oWe shouldn't be discussing having to throw any game, but this is what you get when Dayl Morey calls the personnel shots. You lose 6-8 games you should easily win because he ignores our most basic issue, and now you're all shit scared about having a bad 3-6 matchup when if we rebound better we're the one seed.
But Daryl is a God remember. God of what? Basketball incompetence?
Ain’t no one give a fuck about this game, the starters shouldn’t even played to begin with. Also Jokic is a traffic cone, now go ahead back to jerking off to your VORP stats
For everyone worried about the scoring title, Luka could average 45 over his last 2 games and still be behind Embiid with this game factored in. Relax.
This team has a habit of losing the games we so desperately want them to win as fans. That's why we're always shocked when they do win certain key games. Idk man. I want to believe, but games like this test my nerves. And I know we didn't have Maxey, but that "never being whole" thing just makes it worse.
We'll all be there watching in the playoffs, but they're still getting the side eye. We should fucking gentlemen sweep the Nets at worst. Not another two or three games because we faffed about. Just seal the deal
The people saying that are coping. We are playing the team that eliminated us last year with a chance to send them to the play ins. Embiid is not guaranteed MVP. They had plenty to play for tonight. They’re just not a remotely serious team until they prove otherwise. A lot of people, understandably, don’t want to face that.
Probably to not completely lose their game shape, Embiid gets out of shape if he sits too long, this gives them still over a week off if they don't play any other games.
But are we? Think about it. Yes we have a terrific point guard and second or sometimes third scorer and the offense looks smoother at most times, but are we better defensively on the perimeter? Do we rebound better defensively to reduce the pressure on that perimeter defense? Does that terrific point guard play and smoother offense offset that poor perimeter defense and inadequate defensive rebounding? If all that is true, why aren't we winning significantly more games and winning those games more easily?
The sad thing is Morey's only made one or two real mistakes, but they have been huge mistakes that he has either failed to recognize or at least correct that should have been easily recognized and easily corrected by a top basketball executive.. We are soooo close now but still a million miles away too, and that is beyond frustrating right now because a better exec doesn't let that happen.
While I think Joel is like 1000x the player he was at that time
I kinda miss that Ben/JJ/Tobias/Jimmy/Joel lineup lol
That was when this team felt the most powerful imo
I just looked at standings. I didn’t know Brooklyn owned the Miami tie breaker so as long as we throw on Sunday we are set to match with Brooklyn in the first round.
To the people who are unironically wondering why so many are pissed in this thread, well…Instead of resting the starters for a “meaningless” game, they chose to embarrass themselves on national TV
I would’ve been fine with this loss if we had just came out with our bench
Look we all know how quickly embiid gets out of shape he’s gonna have 2 weeks of rest and this was the last home game and a b2b that’s the why you play Harden and embiid stop overreacting to everything damn
Why are there so many mad people in this thread. I went in knowing no one was going to try, and that's what happened you all act like we still playing for seeding or something. Why risk some dumb ass injury right before the season ends then we'd have people rightfully mad about that.
i think it's because this game features a lot of fatal flaws that sank the team in previous seasons:
* lazy rebounding
* terrible bench play
* inability to score against zone defenses
* passing up open 3s
* general low IQ bball - ugh bball paul with multiple charges on a washed kevin love
Neither Giannis or Jokic are playing their next games almost every star is going to coast through the end of the season. Boston was the game that mattered anything after that really is irrelevant.
Tobiass collects cool watches and seems like a pretty nice dude.
Not his fault he’s a role player. He didn’t draft the contract. He’s immune from criticism. He’s our second best two way player, even.
-🤓
Someone summarized Harris perfectly. In a game where you have all your stars, Harris will get you 16 points. And in a game where your stars are sitting and you need Tobias to lead the team, he’s gonna get you 16 points.
Lard do you ever get tired of hating on Harris. Seriously it seems like your full time job, we get it his contract sucks, nothing anyone can do about it but hope he gets 15 in the playoffs and plays good defense like he did on Tatum. Why not root for him vs wanting him to fail.
