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stormi · Post #2341 » by **stormi** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 2:16 am

Mr. Uncoachable / doesn't care about basketball / locker room menace / refuses to play offball but he also did without hesitation for Shake Milton, himself

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VDT · Post #2342 » by **VDT** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 2:27 am

The psychologist can help you if you have a mental block and you cant HIT the jump shots. You dont need a psychologist to do what your coach tells you to do. I am pretty sure that a large part of the accountability complaints were related to Simmons. Having a star player openly disregarding what his coach tells him to do kills any team spirit and makes an already bad locker room even worse.

I am not putting all the blame on Simmons of course but the players need to take some responsibility at some point. Begging a player to shoot a 3 and celebrating when he does is ridiculous for a professional sport.

stormi · Post #2343 » by **stormi** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 2:44 am

Now we have internet psychologists psychoanalyzing real life psychologists to continue holding onto their narratives for dear life.

76ciology · Post #2344 » by **76ciology** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 5:52 am

youngcrev wrote:
76ciology wrote:
UptownPhilly wrote:I don’t see how Embiid’s tweets are helping him any. They’re passive aggressive and make him look weak as a leader, riding the next man’s coattails. Jimmy’s the star of the Heat, and your team just got swept by our greatest rival. Just come out and say management needs to fix this mess, or trade me.

The way I see Embiid he needs someone to guide him. And he’s a hard person to guide because he only look up to a few people. One of which is Jimmy.

I had to say this but I think not having “veteran leadership” is biting out ass right now. It’s true in Keith Pompey’s article that our guys are treated like stars from day 1 and have lost the sense of accountability.

For instance Ben. When he’s asked to shoot he’ll respond that he’s an allstar.

I know this doesnt make that much sense as an outsider but these guys are living in a much different world than ours. There is a disconnect.

On the contrary, it's one of the few things you've said that has made sense

80% because of bad grammar
20% because of not make sense

:lol:

76ciology · Post #2345 » by **76ciology** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 12:21 pm

My thoughts after watching the Heat vs Bucks game
- Heat built a smart defensive gameplan that Brad stevens have done and I dont expect Brett to be doing, which is building a wall around Giannis and letting Bucks poor shooters beat them. I’d expect Brett to still stay with the shooters.
- Heat doesnt have Bam at Giannis, unlike what Ive expected. But IMO they surely planned their roster with stopping Giannis in mind. Iggy, Crowder and Bam can defend Giannis, individually or with a wall.
- Jimmy went Jimmy Buckets down the stretch was such a sight to see.
- You don’t necessarily need to have 4 out offense, like how the Heat is playing it. But you have to start with 4 out. Jimmy is frequently attacking from the perimeter, where he can collapse the defense with having options to drop pass to bam or kick it out to shooters.
- If Sixers want to follow this 2 non shooters blue print of the Heat, one of Biid or Ben has to attack from the perimeter. One action I see is Ben could attack from the top of the key with a guard setting a screen for him (see pick and pop with Kork), then this may allow Ben to drive to the paint where he can drop it to Biid or kick it to shooters.
- Either we follow the Lakers or Heat blue print with having two non shooters, point of attack should start from the outside. You can’t just try to dump it to Biid. The defense is set so this leads to heavily challenged shot for Biid or a high TO rate possession.

76ciology · Post #2346 » by **76ciology** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 1:41 pm

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/premier-league-transfers-lionel-messi-to-manchester-city-barcelona-deal-contract-value/news-story/66db9d86eed3741818916fb3c33d3e54?nk=f78aaaa93a6a84173e8499ac8dba4f2b-1599053996

No idea about how the salary is in football. But can someone explain to me why they are this high?

Eyeamok · Post #2347 » by **Eyeamok** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 4:58 pm

I still can't believe how good Marcus Smart has become in hitting the 3 point shot. My Gawd....I remember when he was awful and now he can sometimes be clutch. Good for him love the hard work he put in.

Stribor · Post #2348 » by **Stribor** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 5:09 pm

76ciology wrote:https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/premier-league-transfers-lionel-messi-to-manchester-city-barcelona-deal-contract-value/news-story/66db9d86eed3741818916fb3c33d3e54?nk=f78aaaa93a6a84173e8499ac8dba4f2b-1599053996

No idea about how the salary is in football. But can someone explain to me why they are this high?

Oil money. Manchester city is owned by sheiks, and can more or less pay as much as it wants. HAving sad that, football is the most popular sport in the world so top stars sell so much merchandise that even non oil teams are ok to invest huge in order to sell the merchandise. Ronaldo and Messi dresses are in every bigger city in every country on the planet. Also most of the merch money goes to clubs more so than in american sports.

https://www.insider.com/highest-paid-athletes-in-the-world-2020-forbes-2020-5#now-take-a-tour-of-golf-icon-greg-normans-gorgeous-colorado-estate-thats-on-the-market-for-40-million-11

stormi · Post #2349 » by **stormi** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 5:14 pm

Feel like it's Boston's year tbh. If Tatum can score and at the rate of an elite championship wing, they have all the pieces. Depth scoring (Brown, Kemba, Smart), defenders up and down their lineup, multiple 3 level scorers, an elite coach and three effective bigs that can impact the game in different ways.

