76ers vs OKC

[mjkvol]

We can keep blaming this or that player, but the bottom line is that Morey did a bad job last summer (aside from Melton) of providing this roster with quality depth and finding a way to turn Harris and Thybulle into better fitting and more useful pieces that can win big games in today's NBA.

More than that, he kept in place a coaching dinosaur, a guy whose stubbornness and incompetence is only exceeded by his incredible arrogance. There have been countless bonehead moves over the last few years with this guy, but sticking Maxey on SGA really has to be near the top of the list. What's the point, to break the kid?

I know it won't happen, but firing Rivers now would be the best possible in-season move Morey could make this year, better than any half-assed trade bringing in another aging player that Glenn can run out there for 36 minutes. Fire Rivers and give Cassell or Burke a shot to get something done with this group before retooling this summer. Otherwise, even the truest believers among us know deep down where this is going to end up. Again.

Agreed. Firing Rivers would have a similar effect to the Phils firing Girardi in the middle of last season. The main difference is that the Sixers aren't bad enough to fire him mid-season.

Maybe not record-wise, but Morey has been around long enough to know when a team has zero resemblance of a serious title contender, especially one that is in win now mode.

[phillynative]

We don't even care! We're playing stupid on defense, slapping at the ball, commiting dumbass fouls.

Lol so you can whine but the trolls cant?

There's a huge difference in pointing out the fact that we played crappy defense vrs the mindless crap that you and others post on here. It's as if your intelligence is reduced to single syllable phrases that involve only the simplest of negative terms that any beer bellied, mozzarella stick eating, imbecile of a baboon human is capable of. Just another cookie cutter fan with the intelligence of Pooh Bear. Belching out stuff like "TRADE MAXEY" "TEAM SUX" "HARDEN WASHED"! Not exactly ground breaking analysis. It hardly provides any kind of insight unless you're drunk or have been lobotomized. It's as if you have a version of anti sixer tourettes syndrome where you just scream these things out on here with the hope of being taken seriously. It sucks having to drop my IQ 60 points just to get on the same level with you. Maybe you should join Tinder for the unaware and obnoxious?

No one's forcing you to come on to this message board but im pretty sure you dont have much choice judging by this weirdo reply. I'll continue to keep it simple for you find another Message board or Deal with it.

[SixthStreet]

Morey and Rivers see eye to eye on roster building, offensive and defensive scheme, and rotations. There's no chance of a mid-season firing. It will take a first round exit, IMO.

[brannigan73]

Thank god I watched literally none of this game. I thought I saw somehwere we have played one of the easiest schedules, if not the easiest, in the league so far. So I wouldn't expect some meteoritic rise in the standings any time soon. This looks like a first round loss to Cleveland or Brooklyn to me as the road team. Good job Glenn and Daryl! With an assist from Colangelo, Elton Brand, and Brett Brown's past blunders.

[DCasey91]

So…… second round fodder again. Whose idea was it to have no starting wings on the list and add a person from the retirement home.

Many of use here overrate this team so badly lol.

[76ciology]

Morey and Rivers see eye to eye on roster building, offensive and defensive scheme, and rotations. There's no chance of a mid-season firing. It will take a first round exit, IMO.

Not just Morey and Rivers. But also Harden, Embiid and ownership

[UptownPhilly]

My God you people a ridiculous on here. Nothing but a bunch a whiny ass clowns with nothing better to do. Go away.

Tell management to give us a better team and coach.

Find a new slant.

Got you...While I'm doing that, you go back to your Clowns and Carnivals coloring book. Don't eat the crayons this time. I'll bring you a balloon back if you're good.

Corny. Stop being soft. Relax, my boy and step away from the keyboard. It’s just jokes. The fact that you’re whining about other people whining on a public forum is ironic within itself. Just post and keep it moving.

[LeonJordanJr24]

I'm in favor of Maxey on Tobias for a 3rd proven allstar.

[Zumramania]

MOST times coaches gets fired not because of losing, but because star players wants them to get replaced.

Hmm I would disagree. It's like if you have great relations with your boss and coworkers you are less likely to get fired, but if you don't deliver the results, you will eventually get fired. Even people like Rivers who have a huge contract on top of everything.

When he was fired from the Clippers and they thought about hiring Ty Lue, Rivers was petty and said that Ty Lue will not do better than him since he approved and contributed to every Rivers' decision during the previous failed seasons. Next season Ty Lue went into the conference finals with the Clippers, leading them to their first conference finals in franchise history lol.

[Jay555]

How can you fire rivers? We’re just 1-2 games for fourth place. Nets and Bucks are also sliding.

We also have Embiid playing with leading the league in points.

Harden is also happy with leading the league in assists.

Maxey happy with his 20ppg average.

Milton happy with his individual average when our top guys were out.

Melton happy by having a career year.

Tobias happy that he is at his best version as a two way player.

Tucker happy that he can still start even without providing any points or rebounds.

