Game Thread SEEDING GAME# 6: 76ERS @ BLAZERS - AUGUST 9, 2019 - SUNDAY, 3:30, NBATV & NBCSNW

Yeah, thankfully we are at 100% though right? Fucking idiots in this forum indicate to me most if not all have never played a sport at a high level and know what it takes. If you are in the NBA then you are a very good basketball player period!

 

I really wish they would have one easy game so I don't tear out all my hair by end of season.

 

You mean like how Denver was missing 4 starters, sat Jokic the 4th qtr and sat MPJ down the stretch?

Or how the Clippers were missing Kawhi, Beverley, Harrell and sat PG and Lou Will down the stretch and had no intentions of winning that game.

Or how the Sixers were missing their 2 franchise players in Simmons and Embiid.

Got it, got it, got it...

 

Yeah! Especially if you are 7 feet tall from Korea.

Franchise player that!

 

wah wah wah. We were missing Nurkic, Collins and Hood for pretty much the whole season and we were missing Whiteside, Hood and Ariza the last two games and the last two for the whole bubble games and needed to make up a 3.5 game deficit in 8 games. You don't like it, then maybe there's a team for you elsewhere. Tired of the fucking loser whiners in this forum always down playing victories.

Next.

 

That's kinda my point. You've got about a 50/50 shot at getting better. The last 2 coaches that took us the the WCF, the guy we replaced him with made us worse. Some thought the coach was the guy holding us back, but that wasn't the case. It appears to me that our more talented teams over the last 30 years have had the most success, not the ones coached by the best coach over the last 30 years.

I don't believe in getting rid of someone for the sake of getting rid of them. Are there times I'd like CJ gone? Yes. Would I trade CJ for the #9 pick in this years draft? No way. The odds of the #9 pick being better than CJ is not likely, so why make the move? Those are moves teams like the Suns, and Kings do.

 

and where did I say an NBA player is automatically a franchise player? Kind of dumb comment as my main point was players who are typically rotation players but even the end of the bench players would run circles around anyone in this forum and it wouldn't be close.

 

A few months ago I thought your stance was that injuries are no excuses? I'm glad to see you've came around on that.

 

Good point as talent wins in the NBA. A perfect example is Jack Ramsey's record as a Blazers coach. Take away the championship season and Ramsey's record was rather mediocre and he was coach for 10 years and only made it past the first round once more in the other seasons and missed the playoffs once.

 

I NEVER DOUBTED US FOR A SECOND!!!!!

 

Obviously the two LA teams are the best in west....just like we knew from the start.
But other than that we could beat or lose to any other team in the west.
Unfortunately, we would be matched up against a team with Lebron and AD. A horrible matchup problem for us. (and every team)

 

Ariza, Hood and Whiteside are not the same as Kawhi, Simmons and Embid

 

Nice try buddy. You conveniently forgot to mention that I argued that who is injured matters, like Steph Curry and Klay Thompson for the Warriors. Or 4 starters for the Nuggets or franchise players like Kawhi, Embiid and Simmons.

Good try though.

 

Fair enough, I stand corrected, it's hard to keep everyones stance sorted out some times.

So you're saying like the top 50 players matter and then everyone below that is interchangable and makes no difference?

 

Never said they were but they are key rotational players and make us a better and deeper team.

 

Good win. It'd be nice to win comfortably at some point down here, but we aren't playing cupcakes, although some might argue we are with opposing starters not playing. That's a slippery slope though. Does Josh Richardson score 34 points with Embiid and Simmons playing? Does Philly shoot better than 48% and nearly 50% from three with either of those two guys? Two ball dominant players like Simmons and Embiid might not have allowed some of these Sixers to find a rhythm. Bottom line, Sixers still shot and played well without those guys, and we didn't lay a turd, so good win from where I'm sitting.

I don't know how we can make any noise in the playoffs though, without some sort of unveiled weapon. Offensively, I think we can compete, but we would really need a defensive upshot. It could be Whiteside? If we can keep teams from easy scores in the paint, that would make a big difference. Is Little still available? Every game in the bubble it seems the opponent has a Little or three that just out-athletes our guys for loose balls or 2nd chances or deflections on defense. Olshey really need to up the athleticism of this team, among other things. Little showed a little of it earlier in the year, maybe he could be a catalyst. That's probably it for potential unveiled weapons.