stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

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.

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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

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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

they should want no part of harden unless they can sign him to an extremely team friendly short contract so they can trade him

yeah theres no way you can make him the highest paid player in the league hes not that good

if i was a sixers fan i would be really worried both about how daryl views this kinda thing in general -- stars matters, assets matter, figure the rest out later -- *and* of course how he views harden specifically. it's really no secret that harden gave up money this year so that they could sign guys w/ the understanding that they would take care of him on his next contract. and it's not like this outcome should have been a surprise to daryl, he's defended harden through it all. i don't feel like the wool has suddenly been removed from his eyes after game 7. so why wouldn't he give harden a 4 year max & then hire his preferred coach?

The "let's just do it and be legends" style of gming, respect.

Harden's game is really not gonna age well over the next 2 years, let alone 4. compared to just about any other volume shooter he relies on footwork and little advantages around the margins to get his points, and even his passing is so intertwined with his drive and kick and if he can't get into the lane he's not even going to be a great caretaker pg. plus i doubt he's gonna keep getting friendly whistles on his foul baiting as his superstardom recedes in memory. i get how painful it is to lose someone for nothing, esp when you've given up picks and stuff to get him, but personally i think it would be deadly for the sixers to bring him back on a multiyear deal, unless morey has some wizardry in store to dump tobias' contract and make harden more of a #3 than a #2. which i mean he probably does, he's daryl morey, but how much more can you possibly hollow out this roster

harden "taking less money" was such a scam lol

heh

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low post move executed from the high post

he’s 4 feet taller than the guy defending him

what could go wrong

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still gotta see how he guards the pnr lol

come on LeBron was still in high school when people started calling him the next Michael Jordan. ESPN were even broadcasting some of his HS games which I don't think they've done since.

yeah nothing will top the lebron hype imo

he can prob guard the pnr by extending his arms very wide

might work!

his wingspan is 6" more than zingers lol

yeah trying to put him ahead of bron as a prospect is ridiculous

i think even like... zion had more hype than this. kids arent hunting down wemby highlights

i guess "most hype" and "greatest prospect" are slightly different things tho

instant unicorn just add water

wemby needs to be more durable than chet if he's going to live up to his hype. his skills are not in question.

Holmgren has had one injury, it’s entirely possible he won’t be durable but no one knows that yet