You fire rivers and you might see some of our guys asking for trades. Rox is courting Harden. Knicks is courting Embiid.

MOST times coaches gets fired not because of losing, but because star players wants them to get replaced.

And in the end game, its not like he played with a dumb 5 man unit out there. He played our most talented 5, its just that 5 has its limitations on defense and rebounding

In the end of the day, the players want Rivers to stay. And you can’t just blame the sky in every loss. Its just part of the game, sometimes refs blow their whistle too much and sometimes shots just dont go in.

If you replace Rivers with some coach who’d ask them to play defense, share the ball and crash the board. That would lead to less energy on offensive end, less leak outs for easy baskets and less points per game average.

Now, how many posts before we start blaming the past FO that lead us here? Thats what im waiting for right now

A couple of things.

1. Doc ain't gonna be fired this season unless we start a 10 game losing streak soon or we get bounced in the first round.
2. Doc ain't the guy to lead another team to a chip. He's what he is. I hope I am wrong.

[ankle420breaker]

OKC has slayed some giants lately, but we should have been prepared for that. Constantly playing down to our competition.

Give them credit. Young, hungry, and led by a stud alpha guard (who we could have drafted).

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[76ciology]

MOST times coaches gets fired not because of losing, but because star players wants them to get replaced.

Hmm I would disagree. It's like if you have great relations with your boss and coworkers you are less likely to get fired, but if you don't deliver the results, you will eventually get fired. Even people like Rivers who have a huge contract on top of everything.

When he was fired from the Clippers and they thought about hiring Ty Lue, Rivers was petty and said that Ty Lue will not do better than him since he approved and contributed to every Rivers' decision during the previous failed seasons. Next season Ty Lue went into the conference finals with the Clippers, leading them to their first conference finals in franchise history lol.

In real life, maybe.

But in the NBA. Its a players league. Current franchise players are virtually part owners of the team

If Embiid wants Adam Sandler to be the headcoach because of some show at Netflix or else he’s walking out, then Adam Sandler will be the head coach.

If Embiid, Harden and Morey wants Doc to stay because all 3 of them are on the same boat wanting us to play like this, Doc Rivers aint gonna get fired.

Why would River be fired? We are one of the best offensive team and one of the best defensive team and one of the best teams in the league who has a good chance to be first in the east and a very good chance to be 2nd to 4th seed in the east.

If we are ousted in the 2nd round, its gonna be because Harden and Embiid underperformed.

Just as when Clips lose game 7, Kawhi and PG had one of the all time worst shooting performance in the playoffs. If Kawhi and PG were shooting at their average %, they’d win that ball game.

It’s a players league. Just the other day Clips lose embarrassingly and they were blaming Lue. Clips are also underperforming a lot this season and Lue is part of the reason too. Maybe if Doc was the coach, he could had let the role players over performed and kept their team afloat like what he is known for.

KD wanted Nash fired. Owner first act like “no, you bow down to me”. But eventually, Nash gets fired lol

You know why Brett got fired and Morey was hired to do Brand’s job? Because Embiid wants to.

If Embiid wants KD and tells the FO to do whatever it takes to get him, Sixers will offer virtually anyone for KD.

[Mik317]

Doc got fired because he kept playing Trez against Jokic instead of Zubac and never adjusted allowing the Nuggets to get into a flow.

Similar to him putting Danny on Trae in game one. Similar to him going with Jordan last year. Similar to him sticking Maxey on SGA.

No one saying that players aren’t apart of it but Docs poor decisions are a major part of why his teams have lost . He then sticks to said bad decisions and adjusts too late or not at all.

[76ciology]

Doc got fired because he kept playing Trez against Jokic instead of Zubac and never adjusted allowing the Nuggets to get into a flow.

Similar to him putting Danny on Trae in game one. Similar to him going with Jordan last year. Similar to him sticking Maxey on SGA.

No one saying that players aren’t apart of it but Docs poor decisions are a major part of why his teams have lost . He then sticks to said bad decisions and adjusts too late or not at all.

Putting Zubac on Jokic isn’t gonna make up for that 10 out of 38 shooting (almost half of their FGAs) with 7 TOs (70% of the team’s TOs)

If Harden and Embiid shot 10 out of 38 from the field with 7 TOs, we’re surely gonna lose to any team out there. Even if it’s the Saddiq Bey lead Pistons.

Kawhi and PG just made Doc their scapegoat (how many times we’ve seen this in entire history of sports?).

And again, Morey, Harden and Embiid all are happy with Doc. Even ownership is happy with Doc’s performance. First in the east on his first year. Kept us afloat without Harden or Ben last season. And we’re one of the best defensive and best offensive team in the league while almost all our guys are having career years.

Im betting my life Doc aint gonna get fired this season.

[Kova]

Stupid loss. We were still in the Pistons game mindset and thought that we were just going to outscore them, no matter what. Then Joel got into foul trouble and messed up our rotations and rhythm. No excuse, play defense!

