No process geared to failure should be applauded let alone tolerated!
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Process? WHAT process?? Losing??? Tanking leaves a bad taste in anyone's mouth. Including those of the show ponies the Sixers have stockpiled in recent years. It goes against their innate makeup and cannot help but morph their DNA---both individually and as a unit---into something less than stellar. Let's see what Colangelo and Simmons add to the mix. If nothing special, there is always next year's draft. Frankly, I don't care what happens in Philly. I'm a Knick fan, which brings with it a very unique skill-set of problems.
It's been 16 years since the Knicks made it to a conference final.
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LONG LIVE HINKIE! This season will be fun to watch with Embid, Luwawu-Cabarrot and Simmons on the floor. It will be interesting to see how the Noel Okafor conundrum is resolved. Maybe they just stay on the team for another season. I'm guessing we don't see Saric or Forkmaz till next season when the Sixers will also likely be adding two more top 10 first round draft picks. I don't know where they'll it those second round picks. The Sixers hav a lot of cap space now as well which brings free agents into play. I've been enjoying the process and I'm looking forward to the next few years.
Hinkie's sins were many and embarrassing to ownership. The team was fined for not revealing that it knew of Jrue Holiday's injuries when it traded him for the pick that became Nerlens Noel. The team was warned that Hinkie maneuvered contracts and waivers to skirt the minimum salary requirements. Agents refused to deal with him. The final straw was that with no adult players as role models, Jahlil Okafor suffered a meltdown that included driving 108 mph in a 45 zone and getting into life-threatening fights at Boston noght clubs--which he shouldn't have even been allowed to enter, being underage by two years. Hinkie had to go in order to bring humanity to the team, to recognize that the teenagers he was buying and selling were more than just pieces in some board game.
Picking up people from Europe seems like a foolish thing, after all the best basketball happens right here in college. Time will tell.
Grew up with the Wilt/Greer then Dr.J/Mo Sixers. Loved those teams.
In light of Hinkie's and bean counter owners' strategy of losing games to get a high draft pick, I will never, ever root for this team again.
I think they'll find it takes more than the number one pick. And, if they look at some of the model franchises, it's clear that a team doesn't need high lottery picks to be successful. E.g., GS Warriors -- who ironically used to play in Philadelphia -- Curry is highest pick (at 7).
In light of Hinkie's and bean counter owners' strategy of losing games to get a high draft pick, I will never, ever root for this team again.
I think they'll find it takes more than the number one pick. And, if they look at some of the model franchises, it's clear that a team doesn't need high lottery picks to be successful. E.g., GS Warriors -- who ironically used to play in Philadelphia -- Curry is highest pick (at 7).
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Look at the last 15 to 20 championships and tell me if they had a #1 pick on those teams. The Warriors are the exception, not the rule, and just lost to the Cavs w/ the #1 pick LeBron. You need a generational player from the draft and luck to get the top picks in the lottery, but it's proven that's the most sure-fire way to win championships.
Hinkie gambled big on Embiid, and he's cleared to scrimmage and will be on the court this Fall. 7'2" combination of athleticism, grace and skill. this is when the fun really starts. adding Simmons and Saric and TLC to the supporting roster makes this a singular moment in the franchise's history. Trust the Process.
Hi. In the past 20 years, you're talking about Duncan, Shaq, and Lebron. (Kyrie Irving was a #1 pick but was a second banana, and Andrew Bogut was a fifth banana.) The Spurs just got unbelievably lucky, as David Robinson had to miss a whole season. The Lakers didn't have the #1 pick and signed Shaq as a free agent. Neither of those teams tanked to get the #1 pick. I don't remember whether there was any talk of the Cavaliers tanking to get Lebron.
The point I'm trying to make is that it's pretty tenuous to say that the Sixers' "process" has any historical precedent behind it. As another commenter has pointed out, part of winning a championship is developing a winning culture. Hinkie went all in on developing a losing culture. If Ben Simmons proves to be another Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, perhaps you'll be proven right. But it will be the first time, as far as I know, that tanking leads to an NBA title. Right now they have nothing, and their fans (the ones remaining) have has to watch wretched basketball for the past few years.
The point I'm trying to make is that it's pretty tenuous to say that the Sixers' "process" has any historical precedent behind it. As another commenter has pointed out, part of winning a championship is developing a winning culture. Hinkie went all in on developing a losing culture. If Ben Simmons proves to be another Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, perhaps you'll be proven right. But it will be the first time, as far as I know, that tanking leads to an NBA title. Right now they have nothing, and their fans (the ones remaining) have has to watch wretched basketball for the past few years.