2024-25 Philadelphia 76ers Check In Thread (Your Current Feel on the team)

mjkvol · Post #21 » by **mjkvol** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 9:16 pm

Congrats to 76ciology and Jailblazers, and Godspeed on your new life adventures. And Mik, good vibes to you with your issues.

I am as indifferent as I've been in years beginning a season. I thought being rid of Tobias would be enough, and we added a legit "3rd guy" and some hopefully solid bench pieces, and Maxey seems set to make another leap. But I'm more excited to see how Knecht does than anything else right now.

And now it's already with the injuries in a season where creating chemistry will be paramount. Maybe it will take a month and seeing some real ball to get the juices flowing again. Maxey and Nurse are the two things that give me hope.

Negrodamus · Post #22 » by **Negrodamus** » Tue Oct 22, 2024 9:24 pm

It'd be nice if McCain is playing since it's a rare young guy who has shown some intrigue in his early play. He hasn't been ruled out yet, which is nice. Fully expect them to get murdered by Milwaukee though.

76ciology · Post #23 » by **76ciology** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:53 am

sixers4real wrote:Bro, congratulations on your first child!

What country did you move to?

Thanks! I moved to Thailand. Feels like im the only Sixers fan in the entire country lol

mksp · Post #24 » by **mksp** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:34 am

it's so dumb that joel played in the olympics given his injury history. and for the US at that. just another lame, clown move from him in a career full of them.

MikRay · Post #25 » by **MikRay** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:16 pm

mksp wrote:it's so dumb that joel played in the olympics given his injury history. and for the US at that. just another lame, clown move from him in a career full of them.

Yep

We should have unloaded him in the off-season and we’re gonna try and trade him next year and get pennies on the dollar. It’s been about seven years since I’ve been so down on a team — ESPN predicted Paul George and Joel Embiid will play in about 20 games together this year. They are probably right.

Embiid P · Post #26 » by **Embiid P** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:04 pm

Don't mind that Embiid played in the Olympics. At least he finally won a team award for the first time in his career so I'm not going to hold that against him. Plus, I always thought that his slow starts to the season were a result of him not being active enough during the offseason rather than being too active.

Post #27 » by **Stanford** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:08 pm

At least he played for your country, comrades.

Embiid P · Post #28 » by **Embiid P** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:22 pm

mksp wrote:it's so dumb that joel played in the olympics given his injury history. and for the US at that. just another lame, clown move from him in a career full of them.

You do realize that without him, they probably would have lost to Serbia in the semifinals, right?

DCasey91 · Post #29 » by **DCasey91** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:27 pm

We def need John Constantine on the squad. Some mystic dark arts stuff is going on I ain't about it.

To the team Tobithus is gone so already I'm happy watching us play... But yeah give it 2 quarters then stupid emotions kick in lmao.

stormi · Post #30 » by **stormi** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:57 pm

Season doesn't start for me until the Sixers move those picks, so I'm cruising until the new year.

We've seen that Joel Embiid + ANYONE = 50 games won and HCA in the East, so I'm indifferent about whether he plays this week or takes an extra month to get right. We've seen Joel Embiid get pressured to return at less than full capacity and traumatically brutalize himself.

What was a big deal was how he looked last playoffs, the fact that he couldn't jump / the bells palsy etc. He looked slightly better in the Olympics, although not all the way there; and from the looks of the clips seen during camp he seems to be on an upward trajectory.

Although you can be as measured as you want with his progress and it only really takes one play - way with the state of his leg. He's a timebomb.

Much more disappointed with the manchildren of this fanbase and the discourse around Joel Embiid.

NYSixersFan · Post #31 » by **NYSixersFan** » Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:26 pm

Been AWOL since July, but back and not confident at all.

The injury excuse is not valid when you know in advance Embiid and PG are injury prone.

Morey took the easy way out, as I expected him to.

blargh · Post #32 » by **blargh** » Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:29 am

I think even with Embiid and PG playing: we need a little more shooting on this team.

the_process · Post #33 » by **the_process** » Thu Oct 24, 2024 1:52 pm

Wake me on January 15th.

Zumramania · Post #34 » by **Zumramania** » Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:22 pm

I think that even without Joel and with PG this is a good regular season team, so I hope at least PG becomes available.

GoSixersBro · Post #35 » by **GoSixersBro** » Thu Oct 24, 2024 8:00 pm

If Gordon and Lowry are getting meaningful run still in March we are cooked gentlemen.

the_process · Post #36 » by **the_process** » Sun Oct 27, 2024 2:55 pm

Zumramania wrote:I think that even without Joel and with PG this is a good regular season team, so I hope at least PG becomes available.

Magic 8 ball says: Don't count on it.

ankle420breaker · Post #37 » by **ankle420breaker** » Sun Oct 27, 2024 3:46 pm

I was ALL in on this season until the Shams bomb on Embiid. Just fed up with Joel and the shady nature in which this organization continues to conceal key information from their fan base.

I've concluded that Embiid just isn't that guy. He'll never get us through a finish line and we totally missed our opportunity to sell high on him. It's a bitter pill to accept that reality.

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the_process · Post #38 » by **the_process** » Sun Oct 27, 2024 3:59 pm

GoSixersBro wrote:If Gordon and Lowry are getting meaningful run still in March we are cooked gentlemen.

I still feel like Lowry can give you 10 good minutes a night. Gordon suddenly looks old as ****.

HotelVitale · Post #39 » by **HotelVitale** » Sun Oct 27, 2024 6:39 pm

ankle420breaker wrote:I was ALL in on this season until the Shams bomb on Embiid. Just fed up with Joel and the shady nature in which this organization continues to conceal key information from their fan base.

I've concluded that Embiid just isn't that guy. He'll never get us through a finish line and we totally missed our opportunity to sell high on him. It's a bitter pill to accept that reality.

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You haven’t know that about Embiid since 2021? Thought we all did and we’re waiting on the right mix of talent around him.

Also thought we all were prepared to need a lot of luck with injuries and timing for this current team to come together and contend. Still feel like that’s the case, doesn’t bother me that so far they look like last years Embiid-less Sixers without both Embiid and PG.

ankle420breaker · Post #40 » by **ankle420breaker** » Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:49 pm

HotelVitale wrote:
ankle420breaker wrote:I was ALL in on this season until the Shams bomb on Embiid. Just fed up with Joel and the shady nature in which this organization continues to conceal key information from their fan base.

I've concluded that Embiid just isn't that guy. He'll never get us through a finish line and we totally missed our opportunity to sell high on him. It's a bitter pill to accept that reality.

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You haven’t know that about Embiid since 2021? Thought we all did and we’re waiting on the right mix of talent around him.

Also thought we all were prepared to need a lot of luck with injuries and timing for this current team to come together and contend. Still feel like that’s the case, doesn’t bother me that so far they look like last years Embiid-less Sixers without both Embiid and PG.

I have known since 2021. Embiid is a great player, but the writing has been on the wall for years and I've been advocating for the front office to move him before his value inevitably plummets.... and most on this board strongly disagreed.

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