martin wrote:mreinman wrote:nixluva wrote:mreinman wrote:BigRedDog wrote:mreinman wrote:BigRedDog wrote:mreinman wrote:and now I think its confirmed that saric is coming this season to philly.
Hinkie would have traded him for a draft pick in 2020
I am sure that he would have if it was a good deal.
Because he was such a "great" gm?
no. He just made great deals. He had many shortcomings but he left philly in far better shape than we are.
I envy their picks but in reality the Sixers are in No Man's Land. They have to make some deals in order to try and salvage something from the assets they have. Embid and Okafor are somewhat diminished assets. It will be interesting to see what they do with the assets Hinkie left them with.
IMO the Knicks are closer to winning than the Sixers. It will take less to fix the Knicks situation than the Sixers.
so you can get super 30 pages high on wroten but you can get high on all those philly kids and prospect that they did not throw in the garbage?
Philly has a much better chance to compete for a ring in 5-8 years than we do. MUCH MUCH BETTER.
why? So far they haven't shown the ability to do anything but trade for future picks.
For me, the linchpin is KP. You need the highest level of franchise talent to excel in playoffs. You can certainly go far without it but only the most unique teams (or situations) will go to finals without it.
Toronto, Boston, Detroit, Charlotte, Atlanta are prime examples of that for me. All of those teams can play their asses off and quite possibly make it to the Conf Finals but without that key talent, you are only built for 1 season runs and most likely only a second round playoff team.
Last year's Atlanta team started to have that feel of Larry Brown's Detroit team but are too old (Korver) and now lost a key element (DeMarre Carroll). If they could have stayed together for like 3-4 years, they could have busted through that Franchise talent gap.
because in order to really be a contender you need to be lucky enough and how countless opportunity to draft 3 top twenty players who you have on rookie contracts (starting off). So far, philly has not done well in the lotto though they did really well on MCW and what they turned him into and perhaps Saric coming over will be another guy that they score big on.
Ok4 was the pick that anyone would have taken so that is just bad luck though he can still turn out to be a really good player.
Noel does not look that good though everyone was going gaga over him last season.
Embiid may be a bust though reports are that he looks great right now.
Again, you need numerous chances so you have the best opps to not have to be stuck with finding your talent at the flea market scraps like wroten.
They have lots of pieces there and for starters, like us they need a good PG to help make it all click.
Oh ... and they also have loads of cap room to go along with they treasure chest of assets.
The only thing that the knicks have over philly is that we don't play in philly which is as undesirable place as any in the NBA. Which makes it all the more important to home grow your talent.
so here is what phil is thinking ....
