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

I’d be willing to bet a lot of money the reason the Sixers don’t get that arena does not fall on "not enough parking”. We are talking about strictly parking. Not anything else but parking. Even if they get the arena where they want to and have enough land to incorporate some more parking, they are never gonna have enough parking. It’s always gonna be an issue. Which is why I don’t think parking is gonna be the reason why they failed to get that arena, nor Harris really cares if they don’t have overflow parking especially if he gets the arena and he’s selling the team anyways.

If the Sixers are good fans are going to figure a way to get there. If there’s a concert that people want to go, they’re going to figure a way to get there with or without ideal parking  

The bigger issue is for fans going to that game that have to figure out how to get to the game. And I’m guessing the Sixers in their proposal are probably going to give other ways and alternatives to make it to the stadium without having to have luxurious parking for everyone 

 

You didn’t understand my post.  It wasn’t about Sixer games, where @Iggles_Phan is s absolutely correct, it is about infrastructure.  It was about events.  Parking is a huge plus for concert events.  Not only do you need parking and infrastructure for most conventions, there needs to be adequate staging areas.  Where the Sixers are looking in Chinatown there isn’t enough of that to support a concert venue nor convention staging. 

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

Honestly the spurs winning just shows the nba needs to STFU about tanking. If the Spurs did not win the lottery, there was no way they were getting a superstar to go to San Antonio as a free agent or wanting to go there via trade demand. It was never going to happen until they drafted another one. So last offseason the spurs realize the only could get that superstar that gets them out of purgatory was to tank this past year. It’s why they traded the guys away that they did. Now you have to have some luck to get that number one pick. However, it was worth trying for a generational player and because they were stuck in purgatory anyways. So what was the difference between them being really bad and just fringe playoff team? It actually benefitted them to be really bad to have a shot at better talent that usually goes top 5 

It’s why I believe when everything falls apart for the Sixers, they are better off just going into a complete tank. The process/tank job in theory was a smart idea, the execution of drafting, spending assets and cap space was done horribly  

 

San Antonio is a stable franchise.  Longest tenured coach, who players love, by far.  Second biggest city in Texas and part of the I-35 corridor meeting the I-10 so can easily pull from Austin, San Marcos and the Hill Country. Heck, you can get to there from Waco, using the toll road around Austin, for a game. Would you be surprised to know San Antonio is bigger than Dallas.  It’s like the seventh largest U.S. city.  (High time the NFL puts a team there too.  F Jerruh.  McNair’s not worried about losing the Houston area (fourth biggest City/metroplex in the US.)  

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

You didn’t understand my post.  It wasn’t about Sixer games, where @Iggles_Phan is s absolutely correct, it is about infrastructure.  It was about events.  Parking is a huge plus for concert events.  Not only do you need parking and infrastructure for most conventions, there needs to be adequate staging areas.  Where the Sixers are looking in Chinatown there isn’t enough of that to support a concert venue nor convention staging. 

From the proposal the sixers sent:

As for questions about parking, the developers say they envision this location would rely on public transit. However, for those who would drive to the games, they say the arena would be in a mile radius of 29 parking garages.

Organizers say this project will not eliminate any residential homes or displace existing residents. They say they are aware of how past development efforts in Chinatown were opposed.

"The team is aware of those efforts and the threats they posed for the community, which is why this project is being approached differently. We are proposing to replace one entertainment complex with another, and will not displace any residents in Chinatown,” the developers say.

Their plan is to work with the owners of the Fashion District to reimagine the remaining 2/3 of the mall as an entertainment hub to complement the arena.

https://whyy.org/articles/sixers-arena-76-place-wells-fargo-move/amp/

so not only do you have 29 parking garages around the area but they are setting it up for accessible public transportation to get to the arena. So there’s definitely parking and avenues to get to the arena. I’m gonna go on a limb and say the sixers aren’t dumb enough to  give the city a proposal and be like F parking or the ability to get to the arena and the entertainment hub. 

Also they are gonna have an entertainment hub added to the stadium. So they aren’t just building an arena. The construction of the arena wouldn’t start until 2027. I’m guessing there’s a lot of other stuff in that proposal that’s gonna come out about what the sixers plan on for that area by 2027 and when it’s completed in 2031. 

let me also just say if there was a hypothetical Taylor Swift concert at that arena I will bet you $1 million that place is packed and people are figuring out how to get there.

it’s also being privately funded which is also working in the sixers favor. 

