40 minutes ago, nipples said:

I’m almost wondering if they need to experiment with Harris at the 3, with Embiid and Niang in the front court. I know it isn’t ideal, but you can’t have Thybulle killing the offense and Green is useless these days outside of an occasional corner three, which hasn’t been frequent enough. 

tobi's just as bad at the 3 as he is at the 4.  but they could try that combination...sure.

i think a lot of the struggles come down to the lack of athleticism this team has. it's why they can't defend or rebound very well....and it hurts them on offense as well because teams can close out on our shooters without really worrying about guys driving by them for easy shots. shake, niang, kork, joe...they're not blowing by any defenders or rising up to score over guys.     

So   Yeah   

 

Last night's game was the equivalent of meeting some hot chick at a bar, she agrees to come home with you, you are totally psyched......you undress and she has a freaking wang!!  Not that that's happened to me!!! lmfao

2 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

Last night's game was the equivalent of meeting some hot chick at a bar, she agrees to come home with you, you are totally psyched......you undress and she has a freaking wang!!  Not that that's happened to me!!! lmfao

So.  A Thursday night is what you’re saying.  

6 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

Last night's game was the equivalent of meeting some hot chick at a bar, she agrees to come home with you, you are totally psyched......you undress and she has a freaking wang!!  Not that that's happened to me!!! lmfao

you should share this story during your next work zoom meeting!   

7 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

Last night's game was the equivalent of meeting some hot chick at a bar, she agrees to come home with you, you are totally psyched......you undress and she has a freaking wang!!  Not that that's happened to me!!! lmfao

I mean...was she convincing enough that you could overlook the hood ornament?

1 hour ago, mr_hunt said:

nets did fine with non-offensive player bruce brown in their lineup last night. it was just a sheet game for harden & maxey...and they don't have any sort of bench to provide an offensive spark.  and doc is still doc.  how does he not attack seth's defense all game long?  that's a no brainer. abuse seth until they have to take him off the court. but nope...nothing but iso and guys standing around. 

I can't stand Doc. Clueless and way over rated.

Just now, Diehardfan said:

I can't stand Doc. Clueless and way over rated.

the positive of doc is that he has a good reputation in the league & that helps attract some players to philly.  the negative is that he kind of sucks as a coach. 

in his 23 career games in the g-league, paul reed has made 39 of his 88 three point attempts...that's 44%.  he's only 2 for 12 on threes in his limited nba minutes...only 420 total minutes.  not saying he's the 3rd curry brother but he needs some damn minutes on a team that lacks energy, athleticism, & rebounding. 

5 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

in his 23 career games in the g-league, paul reed has made 39 of his 88 three point attempts...that's 44%.  he's only 2 for 12 on threes in his limited nba minutes...only 420 total minutes.  not saying he's the 3rd curry brother but he needs some damn minutes on a team that lacks energy, athleticism, & rebounding. 

 The team is old and slow. Yeah maybe Maxey was a bit shell shocked yesterday but he can still beat Curry off the dribble whenever he wanted. Wasn't used at all

Reed did more in those 6 minutes than DeAndre will ever provide. His offensive rebounding numbers per 36 are pretty good as well. The notion that he is too small to play small ball 5 is nonsense. Heck, the Nets will play Bruce Brown at the 5 at times. 

Live look at @Khani1 after just "having a few” last night.  
 

 

13 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

 The team is old and slow. Yeah maybe Maxey was a bit shell shocked yesterday but he can still beat Curry off the dribble whenever he wanted. Wasn't used at all

Reed did more in those 6 minutes than DeAndre will ever provide. His offensive rebounding numbers per 36 are pretty good as well. The notion that he is too small to play small ball 5 is nonsense. Heck, the Nets will play Bruce Brown at the 5 at times. 

i wouldn't be opposed to reed getting some minutes at the 4 as well. they could use his energy & rebounding there. tobi's 7 & niang's 5 rebounds per 36 aren't helping. 

 

24 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

i wouldn't be opposed to reed getting some minutes at the 4 as well. they could use his energy & rebounding there. tobi's 7 & niang's 5 rebounds per 36 aren't helping. 

 

I was told rebounding is a non issue. 

27 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

i wouldn't be opposed to reed getting some minutes at the 4 as well. they could use his energy & rebounding there. tobi's 7 & niang's 5 rebounds per 36 aren't helping. 

 

Go small with Harden, Kork/Joe, Thybulle, Harris, Reed in certain match ups.

The main issue is Doc doesn't think progressive like this and thinks you need a old school big on the floor at all times. 

Lue and the Clippers beat the Jazz last year because they put Batum on Gobert and forced Gobert away from the paint where he got exposed. 

Today, Philadelphia shot 32.3% from the field. The last time the 76ers shots less than 33% from the field was less than a month ago against Boston Celtics, they lost by 48 points. Besides these 2 games, the last time the 76ers shot below 33% as a team was October 10th, 2015.

