Game 64: Sixers @ Pacers 7 pm ET Game Thread

[Jhawk03]

If we can trade Tobias without losing Maxey and get a better fitting player it would be awesome.

If Maxey continues his levelled-up play, I don't see us trading him.

Prob looking at something like the recent Westbrook trade where we give up the big expiring and picks for a few good role players.

That’s probably what will happen. Bolster depth. Harden is such a great passer he can elevate players that are not necessarily doing great. We need more athleticism especially on transition and wing defense. Another ball handler wouldn’t hurt either.

Look, if we're reducing Tobias to a Westbrook scenario, I'll gladly face slap every last one of you.

Nevermind, this is the Sixers experience in a nutshell

[76ciology]

Maxey is THE PERFECT THIRD SCORER with Harden and Embiid now.

Once Harden starts showing more decline with scoring, Maxey has to be better on scoring by then. He can’t just feed off from Harden and Biid.

But who can’t score nowadays? Maybe they dont allow defense by then.

PJ Tucker?

Hahaha ok. PJ and Ben. But u get my point? Most guys can score nowadays. Okogie was supposed to be some 3&D guy with no scoring, and the guy was dropping 20 with the suns without KD. Hell.. mikal was supposed to be just a 17ppg scorer and now he’s averaging 25-26ppg? The list is too long

40pts is for noobs nowadays. You need to drop 70pts or more if you are a superstar.

[mjkvol]

Our schedule is very tough. Tomorrow will be the 5th game in 6 days. Too much and on the road.

We essentially are locked in the 3 seed considering our schedule. Or maybe the 4 seed if we rest more down the stretch.

Harden is playing a ton of minutes. Embiid is playing the most in his career also.

Of course Tobias is injured. I don’t see him playing tomorrow

But I’d like to see all the young kids play tomorrow and be free and loose.

That will give embiid and harden off until Friday’s game in Portland.

This is easily my biggest concern. We're once again getting caught up in this desperate race to get a 1-2 seed, and Glenn is doing his usual pounding of the guys we need to be fresh come playoff time.

Sure, it's nice to get a wins at IN and MIN in March, but at what cost? Five games in six days - Harden and Embiid should both have had two of them off. Run the young guys all day, but those two and Tucker should be on 'pitch counts', so to speak, the rest of the regular season.

Being a fresh 3 or 4 seed is far preferable to a beat up 1 or 2. We've been there and done that, and just once I'd like to go into the playoffs as the rested, fresh team, seed be damned. I don't expect this coach to ever get that memo, however, as chasing those regular season wins appears to be his obsession.

[cej11]

Im glad they won because this was a classic trap game but people seem to be glossing over how terrible the d has been. You score 147 points against the Pacers that should be a blow out. Also, huge point totals given up against Milwaukee and Dallas. I know they are good offensive teams but there has been definitely slippage in the D over the last 10-15 games or so. As for the game tommorrow that seems likes a built in schedule loss to me regardless but I have a sneaky suspicion Embiid will not be suiting up to play.

It's a TNT game on Tuesday so I don't know if they will load manage Embiid on a National game? I would love to sit Embiid and Harden and let Dedmon get on the floor for the 1s time.

[Jailblazers7]

I’m going to be at the game tonight in Minny so I personally hope everyone plays lol

[Kova]

Looking at the standings, I'd love us to get that 2nd seed. We need home court advantage over Celtics. I don't think we can catch the Bucks though. Also would prefer to play the Nets in the 1st round and not the Heat.

[pr0wler]

I'm just glad we were able to pull out a win on a night we had to start a guy who just got here a few weeks ago.

Anyways....

Like I said, Start McDaniels and Tucker and bring Tobias off the bench. Also, if Dedmon can actually play, I'd use BBall at PF more.

You need athleticism/defense in the frontcourt in the playoffs, especially if we're starting Harden and Maxey.

I agree. Surround Harden with as many defenders possible. I think Jalen should be able enough to make open 3's to keep the defense honest, and he's also great at cutting to the hoop and going up for lobs to keep the defense guessing.

And I think we all agree Maxey needs to start as well. He's really a 6'3'' SG, he is more effective off ball taking 3's, attacking closeouts, and running down the floor on fast breaks.

[Arsenal]

Our schedule is very tough. Tomorrow will be the 5th game in 6 days. Too much and on the road.

We essentially are locked in the 3 seed considering our schedule. Or maybe the 4 seed if we rest more down the stretch.

Harden is playing a ton of minutes. Embiid is playing the most in his career also.

Of course Tobias is injured. I don’t see him playing tomorrow

But I’d like to see all the young kids play tomorrow and be free and loose.

That will give embiid and harden off until Friday’s game in Portland.

This is easily my biggest concern. We're once again getting caught up in this desperate race to get a 1-2 seed, and Glenn is doing his usual pounding of the guys we need to be fresh come playoff time.

Sure, it's nice to get a wins at IN and MIN in March, but at what cost? Five games in six days - Harden and Embiid should both have had two of them off. Run the young guys all day, but those two and Tucker should be on 'pitch counts', so to speak, the rest of the regular season.

Being a fresh 3 or 4 seed is far preferable to a beat up 1 or 2. We've been there and done that, and just once I'd like to go into the playoffs as the rested, fresh team, seed be damned. I don't expect this coach to ever get that memo, however, as chasing those regular season wins appears to be his obsession.

