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76ciology wrote:Paul George.
Excellent if we’re expecting him to just replace Nicolas Batum.
Disappointing if we’re expecting him to be part of our big 3.
He has to be more aggressive. And he’s not allowed to join our “cursed 3pt shooters” club
Stanford wrote:This season is done. Best we can hope for is to build a little chemistry towards the end and come back healthy next year. It's going to suck giving that pick to OKC.
Maxey is probably the best young undersized player in the league, so no complaints here. And McCain outplayed old Knecht, so no complaints there either. We just need a coach who hold players accountable like JJ. Doc held players accountable but he was fired.ProcessDoctor wrote:Stanford wrote:This season is done. Best we can hope for is to build a little chemistry towards the end and come back healthy next year. It's going to suck giving that pick to OKC.
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Our big 3 didn't spend any time practicing together before the season started. Morey and Nurse continued to ignore how undersized we were and doubled down on it. We loaded up on old short guards who shouldn't be playing heavy NBA minutes. I'm just waiting for PJ Tucker to rejoin the team to complete the circus.
PG is NOT washed if you had watched him play. Maybe this guy is washed up until proven wrong...Negrodamus wrote:76ciology wrote:Paul George.
Excellent if we’re expecting him to just replace Nicolas Batum.
Disappointing if we’re expecting him to be part of our big 3.
He has to be more aggressive. And he’s not allowed to join our “cursed 3pt shooters” club
Yea, bad news for the people who didn't think he was washed. Perhaps he'll be the ultimate 3&D player when Maxes and Embiid returns, but is that worth the price tag?
JordanMars wrote:I didn’t know the nba regular season was only 8 games.. relax.
Stanford wrote:JordanMars wrote:I didn’t know the nba regular season was only 8 games.. relax.
If you think this team is going to be able to limp into the play-in games with a bad seed and have a long playoff run, you really haven't been paying attention.
That's true but Joel plays like an MVP when healthy, so we need to load managed his playing time to 28 min tops and no back to back games. Only close games are exceptions where he can go over only if he is not playing hurt.Mik317 wrote:The issue is that the bad start makes it so we can't lose any Embiid plays games, which will in turn probably force him to attempt to do too much and thus probably get hurt in the process lol....The whole its early doe thing really only works if you can guarantee that Biid doesn;t miss any other games imo.
And idk this run proves that the team is too small, not athletic enough, and can't pass for ****. Biid solves some of that but idk about all of it. I'd just double him and force Oubre and Martin to beat you from deep honestly.
Morey's offseason was buns imo. Its the same issue he always has. He expects his stars to just fix everything...and when they cant the team is dead in the water. The TMac/Yao rockets died because Yao and T-Mac was the whole offense/defense and that killed their bodies...and with Yao's China requirement, that was doubled. Harden rests on defense and (sometimes offense off ball lol) so he masked it but it generally always caught up in the playoffs. Morey doesn't know how to build a TEAM. This offseason is just that...get a star, then fill out the rest of the roster with players you had before and hope for the best. Not going to do a Boston because the league doesn't go out of their way to help us but the surrounded their stars with guys who can OCCASIONALLY pick up the slack and cover for them in various ways.
Again IDK what was really available this offseason so who knows maybe this was all he could do...but this is exactly why I wasn't sure why people praised it so much imo. Injuries are an excuse imo because you have Embiid who is always hurt, PG is has been hurt and is 35 and you have run Maxey into the ground by virtue of not having another ballhandler on the roster. This current rut felt inevitable ...maybe not right out the gate but still.
Stanford wrote:JordanMars wrote:I didn’t know the nba regular season was only 8 games.. relax.
If you think this team is going to be able to limp into the play-in games with a bad seed and have a long playoff run, you really haven't been paying attention.
Mik317 wrote:The issue is that the bad start makes it so we can't lose any Embiid plays games, which will in turn probably force him to attempt to do too much and thus probably get hurt in the process lol....The whole its early doe thing really only works if you can guarantee that Biid doesn;t miss any other games imo.
And idk this run proves that the team is too small, not athletic enough, and can't pass for ****. Biid solves some of that but idk about all of it. I'd just double him and force Oubre and Martin to beat you from deep honestly.
Morey's offseason was buns imo. Its the same issue he always has. He expects his stars to just fix everything...and when they cant the team is dead in the water. The TMac/Yao rockets died because Yao and T-Mac was the whole offense/defense and that killed their bodies...and with Yao's China requirement, that was doubled. Harden rests on defense and (sometimes offense off ball lol) so he masked it but it generally always caught up in the playoffs. Morey doesn't know how to build a TEAM. This offseason is just that...get a star, then fill out the rest of the roster with players you had before and hope for the best. Not going to do a Boston because the league doesn't go out of their way to help us but the surrounded their stars with guys who can OCCASIONALLY pick up the slack and cover for them in various ways.
Again IDK what was really available this offseason so who knows maybe this was all he could do...but this is exactly why I wasn't sure why people praised it so much imo. Injuries are an excuse imo because you have Embiid who is always hurt, PG is has been hurt and is 35 and you have run Maxey into the ground by virtue of not having another ballhandler on the roster. This current rut felt inevitable ...maybe not right out the gate but still.