rzzzzz wrote:slicedbread2 wrote:
Yeah as much as I like Tobias Harris, I seriously can't believe ownership allowed Brand to give the guy a 5/180M and let Butler walk out the door. To add insult to injury, he'll be owed $80M over the next 2 years and no GM will compromise their cap space to eat his salary.
I thought Brand was bold scoring both Butler and Harris to add to Biid and Ben. The aftermath of that gamble I lay completely at the feet of Josh Harris, again. He chose to extend Brett, agreeing to his conditions of getting Butler out of town. Which lay the groundwork of the Harris overpay, and even then, I’m not sure who really pulled the trigger. (It was the brilliant Brett, after all, who traded hometown favorite Bridges for Zhaire.) Even Brand’s decision to sign Horford seemed to have some merit at the time. Couldn’t have predicted the absolute lack of chemistry and enthusiasm that followed. Though it was obvious Embiid was metaphysically bummed at losing the most copacetic team mate he’ll ever have.
For all my Brett animosity, it was interesting that at the end of the bubble season Ben was finally showing some serious development as a front court player, before tweaking his back the first time and sinking any momentum we might have had. That was the only time we’ve seen Simmons move a little out of his very limited comfort zone.
Yeah Brett Brown should've been let go if it were between him and Butler. Honestly I remembered Ben and Tobias were on board with running it back again with Redick, Jimmy and Joel. Redick would've been a perfect stopgap who would've taken less money to stay while finding an eventual successor. If Harris was given the Harrison Barnes deal or a 4/100M while giving Butler his money, they'd be looking pretty sick.
To be fair nobody could've predicted Fultz developing the yips and forgetting how to shoot and to add insult to injury Jayson Tatum is gonna be a stud for the next 5-10 years in Boston which really stings. To add insult to injury the Simmons saga was a complete headache.
Joshua Harris is to be blamed for all of this as you had 3 GM's in Hinkie, BC and Brand with different visions of how to run the team with no long-term planning in oversight which was the equivalent of some hedge fund dropping a portfolio of clients onto a salesperson saying go make me some money have fun. Great leadership starts at the top and it's sad that he didn't have the spine to stand up for Hinkie and tell the league to kick rocks. I honestly feel that this ownership group was just like any other in the sense that as long as they get some extra playoff home games, it's irrelevant whether the team wins a title or not. Their handling of the New Jersey Devils says it all(they've only made the playoffs once since being bought by them and have gone from one of the best run franchises in the NHL under Lou Lamoriello to one of the worse).
While Morey is a good executive, it was too late by the time he came in although his handling of Simmons could've been better it was too late by the time he came in as there seemed to be a lot of resentment due to Simmons refusing to develop his FT shot and working on a 15ft jumper. It sucked that he had to give away a 25 1st to get out of Horford's deal although it could've been worse.
They are limited in terms of what they could do and I'm really mad that Danny Green got hurt(Embiid needs to stop falling down(I know he's advised to b/c of injury concerns) as he could not only hurt opposing players, but his own teammates) because he's a class act, but if they are smart they should recirculate Green's T/O(10M) and send it to a team looking for cap relief and get some picks to use for a future opportunity or to be used as part of a bigger trade but most likely ownership will tell Morey to cut him in order to lighten up their tax bill.
Tobias was awesome these playoffs but is a tweener power forward and seems most likely to be moved. Wings wings WANGZ.
