23 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

We agree on most of that. Morey's only option wasn't to trade a kid in his 2nd year for basically nothing, though. They still needed to add to him you are right. Seems like two a-holes screwing up what could have been a very good opportunity to go deep. Disgusting all around.

Tbh i think the avenue to get below the tax was easier to trade McCain and get a draft pick. Trading McCain was stupid to begin with as grimes has been bleh all year and McCain could’ve stepped into his role in 2026-27

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

Tbh i think the avenue to get below the tax was easier to trade McCain and get a draft pick. Trading McCain was stupid to begin with as grimes has been bleh all year and McCain could’ve stepped into his role in 2026-27

So, when do we fire Daryl Morey?

So are we dumping Embiid this offseason or what? Would we have to attach the Houston first round pick as a sweetener? Could the 76ers realistically receive anything back of value?

1 hour ago, CouchKing said:

So, when do we fire Daryl Morey?

Can fire Morey and hire Myers who’s already in the organization. However if Harris is going to continue to say duck the tax then you are going to be limited in what he can do too. Not a defense of Morey but Harris has to sign off on every deal and approve of going into the tax

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Can fire Morey and hire Myers who’s already in the organization. However if Harris is going to continue to say duck the tax then you are going to be limited in what he can do too. Not a defense of Morey but Harris has to sign off on every deal and approve of going into the tax

Harris!! He is the wurst owner! He can hire Myers. It won't make a difference.

2 more years (26-27 and 27-28) of Paul George, where 27-28 is a Player Option

3 more years of Joel Embiid, where 28-29 is a Player Option

This team is a wreck for 2 to 3 years to come.

4 minutes ago, CouchKing said:

Harris!! He is the wurst owner! He can hire Myers. It won't make a difference.

2 more years (26-27 and 27-28) of Paul George, where 27-28 is a Player Option

3 more years of Joel Embiid, where 28-29 is a Player Option

This team is a wreck for 2 to 3 years to come.

Sad is this team actually had a shot with how the east is to at least make the ECF if they kept McCain and added a big that’s better than Drummond and Bona at the deadline. They probably don’t need 7 games to beat the Celtics if they had a better bench in game 3 of that series. Game 1 not withstanding as i don’t think the gap between us and Knicks is that significant. Last night is a W if you keep McCain and add a big at the deadline better than bona/drummond

Some of this is also nurse who refused to play McCain more and let him have his ups and downs coming back from injury.

2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Sad is this team actually had a shot with how the east is to at least make the ECF if they kept McCain and added a big that’s better than Drummond and Bona at the deadline. They probably don’t need 7 games to beat the Celtics if they had a better bench in game 3 of that series. Game 1 not withstanding as i don’t think the gap between us and Knicks is that significant. Last night is a W if you keep McCain and add a big at the deadline better than bona/drummond

Don't like trading McCain.

I would have traded Oubre, Grimes, Drummond to get a talented big back.

This team is so devoid of talent (because Embiid and PG are a waste).

4 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Sad is this team actually had a shot with how the east is to at least make the ECF if they kept McCain and added a big that’s better than Drummond and Bona at the deadline. They probably don’t need 7 games to beat the Celtics if they had a better bench in game 3 of that series. Game 1 not withstanding as i don’t think the gap between us and Knicks is that significant. Last night is a W if you keep McCain and add a big at the deadline better than bona/drummond

Some of this is also nurse who refused to play McCain more and let him have his ups and downs coming back from injury.

Wish McCain would have gotten advice from Maxey. Maxey saved his own career by refusing to go to the G league when Doc wanted to send him.

You go there, it shows the organization thinks of you as an end of bench, fringe NBA talent. Then, other teams see you that way too. OKC still traded for McCain, but they dont even need him. So now hes firmly on their bench in the playoffs. The G League stint can permanently alter the course of his career.

From here on, McCain will probably bounce around as a Jordan Clarkson type, bench scoring guard. He probably could have become like a CJ McCollum. Thats not exactly a winning piece, but its a bonafide starter and big time scoring guard. Fine 2nd or 3rd option with Maxey, and VJ running with him.

4 minutes ago, CouchKing said:

Don't like trading McCain.

I would have traded Oubre, Grimes, Drummond to get a talented big back.

This team is so devoid of talent (because Embiid and PG are a waste).

Imo had to keep oubre as thn you’d need another starter. It’s unfortunate he’s our 5th starter. I actually think as a bench player he has value to us. As a starter he’s not as good. 

The issue comes with Embiid, if you think Maxey  and Vj are gonna be your 1-2, then you’re just a different iteration of the Portland Trailblazers when they have the Lillard and McCollum. Saw it last night with Maxey. Lillard was a great guard and a great no 2 if he had that true superstar 1, but they could never be true title contenders because they didn’t have that ultimate number one guy. So every year it showed up besides one WCF run where they got smacked. saw on games 5 through 7 against Boston, if Embiid can play like that then Maxey is significantly better as the number two and VJ can play the role of number three. The problem is embiid can’t stay healthy so he can’t be your top and the Sixers just don’t have that guy.

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

This loss goes back to the trade deadline, where if they would have added instead of trying to duck the tax, they would’ve had enough to get themselves over the top. This loss particularly displays that.

Its hard to get invested in a team that has a ish owner

11 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

If only they had a GM who believed in depth and didn't suck

Won't matter. Any GM under this owner will be forced to stay under the tax. On the bright side it will be fun watching the Commanders let their young QB walk to another team when his rookie deal is done because the owner is too cheap to pay him.

