stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

yeah that he’s just, like, posing with guns on Instagram live again is super weird cry for help shit

morant basically got a vacation for the last one. hate being this cynical, but i can't say i'm surprised.

grizzlies should can him, honestly. what a dunce.

ja’s thing almost fetishistic at this point…

gun culture huh

I guess his "don't be a dumbass" rehab didn't work.

checking into betty ford bc im addicted to the game

― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Sunday, March 5, 2023 7:50 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

smh

“I can’t win alone. Me and James [Harden], we just can’t win alone. That’s why basketball is played 5-on-5.”

Joel Embiid after the Sixers’ Game 7 loss to the Celtics 👀pic.twitter.com/L3KB6geaUT

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 14, 2023

that is true. especially when the two of you go 8-for-29, 24 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists, 9 turnovers combined

lol really poor form there from jo

look I understand his saltiness given how many times they've tried and failed to get over the hump, but yeah that's a curious comment after a game where you both sucked

it would be a bad thing to say even if he played great but considering the circumstance its just wildly clueless

i just watched the whole thing and he was kind of just rambling not sure if he even knew what he was saying tbf

and then the nba tv guys were like wow some really honesty from joel there lol just shoveling the slop for them

idk that 2nd half really was stunning, not gonna say the Sixers played well at all but still watching every single shot just rim out while the Cs were hitting 3 after 3 after 3 is pretty demoralizing

i know ja was just probably just hanging out with the boys, but it seems like if you flash a gun at people enough times, someone might take it the wrong way eventually? like, regardless of what the discourse thinks about it

hope the nra is gearing up to protect his 2A rights

Reporter: "How is your relationship with Doc [Rivers] and would you like to see him back next season?"

James Harden: "Uh, our relationship is OK." 😬pic.twitter.com/Q2QzC2SEjI

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 14, 2023

there was a close-up on doc after one of harden’s game 7 glitches where it was clear doc was just done with him

I've not been a Doc fan, but none of this particular meltdown was his fault.

Still, bring on Nick Nurse.

i agree that doc acquitted himself fairly well in that series. the issues go behind him

idk feel like he should had something for the celtics pick and roll defense yesterday as they were doing the same thing as the last game, i mean it couldve just been a dead end and the celtics had them figured out but i didnt see any attempt at an adjustment, like maybe use an empty corner for the pick and roll so the celtics cant help as easy, maybe they thought that corner shooter was an advantage for them tucker didnt hit 3-6 but hes so slow if you can recover at all its just not happening

not to repeat myself but to me they have an intractable problem which is always having two non shooters on the floor. the sixers generated tons of open threes & were hitting shots at the beginning of the game when it looked like it would be competitive but boston didn’t care and those shots stopped falling. they had rob will playing free safety pretty much all game. and of course the two primary in the harden embiid pick and roll losing the ability to play basketball can’t help

Sixers trying to do little things to move RWIII around. His matchup is on the wing again. Harden/Embiid P&R, Horford in a drop but he's pointing for RWIII to help so he can recover. Issue is that opens up a 2v1 for Sixers. Have to hit these notes. pic.twitter.com/zmxLZJBSFL

— Steve Jones Jr. (@stevejones20) May 14, 2023

taking a little gander at philly's cap sheet, thinking about how it'll just end up being a gift for them if harden opts out and goes to houston or whatever, rip the bandaid off... but why on earth did they give pj tucker a player option for his age 39 season

moreys role player additions have been so lazy you need to go out and find your own pj tucker not sign literal pj tucker

his star addition was lazy too tbf

you need to go out and find your own james harden not sign literal james harden

lol

falling in love with your own guys is just one of those gm blind spots that you don't know if your guy is gonna have until the time comes. thibs another big one comes to mind, did you know derrick rose has a $15m player option for next year?

taj gibson is also a free agent, i think his toughness and veteran leadership on the bench is the missing ingredient that julius randle needs to get over the hump

you need to go out and find your own james harden not sign literal james harden

― ciderpress, Monday, May 15, 2023 1:26 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lke for instance tyrese haliburton

doubt that guy is available

he was tho

but why on earth did they give pj tucker a player option for his age 39 season

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, May 15, 2023 12:34 PM (one hour ago)

because the only way to get him to leave a better situation in miami was to offer him that money. the heat could have matched and let him walk which is very illustrative of the differences between those two franchises. PJ tucker was a great fit in miami and was quite a good player last season, but the heat don't need to import mental toughness. the sixers legitimately thought that overpaying for tucker would just fix all their problems & this narrative was fully bought into by the media and sixers fans after game 5. alas the power of embiid and harden was greater than the power of PJ tucker.

i'm sure that morey would say that an extra $10 million tacked onto tucker's contract is worth the value he provided to them this season and in the playoffs and maybe he's right. pat riley disagreed but riley is wrong a lot too. but it's more emblematic of a rot w/in the franchise of looking elsewhere to fix deep issues that need to be uprooted from w/in the self

tucker also on a pretty steep curve of showing his age, you could say they were betting against that happening quite so swiftly.

“I would not be shocked if Isiah Thomas is the coach of this team.”

- @TheFrankIsola on the Phoenix Suns

(Via @SiriusXMNBA ) pic.twitter.com/z3Kv6dqohQ

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) May 15, 2023

that is a great outfit, at least

oh no suns

https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/jordan-poole-warriors-exit-interview-18100505.php

it is kind of weird that there is some expectation that he would be cool with Draymond. if a coworker punched me like that I would hate them forever.

yeah reasonable

DOC FIRED

The Sixers’ search for a new coach is expected to include Mike Budenholzer, Sam Cassell, Mike D’Antoni, Nick Nurse, Frank Vogel and Monty Williams, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 16, 2023

man it’s a bloodbath out there

ngl i thought doc might survive but most of those guys listed could prob do as good of a job

resigning harden & hiring d'antoni would be hysterical tho

Nick Nurse or bust (bust = D'Antoni and Harden).

wld honestly be interested to see a diantoni-embiid offense

Yeah, they aren't getting past the second round as it is, might as well be all in. They'll be back in the Process in under five years regardless.

we’ll always have the eagles

imo embiid is good enough that they could still strike gold one year and win a ring like dirk with the mavs, they really need now that hes got his mvp focus on having him healthy and rested going into the offs, also they need to not resign harden lol

oh right the draft lottery is tonight

orlando will win it again, proving that the league is rigged in their favor

my main question with the sixers is can they really bring back harden on a 4 year max? is that actually a tenable relationship between player and fanbase? i'm positive daryl would do it in a heartbeat but it feels like a really bad idea to me. but also that everything they do this offseason flows from that one question