The 2023-2024 NBA Season

[The Q]

They might be outta the playoff race by the end of January.


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They should 90+ games this year


But won’t

 

[The Q]

Rose colored glasses?!?!? This can’t be seen any other way than an unmitigated victory for Morey and the Sixers.

Not until they make the follow up


They aren’t winning dick without the follow up

 

[DJ]

Not until they make the follow up


They aren’t winning dick without the follow up

Exactly.

 

[trojanfan12]

Not until they make the follow up


They aren’t winning dick without the follow up

That's why I gave them an incomplete fore this trade. All they have done so far is rid themselves of a headache (which isn't nothing) and get some assets that they could possibly turn into something.

What they turn those assets into will determine how successful this trade was.

 

[fightinfunbags]

Not until they make the follow up


They aren’t winning dick without the follow up

The hardest part of the whole thing was the move that was already accomplished. There is no “follow up” unless they got this done. This was the real roadblock.

What would you think if they came out of this with OG and Gary Trent? Send 3 firsts, 3 pick swaps and Tobias Harris expiring?

Maxey
Trent
OG
Batum
Embiid

Bench:
Melton, Pat Bev, Oubre, Springer, BBall Paul, RoCo, Morris.

Or (because it’s just expiring contracts anyway) instead of Harris it’s RoCo, Morris, and salary

 

[The Q]

The hardest part of the whole thing was the move that was already accomplished. There is no “follow up” unless they got this done. This was the real roadblock.

What would you think if they came out of this with OG and Gary Trent? Send 3 firsts, 3 pick swaps and Tobias Harris expiring?

Maxey
Trent
OG
Batum
Embiid

Bench:
Melton, Pat Bev, Oubre, Springer, BBall Paul, RoCo, Morris.

Or (because it’s just expiring contracts anyway) instead of Harris it’s RoCo, Morris, and salary

That seems like the best case move right now. I just don’t think you get both

They turned down 3 or 4 firsts for OG already

 

[thunderc]

They can't use all those picks anyway, maybe that's it lol.

The Thunder are giving up the least desirable of their own 26 pick, the top 4 protected Houston pick and the unprotected Clippers pick. This makes more sense. Here is some decent trade analysis.

James Harden trade grades for Clippers, 76ers, and Thunder in latest NBA blockbuster

www.sbnation.com

 

[trojanfan12]

As of right now you aren't. You got picks that may or not be used in another trade and a bunch of filler.

He's right in that they were able to move Harden and while this isn't the "big win" that funbagz is pimping it as, it's more than most thought they'd get, but not as much as he thought they'd get initially.

Depending on when they use them, we may not know the full success of this trade until sometime in the off-season. If nothing else, we know Morey will be patient and if he can't get what he wants by the deadline, he'll wait until the off-season.

 

[DJ]

He's right in that they were able to move Harden and while this isn't the "big win" that funbagz is pimping it as, it's more than most thought they'd get, but not as much as he thought they'd get initially.

Depending on when they use them, we may not know the full success of this trade until sometime in the off-season. If nothing else, we know Morey will be patient and if he can't get what he wants by the deadline, he'll wait until the off-season.

I know. Mainly giving it back to him because he was insisting on getting a rotation player and he called Covington and Morris washed as well as Batum I believe.

At various times he wanted Mann, Powell, etc.

 

[The Q]

The Thunder are giving up the least desirable of their own 26 pick, the top 4 protected Houston pick and the unprotected Clippers pick. This makes more sense. Here is some decent trade analysis.

James Harden trade grades for Clippers, 76ers, and Thunder in latest NBA blockbuster

www.sbnation.com

So basically the pick swap held this deal up for months

 

[DJ]

The Thunder are giving up the least desirable of their own 26 pick, the top 4 protected Houston pick and the unprotected Clippers pick. This makes more sense. Here is some decent trade analysis.

James Harden trade grades for Clippers, 76ers, and Thunder in latest NBA blockbuster

www.sbnation.com

Presti is a fucking genius.

 

[DJ]

That's why I gave them an incomplete fore this trade. All they have done so far is rid themselves of a headache (which isn't nothing) and get some assets that they could possibly turn into something.

What they turn those assets into will determine how successful this trade was.

Yep.

 

[thunderc]

 

[Shanemansj13]

 

[shopson67]

Rose colored glasses?!?!? This can’t be seen any other way than an unmitigated victory for Morey and the Sixers.

Not until they use those picks really. They didn't get any players back in the trade that move the needle as much as Harden. The follow up moves will come, but nothing's guaranteed.

 

[shopson67]

I know. Mainly giving it back to him because he was insisting on getting a rotation player and he called Covington and Morris washed as well as Batum I believe.

At various times he wanted Mann, Powell, etc.

Mann and Powell were flip fodder though. Instead, they got the extra pick in the trade they would've netted for Mann or Powell.

 

[shopson67]

It's actually very easy to get fatter if you're not fat. These kids and their high metabolisms lol.

Jokic is right, not sure why the kid took offense.

 

[DJ]

Mann and Powell were flip fodder though. Instead, they got the extra pick in the trade they would've netted for Mann or Powell.

I know that.

 

[shopson67]

I know that.

That's why he wanted one of them in the trade, to net the extra first they got directly instead.

 

[DJ]

That's why he wanted one of them in the trade, to net the extra first they got directly instead.

You're acting like we haven't been going back and forth all morning.