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    My problem with the process, but also why I'm so fascinated by it, is that at some point you have to start converting those assets into something that'll win games. It looks like the Sixers are in for another disappointing season and this upcoming draft class is apparently pretty dire outside Ben Simmons (another reason the Tall Blacks are in trouble). Assuming they're not happy with the outcome of that draft, you'd expect them to tank for yet another season and suddenly Nerlens is off contract.

    At face value you can't really argue with any of those trades or moves, but in the bigger picture I can't really see where it starts translating to wins. You need veterans to help develop your younger guys (that's an area I'm concerned about for my Magic actually), and at the moment it's a tough sell.

    You'd think it will start to work eventually, and that's why I find the rebuild so interesting, but assets are only as good as what they tangibly get (like how an Ethiopian kid would take a loaf of bread over a handful of money) and so far those assets haven't done an awful lot.

    I think it's consistent in the sense that, well, they could have started to build towards, I don't know, 30 to 40 wins by now, but... what's the point of that? The whole point of the process is to avoid being stuck in that exact position. If they get impatient now then all they've done is waste these years to build a "hey we win some games and maybe make the playoffs" crappy East team and anyone can do that. That's the mid tier hell they're trying to avoid. Better to stay patient and keep bottoming out and wait until you finally get some real lottery luck with a top two pick in a stacked year.

     

    Getting cold feet when you're in the middle of fording the river seems like the worst idea to me. Gotta have the stones to keep going.

     

    But then the sunk cost fallacy could be tricking them and me, so who knows.

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  16. Posted · Edited by Sons_of_Eli · Report post

    We Had the Second Pick What Happened

     

    Top 5

     

    1: DeMarcus Cousins

    2: Kyrie Irving

    3: Pau Gasol

    4: Andre Iguodala

    5: Kyle Korver

     

    Bench

     

    6. Tony Allen

    7. Taj Gibson

    8. Iman Shumpert

    9. Reggie Jackson

    10. Nikola Pekovic

    11. Emmanuel Mudiay

    12. Willie Cauley-Stein

    13. Lance Stephenson

    14. Frank Kaminsky

    15. Robert Covington

     

    Tony Allen probably starts over Iggy, like the Warriors did this past season, giving you more of a scoring punch on the bench. Can go small or big with this roster all day.

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    So it's a mobile game? Ugh.

    Oh man that's disappointing. A real football game for the PC apparently is too much to ask for sigh.

     

    Madden having zero competition has been nothing but bad for the franchise tbh. A competitor, even without the license, would've been very welcome.

     

    Hopefully the mobile thing isn't a death knell.

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    I'll go on a limb and say Suggs almost retired this offseason. Judging but his demeanor when he came back, and his weight gain he almost didn't come back. This could be his last year with us. He stayed with the same team his whole career, in almost the same position and same role.He had the most fun being the young goofy guy but he can't be that anymore, he's one of the old guys now. The game probably just isn't as fun as it used to be. All speculation though.

    If his preparation looked a little off, maybe that is a sign he's close to closing up shop. Guys don't get tired of playing usually, they get tired of all the ridiculous things they have to do to get their body ready to play. I imagine all that stuff looks less and less enticing as the years go on. Plus with all the other guys gone maybe it's just less fun, who knows.

     

    Hope we're all reading tea leaves tho, because it just wouldn't be the same watching games with him gone and his level of performance is still strong.

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    I honestly don't know. Brienne doesn't seem like the type who'd get lenient all of a sudden (her take on justice seems almost Stannis-like, coincidentally enough), but at the same time I guess you can't definitively say someone's dead without seeing the body. Even The Hound might still be walking around (I honestly don't know if he is, but the point either way is that you never know).

    The way it was shot left them open to going either way tbh. It's shot so it looks like you're seeing the last thing he sees, but it cuts right as her sword would make contact with... something. They could easily be cheap and show her striking the tree instead  of him if they need to heh. I doubt they will though.

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    Three years in a row, we've "settled" for a big who was considered the number one prospect in their respective drafts at some point in time but slipped due to injury or other prospects shooting up the boards late. If we hit on two of them, that's great. I just hope we manage to trade the third before it becomes clear he's a miss. I doubt all three will be studs. Noel looks pretty good for his role; Embiid is a huge question mark for obvious reasons; Okafor seems to have a superior offensive skillset for a big. If we end up with two towers for the remainder of the rebuild and beyond, I'll be happy. For now, I think it wouldn't hurt to just play all three if they are healthy and still with the team this season and see what happens. GS won with no centers; maybe we can surprise with three. It's not like we have a lot to lose.

    Oh man triple towers on court at the same time would be the most Sam Hinkie thing in the history of the sport. Just straight up trolling the league.

     

    Hitting on 2/3 of those guys would be a great outcome really. And even if it doesn't happen, can't fault the process philosophically. No lose situation really (since losing is the goal anyway).

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