Extreme Philly Sports Forum

I think a lot of it is mental, it is not just about feeling pain or his inability to jump but rather his fear of getting hurt when he does leave the ground. In the past he has been hurt quite a few times going up and coming down. It is not that he does not trust the knee, he does not trust the other players not to run into him or take his legs out while he is airborne. He has gone down quite a lot; he has had his legs taken out, his eye socket damaged, in younger players these issues would build up resistance but in older often injured veterans it builds fear.

The Sixers could have beaten Atlanta if only Jojo would have shot the ball instead 0f standing there looking like a decoy. Embiid passed up some easy opportunities while he looked around for a shooter like Ben Simmons used to do. I don't know if they said something to him on the bench, but he acted as if he did not have the green light to shoot even wide-open shots.

Grimes for Kuminga.  Grimes is the safer play, and Curry needs a Klay replacement.  Kuminga, at ~$20-25M per would be a gamble, but one worth taking.

Grimes for Giddy.  This one is trickier, as Giddy was amazing for the Bulls, and it's hard to see why the Bulls would be willing to pay X for Grimes but not Giddy.  Still, not impossible.

PG+ unprotected 203q 1st for LeBron.  If Bron decides he wants out, Philly makes sense.  Tons of shooters, a dominant big, but no real floor general.  As for LA, PG when healthy is a perfect compliment to Luka, and the unprotected 1st should offset any contract concerns they have.

Bron would only come to Philly if he is certain JoJo will be healthy.

I do not see Jimmy Butler being able to move the needle forward, he is on the downside of his career. One has to admit that he has had a great career, one in which he should have won at least one title, he always kept up his end. It is now time to stop this nonsense in Philly where we do not play and develop the younger guys, instead we go after these pricey older veterans. This has to stop, it has not worked out for us in the last few years. We have lost quite a few good young players simply because we did not try to develop them, Brett Brown wouldn't play or try to develop them, Do Rivers wouldn't do it and now it seems like Nick is leaning that way. Daryl Moret definitely sees it that way if his fixation on older players is any indication. Some players can hang around and be productive in smaller roles as they age, but let's be real basketball is a young man's sport due to the physicality of the game which requires endurance over a rigorous 82 game schedule and possibly an additional 20 plus during the playoffs, I am not knocking the older players but as they age they become injury prone and require extra rest and time off to recover, some like Lebron can defy odds and keep going at a high level without a lot of time off, but the majority of them like Paul George cannot, that's why it was a reckless to offer him the kind of money that they did considering his injury history over the past few years, they could have gotten a lot more for a lot less, we have not gotten any production for that huge payday and all indications are we will not get it this year either, instead we are handcuffed in the free agency market and we are even struggling to sign our own free agents, yet  Morey is still signing these old guys, Kyle Lowry, 39 tank is on E, Eric Gordon, 36 is not too far behind. they were out the door, and he pulled them back in...Why.   

The thing about Brett was that he was not interested in developing players, if they did not come out of the box ready to play then they would never get off the bench or they would be traded as soon as possible

Maybe they should consider trading the 3rd pick but not for KD. I would give up the pick and PG for Laurie Mark and Utah's pick, then we can maybe get Maluach if he is still there

Another year and they simply refuse to let Embiid sit, get treatment and heal. I figure they would fire Morey after the season, but I don't think it can wait, he needs to go now. 

No it is not too early for the free agent wish list, we just have to wait for Morey to announce this years fixation to go along with Harden and George.