Unless Embiid can get, and stay, healthy, they may regret trading Noel instead of Okafor. I'm not a big fan of +/- stats (too many variables), but if the sample size is big enough, they start to become meaningful. For the season, PHI is +4.2 points/48 when Embiid is on the floor. When Okafor is on the court, they are -15 points/48. That's nearly a 20 point per game swing between those two players who play the same position. BNM
Yeah at least Noel brings energy. I admit I wanted Okafor over Noel for us because I thought it was important for us to get a wide body. (More of an enforcer) Thankfully we got a wide body who has energy instead. (At least so far)
Again when he plays us look whose guarding him. I'll give you a clue his initials are DL There's a reason why our starting PG is by far the worst starting defender in the whole league
On one hand I was going to say maybe Okafor's value was low but the remembered they got Justin Anderson plus a top-18 protected Dallas pick which is not much at all. Is this true that the protection on that Dallas pick says that if it is top 18 this year, Phila get 2017 and 2018 secound rounders? That is horrible value if true.
Yes, that's correct (according to Zach Lowe). So, they basically traded Nerlens Noel for two 2nd round picks. BNM
Don't confuse the process with the poor draft picks. Hinke got fired, so the Noel trade is not part of that process.
If anything, Bryan Colangelo is proving even more incompetent than Sam Hinkie. He completely devalued both Noel and Okafor by shopping them starting in June. Then he basically kept Noel off the court for nearly the first two months of the season as punishment for calling the situation "silly", further decreasing his value. Now, instead of having a logjam three deep at center, they have a disgruntled, unmotivated Jahlil Okafor. He completely mishandled the situation and even though he wasn't the one who drafted Okafor, he overvalued him as he was still treating him like he was worth a high lottery pick simply because that's where he'd been drafted. The bizarre thing is, that if ANY of the rumors were true, he turned down more for Okafor than what he got for Noel. I know Noel is an expiring, but they held his Bird Rights and were so far under the salary floor, they could have easily re-signed him. And, he's the better player. BNM
The only sense I can make out of them moving Noel instead of Okafor is health...they may not trust his knees...he's been really injury prone
Yeah but the picks were not bad, The drafts were. The consensus pick at 2 or 3 that year was Okafor or Russell. And the Noel lottery was terrible. Sure you can always find better players from Europe that are not scouted properly like Porzingis or the Greek Freak, but to me the process has some flaws, and the biggest is not all drafts are strong.
