chilluminati wrote:Daryl Morey is the real sucker here giving PG such a huge contract so late in his career. sure, nobody could have predicted the steep drop off after just one season, but that contract is atrocious. Straight up booty cheek dog water swamp paste level signing him until he's 38. PG says it's all about winning, but it was more about finding that one sucker that would give him his final huge contract.
Embiid being cooked doesn't help the situation at all though, maybe he should hit up the med team that reconstructed Lonzo's knee or something. But regardless, if PG were playing with a healthy Embiid, it'd probably be pretty similar to last year with the Clippers for PG when Harden was playing out of his mind and making PG look great. The same benefits that Norm Powell is now receiving.
With a healthy Embiid PG would be having a good season. He'd be benefitting from all those doubles Embiid attracts, that aren't happening as much now or at all.
I’ve mentioned before that maybe Embiid should get the same surgery Lonzo got. At the current pace they are going the Sixers are screwed for the next 4.5 seasons (length of Embiid’s contract). It appears he has degenerative knee issues which don’t get better over time. It might be best for them let Embiid get cartilage replacement, miss the next 1.5 seasons and hope he’s back to all-star form after. It’s seems like the Sixers 2 options are “be screwed for the next 4.5 seasons” or “throw away next year and hope Embiid is healthy again after surgery”. Neither are good solutions but the current path looks grim and could get worse. Embiid is on that Brandon Roy path where he could just be done in a year or two.
