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Sixers Forum / Re: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee...
« on: Today at 07:14:10 pm »
Quote from: phils22 on Today at 04:11:49 pm
We have 3 player to build around.. Embiid, Maxey and VJ. That’s the bottom line.

Yes, exactly my point.

So The 6ers have one, "in his prime" all-star in Maxey. While, Embiiid is overpaid, most likely a former all star, he's past his prime and no longer has the defensive impact which is the most important role of a center (cant rebound, does not intimidate drivers). And VJ ie an unproven rookie who's career path is unknown. Plus the 6ers are saddled with PGs contract.

The Magic have 2 all-star caliber players who by the way are younger than Maxey and therefore theoretically at least have more room for growth. Plus more other intriguing youngsters from Anthony Black, Jalen Suggs, Tristan DiSilva etc. AND role players in their primes... like Bane, Carter Jr.

The Cavs have 3 players too. All on the right side of their prime and with more experience than a rookie.

I'm not trying to crap on the 6ers situation. I don't think it's nearly as bad as Cowboys and a few others try to suggest it is. But I am tryna be objective about it.


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Sixers Forum / Re: Indy vs Sixers
« on: Today at 03:50:01 pm »
Quote from: Cowboys4life on Today at 10:57:55 am
I agree 100% with bskller... Matchup don't have anything to do with the Pacers stink and the Suns are a playoff contender... Maxey alone should have been good enough to beat the Pacers... And you come back with your full roster against the Suns...

The Sixers lost by 6 points... I'm not a Embiid fan, but he would have made up some kind of difference... The foul attempts at the line... Matchups? We're talking about matchups?

And this is why I say we have not been the same since Ben Simmons defensively, not to mention the advantage he had with smaller guards... Should we have not took advantage of Ben against the smaller players and made him a PF... Matchups? We talking Matchups... Not a NBA regular season game... Matchups...

This is what annoys me...

they play Maxey and VJ insane minutes which suggests they want to be as competitive as possible. But the way they make their decisions on when and how to rest Joel/George, often times seems like they are effectively punting games. Contrdicting themselves. Makes it seem like they have no real overall view/plan for the season, imo.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Trade Deadline
« on: Today at 03:46:54 pm »
6ers are locked into 178 million next year with a cap projected at 166. So they are already over it. Wont have any money to spend in free agency besides the various exemptions, or maybe sign n trading Oubre or Grimes.


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Sixers Forum / Re: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee...
« on: Today at 03:42:25 pm »
Quote from: phils22 on Today at 02:11:23 pm
Why is that? We have a better record then the Magic and they will be over the 1st apron next year and trade 5 1st round picks Bane. They can’t add players. Knicks are looking to trade players because of how bad they are right now and they are over the 1st apron next year as well. The Buck are paying 22 million a year for the next 4 years for air. What makes the cavs any good. They will be over the 2nd apron 2 years in a row. Now they start getting penalties you don’t want. Again, we are just as good as these teams. But, since we are so worried about the regular season, some people like to look at single games and pick them apart. I’m ok with our 24 plus 8 plus center taking off games here and there.

I completely disagree with your perspective.
The Magic and Cavs have more young/in prime talent than the 6ers do. The Cavs in particular have been snake bit with injuries or they'd be a top 4 team in the East. Knicks are in a funk, but have more championship equity than this current 6ers team. The Bucks aren't in great shakes but when you have Giannis already in the fold you're only 1 trade away. They could buy low on a former all star like Morant and be right back in the thick of an ECF race. The 6ers on the other hand are stuck with one foot in the past and the other foot in the future.


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Sixers Forum / Re: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee...
« on: Today at 01:45:57 pm »
Quote from: phils22 on Today at 11:28:28 am
So, if we have a big problem. How do you think the Knicks, Bucks, Cavs, Lakers, Dallas, Magic, LAC, Minnesota, GS, and Memphis feel?? We are probably in better shape than most of these teams. And this isn’t counting the teams that are just tanking every year. I think we will be just fine.

I know, you just needed something to complain about. Like always.

I think we are in a better position than Memphis, Clippers and the Warriors but its hard to see the rationale with the rest of those teams.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Down Goes Mr. Butler
« on: Today at 01:43:39 pm »
Quote from: Cowboys4life on January 20, 2026, 11:29:41 am
Could this be the PAUL GEORGE TRADE?

I'll take a broken Butler back in return... And buy out Butler to become a free agent for next season...

Golden State would need to give us a 1st round pick back in return... I would love this thought... And if we can swap Grimes for Kuminga why not... We can keep Oubre at SF...

Its hard to construct a legal trade in which the 6ers acquire Jimmy AND Kuminga. Just too much money. But PG and Gordon for Jimmy and a 1st is a legal trade.

If the 6ers are seriously trying to compete this season (which seems dubious) than they should keep George, but if they are ready to put the future first, acquiring a 1st would be awesome!

the 6ers probably wouldn't do this but if it were me id try to work a Celtics/Net type trade and move both Embiid and PG for whatever assets we can get from GS, Kuminga, Moody a pick or two? - They are the one team you could argue is worth taking a chance on both PG and Embiid - they fit Steph better than an injured Jimmy and broke down Draymond.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Down Goes Mr. Butler
« on: Today at 01:28:10 pm »
Quote from: mra128 on January 20, 2026, 06:11:01 pm
Gotta ask, why do you want a player that a team trying to win it all this year won't put on the court?  Lots of smoke there, gotta think there's fire. 