4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

From here on, McCain will probably bounce around as a Jordan Clarkson type, bench scoring guard. He probably could have become like a CJ McCollum. Thats not exactly a winning piece, but its a bonafide starter and big time scoring guard. Fine 2nd or 3rd option with Maxey, and VJ running with him.

I’d keep McCain as a 6th man. Lou Williams, Jamal Crawford and Jason Terry like boost from the bench. Issue to me is Maxey and VJ as 1-2 in the playoffs is likely landing you as another iteration of what the blazers had with Lillard and McCollum. Maxey is your Lillard and Vj (think he becomes better than McCollum) is a better version of McCollum. However i still think you fall short as i think Maxey and Vj are better off being the second guy to a legit superstar

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’d keep McCain as a 6th man. Lou Williams, Jamal Crawford and Jason Terry like boost from the bench. Issue to me is Maxey and VJ as 1-2 in the playoffs is likely landing you as another iteration of what the blazers had with Lillard and McCollum. Maxey is your Lillard and Vj (think he becomes better than McCollum) is a better version of McCollum. However i still think you fall short as i think Maxey and Vj are better off being the second guy to a legit superstar

6th man with started minutes would have been great.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

6th man with started minutes would have been great.

The fact they choose grimes over him was a poor decision. I know McCain hadn’t looked like himself prior to the deadline but I’d have kept him and played him more as grimes play didn’t warrant the type of extension he wanted and likely chance he’s gone next year. McCain in year 3 could’ve easily replaced him, be cheaper and been better.

Don’t know how the sixers justify paying and bringing back grimes. He has been awful in the playoffs outside of game 5 vs. Celtics and his year wasn’t very good

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The fact they choose grimes over him was a poor decision. I know McCain hadn’t looked like himself prior to the deadline but I’d have kept him and played him more as grimes play didn’t warrant the type of extension he wanted and likely chance he’s gone next year. McCain in year 3 could’ve easily replaced him, be cheaper and been better.

Don’t know how the sixers justify paying and bringing back grimes. He has been awful in the playoffs outside of game 5 vs. Celtics and his year wasn’t very good

Yeah. Like I said at the time, I know Morey was given orders to duck the tax, but he could have traded any number of deadweight bench guys. Id didnt have to be McCain, for nothing. Morey is an idiot.

I also thought Grimes was awesome and a must re-sign last summer. But Morey is supposed to know ball. He should have known better. I do wonder what has changed in Grimes' world to make him such a different and worthless player this year.

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

Yeah. Like I said at the time, I know Morey was given orders to duck the tax, but he could have traded any number of deadweight bench guys. Id didnt have to be McCain, for nothing. Morey is an idiot.

I also thought Grimes was awesome and a must re-sign last summer. But Morey is supposed to know ball. He should have known better. I do wonder what has changed in Grimes' world to make him such a different and worthless player this year.

I’d fire Morey as Morey hasn’t done a good enough job and frankly his way of team building isnt where the nba is anymore. Credit to him he did draft maxey and Vj but those are about the only moves that were great amongst many more poor and bad decisions. Issue to me is he’s gone thn you place Myers in there (i assume it’s him). Harris being a cheap ass isn’t helping Myers and we are likely stagnant unless Myers finds some diamonds in the rough to overcome that. The hope is really when we get the new arena built that ***** Harris sells the team knowing the arena increases the value of the team enough to make him want to sell. 

Grimes role changed. Last year they were trying to essentially tank. So he had more freedom and could play a bigger role. Imo grimes is the classic really good player on a bad team with nice stats. Marginal role player on a great team where he has to fit in the team structure and role. Don’t think he can do that efficiently

McCain got his starters some rest last night. Scored 18 points in 18 minutes with 4 3s.

grimes is terrible & mccain can’t defend.

On 5/7/2026 at 9:13 AM, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The fact they choose grimes over him was a poor decision. I know McCain hadn’t looked like himself prior to the deadline but I’d have kept him and played him more as grimes play didn’t warrant the type of extension he wanted and likely chance he’s gone next year. McCain in year 3 could’ve easily replaced him, be cheaper and been better.

Don’t know how the sixers justify paying and bringing back grimes. He has been awful in the playoffs outside of game 5 vs. Celtics and his year wasn’t very good

I don’t think they could play mccain with maxey. that’s a tiny backcourt that can’t defend. maxey is difficult to build around…you need to pair him with a bigger, playmaking PG who can defend.

18 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

I don’t think they could play mccain with maxey. that’s a tiny backcourt that can’t defend. maxey is difficult to build around…you need to pair him with a bigger, playmaking PG who can defend.

I’m bringing McCain off the bench. I can use him to spell maxey especially during regular season. I’d stagger him. I’d try to manage the mins they actually play together. Easier during the regular season to do that. Postseason it’s harder but reality is McCain is still a more useful option off the bench for 15 mins than grimes and cheaper. If i can give Maxey 8-10 mins of rest during the postseason with McCain it’s worth it.

Tbh it would be nice to currently have Joe and McCain rather than what we have off the bench.

Blake Griffin said Morey didnt sell high enough.

35 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Blake Griffin said Morey didnt sell high enough.

It was dumb to trade him at that point regardless cause he hadn’t played well but he also hasn’t played competitive basketball consistently for about a year. He needed time to get back into a rhythm and nurse didn’t exactly do a great job giving him consistent mins and letting him work through it.

Sixers bench is Fing atrocious