+ going forward they have guys like Langford, Williams, Waters who'll take another step + 3 more frps this year. Insane

Eyeamok · Post #2350 » by **Eyeamok** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 5:31 pm

Is the 76ers FO hoping for a Rockets win tonight, so they don't have to add Embiid to package of Al and 3 first round picks to get CP3 ?

Eyeamok · Post #2351 » by **Eyeamok** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 5:49 pm

stormi wrote:Mr. Uncoachable / doesn't care about basketball / locker room menace / refuses to play offball but he also did without hesitation for Shake Milton, himself

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Why are all our high draft picks afraid to shoot. Fultz, Simmons. The only person not afraid to shoot is Embiid and everyone wishes he would shoot less and establish position down low. What's going on?

76ciology · Post #2352 » by **76ciology** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 6:02 pm

Eyeamok wrote:
stormi wrote:Mr. Uncoachable / doesn't care about basketball / locker room menace / refuses to play offball but he also did without hesitation for Shake Milton, himself

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Why are all our high draft picks afraid to shoot. Fultz, Simmons. The only person not afraid to shoot is Embiid and everyone wishes he would shoot less and establish position down low. What's going on?

Usually players with high deflection numbers have low 3pt shooting skills. While bigs in general are just not that good in 3pt shooting. Based on the numbers, Al and Biid are already top 5-7 3pt shooting centers. We loaded up on bigs and high deflection guys with our draft picks.

And while the league has valued guard and 3pt shooting by a lopsided margin, we disregard this fact and just flatout draft based on BPA. We could have ended up maybe with Devin Booker and Brandon Ingram.

But to be fair, nobody really saw this thing coming with Fultz. Maybe ainge did, if so, congratulations.

It’s not a psychological thing. It’s more of they know they are not good shooters so they are not confident to let it fly.

stormi · Post #2353 » by **stormi** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 6:10 pm

Eyeamok wrote:Is the 76ers FO hoping for a Rockets win tonight, so they don't have to add Embiid to package of Al and 3 first round picks to get CP3 ?

But maybe if OKC win, Harden wants out...

76ciology · Post #2354 » by **76ciology** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 7:05 pm

Pretty sure Ben would love to play off ball with Harden or CP3 being point god.

Magic beans · Post #2355 » by **Magic beans** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 7:13 pm

Eyeamok wrote:I still can't believe how good Marcus Smart has become in hitting the 3 point shot. My Gawd....I remember when he was awful and now he can sometimes be clutch. Good for him love the hard work he put in.

Silly of me, but I have hopes that Thybulle could in the future develop a better, more consistent outside shot.

Magic beans · Post #2356 » by **Magic beans** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 7:22 pm

VDT wrote:The psychologist can help you if you have a mental block and you cant HIT the jump shots. You dont need a psychologist to do what your coach tells you to do. I am pretty sure that a large part of the accountability complaints were related to Simmons. Having a star player openly disregarding what his coach tells him to do kills any team spirit and makes an already bad locker room even worse.

I am not putting all the blame on Simmons of course but the players need to take some responsibility at some point. Begging a player to shoot a 3 and celebrating when he does is ridiculous for a professional sport.

Agree Simmons reluctance to shoot ( after orders ) must have a detrimental effect on team morale. And as much as I’m an advocate for Ben I agree he has to be responsible for his own development ( as well as coaching ).

The development of his perimeter offence is vital for next year. Get it done.

stormi · Post #2357 » by **stormi** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 7:25 pm

Embiid & Harden recreating Shaq & Kobe next season after Harden demands out

Eyeamok · Post #2358 » by **Eyeamok** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 9:32 pm

Magic beans wrote:
Eyeamok wrote:I still can't believe how good Marcus Smart has become in hitting the 3 point shot. My Gawd....I remember when he was awful and now he can sometimes be clutch. Good for him love the hard work he put in.

Silly of me, but I have hopes that Thybulle could in the future develop a better, more consistent outside shot.

It would be so nice to say we got the better of a Boston trade for a change. Let's hope so. The first thing Thybulle has to do is ditch Harris as a mentor. Harris is holding him back. :lol:

VDT · Post #2359 » by **VDT** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 10:34 pm

Eyeamok wrote:Is the 76ers FO hoping for a Rockets win tonight, so they don't have to add Embiid to package of Al and 3 first round picks to get CP3 ?

I think we should hope that OKC wins and Harden becomes available. I think he is the shortest path to a title from where we are now.

ProcessDoctor · Post #2360 » by **ProcessDoctor** » Wed Sep 2, 2020 11:37 pm

VDT wrote:
Eyeamok wrote:Is the 76ers FO hoping for a Rockets win tonight, so they don't have to add Embiid to package of Al and 3 first round picks to get CP3 ?

I think we should hope that OKC wins and Harden becomes available. I think he is the shortest path to a title from where we are now.

Would he demand out after they just traded for his buddy Westbrook?