Mik317 wrote:naw its very much Morey's fault.
one of his first non Paul George signing was a washed Eric Gordon. Then a washed Lowry. And a washed Drummond. Then he added a dude with a **** up shoulder. Yabu and McCain were the only good moves currently. You get one or two misses but at some point its just you lacking vision. Morey's whole gameplan is to stack all stars and hope they can carry no matter what. He constantly ignores the little things that add up imo.
Yeah I am sure he didn't expect Biid to be dead. I will give him that. But IMO even if Biid wasn't this team still lacks passers and real shooters, those are things that Maxey and Biid thrive off of and was the reason we lost in the playoffs. His answer was that PG would just do all of that because he is an all star and thats how that works. When the reality is that while he can shoot, create, pass a bit...he isn't great enough at them for it to make up for the lack of it elsewhere.
Again tbf a lot of this is def in hindsight but that's why these guys get paid the big bucks. Like Nurse...there is no real creativity in this FO every move reads like hey I know that guy...go get him. Even Yabu, despite Morey's lies only got signed because of his Olympics performance. McCain was a 5 Star recruit.... it just reeks of looking at lists imo.
Morey isn't the main reason this season is ass. But he is top 3
I think you're a little harsh on Morey. I'd be interested to hear what you would have done differently to compete.
IMO, signing PG was still better than trading for Ingram or signing a couple decent role players like KCP and DDR (if they even had the money to sign both). PG is much more conducive to winning in the playoffs than the rest of these guys.
The minimums are going to be hit or miss which is why they're minimums. There were only a couple guys on minimums that were a step up and they waited until later to sign and certainly were not a guarantee.
I remember hearing from the top Sixers podcasts that they didn't think the Sixers had a shot at Yabuselle and that the McCain pick was a bad one for this team with Maxey.
I think Oubre and Caleb Martin were decent signings. The Caleb injury sucks, but let's not act like they threw away money like signing Melton or something.
The big problem is the injuries and obviously the biggest one being Embiid. If I were to blame Morey for anything it would be for extending Embiid now. IMO, if it gets to the point to blow it up because of Embiid's health, he's the only anchor.
If they blow it up or shake it up, they still have draft capital, PG has trade value, Oubre and all the minimums can be gone at the end of the year by either trade or FA, they have two young studs in Maxey and McCain to kickstart a rebuild. Caleb Martin could potentially be the only bad contract if he's done, but I think it's too early to tell and his contract isnt that bad. If Embiid can't return to form, he's the only truly negative contract.
For Embiid, Morey would have to take the blame, but this is why I don't see the other moves as that bad. These players would fit well around Embiid. Problem is... no Embiid.
