ric munchn wrote:kuclas wrote:The Celtics (healthy lineup) of Hayward, Tatum, Kyrie, Brown, Horford on paper is better than the sixers lineup of Reddick, Simmons, embiid, saric, Covington
For the future. It depends on how the best players of each teams play. Cause if Simmons and Embiid perform at max level (aka playoff Lebron). Having the two best players playing at max level with beat any max level of the Celtics starting 5.
But chances are embiid/Simmons won’t perform at max level every game. So the core Celtics likely have the best regular season record next year. I expect them to win 58-63 games with a healthy roster.
Sixers will be between 49-55 games (in my opinion)
Reallly depends how these teams beat up on lesser/tanking teams.
Like Toronto having the best record in the east primarily destroying tanking/losing teams. Toronto was like 34-2 against those teams. So Toronto only needs to go .500 against winning teams.
Celtics will be more consistent.
Now when it comes playoffs time. If embiid/Simmons perform to max level. I think sixers are favored over max performing Celtics healthy team.
Like how max performing Lebron is willing cavaliers over pacers who are clearly the better team. But max Lebron is better than the pacers team performance.
Usually that is the case but teams like the pistons, warriors in 2015 and spurs have beaten superior talents. And Shaq and Kobe are so much better than billups and sheed. If you wanna say embiid and Simmons are better than kyrie and Hayward(which remains to be seen) it’s not by that margin and the rest is clearly better for the Celtics. Not to mention brown or Tatum could be one of our two best players going forward.
You still don't have a front court. Horford turns 32 in June and you got great play out of Baynes. You have a 2.9% chance to get a two or three pick in this year's draft. Not likely, but possible. More problematic, Horford's $30 mil doesn't come off the books until after the 2019-2020 season. If Embiid stays healthy, who defends him? Yes, Embiid turns the ball over more than he should, but he's a good passer and he makes more than 75% of his free throws - and he's a magnet for drawing fouls.