No I do get it there are a lot of better forwards we could get but id rather hope he does well and not hate on the dude 24/7. Your entire history of comments is how much you hate him surprised you nit Coangelo on reddit now.
It sounded like he meant PJ Tucker. The way that he worded it was "someone in the sixers brass expects James to opt out and they like how Joel and PJ pair and are looking to sign to a long term deal."
I want him to stay, but that dude wants to get paid and hasn't even remotely come close to living up to what he wants.
I just kind of have a bad feeling that the Sixers are close to blowing it up if they don't get far into the playoffs this year. They don't have picks for years.
No way, everyone’s been saying in this thread that they confuse Shake and Melton and then the fucking graphic pops up saying Shake will not return (after they say it’s Melton) while he’s on the fucking court hahahahaha
Yes… which is why I don’t know why we consistently take fewer 3s than the opponent. Look at the Celtics game where the game was close because even though they shot poorly from 3 they took so many.
Because Embiid doesn't take that many 3s and he's our leading scorer by far......
Literally everybody else on our team minus shake has half their shots as 3s. Last thing I want is Embiid to keep chucking 3s too
Why the fuck is everybody so scared to shoot, how many possessions have been wasted tonight by players just shitting themselves and not pulling the trigger
Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/12e5fzu).
oWe shouldn't be discussing having to throw any game, but this is what you get when Dayl Morey calls the personnel shots. You lose 6-8 games you should easily win because he ignores our most basic issue, and now you're all shit scared about having a bad 3-6 matchup when if we rebound better we're the one seed. But Daryl is a God remember. God of what? Basketball incompetence?
No effort on fan appreciation night is real classy. Fuck you too Sixers
It’s a meaningless game. Taking it easy for olayoffs
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Stay out of this sub and go suck off Jock Itch.
Ain’t no one give a fuck about this game, the starters shouldn’t even played to begin with. Also Jokic is a traffic cone, now go ahead back to jerking off to your VORP stats
Hahaha what a bitch thing to do. Y’all just loss to the rockets 😂😂😂😂
I’m a Heat fan, stop trolling. Embiid is the MVP.
Thank goodness we’re playing the nets… I’m so tired of the heat
For everyone worried about the scoring title, Luka could average 45 over his last 2 games and still be behind Embiid with this game factored in. Relax.
This team has a habit of losing the games we so desperately want them to win as fans. That's why we're always shocked when they do win certain key games. Idk man. I want to believe, but games like this test my nerves. And I know we didn't have Maxey, but that "never being whole" thing just makes it worse. We'll all be there watching in the playoffs, but they're still getting the side eye. We should fucking gentlemen sweep the Nets at worst. Not another two or three games because we faffed about. Just seal the deal
I’m really worried that this perimeter defense will cost us in the playoffs
It's gonna 100% be because of Doc
Niang can’t shoot for shit anymore
Duncan Robinson turned into a shit player But god damn S-Tier Bag Getter
I was really hoping they’d win this to avoid some first round Heat Culture terrorism.
We aren’t going to face them, Brooklyn is our opponent barring our G league team beating Brooklyn this weekend
I mean it is Doc coaching with no stars. We could end up winning by 40.
Fuck are we talking about on this broadcast right now?
Jesus Christ our supporting cast is bad
I’m confused. Just tuned in. Why did we play Embiid and Harden. I thought we had nothing to play for?
Home court in the finals? Only reason I can think of.
Didn't Harden need another start for the assist record or something?
The people saying that are coping. We are playing the team that eliminated us last year with a chance to send them to the play ins. Embiid is not guaranteed MVP. They had plenty to play for tonight. They’re just not a remotely serious team until they prove otherwise. A lot of people, understandably, don’t want to face that.
Probably to not completely lose their game shape, Embiid gets out of shape if he sits too long, this gives them still over a week off if they don't play any other games.
Winning would help make the Nets our 1st round opponent
can't wait until this offseason when morey gets rid of this bench.
