2020-21 Sixers Thread
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The Sixers will move on after the next game.
Quite a few power forwards fall into that category. Unfortunately for the Sixers, Simmons is a point guard.
Changes coming for the Celts including Ainge retiring.
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Celtics GM Danny Ainge retiring, coach Brad Stevens to become head of basketball ops
Big changes are coming to the Celtics.
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Changes coming for the Celts including Ainge retiring.
Celtics GM Danny Ainge retiring, coach Brad Stevens to become head of basketball ops
Big changes are coming to the Celtics.
Sixers get competent management and Danny Ainge has to retire. “No more dumbbells to fleece down in Philly so I guess I should shut it down. They made me look like a genius!”
Funny how that works.
I'd like to report the Celtics post to Tom immediately. The sheer AUDACITY shown posting Celtics schit on toms sixers thread is beyond comprehension.
lol, I had a similar response when I first saw @Delco Lion's post. But Celtics have been under performing all season, and have been the perennial rivals with the Sixers for decades, so I'm willing to grant a bit of an exception.
To try and encapsulate "The Process" into a few sentences:
76ers lose a lot of games for many, many years to try and get top picks to find generational talents. Awful basketball consumed by the fans of Philly.
They mostly miss (see Fultz, Markelle and Okafor, Jahlil amongst others).
Some become serviceable players and even All-Stars here but mostly elsewhere (Holliday, Jrue, Williams, Louis and Vucevic, Nik).
Everything hinges on an injured center from Kansas who skipped his first few years as a pro due to injury/recovery. He becomes an All-Star and is capable of amazing things on the court.
After #21 develops the team trades a lot of players and assembles multiple rosters that have at least one obvious flaw (see Reddick, JJ and defense, and Simmons, Ben shooting/FT shooting).
A bad shot from the corner by K. Leonard bounces in and ends their deepest playoff run vs. the Raptors who win it all.
With #21 they've got a shot. Without him they will beat poor teams and lose to good ones.
Was at the parade in 1983- skipped a day of high school and snuck a 6 pack into the Vet.
Fingers crossed for the best- but not optimistic : (
76ers lose a lot of games for many, many years to try and get top picks to find generational talents. Awful basketball consumed by the fans of Philly.
They mostly miss (see Fultz, Markelle and Okafor, Jahlil amongst others).
Some become serviceable players and even All-Stars here but mostly elsewhere (Holliday, Jrue, Williams, Louis and Vucevic, Nik).
Everything hinges on an injured center from Kansas who skipped his first few years as a pro due to injury/recovery. He becomes an All-Star and is capable of amazing things on the court.
After #21 develops the team trades a lot of players and assembles multiple rosters that have at least one obvious flaw (see Reddick, JJ and defense, and Simmons, Ben shooting/FT shooting).
A bad shot from the corner by K. Leonard bounces in and ends their deepest playoff run vs. the Raptors who win it all.
With #21 they've got a shot. Without him they will beat poor teams and lose to good ones.
Was at the parade in 1983- skipped a day of high school and snuck a 6 pack into the Vet.
Fingers crossed for the best- but not optimistic : (
So now I need a Sixers win to end the series and then have to become a massive Knicks fan to extend the Hawks/Knicks series to get Joel as much rest as possible.
Good lord the officiating is all over the place again. I have no idea what they are calling anymore. Sixers up 2 at the half.
Yeah, they had time to prepare for being without JoJo, so their start was disappointing. That said, as I'm sure you know, basketball games are a marathon, and good teams can easily overcame slow starts. And in fact, the Sixers were up a few minutes ago by 7, 87-80, in the 3rd quarter.
@MJG-90 -- I thought the officiating has been pretty good so far. There have been some ticky-tack calls that should not have been called, and some other pretty obvious calls that were missed, but that's BB. A couple of the charging calls were pretty bad, and is pretty much always the case in the NBA, a few travels have been missed.
It’s not uneven. Just all over the place. Sometimes they let it be physical. Then a little tap gets called. Really I was talking about a run of weird the last half of the second quarter. The third quarter was much more what I’m used to seeing.
Hawks up big over the Knicks right now. If that stays does anyone know when round 2 will start? Hoping for a longer layoff for obvious reasons.
Alla hasn’t hidden his disgust for the refs this whole series. It’s been fantastic.
Mr Simmons messed around and had a triple double
True, and I've agreed with some of his criticisms on specific plays.
That said, it's not as though it's a new schtick for the playoffs. He's been complaining about the reffing all season.
They payed absolutely great defense in the second half. Credit Simmons, Maxey, and Curry with playing strong games and with Doc putting the right players out there at the right time. Maxey is no match for tired legs of the Wizards, and Simmons defense and presence around the net were important contributions. Almost all the Sixers played well tonight.
Hey Sixers, as a Knick fan, please do me a favor and plant that little flopper Trae Young, on his a** a few times. He is terrific offensively but pulls off a lot of cheap fouls so if they are gonna call it, then make sure he can’t lift his arms at the foul line. He also is afraid to play defense and they hide him on D. Destroy all Hawks!!
