Post#1193 » by mjkvol » Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:25 pm
FireMorey wrote:mjkvol wrote:FireMorey wrote:
"Teams don't do that" isn't really a reason. If you can explain to me how the Sixers can improve next season to win a title by next year if they can't do it this year when their best player gets hurt every single year, then by all means.
They have no picks to trade. They have no cap room. They don't have really any desirable assets to trade besides Maxey to get another star. They're stuck basically where they are. And their best player can't stay healthy. So what is going to change by next summer?
You don't blow it up unless you are a borderline playoff team in the same situation, and you certainly don't when you are legitimately a top 5-6 team in the league with a superstar in his prime. I get your point, but right now it's too ridiculous to even address. You at the very least run this back once more and build around the edges, picking up a backup PG and seeing what can be had for Harris. Now if Harden decides to walk or demands more than three years, you have something to think about.
And you're not even considering the business side of this. Josh Harris has a cash cow with two marketable stars (one coming off an MVP season) and an emerging star that routinely sells out and brings in playoff revenue - he's going to trash that and go back to an empty arena and a 20 win team before exhausting all options to improve this group? Please stop.
I don't think he's going to do it, but I think it would be the best for their future. Better to blow the thing up too early than too late. And if Harden leaves they have no shot to do anything next season anyway. Don't want to be caught in a position where they keep trying to duct tape this thing together to win a title, max out as a 2nd round team, Embiid starts to decline, you can't get nearly as much for him in a trade, and then you're stuck in nowhere's ville.
It's hard to look at this from just a GM nerd perspective because of the enormous business consequences. But even so, you guys are talking about ripping it up and starting over when you have a top 5 team in the league with a very good chance of being as good or better next year if some smart moves are made to enhance the roster depth.
I completely get the concept of selling high, and I share the frustration over the mismanagement and the butchering of the assets from The Process. The time to tear it down if you were going to do it would have been after the Horford season, but Morey has done enough to get us to the point of potentially being the best team of the Process era. Right now is not the time to start over.
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." - Sigmund Freud
Except Oden manged to play over 100 games in the NBA, I don't think Embiid will play more.