I normally agree with you but not here. It's critical for us to get a top 2 seed. We NEED home court against at least one of BOS and MIL. There's virtually no chance of beating them both without it.

And re: two years ago, we would have been in the ECF with a good chance at winning the title barring a historical meltdown from that mental midget. Now that we have Harden it's a different story.

[mjkvol]

Our schedule is very tough. Tomorrow will be the 5th game in 6 days. Too much and on the road.

We essentially are locked in the 3 seed considering our schedule. Or maybe the 4 seed if we rest more down the stretch.

Harden is playing a ton of minutes. Embiid is playing the most in his career also.

Of course Tobias is injured. I don’t see him playing tomorrow

But I’d like to see all the young kids play tomorrow and be free and loose.

That will give embiid and harden off until Friday’s game in Portland.

This is easily my biggest concern. We're once again getting caught up in this desperate race to get a 1-2 seed, and Glenn is doing his usual pounding of the guys we need to be fresh come playoff time.

Sure, it's nice to get a wins at IN and MIN in March, but at what cost? Five games in six days - Harden and Embiid should both have had two of them off. Run the young guys all day, but those two and Tucker should be on 'pitch counts', so to speak, the rest of the regular season.

Being a fresh 3 or 4 seed is far preferable to a beat up 1 or 2. We've been there and done that, and just once I'd like to go into the playoffs as the rested, fresh team, seed be damned. I don't expect this coach to ever get that memo, however, as chasing those regular season wins appears to be his obsession.

I normally agree with you but not here. It's critical for us to get a top 2 seed. We NEED home court against at least one of BOS and MIL. There's virtually no chance of beating them both without it.

And re: two years ago, we would have been in the ECF with a good chance at winning the title barring a historical meltdown from that mental midget. Now that we have Harden it's a different story.

Point taken, but I don't think it will matter who we play if our veterans wear down from overplay.

We're going to need them playing heavy minutes every night in the playoffs. To run them into the ground chasing a seed is just foolish to me. Just my opinion.

[M2J]

These guys load managed in this game. Only person that needs to load manage somewhat is Joel with his foot. He scored yesterday but shows not to play any defense or even rebound.

Anyways I really came here to say two things.

1. I am actually enjoying the Paul Reed minutes. Just wanted to put that out there in case I have to come back and destroy the Paul Reed minutes. I think his fit next to Jalen McDaniels is really good. Mostly I think it's because of the change to where the bench starts the second quarter with Harden.

2. Stop sleeping on Tobi. 2nd best 2 way player on the team doesn't need to come off the bench for McDaniels.

Amazes me that when we talk about starting McDaniels it's Toby's name that is brought up and not PJ Tucker. That is very bizarre. Tobi has been a versatile defender from smalls to bigs, can serve as a decent passer, a great transition scorer and is a volume catch and shoot spacer that actually has gravity. Tucker nor Jalen draw defensive attention.

I know Tucker is a better defender, and shooter... But I think Jalen is clearly a more willing shooter and can score in other ways with a facilitator like James. Plus he is a guy that scrambles for extra possessions. I thought that'd be what PJ would be helpful with but no.....

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

I thought both Harden and Embiid went about 80% last night if that. Clearly they were conserving themselves for tonight.

[Bum Adebayo]

Harris is a really good defender, but a bad offensive player, -1.41 ORPM and 4.29 DRPM, matches the eye test.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Harris is a really good defender, but a bad offensive player, -1.41 ORPM and 4.29 DRPM, matches the eye test.

Nothing you write on here makes the least bit of sense. Keep it going though...It's fun.

[Bum Adebayo]

Harris is a really good defender, but a bad offensive player, -1.41 ORPM and 4.29 DRPM, matches the eye test.

Nothing you write on here makes the least bit of sense. Keep it going though...It's fun.

I understand people don't believe in RPM, understandable, as people don't know how it's calculated, I'm one of the few people that know the formula, I talked with the formula creator, that's why I'm confident in this stat

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

Harris is a really good defender, but a bad offensive player, -1.41 ORPM and 4.29 DRPM, matches the eye test.

Nothing you write on here makes the least bit of sense. Keep it going though...It's fun.

I understand people don't believe in RPM, understandable, as people don't know how it's calculated, I'm one of the few people that know the formula, I talked with the formula creator, that's why I'm confident in this stat

And wasn't it you that said all a person needs is a reasonable functioning pair of eyes to determine if a player is good or not?

[Bum Adebayo]

Nothing you write on here makes the least bit of sense. Keep it going though...It's fun.

I understand people don't believe in RPM, understandable, as people don't know how it's calculated, I'm one of the few people that know the formula, I talked with the formula creator, that's why I'm confident in this stat

And wasn't it you that said all a person needs is a reasonable functioning pair of eyes to determine if a player is good or not?

Yes, but obviously most people don't have functioning eyes from what I've seen, that's why if you have a great stat, it's much easier to convey how good a player is, and RPM gives you that.

[Stanford]

Stop responding to this idiot. He's trolling you because he has nothing better to do.

[Philly2good]

Stop responding to this idiot. He's trolling you because he has nothing better to do.