42 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

San Antonio is a stable franchise.  Longest tenured coach, who players love, by far.  Second biggest city in Texas and part of the I-35 corridor meeting the I-10 so can easily pull from Austin, San Marcos and the Hill Country. Heck, you can get to there from Waco, using the toll road around Austin, for a game. Would you be surprised to know San Antonio is bigger than Dallas.  It’s like the seventh largest U.S. city.  (High time the NFL puts a team there too.  F Jerruh.  McNair’s not worried about losing the Houston area (fourth biggest City/metroplex in the US.)  

They basically traded away their best player (murray) and made other moves to dump some of their good players last offseason to tank. Pop even joked about them doing it. They planned on tanking in 2022-23 because Wemb was considered a generational talent and they had been stuck in purgatory the last 3 seasons prior where they were 32-39, 33-39 and 34-48. 

Again the spurs purposefully tank in 22-23 to attempt to get the star player they had issues attracting star players to that franchise over the last 3 years as players didn’t want to sign there even with popvich as HC. They had derozan prior to that but that was due to kawhi being traded toronto for derozan who had years left on that contract. when his contract ended he booked it to Chicago. Lamarcus Aldridge was the last "star” player who decided to go to SA that was nearly a decade ago now and that was cause kawhi, Duncan, ginobili and green were still in place when he did it. It’s why he went there cause they had stars in place. Spurs couldn’t do that recently cause they didn’t have any. In the last 25 years l, Aldridge is the only star player to choose SA. Duncan, robinson, ginobili, Parker, kawhi all were drafted by the team  

 

Note on schedule - if you're a Championship caliber team schedule doesn't matter, b/c you should be prepared to kick ass every Sunday (or whatever day they make you play). And history shows that strength of schedule in May will differ substantially from strength of schedule in December.

The Sixers are doomed, Harden simply isn't good enough, and lacks the work ethic to keep from declining, he chafed at the only role he can fill, distributor and 3 point shooter b/c he isn't getting the "gimme fouls" and lacks the explosive first step to beat defenders to the basket. But Embiid/Harden kills the offensive flow and makes this team too easy to defend by good teams. No 1st rd pick in 2023, 2025, 2027 - that's arrogance, thinking you'll be a playoff team when Embiid is 35.

Flyers have finally realized that mediocrity is the worst place to be stuck in pro sports, either build a team that can contend over a long period or blow it up.

10 hours ago, Macho Grande said:

Why in the world would the NBA ever rig the lottery for small media market San Antonio?  Especially with huge markets like Chicago, Dallas, and Houston in the mix. 

 

Given that the I35 corridor is the fastest growing metropolitan area in the country and its only major league professional sports team is the Spurs, perhaps seeing an opportunity to grow the market there?  Look at where the Spurs are on this chart. (Size,of TV market doesn’t always reflect ratings):

 

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

Both of these guys would be great.  I miss Mayock talking NFL draft stuff.  He might have bombed as a GM, but I loved listening to his breakdowns.

Heavy legged waist bender!

2 hours ago, garingovt2000 said:

Where does Collinsworth land in our next racist bracket?

#1

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Now, you tell me... is it really the "Lane Johnson effect"?   I would say that the answer seems to be far more related to continuity along the OL... and when you don't have that, you will have miserable failures.  When you have minimal disruptions to the continuity along the OL, you will have marginal success.  And ultimate success seems to be much more achievable when there's perfect continuity along the OL, specifically at BOTH OT positions!

Appreciate the research - it basically confirms what I expect most logical people would have assumed.  Sure RT is a very important position, but it's not that influential on wins and losses by itself.  There are way too many other variables to consider.  Like you point out, general o-line health/talent - and also the quality of the QB play and what he has to work with.  2016 was a rookie year at QB.  

No one wants to see LJ go down for a stretch of games, but if he did with this QB and offense, I don't think it spells disaster.  

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Not perfect hands and limited a bit by speed but his cuts and stops are phenomenal. No loss of quickness or double steps in his turns.  If he can return punts and kicks like he did at OU as a junior, he would be real competition for Covey.  His 175 lbs and 4.57 forty hurt his draft status but looked good in the XFL.  Everything we liked out of OU.  Mistake going to the U too.