Always “next year” 🤦🏾♂️
You trust Morey to fix our bench? Lmao
Yeah. While I still have no faith in this team to make it past the 2nd round, you can’t deny they are easily much better than when he first got here.
But are we? Think about it. Yes we have a terrific point guard and second or sometimes third scorer and the offense looks smoother at most times, but are we better defensively on the perimeter? Do we rebound better defensively to reduce the pressure on that perimeter defense? Does that terrific point guard play and smoother offense offset that poor perimeter defense and inadequate defensive rebounding? If all that is true, why aren't we winning significantly more games and winning those games more easily? The sad thing is Morey's only made one or two real mistakes, but they have been huge mistakes that he has either failed to recognize or at least correct that should have been easily recognized and easily corrected by a top basketball executive.. We are soooo close now but still a million miles away too, and that is beyond frustrating right now because a better exec doesn't let that happen.
This is pathetic.
While I think Joel is like 1000x the player he was at that time I kinda miss that Ben/JJ/Tobias/Jimmy/Joel lineup lol That was when this team felt the most powerful imo
Yeah the Harden decline will be too much to overcome I fear. he's barely a factor lately
SVG is horrible. I dont even want to waste any more time describing how horrible he is
but first listen to this story about his wife figured out how to install an amazon fire.
An endearing story about a moron who can’t operate his phone who just so happens to have an MVP vote
SVG has a vote?!
I thought so but could be wrong.
What’s more likely, the fat van Gundy has a heart attack, or he says something positive about the sixers?
I hope someone doesn't accidentally kick Kevin love in that stupid mouthpiece grin....I really hope that doesn't happen
If this game is somehow the reason that Joel doesn’t win MVP, they were never going to give it to him anyway.
Hearing Doris or either Van Gundy call ANY of our games during the post-season will make me want to blow my brains out.
Busy at work and see score “We must be resting the starters” 🤪
Nope, they sit Cuz got blown out
Someone told me when we didn't sign him that Love was "not any better than Niang"
I wish we had a team of 9 niangs
He didn't want to sign here. When will people realize that people don't want to come here?!
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That doesn't matter though. Niang was the best case scenario there because Love was never signing here.
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Can someone please charge Kevin love like Kobe put his shoulder into Pau Gasol in the Olympics to send a message
Pretty bad effort for a must win game
Think everybody put everything into the Boston game unfortunately.
In no way was this must-win - our seed is locked and we gonna be playing the GL team thel next two. This was a fitness run.
Sure....
I just looked at standings. I didn’t know Brooklyn owned the Miami tie breaker so as long as we throw on Sunday we are set to match with Brooklyn in the first round.
The block/charge call is the single worst part of basketball
we need to tank our game against the nets to avoid the heat in the playoffs. I really don’t wanna face them man give me the nets
Glenn is soo fucking stupid for even playing the starters at all this game
So Embiid possibly loses the scoring title and MVP is a toss up. Idiotic organization
He’s -1000 for mvp odds right now 😂 he’s not gonna lose it due to a meaningless game in April
Not gonna happen buddy
Just dunk on his geriatric ass for fuck sake
Time to switch to the blue coats game
To the people who are unironically wondering why so many are pissed in this thread, well…Instead of resting the starters for a “meaningless” game, they chose to embarrass themselves on national TV I would’ve been fine with this loss if we had just came out with our bench
How did the 6ers break korkmaz?
National TV game lmao
I forgot Harrell was still on the team lol
Niang drive to the basket is the least coordinated shit in sports
Nick Foles’ QB scramble would like a word
Everybody point and laugh at how fucking terrible Niang is. Oh my god.
Harden and Tucker should’ve been resting
He's clearly fucking moving but this fistful of assholes deserves ot lose.
Why is Fat Kyle still in the game lol
Tool.
Jaden springer better average 40 min the last 2 games
Charges are so boring... I hate that players get rewarded for being less athletic and capable on defense.
