lewro wrote:
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The Twolves are one outcome of the much debated strategy of tanking. Tanking is a viable but hugely risk laden strategy. Where there is some hope for the 10 and 21 Puppies (just not this year) there is the stark reality that you could also become the Philly Sixers... who after 4 years of total and abject self inflicted shittiness beyond anything one has seen in pro sports they have the following to show for it.
After losing almost 200 games in 4 years ...the Hinkies are again world class crappy With a robust 7 and 23 they have a worse record than the Brooklyn Nets (who haven't had the benefit of a draft pick in years) and are dead effing last in the league.
The Process has so far yielded
a) Nerlens Noel (who they want to trade for whatever they can get.. but it won't be a 6th overall pick and a player)
b) Jahil Okafor who the Sixers also would like to trade if they got anything approaching a decent offer.
c) Dario Saric who isn't a raw rook as he has played better than NCAA ball for year in Europe but hasn't shown the kind of jam that would make anyone notice other than family members.
d) Joel Embiid who looks like he is a really really good player...but if he is on his own for a while he will most likely become a frustrated one man band on a perpetually losing team... see Cousins, Boogie in Sacramento
e) Ben Simmons.. who may or may not have the impact a first overall has .. but one has to think if he played this year instead of being dead last.. maybe they would be 3rd or 4th from the bottom ?. There is the risk he is another big man who with a need for Jones fracture surgery will be suspect .. hope not and its too early to tell.. but surgery in your first year isn't what the doctor ordered.
Still there is hope... The Hinkies get two more real swings at it this year with their own pick likely to be a top 3 pick and the Lakers pick which is sure looks to be top 10. Unless they tank and finish bottom 3 and the pick stays with them.
So after 5 years of abject shittiness and no hope the Sixers have again in the cold light of day put themselves in a position to be a team that will finish anywhere from dead last to 7-10 from the bottom of the heap for the next couple of years.
Thats going to be close to a decade of pretty serious sucking. Your players such as they are will know nothing but losing and that will show in attitude and effort on the floor. Hinkie has also put the Sixers in a position that in all likelihood will make any decent free agents steer clear of this flea bag of a franchise.
Tank at your peril.
Which is why the Sixers should put up a statue of Sam Hinkie and let pigeons shit on it for decades as repayment for what he did to this franchise.
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