. Milwaukee sadly reminds me of us right now. over matched, under staffed, they have the best player on the floor but it's not enough.

[mksp]

Boston just runs laps around our stupid organization.

[Jailblazers7]

Boston looks awesome. Milwaukee sadly reminds me of us right now. over matched, under staffed, they have the best player on the floor but it's not enough.

100%. They’re getting nothing from their wings without Middleton which has been the Sixers experience.

Can’t believe I’m rooting for the Heat now lol

[FireMorey]

Sixers with a healthy Embiid are as good as either of these two teams. Unfortunately, Embiid is rarely even healthy come playoff time. This series has been an ugly brand of basketball. So much flopping and foul baiting. Don't think it's been nearly as entertaining as other people have made it out to be.

[Mik317]

Giannis was obviously sad about losing the MVP...it was delayed

or is it that he lacks the puppy instinct that Grant Williams has?

Either way the best player on the team needs to just go out and score 80 and lead his team to a win.

[mksp]

Nobody on this board wanted to draft Grant Williams. Ainge knew we wanted Thybulle, extracted a pick, and got the better player. Again, lol. This stupid effing organization. Josh Harris needs to go.

[Mik317]

The Celtics ironically did what we tried to do but was able to do so thanks to Billy King so they didn't have to truly tank and get heat for it. 3 top 5 picks on that roster...and they hit on all of them lol.

meanwhile two of ours forgot how to shoot.

i hate it here

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Sixers with a healthy Embiid are as good as either of these two teams. Unfortunately, Embiid is rarely even healthy come playoff time. This series has been an ugly brand of basketball. So much flopping and foul baiting. Don't think it's been nearly as entertaining as other people have made it out to be.

Yes, exactly! A healthy Embiid would have made all the difference in the world. The top four teams in the east this year were not that far apart from each other. The sky isn't falling as hard as some of the people on here are making it out to be.

[76thBearCub]

Boston just runs laps around our stupid organization.

They actually know what they're doing.

[Skates]

With all of the draft capital the Celtics had thanks to BK they should have hoisted several championships by now and have made as many terrible moves and missed moves as we did. Most of the credit needs to go to Udoka for taking the same core players they have had for a while and melding them into something more than they wre before.

Also Milwaukee with Middleton is going to the conference finals.

[shlo]

Sixers with a healthy Embiid are as good as either of these two teams. Unfortunately, Embiid is rarely even healthy come playoff time. This series has been an ugly brand of basketball. So much flopping and foul baiting. Don't think it's been nearly as entertaining as other people have made it out to be.

I don't see it. Those teams are much more athletic, have a lot more depth, have more shooters, and play great defense.

[the_process]

Really gonna need Miami to step up here and beat Boston.

I cannot take Boston sneaking in and stealing a championship this year.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Sixers with a healthy Embiid are as good as either of these two teams. Unfortunately, Embiid is rarely even healthy come playoff time. This series has been an ugly brand of basketball. So much flopping and foul baiting. Don't think it's been nearly as entertaining as other people have made it out to be.

I don't see it. Those teams are much more athletic, have a lot more depth, have more shooters, and play great defense.

All three of those teams are better rebounding teams then we are, but I don't think Miami, Boston, or Milwaukee are more athletic then we are. Jimmy Butler, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Giannis, and Bam are great athletes, but these teams were giving heavy minutes to players like Max Strus, Kyle Lowry, PJ Tucker, Grant Williams, Payton Pritchard, Al Horford, Derrick White, Marcus Smart, Wes Matthews, Grayson Allen, Pat Connaughton, Brook Lopez. All equally as athletic as our role players. In fact...We played and beat the most athletic team in the playoffs in my opinion which was Toronto.
Now, Miami has more depth then any team in the playoffs, but Boston, and Milwaukee are about as deep as we are. Having more shooters? Again...Miami has more shooters and that is really it. Boston was able to find open shooters all game, and the difference between them and us is that they made their open threes where we did not. Milwaukee went something crazy like 4-45 in this game from three against the C's. I'm going to bet we could have done at least a percentage better then that.

In short, I'll politely disagree with you. We had a shot at the Finals. Embiid got hurt and the whole entire outcome became a destined failure. I think we all knew once the thumb injury came out that we weren't going to the Finals this year. It's as simple as that in my mind. We held off Toronto, gave Miami six games, got Paul Reed and Tyrese Maxey some much needed experience. I'm not painting silver linings here, but the season overall was a success and while I'm disappointed that we didn't advance, I don't think the team is a dumpster fire.

Now, because we lost, there obviously needs to be some tweaks to this roster. If we do look to trade Tobias Harris, it needs to be for a fair return. I think trading him for cap space is a bad idea. Now... trading him for a starter and some depth might not be such a bad call. Someone mentioned him for Josh Hart. I'd personally be all over that idea. I think we need retool in specific areas. We need some depth off the bench, but I hope that Morey goes for depth that can be used...In the playoffs. Our bench was awful during the postseaon. But, Doc also never gave anyone off the bench a chance to get going. He doesn't trust Shake, Mattise was up in his head the entire time, Niang was playing with a bad knee which rendered him useless, Korklord showed us all again that he's worthless in the postseason and Paul Reed was learning on the job in a hostile environment. To me internal growth, chemistry, rebounding, and depth are the biggest mountains to climb this offseason. You need luck on your side to keep healthy, but we desperately need to improve in the rebounding department, and we need a sixth man that can come off the bench and score for us. He also has to be someone that Doc trusts. You couldn't trust Milton. I don't blame Doc with that. As a Milton stan ever since the Clipper game of 2020, he's caused me a lifetime of heartache.

[blargh]

Boston just runs laps around our stupid organization.

They actually know what they're doing.

Doesn’t anyone remember the depths of the despair around Boston during the first half of the season? Celtics fans wanted to tear the whole team down and run Udoka out on a rail. They ended up just needing some time to absorb Udoka’s defensive schemes.

We had at least as dramatic of a change in the team with a couple of months left in the season. It’s disappointing how things ended, but sometimes you need to give a group some time to figure it out. What other option do we really have?

[Iverson Armband]

The problem right now is Harden unfortunately. If he isn’t better than what he’s shown in the playoffs, nothing else really matters unless Maxey takes another huge leap (possible). As good as he is, Joel just being healthy is not enough to overcome the good teams top 2 players. Role players tip the scales if both teams stars are pretty evenly matched.

Embiid and Giannis will about cancel out (Giannis is slightly better) and Jrue is way better than current Harden both offensively and defensively.

With Boston, Embiid and JT cancel each other out (Embiid slightly better), but JB is way better than current Harden. That’s the difference right there. No way in hell we win more than 2 games against both Milwaukee and Boston, even with a healthy Joel if Harden doesn’t improve. Miami won our series because Joel at 60% is significantly worse than Jimmy Butler, but at 100% he’s significantly better.

If Joel is healthy we probably win in 7, even factoring in Hardens piss poor performance because Miami doesn’t really have another strong player to tip the scales.

[FireMorey]

Sixers with a healthy Embiid are as good as either of these two teams. Unfortunately, Embiid is rarely even healthy come playoff time. This series has been an ugly brand of basketball. So much flopping and foul baiting. Don't think it's been nearly as entertaining as other people have made it out to be.

I don't see it. Those teams are much more athletic, have a lot more depth, have more shooters, and play great defense.

Did you see it in the games the Sixers played against them this season? They played them pretty well. Neither team is athletic as Toronto who the Sixers beat btw.

[Mik317]

man CP3's dog mentality is not working tonight

[sixerswillrule]

Damn thought this might be Chris Paul's year finally. What an upset.