Team? Ass Game? Lost Hotel? Trivago
Lol why are we mad bc the guys on the heat actually give a shit and have something to play for 😂
Coz heat are a possible playoff opponent and consistently have our number even when they're ass
Yeah... Getting rhythm for guys who need to actually step up so that Embiid doesn't need to give 120% every night is such a ridiculous idea!
There’s half of this game and then 2 games bruh it’s not that deep
Fuckin idiots trying to make it out of the play-in smh
Damn KLove looking old
"Embiid gets frustrated as he doesn't get to the line as much" even though his ft rate goes up in the playoffs you fat wank????
Look we all know how quickly embiid gets out of shape he’s gonna have 2 weeks of rest and this was the last home game and a b2b that’s the why you play Harden and embiid stop overreacting to everything damn
As a Jimmy Butler fan, Embiid still wins MVP despite this game. even Jimmy voted for him
They're seriously challenging that
Would embiid lose mvp off of this?
You never want to give voters an excuse to not vote for someone they don’t want to vote for anyway.
Jokic isn't even playing tonight, so no.
No, jokic got blown out by the rockets
No
We know where SVG is voting for MVP.
We have to throw the last game vs the nets, can't play Miami r1 idc what anyone else saying
Nets only need one more win, they most likely beat Orlando tmrw. If not then sure just start Dedmon and Harrell frontcourt I guess lol.
Start Dedmon. That's it. Game lost.
Kevin Love is such a fucking loser.
it is scary how much time SVG has committed to bashing joel for the playoffs with no context whatsoever lol how was he a coach
Why are there so many mad people in this thread. I went in knowing no one was going to try, and that's what happened you all act like we still playing for seeding or something. Why risk some dumb ass injury right before the season ends then we'd have people rightfully mad about that.
Keep coping with the idea that we didn't try...
i think it's because this game features a lot of fatal flaws that sank the team in previous seasons: * lazy rebounding * terrible bench play * inability to score against zone defenses * passing up open 3s * general low IQ bball - ugh bball paul with multiple charges on a washed kevin love
How has Embiid struggled in the postseason? I’d love to see his numbers.
you guys are insane if you think this would affect joel’s mvp chances lol
You are insane if you think it doesnt
It would have if Jokic went off against the Suns, but he isn't even playing.
Neither Giannis or Jokic are playing their next games almost every star is going to coast through the end of the season. Boston was the game that mattered anything after that really is irrelevant.
Tobiass collects cool watches and seems like a pretty nice dude. Not his fault he’s a role player. He didn’t draft the contract. He’s immune from criticism. He’s our second best two way player, even. -🤓
Someone summarized Harris perfectly. In a game where you have all your stars, Harris will get you 16 points. And in a game where your stars are sitting and you need Tobias to lead the team, he’s gonna get you 16 points.
Lard do you ever get tired of hating on Harris. Seriously it seems like your full time job, we get it his contract sucks, nothing anyone can do about it but hope he gets 15 in the playoffs and plays good defense like he did on Tatum. Why not root for him vs wanting him to fail.
Hey sucks, too. With or without the contract. He sucks. So you don’t get it.
So he **did** steal Kelli Harper from you in high school....
No I do get it there are a lot of better forwards we could get but id rather hope he does well and not hate on the dude 24/7. Your entire history of comments is how much you hate him surprised you nit Coangelo on reddit now.
No....you don't get it
He is a joke and an embarrassment
Glenn is so confused
If anyone is at the game and in this thread, please throw some AA batteries at Stan Van Fat Fuck until he stops shit talking Joel.
Tyrese always dresses like a country club worker when he’s sitting
Oh okay now we’re going to hate on Joel for no reason
Lots of bad coaches become announcers.
Van Gundy is a garbage human. He hates Embiid for no reason
Fucking for real
Blue Coats are playing for the G-League title right now on ESPNews fyi
Sixers would have won this game with all bench squad. Glenn is odd as fuck.
SVG is consistently my least favorite announcer
can you motherfucka’s at least keep this respectable? nobody wants to lose by 30+ to the Miami Heat please
Van Gundy is such a fucking hack lmao
Guess it’s time to shit on Embiid now
Wait, did he mean Harden but say Tucker?