Kerr doesn't play Kuminga largely because its hard to play 3 non-shooters, ie Kuminga, Jimmy, and Draymond. Jury is out on how good Kuminga can be but I wouldn't use the GS situation as a knock on him.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Indy vs Sixers
« on: January 20, 2026, 05:24:57 pm »
Quote from: HollowHustla on January 20, 2026, 05:03:22 pm
I think it was more about matchups than anything else.  PHX is a basically small ball team, and you need wings to matchup w them. 

I don't know. Could go both ways. Our 7ft all-star scorer should dominate a smaller team, shouldn't he? Like, basically you're suggesting Paul George is more important to victory than Joel. If that's really true, that's concerning.

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Sixers Forum / Re: I Hope This Is The Last Trade Under The Joel Embiid Era...
« on: January 20, 2026, 10:40:49 am »
Quote from: Penn on January 19, 2026, 11:43:44 pm
embiid has given everything to this franchise without much reciprocation from them

if hes hurt its not his fault, he got hurt playing for us trying to win a championship

Some overstatements here dont you think?

embiid has given everything to this franchise without much reciprocation from them
Joel's been maxed out multiple times despite playing in about 50% of career games. He's consistently had another all star caliber player on the team whether it's Maxey, Harden, Butler or Simmons. He publicly called for PJ Tucker so they went and got PJ Tucker. He didn't like playing with Al Horford so they blew a draft pick to get him outta here.


if he's hurt its not his fault, he got hurt playing for us trying to win a championship
Joel's mediocre health habits and work ethic are well known. He even brags about not warming up for games while his former teammates call him out or wonder just how good he could have been if he actually had the work ethic of the great players.

Don't get me wrong, the franchise has made plenty of mistakes, but Joel has his share of mistakes too.


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Sixers Forum / Re: Down Goes Mr. Butler
« on: January 20, 2026, 10:05:07 am »
Kerrs been sayin one of the reasons its hard to get Kuminga on the court is because they have too many non shooters like Jimmy and Draymond. With Jimmy down, they got no excuse not to play him. Pump up his value.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Indy vs Sixers
« on: January 20, 2026, 10:02:32 am »
Quote from: Bsktbller on January 19, 2026, 11:07:15 am
If it were me Id rest Joel and PG tonight and play them against PHX. But it wouldn't surprise me if the 6ers decide to play Joel/PG tonignt to increase their odds of winning against the weaker opponent.

So yeah, they played Joel against the weaker opponent. Not sure exactly what that means, but it definitely means something.

The team's chasing .500, basically packing it in for the PHX game?
Don't believe Maxey can lead a team to a W against a weak opponent (Indiana)?
Don't believe Joel can lead a team to a W against a good opponent (Phoenix)?
Just tryna let Joel stat pad?
Maybe they think the teams actually better without Joel?

Not sure what it means, but anyone tryna actually be competitive, and who believes in Joel, would have rested him against Indiana and played him against Phoenix.

 

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Sixers Forum / Re: Indy vs Sixers
« on: January 19, 2026, 11:07:15 am »
If it were me Id rest Joel and PG tonight and play them against PHX. But it wouldn't surprise me if the 6ers decide to play Joel/PG tonignt to increase their odds of winning against the weaker opponent.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Tip Toe Burglars vs Raptors
« on: January 12, 2026, 12:08:29 pm »
NBA officials are atrocious. What constitutes a foul changes from season to season, crew to crew, game to game, quarter to quarter, team to team and of course player to player. They seriously don't even try for any sort of consistency.

There are so many stories illustrating the NBA Officials utter lack of integrity. Remember a few years ago, the Lakers went from drawing the least fouls in the league to the most fouls right after Pat Bev took a camera from a photographer and showed an official a pic of Lebron getting fouled. Last year there were all sorts of articles written about the way the NBA changed its officiating while the TV negotiation window was open. The ATL non-backcourt violation, hey if its a rule, its a rule, but then the officials twitter is trying to defend itself using phrases that aren't even in the actual NBA handbook. Like, just dumb dumb stuff that makes it so easy to be skeptical.  Game 6 of that 6ers Celtics series there were something like 10 wrong calls that favored the Celtics but only 3 wrong calls that favored the 6ers. League clearly trying to force a game 7. The Dwade/Dirk Championship game. That Sacramento LA playoff series way back. Watched one of those NBA scandal docs not too long ago and the officials told a story about a ref crew agreeing to call AI for all his palming violations one game cause they didn't like how he trashed the officials the previous night. So basically, they admitted they don't even attempt to be objective.

The bigger problem is all this is sanctioned, by the league office. Anyone every listen to Monte McCutchen talk on a tv spot or podcast interview? He's the Senior Vice President, Head of Referee Development and Training. Every time Ive heard him talk about how the league directs officiating Ive thought he sounded like a snake oil salesman. And now that the league is in partnerships with gambling its even more likely that they actively manipulate games.

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Sixers Forum / Re: Tip Toe Burglars vs Raptors
« on: January 12, 2026, 01:54:04 am »
Quote from: Cowboys4life on January 11, 2026, 09:00:53 pm
lets keep in mind that Kuminga is in the same position as Grimes, so don't tell me he can't be traded.

Kuminga is on a 2 year contract.

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Sixers Forum / Re: NBA Trade Rumors
« on: January 08, 2026, 09:55:04 pm »
Quote from: Cowboys4life on January 08, 2026, 07:15:06 pm
When I mention Paul George, people assume that you have to give up draft picks...

As I have said for over 20 years posting with you guys, only in Philly there are stipulations... But other teams seem to make things happen without those stipulations...

Trae is 27 and only has 2 years on his contract.
George is 35 and has 3 years  on his contract.

Not a similar situation at all.

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