DCasey91 wrote:sixers hoops wrote:TTP wrote:
We had the best 5 man unit in the league at that point. I'm not sure how they could impress you if that doesn't do it.
There was very much evidence that we could be a great team. It was far from guaranteed but that early performance was about as great of an indicator as you could reasonably expect to have.
Everyone brings up that the schedule was weak but it's been quite a long time since we've dominated anyone like that for an extended stretch. Even some of the games that were close (first Wizards game, Raptors) were only close because we shot way under expectation from 3 and the other team shot well.
Best five man unit against teams we won’t see in the playoffs. I’m not impressed when we beat up on bad teams. Instead of “indicators” that we can be great, I will wait to see how we actually do against good teams. I don’t believe this “evidence” that we can be a great team. We are still eliminated in the second round in my estimation, and those early season games didn’t change that at all for me.
100% agree on the Indicators. Context plays a huge part of it too.
We always play at home historically good and historically bad away even with a good team lol
And yes I too have us at 2nd round max, might sneak into the ECF if we’re extremely lucky and Embiid goes berserk but it’s too many “perfect things falling together, and it’ll be more so other teams imploding/injuries.
But at the end of the day
When your elite and best perimeter option is Harris or a Russian roulette of other scoring /creating/shooting players be it Curry, Milton or Maxey.
let’s face it that ain’t gonna cut it in the playoffs.
Best chance is Milton going forward if we go the organic route. But how high is his ceiling?
3-4 years that’s all we have, Championship windows don’t come around often.
Yeah. Kinda where I’m at. As TPP said, we should be much better than last year after getting more time to gel. Nevertheless, I think our ceiling with Embiid, Ben, Tobias is conference finals, but more likely second round. Nets and Bucks seem like major roadblocks, and Jo is our only great offensive player. Ben, Tobias, and Shake can do some nice things, but none are on the offensive level of the Lakers, Clippers, Bucks, and Nets top two or three players.
I think Morey plans to let our players improve, and increase the value of our assets, to get one more impact player on the roster.
” Tobi over Eric Bledsoe.
