Welcome Paul Reed

[the_process]

I haven't expected or even desired Glenn to give Reed (or Bassey) any minutes.

But Giannis is the one matchup Reed was built for. Throw him out there and work around him on offense if needed.

[stormi]

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It's not like he clamped him up by any means, but his lateral quickness at that size was enough to almost stay stride for stride with him. He made him work for nearly every bucket and had 3 steals and 2 blocks that game.

If Reed 'limits' Giannis to 10-12 points instead of the nearly 20 point individual run he went on against the Niang-Harris-Millsap trio, that's a win.

Another loss due purely to self sabotage and incompetence.

[mjkvol]

I haven't expected or even desired Glenn to give Reed (or Bassey) any minutes.

But Giannis is the one matchup Reed was built for. Throw him out there and work around him on offense if needed.

That's essentially what they've been doing with Thybulle for three years.

[mjkvol]

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It's not like he clamped him up by any means, but his lateral quickness at that size was enough to almost stay stride for stride with him. He made him work for nearly every bucket and had 3 steals and 2 blocks that game.

If Reed 'limits' Giannis to 10-12 points instead of the nearly 20 point individual run he went on against the Niang-Harris-Millsap trio, that's a win.

Another loss due purely to self sabotage and incompetence.

Watching that makes me furious. He did a damn nice job of, as you said, at the very least making Giannis work for everything he got as opposed to the human turnstile Millsap was last night.

In fairness to Millsap, he had no business getting that assignment in the first place much less for that amount of time. And the scary thing is that Millsap was an improvement on Jordan in this game.

[the_process]

I haven't expected or even desired Glenn to give Reed (or Bassey) any minutes.

But Giannis is the one matchup Reed was built for. Throw him out there and work around him on offense if needed.

That's essentially what they've been doing with Thybulle for three years.

Right. I was just saying Reed needs to play against Giannis.

Speaking of Thybulle, let's hope he makes another All-Defense team. Need to sell high.

[mjkvol]

I haven't expected or even desired Glenn to give Reed (or Bassey) any minutes.

But Giannis is the one matchup Reed was built for. Throw him out there and work around him on offense if needed.

That's essentially what they've been doing with Thybulle for three years.

Right. I was just saying Reed needs to play against Giannis.

Speaking of Thybulle, let's hope he makes another All-Defense team. Need to sell high.

No, I was saying that in agreement with what you said. Should've prefaced it with "After all, ..."

There will never be a better time to cash Thybulle in than this off season. Morey needs to turn Harris, Thybulle, Green, and Milton into 2-3 solid wings that can shoot and play some defense, and a legit backup PG.

I'm not including backup big because those are already in house, and if Glenn is somehow still here, he needs to be made aware of that fact.

[Embiid P]

The crowd should have been chanting "B-Ball Paul" last night when Embiid went out. Not saying that Doc would have listened but he definitely would have heard it. They should do it every home game up to and during the playoffs until Doc gets the message.

[Arsenal]

I’m ready to start him in place of Thybulle. Not winning Jack this year so give it a shot.

[Foshan]

I’m ready to start him in place of Thybulle. Not winning Jack this year so give it a shot.

He should bump Toby or maxi to the bench for bench scoring. Plus this would give harden two guys to catch lobs

[hookshot199]

I’m ready to start him in place of Thybulle. Not winning Jack this year so give it a shot.

He should bump Toby or maxi to the bench for bench scoring. Plus this would give harden two guys to catch lobs

It's now out there. Doc has to make some adjustments or he'll be fired. He chose - and he alone chose - not to develop a bench and play his younger front-court players. He's got six games (they can't fall below 6th) to prepare for the playoffs, including managing Embiid's and Harden's minutes.

[sixers4real]

So many posts of Reed not playing, but now he’s in the rotation. Embiids back up for years to come?

[Ferry Avenue]

Paul Reed looks like a player who should definitely get playoff minutes when the situation dictates it. The Sixers may play a team in the playoffs against which Reed rightfully receives no minutes in any game, and conversely they may play a team against which he receives 10 to 15 minutes a game in every game. What he doesn't look like in my opinion, right now at least, is someone who is guaranteed playing time regardless, as a function of his ability.

[TTP]

Two straight games now where he's looked like the best player on the court in his minutes.

[Wilfried]

Stupid question probably, but couldn't he be the best possible defender to put at Siakam? I know he will get into foul trouble, but maybe for 15 minutes a game he could make his job a little harder?

[Embiid P]

Stupid question probably, but couldn't he be the best possible defender to put at Siakam? I know he will get into foul trouble, but maybe for 15 minutes a game he could make his job a little harder?

This is what I pushed for in the last game against the Raps and obviously advocate in the playoffs. That said, of course Rivers will do the opposite.

[76ciology]

Lately ive been showing my desire for more playing time for Paul Reed. I’ve also just listened to spike’s and bodner’s latest podcast, where they both touched the Paul Reed topic.

Regarding Reed and DJ… I want DJ to be the default back-up big behind Embiid. If not DJ, the guy I want is Bassey. But I dont like Reed as a back-up big behind Embiid.

Doc and the coaching staff are right IMO to assume that Reed can’t play back-up C better than DJ. Reed will be outmuscled. And when you see your C getting abused, it demoralizes a team.

Where I want Reed to have more PT is to play more Embiid-Reed pairing where I believe the additional length and athleticism of Reed will solve our defense and rebounding problem.

If Raps can play with Scottie Barnes and Achiuwa or Birch and Siakam, why can’t we play with Reed and Embiid? If we can be good on defense and rebounding, we’d be very hard to stop. If we can’t be good on these two, we better show some ATG offense for us to win the championship

[mjkvol]

If we can’t be good on these two, we better show some ATG offense for us to win the championship

Win the championship? Seriously?

This is a house money year, if we got to the ECF it would be an incredible success in building toward the next 2-3 seasons.

[76ciology]

If we can’t be good on these two, we better show some ATG offense for us to win the championship

Win the championship? Seriously?

This is a house money year, if we got to the ECF it would be an incredible success in building toward the next 2-3 seasons.

For me, yes.

[SixthStreet]

I agree. We need to go to the big lineup. Reed and Embiid together and the Thybulle situation creates the perfect opportunity for it.

Lot of posters feel you can’t play Reed and Embiid together but to me that’s a lot better on offense than Embiid and Thybulle together.

I think you could make a damn good case our best performing lineup in this series could be something like Harden-Maxey-Green-Reed-Embiid.

The only kink is that fringe rotation players without experience typically play much better at home so Reed might look like crap in Tampa.

[stormi]

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I hope D*c saw the impact Larry Nance had off the bench for the Pels last night. That's exactly what Paul Reed can contribute.