[76ciology]

How many posts before we start talking about how past management lead us to losing this game to OKC?

[mjkvol]

Im betting my life Doc aint gonna get fired this season.

Well, at least we agree 100% on that, if not much else.

[Mik317]

I swear you simply like to be a contrarian sometimes

Doc stinks as a coach. Just tonight he had Maxey on SGA; he took Biid out too soon, he featured Trez on offense during his stint, and then as we got it closer the first time spamming Biid was the actual answer...we went away from it.

He constantly made the wrong choice. Sometimes yeah a move doesn't work out...but all of them? His lack of adjustments and general lack of a second idea has cost his teams time and time again throughout his entire career..going back to Orlando ffs. Is it all on him? Of course not... no ONE person holds responsibility for anything regarding basketball...HOWEVER his job is to put the team in the correct spots to overcome down nights from players, hot nights from opponents...that means putting the right guys out there for example...something Doc has always struggled with. He has lived off of his ONE ring for decades now and even then he should have two but because he couldn't overcome the loss of Kendric **** Perkins he doesn't.

I cannot believe we are even having this discussion honestly. Ben got rightfully shat on for the Hawks series but I still say havign Danny on Trae in game one was the actual turning point....it allowed the Hawks to believe they could hang. Also lost in Ben's implosion was the fact that dude had Seth Curry on Huerter as he was killing us in Game 7. Yeah Biid could have been better with the ball. Not denying that. Yeah Ben could have had some balls....totally agree. I am in no way removing the players from the equation here especially the best players...but the fact remains that Doc failed at his own job as well...and it is a constant theme throughout his career. You keep bringing up Kawhii and PG bad shooting night as this teflon defense when it shouldn't even come to that if Doc would have just not played Trez....he gives the other team life and confidence and makes his own teams have to clean up his mess and that just doesn't always work out. Its been so long but I wonder how many games that Celtics team had to grit out due to Doc overplaying his hand...i remember a lot of clutch shots had to be made...which is nice but was it necessary?

And yeah coaches don't get fired unless the best players want them gone...but there is no way you go into next season with Doc if you are a serious franchise. Even under your dream world of him actually doing a good job...we are at the stage in which our only remaining move before the rebuild is to fire the coach anyway....

[mjkvol]

How many posts before we start talking about how past management lead us to losing this game to OKC?

I suppose we could talk about playing Reed with Embiid.

What is a board like this other than a regurgitation of the same subjects over and over for the most part? They may have different connotations and relevance as the seasons go on, but you can go back weeks and months and find mostly the same subjects in any given year, with each of us having his own brilliant angle on things.

[76ciology]

mik3, my friend. You maybe right but Just for discussion. Because im also bored and I would like to watch these games than our last 3 games against OKC and Pistons

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I swear you simply like to be a contrarian sometimes

Doc stinks as a coach. Just tonight he had Maxey on SGA; he took Biid out too soon, he featured Trez on offense during his stint, and then as we got it closer the first time spamming Biid was the actual answer...we went away from it.

He constantly made the wrong choice. Sometimes yeah a move doesn't work out...but all of them? His lack of adjustments and general lack of a second idea has cost his teams time and time again throughout his entire career..going back to Orlando ffs. Is it all on him? Of course not... no ONE person holds responsibility for anything regarding basketball...HOWEVER his job is to put the team in the correct spots to overcome down nights from players, hot nights from opponents...that means putting the right guys out there for example...something Doc has always struggled with. He has lived off of his ONE ring for decades now and even then he should have two but because he couldn't overcome the loss of Kendric **** Perkins he doesn't.

I cannot believe we are even having this discussion honestly. Ben got rightfully shat on for the Hawks series but I still say havign Danny on Trae in game one was the actual turning point....it allowed the Hawks to believe they could hang. Also lost in Ben's implosion was the fact that dude had Seth Curry on Huerter as he was killing us in Game 7. Yeah Biid could have been better with the ball. Not denying that. Yeah Ben could have had some balls....totally agree. I am in no way removing the players from the equation here especially the best players...but the fact remains that Doc failed at his own job as well...and it is a constant theme throughout his career. You keep bringing up Kawhii and PG bad shooting night as this teflon defense when it shouldn't even come to that if Doc would have just not played Trez....he gives the other team life and confidence and makes his own teams have to clean up his mess and that just doesn't always work out. Its been so long but I wonder how many games that Celtics team had to grit out due to Doc overplaying his hand...i remember a lot of clutch shots had to be made...which is nice but was it necessary?

And yeah coaches don't get fired unless the best players want them gone...but there is no way you go into next season with Doc if you are a serious franchise. Even under your dream world of him actually doing a good job...we are at the stage in which our only remaining move before the rebuild is to fire the coach anyway....

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My take? We need to play more close games in reg season and be really good at in. We dont have a good win-loss record on close game, and we only shoot 40%. While Nets, Celts and Bucks are top teams in close games.