I mean, possible, but not sure he keeps playing down stretch and fighting to get back with a clearly injured knee.
Well the Embiid issue isn’t his play, it’s bc he is ALWAYS hurt when they need him most. If you build around Mitchell the right way, you can be a clear contender. I believe that. Their two small guards, two non-stretch bigs is really not ideal.
Cool.....but this is not the only game that has happened in the series and his teammates did, in fact, carry him to a game 5 win. could argue game 2, as well
This is how it looks to me, they seem to have stalled in their improvement/movement to a contender. Mobley was supposed to become THE GUY with guys like Garland and Allen and maybe Mitchell as a core of a contender. It just seems like this is the ceiling now. Can Mobley be better, sure, but he is no longer some emerging superstar like Antman or SGA.
I mean, if he shows up we can win games in the playoffs with the current group
The team shot under 30% for the series from 3. Allen has been the best player up until game 5. Mitchell can’t even run. Guys gotta step up. They are lucky to be in this series as bad as they played.
This is actually factually incorrect. He could use some work from 10-16 feet but he has gotten a lot better from 3-10 feet going from 38% as a rookie to 41% to 46% rate this season. He's slightly better from 0-3 feet than as a rookie but came down there since last season. 3 point rate has gone up a ton...now just needs to be able to take them more (as you kind of mentioned) and still remain in the 37% range.
Totally agree.....Love DM but not sure how far we go if he's our best player. Still need Mobley to be that guy (and could as he's only 23) or someone else maybe at the SF spot.
Can’t disagree. Mobley is more of a great defender type that could transform his offensive game eventually but more as just a nice, valuable piece.
OK....and Garland likely still having the effects of his broken jaw and has a bad back.
And is Bridges enough, will he be a #1 on a title team level? They can still make moves I just think that for a couple years you could look at this team and see forward progress and a path to contending, now it feels like they are stalled with other young bad teams turning the corner and passing them. Hence Wiggy's absence.
while I said I agreed with fighten, I guess what you said has some merit, too....we need to remember while they may not be an ideal grouping they have won a lot of games together and other than Mitchell the rest of core 4 are 2-6 or so years from prime seasons.
His 3 fga went down. What good is that?
No excuses for Garland LOL.
last comment first....to be fair, wiggy has at times been most pessimistic about where this team can go each season or in long run last 2-3 years.
Not so sure about Philly but agree we could not beat NY.
be interesting but have a feeling within a year or 2 we'd regret that. a little concerning Bridges maybe puts up numbers for a bad team.
And I have no problem with a fan seeing the glass half full. It's not impossible that this group becomes a contender. Just seems like they are falling short right now on the development path, to a neutral observer. It's really hard for small markets and non-FA destinations to thread that needle. Milwaukee and Denver did it with an all time great superstar. Minnesota may have done it, OKC may have done it, Cleveland it just feels like it's not happening here.
His attempts went down by a whopping 1 per game. Could be because he has some better teammates around him? In fact, he did improve with his volume not going up as he's a much more efficient shooter so that's another factually incorrect comment.
Garland also has a bad back, but the good thing is we don't need to make excuses for him as other than 1 game he has played well. Been an efficient shooter and passer. TOs have come down some. Only area you could complain about him is he needs to be more selfish shooting.