Rambo fielded 13 kicks and 1 punt his entire college career

38 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Note on schedule - if you're a Championship caliber team schedule doesn't matter, b/c you should be prepared to kick ass every Sunday (or whatever day they make you play). And history shows that strength of schedule in May will differ substantially from strength of schedule in December.

The Sixers are doomed, Harden simply isn't good enough, and lacks the work ethic to keep from declining, he chafed at the only role he can fill, distributor and 3 point shooter b/c he isn't getting the "gimme fouls" and lacks the explosive first step to beat defenders to the basket. But Embiid/Harden kills the offensive flow and makes this team too easy to defend by good teams. No 1st rd pick in 2023, 2025, 2027 - that's arrogance, thinking you'll be a playoff team when Embiid is 35.

Flyers have finally realized that mediocrity is the worst place to be stuck in pro sports, either build a team that can contend over a long period or blow it up.

Flyers haven't realized anything.  They kept Hayes and JVR at the trade deadline instead of getting back something of value, and they've to this point retained their 65 year-old head coach with a history of being somewhat toxic around his best players.

5 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Flyers haven't realized anything.  They kept Hayes and JVR at the trade deadline instead of getting back something of value, and they've to this point retained their 65 year-old head coach with a history of being somewhat toxic around his best players.

No worries.  No one on this team would qualify as being among his 'best players'.  

13 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Flyers haven't realized anything.  They kept Hayes and JVR at the trade deadline instead of getting back something of value, and they've to this point retained their 65 year-old head coach with a history of being somewhat toxic around his best players.

Also, if they did realize it, they realized it a year too late. The draft you were you wanted to be bad and go all in for was this one because it had a generational type prospect. It’s exactly why the blackhawks did what they did last off-season and deadline this year. They knew there was a generational prospect, and the only way they were going to get themselves out of a purgatory was if they went all in on being bad. Luckily for them it hit. Unfortunately for the flyers they were dumb and try to actually build a team that would at least just make the playoffs to save peoples jobs like fletcher who should’ve been Fing fired last offseason 

2 hours ago, bpac55 said:

I'm 42, but I might have to get a PS5 to play NCAA24.   I absolutely loved playing those games.

We used to play the crap out of Dynasty mode on the old NCAA games. Way better than the Madden GM/Franchise mode.

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Flyers haven't realized anything.  They kept Hayes and JVR at the trade deadline instead of getting back something of value, and they've to this point retained their 65 year-old head coach with a history of being somewhat toxic around his best players.

I used to be a die hard fan but the repeated terrible management of the franchise has ruined me on them. 

3 hours ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I have a layered question

Is dual possession a real thing? I’m asking this knowing that the offense gets the ball in a catch being determined dual possession. But what I’m wondering is if the act of dual possession is recognized, which then awards the offense the ball, or if there is no dual possession and if you feel the need to call dual possession then that just means the offense caught it. Does that make sense?

Here’s the conundrum: WR and CB jump for a wounded duck. They simultaneously get their hands on the ball and pin it to their own chests, and the ensemble falls on the DB’s back… ball pinned between the two players’ chests. In this scenario that’s dual possession, and the WR is awarded the ball. However, if the WR’s knees aren’t touching the ground, then this becomes more complicated. If dual possession is recognized by the ref, then the DB is down by contact but the ball is awarded to the WR. If dual possession is not an actual thing, just a training term to show different ways WRs can successfully catch the ball, then the WR isn’t down and the play is still live.

My instinct is the latter is true because technically the DB never really possessed the ball, so he can’t be down. However, the actual rule book makes it sound like dual possession happened:

”If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. ”

Not "appears” to be caught simultaneously,  but "is”. And the DB is recognized as retaining the ball to award it to the WR.

I am going to need you to draw a picture.  

11 minutes ago, bitbased said:

We used to play the crap out of Dynasty mode on the old NCAA games. Way better than the Madden GM/Franchise mode.

Yup.  So great.  I loved NCAA14 and being able to customize the music throughout the game, making it as real as possible.  At the same time, I kind of want to get a PS2 and just play NCAA06 before games got too realistic.  