1 hour ago, DaEagles4Life said:

 

The main issue is Doc doesn't think progressive like this and thinks you need a old school big on the floor at all times. 

 

i struggle to envision the sixers  winning a title with rivers as the coach. 

8 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

i struggle to envision the sixers  winning a title with rivers as the coach. 

They won't. 

I canceled my NBA Champ bet. 

Just now, DaEagles4Life said:

They won't. 

it was like watching andy reid teams lose because the HC couldnt or wouldnt make any adjustments. 

14 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I have some concerns before this game and some more after and some thoughts.  

1. I am with 4for4 on the bench. Frankly I didn’t think the bench was all that good before they made this trade. Niang is solid. Danny green is ok but even he is inconsistent at this stage of his career. But everyone else on that bench is super inconsistent or they’re just not that good.  I think one of the major things they’re gonna have to do this off-season is build that bench up and get upgraded from korkmaz, shake, Jordan, millsap, joe and Reed.

2. doc was an issue prior and after this trade. He’s overrated and just an average coach. I think that why that d’antoni rumor came out when it did. However he’s not that much better. 

3. I think you are right to have some concern with harden’s past but i think he’s going to be fine. 

4. Harris needs to give the sixers more. He had 16 points tonight but 11 of those points came when they were already down like 25 points. I said this a couple days ago against the Knicks, he can float out there against teams like that. Against better teams like the nets and suns and bucks they are going to need him. He needs to be impactful. I think this is the reason why he gets dealt and another shoe drops. Cause with harden and embiid he just needs to be the third scorer and really he’s 4th scorer and sometimes even 5th in games. 

5. maxey has been awesome this year. So we tend to forget he’s still really young. It’s just his second season. Long term i think he’s fine and he thrives but i think there’s going to be some growing pains from time to time  

6. We are dead last in rebounding. That’s a major cause for concern. Cause it wasn’t great prior to the trade.

7. For whatever reason we are just not the same team at home since last postseason. Ever since we lost 3 home games to the hawks in the playoffs we haven’t been close to as dominant at home. We are 19-14 and 21-11 on the road.

8. Thybulle needs to be way more consistent. 7 games since we traded harden he’s had 11, 8, 10, 0, 0, 12, 4. We don’t need him scoring 15-20. We just need him to at least be a threat out there. Additionally we need him to be better on the glass. We can ridicule Ben Simmons and hate him all we want but he did a good job on the glass. We need Thybulle to have more than what he’s averaging on the glass. In the last seven games he’s averaging 2.8 boards. He started well against Minnesota and the Knicks with 7 and 6. Since he’s had 1,1,1,1,3. we need him to be more active on the glass especially since we rank 30th in the league.

9. our defense was atrocious tonight. Particularly on the perimeter. Also guys not switching. Guys getting lost. (Maybe that’s guys just not playing with each other for all that long). And guys just not giving all that much effort on that end once we got down early. We obviously were going to take a step back defensively losing Simmons. That’s the one thing he excelled at. However they need to figure something out because the deeper we get in the postseason i think it’ll be exploited like tonight. Also we don’t really have another perimeter defender besides thybulle especially with green out and not what he once was 

10. slow starts have become a habit. It feels like every game we are slow out of the gate. In the last five games they have only had the lead after the first quarter against the bulls. They have been down 8, 13, 8 and 17 in the other 4. The bulls game is also the only game we’ve been ahead at the half. Can’t keep doing that 

 

I didnt catch this because I already turned the game off. It looks like Curry and Drummond kinda liked it 

 

19 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I didnt catch this because I already turned the game off. It looks like Curry and Drummond kinda liked it 

 

Oh Curry played like a man on fire and routinely would stare down the Sixers bench. 

8 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Oh Curry played like a man on fire and routinely would stare down the Sixers bench. 

I saw that. Probably proving the point "you shouldnt have traded me"

Steph implied that Seth loved playing here. And you know none of the players on this team got along with Ben. He ghosted all of them. 

Im sure they will be supportive as much as they have to to coexist on the Nets because thats what the situation calls for. But they both definitely looked like they enjoyed that chorus of boos. 

So we have the Magic tomorrow, and Nuggets on Monday. If they are planning on resting anyone I hope its against the Magic tomorrow. I am going to the Nuggets game and Embiid didnt play in the game I went to in November.

Nuggets should provide good theatre watching Embiid and Jokic go head to head. I would think we want everyone available in that game. Should be able to handle the magic a little short handed. Though, really they need to play as many games together as possible.

54 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

So we have the Magic tomorrow, and Nuggets on Monday. If they are planning on resting anyone I hope its against the Magic tomorrow. I am going to the Nuggets game and Embiid didnt play in the game I went to in November.

Nuggets should provide good theatre watching Embiid and Jokic go head to head. I would think we want everyone available in that game. Should be able to handle the magic a little short handed. Though, really they need to play as many games together as possible.

Agreed.  I’m looking forward to Monday’s game.  

Rest? F that. Those f’ers haven’t played in almost a week.