GustavBahler wrote:newyorknewyork wrote:Uptown wrote:Lots of luck and leeway was involved....They purposely tanked for years...He drafted Ok4, Nerlens, Carter-Williams with hopes that they would be the franchise players...He turned them over, and lucked up but landing a few number #1's and the fact that Embiid dropped due to injury....You think Perry would have the leeway to do what that guy did over the years? He would be fired by year 3!!!
Hinkie put himself in position for the good and bad. If luck landed him Embild and Simmons. Then he was unlucky with Ok4, Noel, MCW. Which could have been KP, CJ Mcollum, Greak Freak, Shrodeder, Gobert. They had a shot at Jokic in the 2nd as well but took Mcdaniels & Grant.
But because he gave himself so many opportunities to get lucky he banked on if he could hit one or 2 studs it would override the misses. And to his credit that's exactly what happen.
Hinkie got fired himself just like any GM would. But the next regime gets all those assets. As an owner its a win win. As a fan base if your willing to deal with all that losing to be in the position they are in now. Hinkie becomes the fall guy, yet the owner gets to reap all the benefits of the ground work he laid for the next 5-15yrs. And the fan base gets to enjoy a contender for the next 5-15yrs.
I dont know how they did it (even after Hinkie left) but they've managed to draft one seriously injured top pick after another. Players now must be wondering if getting drafted by Philly is a date with a season ending injury.
Thats the ingredient baked into this "process" that has allowed them (until this season) not to receive the bump, high picks usually gives the team that drafted them. Thats how they kept landing all those high picks. How do you replicate that, and do you even want to?
When Embild missed his rookie yr. They drafted OK4 with higher pick they landed because of it.Who ended up being a wasted pick. So even though they got the bump they really got nothing to show for it. The next yr Embild got Injured again and Ok4 wasn't a good bball player. So they ended up sucking again and landed the #1 pick which was Simmons.
Simmons missed his rookie yr and they landed a top 3 pick which they traded up to one with some of the million assets they had stored. (Jokes on them though as they could have traded down and taken Mitchell 😁).
You could say that Simmons was the result of the injuries. But Embild developed into a stronger player over time and they didn't have much talent around him to be much better for him to carry them to more wins at that stage of his career.
Noel & MCW haven't proven to be difference makers on the level of winning much more games.
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