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Ive seen enough, not a hot take: with Batum and Oubre we have a chance to beat Celtics in a 7 game series. Morey absolutely needs to bring them both back on 2 to 3 year contracts.

Batum+Oubre>>>Harden

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We're easily better than last year. We were up 3 2 vs Boston last year. Batum is much better than I thought at this age. Yes I would want to add Siakam or OG but if healthy I think we have a good chance.

I don't believe this but hey positive energy and all that jazz...**** yeah

We've been in the "can win" category since 2019. Unfortunately, our chances have only been about 5 to 10% per year. We're better this year, so maybe this year our chances have doubled. That's still only 10-20% chance of winning it all. And we still aren't the favorites, but yeah - we can win.

They need another scorer. Joel can't be the closer, and if Maxey is too scared to take the ball from him then we need another guy who isn't afraid.

I'm game for this positivity. We won 1 and played them close in second on a b2b and 3 in 4. Maxey looks tried as did Joel.

Get healthy, give those 2 some rest and acquire a role player glue guy and let's ride.

Dnt hate wrote:Ive seen enough, not a hot take: with Batum and Oubre we have a chance to beat Celtics in a 7 game series. Morey absolutely needs to bring them both back on 2 to 3 year contracts.

Batum+Oubre>>>Harden

While I don't think the Sixers can win it all with this roster - Harden was a negative, both on the court and benched. A toxic person that doesn't play winning basketball.

Not sold on Batum, but Oubre is great pickup.

TheBallsDeeper wrote:

Dnt hate wrote:Ive seen enough, not a hot take: with Batum and Oubre we have a chance to beat Celtics in a 7 game series. Morey absolutely needs to bring them both back on 2 to 3 year contracts.

Batum+Oubre>>>Harden

While I don't think the Sixers can win it all with this roster - Harden was a negative, both on the court and benched. A toxic person that doesn't play winning basketball.

Not sold on Batum, but Oubre is great pickup.

Batum has been a good player for us, but at 35 there's a definite expiration date. Never know, though. It could be next week or it could be 4 years from now.

From what I've seen so far is this team struggles with fast, athletic teams, and good three point shooting teams. How do we combat that? I feel like OG Anunoby OR Brandon Ingram are the missing pieces. Until we get a player similar to their measurables and skill set we aren't Finals contenders. Right now we've got the ammo to get either one of them. We would royally screw that up by making a panic trade for Zach Lavine.

This team is fun and that was the objective going into the season. This is going to be a fun season, but the Finals are probably not in our reach this year.

Getting Levine would be a terrible move. He's like Carmello, Harden and Mitchell - great stats but no defense, and doesn't seem to want to try on that end. He's a negative on the court.

Sixers have one very good scorer who doesn't add much else in Maxey, the two of them together would be the worst defensive backcourt in the league (to be fair to Maxey, at least he tries on that end, he's just too small and gets targeted by smart teams)

They **** the bed in not getting Jrue. The Sixers need a big two-way point guard to cover for Maxeys lack of defensive ability and playmaking.

Probably too late now, but If there was a chance to move Maxey and a couple of firsts for SGA that would make this team a definite contender.

TheBallsDeeper wrote:Getting Levine would be a terrible move. He's like Carmello, Harden and Mitchell - great stats but no defense, and doesn't seem to want to try on that end. He's a negative on the court.

Sixers have one very good scorer who doesn't add much else in Maxey, the two of them together would be the worst defensive backcourt in the league (to be fair to Maxey, at least he tries on that end, he's just too small and gets targeted by smart teams)

They **** the bed in not getting Jrue. The Sixers need a big two-way point guard to cover for Maxeys lack of defensive ability and playmaking.

Probably too late now, but If there was a chance to move Maxey and a couple of firsts for SGA that would make this team a definite contender.

Actually the advanced plus minus stats say he is an average defender and a great offensive player and certainly not a negative overall. The Bulls have a trash roster outside of him Vucevic and DeRozan. My concern would be he seems to be quite frequently battling knee problems. He is a really good player though a scoring machine not afraid to pull the trigger and I believe a 50/40/90 guy or very close to it on high volume. When you can score like that high volume/good efficiency its almost impossible to be a net negative.

Dnt hate wrote:Ive seen enough, not a hot take: with Batum and Oubre we have a chance to beat Celtics in a 7 game series. Morey absolutely needs to bring them both back on 2 to 3 year contracts.

Batum+Oubre>>>Harden

Batum was planning to retire, and we can fairly easily discern his wife is not happy about the move. (What's with all the personal days, Nic?)

Oubre, setting aside whatever happened with his injury and assuming he continues with his same play the rest of the year, is likely going to outplay anything the Sixers will want to pay. There's a good chance he gets more than the MLE somewhere. His track record says you can't pay that.

They are better than we expected without Harden. Can we just leave it there?? Although, since Harden did prove addition by subtraction, I wonder if there's another player on the Sixers who everybody seems to love that if they were replaced with (a) correctly functioning piece(s), suddenly everything would get better?

the_process wrote:

Dnt hate wrote:Ive seen enough, not a hot take: with Batum and Oubre we have a chance to beat Celtics in a 7 game series. Morey absolutely needs to bring them both back on 2 to 3 year contracts.

Batum+Oubre>>>Harden

Batum was planning to retire, and we can fairly easily discern his wife is not happy about the move. (What's with all the personal days, Nic?)

Oubre, setting aside whatever happened with his injury and assuming he continues with his same play the rest of the year, is likely going to outplay anything the Sixers will want to pay. There's a good chance he gets more than the MLE somewhere. His track record says you can't pay that.

They are better than we expected without Harden. Can we just leave it there?? Although, since Harden did prove addition by subtraction, I wonder if there's another player on the Sixers who everybody seems to love that if they were replaced with (a) correctly functioning piece(s), suddenly everything would get better?

I hope all the folks who were still clinging on to Harden out of desperation can finally see it was addition by subtraction dropping that anchor.

The in season tournament right?

Until the team is led by a player(s) driven to win a championship and with the ability to spur the team in that direction at critical moments, they have a slim to none chance of winning one. Right now the team is led by Embiid and Maxey, and neither of them displays the sheer will to win at that level.

Ferry Avenue wrote:Until the team is led by a player(s) driven to win a championship and with the ability to spur the team in that direction at critical moments, they have a slim to none chance of winning one. Right now the team is led by Embiid and Maxey, and neither of them displays the sheer will to win at that level.

I don't think you can make that determination on Maxey yet.

You've also left out the other so-called leader of the team. Tobias doesn't get a pass for his well documented shrinking violet tendencies.

There literally hasn’t been a problem yet that Maxey hasn’t been able to solve through hard work & experience. Could be that he can’t carry us in playoff crunch time but I wouldn’t bet against him.

Key in winning the title is to have a back-up plan when Embiid is spiritually absent.

Good bigs are easy to find. Get a Nic Claxton/Jarett Allen type big then shift into a guard heavy offense then have the big protect the rim and catch lobs, if Embiid is going through “it”.

76ciology wrote:Key in winning the title is to have a back-up plan when Embiid is spiritually absent.

Good bigs are easy to find. Get a Nic Claxton/Jarett Allen type big then shift into a guard heavy offense then have the big protect the rim and catch lobs, if Embiid is going through “it”.

I thought Reed has looked pretty solid so far. Obviously not Embiid level, but one of the better backup centers.

What I think we need another bench scorer with the JR Smith/Oubre mindset of putting up shots when Maxey/Embiid are having a slower game. Batum and Covington certainly help, but I think adding another guard would be a huge boost.