21 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I used to be a die hard fan but the repeated terrible management of the franchise has ruined me on them. 

The Red Sox had The Curse Of The Bambino; the Flyers have The Curse Of The Bob

The Flyers 2011 offseason was an absolute clusterf*** of terrible moves and decisions.  Bobrovsky had an excellent 2011 season as a 22 year-old goaltender, went 28-13-8, .915 SV%, ran out of gas a bit in the playoffs only to have Peter Laviolette bench him for The Sieve Twins (Leighton and Boucher).  After the season the Flyers trade 25 year-old Mike Richards, 26 year-old Jeff Carter to free up cap room to sign Ilya Bryzgalov -- to fix a "problem" in goal that didn't even exist.  Laviolette botches his goaltender, so that Ed Snider can order Paul Holmgren to make outlandish moves that never should have been made.  The Richards and Carter trades in isolation weren't "bad" trades (I'll take Voracek over Jeff Carter 8 days every week) but all of the splash moves really screwed up the organizational culture.

Bobrovsky moves on to be a perennial all-star in net, Richards and Carter won multiple Stanley Cups in LA, while Bryzgalov was terrible and a dead cap hit for years and years, and the Flyers have been pretty bad for the majority of the 10 years since.

You know what the 76ers are?

You are driving to your destination (the championship) in a nice care.  You aren't far, aren't right there either.  Nav system says 20 miles to destination.  Fuel reserve light says you've got 10 miles in the tank.  There are no exits, no gas stations on this 2-way highway between you and your destination.

You can forge ahead, maybe you get lucky...maybe the road breaks downhill, maybe the reserve in the tank after you hit 0 miles gets you there.  Maybe the NBA playoff field just paves the road for the 76ers next year into an easy, lucky title.  Maybe Embiid plays like a superstar in the playoffs next year.  Probably won't happen, but you could just drive on and see.

Or you can turn around and get a head start on re-fueling and leaving from square one.

I think you might as well keep on going at this point.  It's very unlikely any good comes of it...but the draft picks are ruined for the next 4-5+ seasons.  Might as well have a competitive but not good enough team in the interim.

 

I am not a conspiracy theorist on anything.  Not my thing.

But the NBA draft lottery?  Well, sign me up for that one.  I absolutely believe it's rigged.

Sixers get the short end of the statistical stick in the draft lottery every year of the process until the one year the bend the knee to the NBA, fire Hinkie, and put a league plant in charge of the team...then they win the draft lottery.  OOK.  

The 76ers are the Dallas Cowboys of the NBA

This Daryl Morey press conference is a disaster. 

7 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I am not a conspiracy theorist on anything.  Not my thing.

But the NBA draft lottery?  Well, sign me up for that one.  I absolutely believe it's rigged.

Sixers get the short end of the statistical stick in the draft lottery every year of the process until the one year the bend the knee to the NBA, fire Hinkie, and put a league plant in charge of the team...then they win the draft lottery.  OOK.  

The weird part is that they can put all of the rigged talk to bed if they just did a live selection order show, instead of doing the drawing behind closed doors. Why they don't opt for that, I have no idea and only leads more credence to it being rigged. 

Chumbawumba there is mentored by Boris Diaw and Tony Parker... You do have to wonder if it's not a little rigged.  Same with Lebron going to Cleveland.  When generational talent is on the line I think that is where the league might step in.

13 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

You know what the 76ers are?

You are driving to your destination (the championship) in a nice care.  You aren't far, aren't right there either.  Nav system says 20 miles to destination.  Fuel reserve light says you've got 10 miles in the tank.  There are no exits, no gas stations on this 2-way highway between you and your destination.

You can forge ahead, maybe you get lucky...maybe the road breaks downhill, maybe the reserve in the tank after you hit 0 miles gets you there.  Maybe the NBA playoff field just paves the road for the 76ers next year into an easy, lucky title.  Maybe Embiid plays like a superstar in the playoffs next year.  Probably won't happen, but you could just drive on and see.

Or you can turn around and get a head start on re-fueling and leaving from square one.

I think you might as well keep on going at this point.  It's very unlikely any good comes of it...but the draft picks are ruined for the next 4-5+ seasons.  Might as well have a competitive but not good enough team in the interim.

 

All while Kate Scott is on the radio