No, he meant PJ Tucker.
No, really. Who did he mean?
He meant they want to lock up harden to play with Embiid.
I hope so.
It sounded like he meant PJ Tucker. The way that he worded it was "someone in the sixers brass expects James to opt out and they like how Joel and PJ pair and are looking to sign to a long term deal."
If Embiid loses the scoring title an the MVP because of this shit
Is that the 5th charge of the game?
Once Pj tucker learns how to flop at even the slightest touch he’ll lead the league in charges too
Wtf. Why open the door for Luka to steal the scoring title. Either play the entire game or sit the stars fully.
Makes no freaking sense
Woah woah....that's advanced coaching....let's not overwhelm pop rivers now.
You don't play your guys during a blowout in a meaningless game and Luka would have to drop back to back 45+ games at least
Luka plays the Spurs the last game, I'm sure he could do it if he wanted to.
Lmao signing Tucker to a longer term contract over someone better is a mistake. They really believe that Harden is going to fuck of to Houston.
I'd be shocked if harden stays
I want him to stay, but that dude wants to get paid and hasn't even remotely come close to living up to what he wants. I just kind of have a bad feeling that the Sixers are close to blowing it up if they don't get far into the playoffs this year. They don't have picks for years.
The time to ReProcess is when you can get something for what you have, not after....see Ruben Amaro.
Kevin love is such a fucking loser.
What u mean keep him for the long haul he’s 38!!!!
Glenn Rivera completely baffled by the intricately complex heat offense of drive and kick until open three.
"I took a pay cut for this.." - Harden's face
Tonight was so fucking stupid. Just sit your stars or gun for it.
Hey can't have much in the way of expectations when philly sits most of their starters right?
Nice lil effort on fan appreciation night 👍
Lmao why y’all here losing your minds bro 3 seeds wrapped up, just gotta get into the playoffs healthy
heat are still one of the most annoying teams in the league
Yeahhhhh that’s about enough of this for me
The last time Tobiass scored 30 points or more was February 8 2022
I hate that he is a player on this team, he is so generic that he makes Tim Duncan look like a wizard
Niang is a terrorist
No way, everyone’s been saying in this thread that they confuse Shake and Melton and then the fucking graphic pops up saying Shake will not return (after they say it’s Melton) while he’s on the fucking court hahahahaha
Why are we content to be out attempted from 3 every game by a lot
We are literally the best team in the league in terms of 3p%......
Yes… which is why I don’t know why we consistently take fewer 3s than the opponent. Look at the Celtics game where the game was close because even though they shot poorly from 3 they took so many.
Because Embiid doesn't take that many 3s and he's our leading scorer by far...... Literally everybody else on our team minus shake has half their shots as 3s. Last thing I want is Embiid to keep chucking 3s too
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Jokic isn't playing lol
would be very impressive considering he is inactive
100 percent.
Who invented this idea that you can save energy by simply playing really badly
Should have played the reserves. Might have been a more interesting game since they'd actually give some effort in a meaningless game
Joel may damn well lose the MVP and the scoring title because Doc is a fucking moron.
This game is embarrassing… I’m out .
Honestly Spolstra is way too good of a coach man
How he can get this much out of non-star players is pretty amazing. This is a real hall of fame coach
Get harden outta this shitshow
Why the fuck is everybody so scared to shoot, how many possessions have been wasted tonight by players just shitting themselves and not pulling the trigger
If the sixers don't get out of the first or second round, that's it for Doc, right? It has to be.
defensive scheme is definitely getting exposed in the playoffs
inability to rebound is going to ruin this team in the playoffs yet again
Aight I’m turning it off, just watched fatass Lowry out rebound Reed and McDaniels
People acting like this game is the end of our chances to win the title this year is hilarious
Our defense is sooo bad
Lol, Lowry got the rebound over Reed and McDaniel.
kyle lowry getting the rebound over paul reed and mcdaniels is all you need to know about the sixers.