OT: Teh Philadelphia Severty Sixers: Let’s Do This For JS’s Goodest and Bestest Boy
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JojoTheWhale
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I cam here to say Beef had better not be in here and he’s the last post. This is his fault.
Can we stop pretending to know how to shoot 3’s? Or at least recognize teams have no issues letting our players jack up 3’s and that’s a indictment on their ability.
JojoTheWhale
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If he comes back into this game, fire everyone. Leave not one person standing.
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My sources have indicated to me that this is all indeed Beef's fault.
Embiid
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Wow they are losing on the road.....shocker...
Embiid injured....Simmons injured...….gonna be watching more Flyers
Embiid injured....Simmons injured...….gonna be watching more Flyers
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Hollywood Cannon
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Pathetic. They should be able to beat this team even without Simmons and Embiid. At the very least make it a close game. But they trailed the entire game.
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Gutless...it's like they store their balls in a led container when they go on the road.
Horford was such a waste of a signing......and Harris was an overpayment. Lack of leadership...
AndHeMissedTheNet
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Well thank god for the Flyers, at least... this might get ugly over the coming weeks.
Hollywood Cannon
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You can just tell the weasel Sports Talk Radio hosts are slowly integrating Flyers talk into their shows and they're just going to continue to do it more and more with this organization continuing to embarrass themselves more and more.
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97.5 sure picked a really convenient time to tell Jason Myrtetus - the only guy at that station even remotely knowledgeable about the sport - to f*** off.
I’m becoming more and more convinced that the coach is the problem. I’ve always been a Brown supporter and I’d love to see him succeed after the crap teams he was given during the Process, but when a team consistently looks this bad, in the same situation (road games) over and over, it’s hard to understand how the players could all at once just forget how to play.
Embiid
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Brown is definitely not helping.....players are just not responding to him.
Lotusflower
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Brett deserves to be fired. You cant run an offense like this in this league esp w this personnel.
I said in this thread back in Dec 2017 that without incorporating sets you werent going to win a title.
The best offensive players in the world get most of their offense out of the PnR and other sets.
How is a team with no elite scorers and 1 elite playmaker supposed to go without them then?
JRich, Tobi,Al all look garbage and have been garbage but our home record indicates that theyre better then theyve been.
These are role players. None of them is elite on offense IQ or skillwise.
None of them have ever played in an offense like this. There isnt one other team in the NBA that plays this way.
Of course when the offensive directive is 'just play loose' then you get nonexistant cuttng, bricked open shots due to no rhythm, sloppy passing.
Combine that with Jo being Dwight Howard with less durability this year and here we are.
Fire Elton too as he deserves to go for the Jrich-Jimmy deal alone.
Hire Becky Hammon. End the madness..
I said in this thread back in Dec 2017 that without incorporating sets you werent going to win a title.
The best offensive players in the world get most of their offense out of the PnR and other sets.
How is a team with no elite scorers and 1 elite playmaker supposed to go without them then?
JRich, Tobi,Al all look garbage and have been garbage but our home record indicates that theyre better then theyve been.
These are role players. None of them is elite on offense IQ or skillwise.
None of them have ever played in an offense like this. There isnt one other team in the NBA that plays this way.
Of course when the offensive directive is 'just play loose' then you get nonexistant cuttng, bricked open shots due to no rhythm, sloppy passing.
Combine that with Jo being Dwight Howard with less durability this year and here we are.
Fire Elton too as he deserves to go for the Jrich-Jimmy deal alone.
Hire Becky Hammon. End the madness..
How much can you really blame Elton for that trade though? Butler could have walked and the Sixers would have gotten nothing. Brand didn’t really have much leverage.
Lotusflower
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We'll never be sure but the way free agency played out with Al opting out of his deal with the C's first thing and then Jimmy being traded makes me think it was at the very least a mutual termination as regards to Jimmy.
Al woudnt have opted out so quickly if he wasnt certain there was a more lucrative offer waiting.
Likely they chose Al/JR over Jimmy.
At least Al is still a plus defender. Jr has been one of the worst starters in the league this year.
The fact that Elton traded the 2nd best SG in the league for a guy who's been our 3rd best SG and an active detriment most time on the court 1 for 1 this season is inexcusable.
Al woudnt have opted out so quickly if he wasnt certain there was a more lucrative offer waiting.
Likely they chose Al/JR over Jimmy.
At least Al is still a plus defender. Jr has been one of the worst starters in the league this year.
The fact that Elton traded the 2nd best SG in the league for a guy who's been our 3rd best SG and an active detriment most time on the court 1 for 1 this season is inexcusable.
I really think Butler was intent on leaving. I think he wanted to be “The Guy”, and that wsn’t happening on team with Embiid and Simmons. You’re right, we’ll never know for sure but I don’t think Jimmy had any intention of coming back.
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The way the "insiders" talked, Butler had a beef with Ben, he's friends with Embiid. The only way he stayed was if Ben got traded.
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JojoTheWhale
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Wait, why do we think this? Did I miss something that says it was probably a personal issue with Simmons instead of the front office not liking everything that comes with Jimmy Butler or him just wanting to be in Miami?
To be clear, I absolutely love Butler as a player and I would have kept him, but he has real on and off the court baggage. Beyond creating the media circus, there were entire road trips where he just didn't have any interest in playing defense and the consistent refusal to take wide open 3s off the catch was a real problem. My god, that Kings game and everything around it.
If I did miss something, I would love to read it. I'd rather be informed going forward than anything else.
To be clear, I absolutely love Butler as a player and I would have kept him, but he has real on and off the court baggage. Beyond creating the media circus, there were entire road trips where he just didn't have any interest in playing defense and the consistent refusal to take wide open 3s off the catch was a real problem. My god, that Kings game and everything around it.
If I did miss something, I would love to read it. I'd rather be informed going forward than anything else.
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