you can have a plan and have it be a horrible, ineffective plan that is ruining your franchise. And if the organization is allowing for you to perform this terrible plan then one can argue that it's not functioning very well by permitting these self inflicted wounds.
but i suppose the rockets are an actual mess compared to the sixers, who are an organized mess
Yes the self inflicted wounds
I don't need to go through this again
Our roster was made by Doug Collins who found a way to never win a chip with Jordan. We traded basically our future for Andrew Bynum pre-process.
When it was found Bynum had exploding knee syndrome, we literally only had 1 valuable asset and a bunch of shitty roleplayers. We turned Jrue Holiday, into Nerlens Noel, a high ceiling Center and defensive genius who was out a year. So now we suddenly have 2 value assets
Next he gets Michael Carter Williams who ends up stat padding and raising his value. We got the Lakers 1st rounder for a guy who can barely start on a shitty team.
We then end up trading permastiffs like Evan Turner, and Spencer Hawes. Neither of which are good enough to start on their teams.
Next we draft Joel Embiid, literally the most freakishly athletic big man on the planet. He falls into your lap because he's injured, so you draft him, because even if we didn't, we would've gotten who? Dante Exum? Yeah, really missing out right there.
Next we trade Elfrid Payton for our own 1st bacl next year and Dario Saric, a highly regarded young euro who is going to have to stay in Europe for 2 more years
Next we trade KJ McDaniel, who Bill Simmons jerked off prematurely on, who rode a hot streak, and raised his value enough to garner a 2nd rounder (he wasn't going to resign) KJ McDaniels currently does not play, so another huge loss there.
Next we Jahlil Okafor, who is one of the best big man scorers to come out in a ton of years. This is the only real mistake we made, as Porzingis is someone I'd prefer, but Porzingis's agent didn't want him to be in philly and wanted him in New York. Didn't allow the Sixer's to even talk to the guy.
We next trade cap space for draft swap rights with the Kings (the nets of the west) and Nik Stauskas, a former top 8 pick who sucked his rookie year
So before we started this, this is what the Sixer's had
Andrew Bynum explosive knees
Jrue Holiday (also has explosive knees)
Thaddeus Young (doesn't start)
Evan Turner (doesn't start)
Spencer Hawes (doesn't start)
And a whole bunch of other stiffs
We were also missing our own first round pick for 2014 draft
We lost throughout the process
-MCW (doesn't start on bad team)
-KJ McDaniels (doesn't play)
-Evan Turner (doesn't start, mediocre bench player)
-Spencer Hawes (doesn't start, mediocre bench player)
What we have gained
1st rounder from Lakers (top 4 protected)
1st rounder from Heat (top 10 protected)
1st rounder from Thunder (top 18 protected I think)
Draft Pick Swap with the Kings for the next 2 years, afterwards, the pick will become a 1st rounder
-Nerlens Noel (one of the best defensive centers in the game, only 21)
-Joel Embiid (if he comes back, he is gonna do monster things, still super athletic even with bad foot)
-Jahlil Okafor (3rd best rookie in a damn good rookie class and one of the best post scorers in the game at 19)
-Robert Covington (a streaky bench player who can play the 3/4 and shoot the three)
-Nik Stauskas (finally shooting the ball well, just needs to learn how to play defense and he can play in the league, still sucks ass)
-Jerami Grant (high energy bench player, also plays 3/4)
-TJ McConnel (rookie season, leads rookies in assists I think, fairly efficient and has been getting better at scoring as the season has gone along. Plays similarly to Delavadova
-Richauln Holmes (Rookie with really good energy and great post presence. Good solid bench player)
-Dario Saric (probably one of the best European prospects out there.)
but man, the stupid Sixer's are so bad. Maybe we should look to teams who had "win now" approaches with mediocre bench player leading them to an 8th seed!
Suns
Nets
Kings
But yeah, the Sixer's are an affront to the game, its not like the past 2 years they didn't even have the worst record or anything. Those other teams didn't tank! Not at all!
Meanwhile we are going to have a possibility of 6 1st round pick rookies playing next year, Saric has basically said he's coming, Embiid is still on track to come (he's apparently changed his entire demeanor and has become incredibly mature. He's also been shooting threes during warmups) and a possibility of 4 more rookies, including our pick which is a possibility of Ben Simmons or Brandon Ingram, both of which are both really good prospects.
But yeah, our orginazation is an affront to basketball. We should all have win now approaches, just ask literal dumpster fire The Brooklyn Nets, a team that has the 3rd worst record, despite not owning their 1st round pick this year
