OT: Philadelphia 76ers - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen... He Was Number One!

FLYguy3911 · Jan 30, 2016

I switched to the LSU-OU game and then the skills comp. Quite surprised by the final line.

FlyerFire · Jan 30, 2016

More proud of the Sixers in this loss than any wins in the past few years. Gutsy performance

Sniped · Jan 30, 2016

The one true weakness for the Warriors is their bench, Sixers bench got them back in it, while playing really good defense in the 2nd half.

deadhead · Jan 30, 2016

Mr Black said:
Okafor 1 rebound in 21 minutes.

One of the problems judging any Sixer player right now is we don't know what Brown is asking them to do - someone on another site pointed out that Okafor is blocking out more, opening up rebounds for teammates but taking himself out of position. That may be a weakness or by design.

Okafor should be starting over Grant, but Brown may want him to work on certain skills (like shooting outside) before he pairs him with Noel again.

Embiid · Jan 30, 2016

Gutsy effort by the Sixers...enjoyable game..at least the 2nd half. Funny how the GS starters had to come back in after their bench was subpar compared to the Sixers...

Schwarbomb · Jan 30, 2016

Sniped said:
The one true weakness for the Warriors is their bench, Sixers bench got them back in it, while playing really good defense in the 2nd half.

Looks like they were missing Ezeli and Iggy tonight. It's never good when Speights has to play minutes.

Embiid · Jan 30, 2016

Yeah Iggy always wants to torch the Sixers...luckily he was out. Still...Sixers didn't let up and at least gave the sellout crowd a good game unlike the Celtics abortion I had the pleasure of witnessing en vivo....

Sniped · Jan 30, 2016

Mr Black said:
Looks like they were missing Ezeli and Iggy tonight. It's never good when Speights has to play minutes.

Yeah, those are the 2 best bench players for them. I'd still say it's their one weakness though.

AndHeMissedTheNet · Jan 31, 2016

So, the more i think about it, the better i feel about this draft class at the top. I'm mostly convinced that the NBA will not allow Simmons to come to Philly, the storyline of him taking over for Kobe in LA is too perfect.

That being said...
If the sixers get the 1st pick: Ben Simmons
If the sixers get the 2nd pick: Brandon Ingram
If the sixers get the 3rd pick: Kris Dunn
If the sixers get completely screwed and end up with the 4th pick: Buddy Hield

Any of these scenarios i'm okay with. It also helps that there are no centers at the top of this class.

Schwarbomb · Jan 31, 2016

FourthLineGoon said:
So, the more i think about it, the better i feel about this draft class at the top. I'm mostly convinced that the NBA will not allow Simmons to come to Philly, the storyline of him taking over for Kobe in LA is too perfect.

That being said...
If the sixers get the 1st pick: Ben Simmons
If the sixers get the 2nd pick: Brandon Ingram
If the sixers get the 3rd pick: Kris Dunn
If the sixers get completely screwed and end up with the 4th pick: Buddy Hield

Any of these scenarios i'm okay with. It also helps that there are no centers at the top of this class.

If the sixers get the 3rd pick or lower: eat cyanide capsules

Buddy Hield is horribly overrated BTW. He's a Doug McDermott/Jodie Meeks type of player, a guy that should be drafted in the 20s.

cheesesteakarmor · Jan 31, 2016

Mr Black said:
If the sixers get the 3rd pick or lower: eat cyanide capsules

Buddy Hield is horribly overrated BTW. He's a Doug McDermott/Jodie Meeks type of player, a guy that should be drafted in the 20s.

If they fall out of the top 3, do they trade back then for more picks?

Schwarbomb · Jan 31, 2016

mypunkrock said:
If they fall out of the top 3, do they trade back then for more picks?

If they fall out of the top 2 I have no idea what they would do. In years past they were okay picking 3 with a then obvious BPA available (Embiid/Okafor). But this year it would appear to be a devastating blow due to the talent drop off.

AndHeMissedTheNet · Jan 31, 2016

Mr Black said:
If the sixers get the 3rd pick or lower: eat cyanide capsules

Buddy Hield is horribly overrated BTW. He's a Doug McDermott/Jodie Meeks type of player, a guy that should be drafted in the 20s.

The sixers need scoring. He can score.

Also, a PG tandem of Smith/Dunn/McConnell is one i can get behind.

No, i'll eat cyanide capsules if they go on a 5-game winning streak to pull themselves out of a bottom 3 record to end the season, and then end up with a pick outside of the top 4. They've already been winning too much lately.

zarley zelepukin · Jan 31, 2016

If they don't get a top 2 pick, they could always take Dragan Bender :sarcasm:

Embiid · Feb 1, 2016

Mr Black said:
If they fall out of the top 2 I have no idea what they would do. In years past they were okay picking 3 with a then obvious BPA available (Embiid/Okafor). But this year it would appear to be a devastating blow due to the talent drop off.

If I were them I would just start packaging picks in trades to get established players or to move down or whatever. I'm sure Colangelo and Hinkie will maximize their assets properly...

It would suck though if we lose out on the top two picks.....

Sniped · Feb 1, 2016

Unfortunately I don't think any team will trade down if they get the #1 or 2 pick. Simmonds is a franchise changer, while Ingram very well could be as well.

AndHeMissedTheNet · Feb 1, 2016

Part of me has this feeling that the team might be better off with Ingram than Simmons.

Simmons seems like a little too unselfish, plus, while i haven't seen too much of Saric, the description of him as a player seems to be pretty similar to Simmons anyway.

sa cyred · Feb 5, 2016

Lakers with 2 straight wins. Kobe heating up. Keep winning!! (for now atleast)

Schwarbomb · Feb 5, 2016

sa cyred said:
Lakers with 2 straight wins. Kobe heating up. Keep winning!! (for now atleast)

Two massive wins. It's hilarious how bad Gentry has been for the Pelicans.

sa cyred · Feb 5, 2016

Clippers are selling Blake Griffin.

Oh and the Sixers are interested

Schwarbomb · Feb 5, 2016

sa cyred said:
Clippers are selling Blake Griffin.

Oh and the Sixers are interested

Unless they plan on trading Jordan as well, hard to see any trade that would make sense.

Embiid · Feb 5, 2016

sa cyred said:
Clippers are selling Blake Griffin.

Oh and the Sixers are interested

Yeah and I am interested in a
supermodel...

FLYguy3911 · Feb 6, 2016

Okafor 22-17-3. Where did that come from?

Schwarbomb · Feb 6, 2016

FLYguy3911 said:
Okafor 22-17-3. Where did that come from?

What is that, total from last 3 games? :sarcasm:

Great game by him and the other young guys tonight. Against other awful teams they don't look that awful.

Sniped · Feb 6, 2016

Playing Okafor more at the 4 seemed to have benefit him. Which people have been clamoring for a good bit now.

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