welpWell they were bottom three in attendance all three years and had the lowest average over his span in the league, so I don't think that's valid
As a caveat to 1, I'll say that you need a good and stable coaching staff that understands and buys into the process. And for two, I think it's less about only drafting good players with ur draft picks but rather getting value for your resources. But otherwise I agree with those three points
Now what did Hinkie do that was against those three things?
Based on his public comments, he emphasized over and over the benefit of multi-year tanking. However, I do not recall him ever spending much talking about what they were doing in terms of player development or long term coaching strategy. Accordingly, it is unclear if he really understands that those aspects are more important than the tanking aspect.
Additionally, I can't help notice that the 76ers are not significantly better off than many other teams who were rebuilding during the same time span. Hinkie took over as Philadelphia's GM in the summer of 2013, where the 76ers were coming off a 34-48 record. Here is a list of teams who were as bad or worse as that at the end of the 2012-2013 or 2013-2014 seasons:
Toronto Raptors
Boston Celtics
Cleveland Cavaliers* (ok, maybe this one shouldn't count)
Milwaukee Bucks
Washington Wizards
Utah Jazz
New Orleans Hornets
Portland Trailbalzers
Minnesota Timberwolves
That's over half of the playoff field.
The fact that they have the luxury of making that decision tho .well one thing is for sure, assuming all of them stay put, there will be some hard decisions to make when it comes to pay everyone their payday
right now, they have a heap of talent on super cheap deals
that counts for something i guess
well, i can see thatThe fact that they have the luxury of making that decision tho .
I think Milwaukee is a decent coach away from being a perennial contender.
Based on his public comments, he emphasized over and over the benefit of multi-year tanking. However, I do not recall him ever spending much talking about what they were doing in terms of player development or long term coaching strategy. Accordingly, it is unclear if he really understands that those aspects are more important than the tanking aspect.
Additionally, I can't help notice that the 76ers are not significantly better off than many other teams who were rebuilding during the same time span. Hinkie took over as Philadelphia's GM in the summer of 2013, where the 76ers were coming off a 34-48 record. Here is a list of teams who were as bad or worse as that at the end of the 2012-2013 or 2013-2014 seasons:
Toronto Raptors
Boston Celtics
Cleveland Cavaliers* (ok, maybe this one shouldn't count)
Milwaukee Bucks
Washington Wizards
Utah Jazz
New Orleans Hornets
Portland Trailbalzers
Minnesota Timberwolves
That's over half of the playoff field.
Based on the fact that they have the best under 24 year old player in the NBA who is already an MVP candidate and who they have already signed to an extension and locked up for the next several years. Their top 7 players have an average age of only 25.4. They do not have any cap killing contracts and most questionable contracts that they do have expire after next season.Based on what?
Hinkie’s best move - and IMO the best part of the process - is not overpaying average players. Basically every team that is stuck in basketball limbo has some ungodly contract that is holding them back
Nuggets are paying Millsap $30m a year, Blazers have Turner at $17m, Wiz have Otto and Mahinmi at like $40m combined. This doesn’t even include the bad teams with awful contracts: Grizz/Parsons, Kings/Hill, Nets/Crabbe and Timofey, Erz/Deng, etc
But that was a 1-year deal when they had oodles of space this year so it doesn't even really count.I generally agree with this except that they did give JJ Reddick 23 million per year (expires at the end of the season). Aside from that, they did a good job of surrounding the young players with quality (but not expensive) veteran players. They will have to re-sign or replace 3 guys from their top 8 man rotation who are also among their best three point shooters. That shouldn't be a big problem, except if there was a way for Philly to mess this up, this is where it would happen.
I generally agree with this except that they did give JJ Reddick 23 million per year (expires at the end of the season). Aside from that, they did a good job of surrounding the young players with quality (but not expensive) veteran players. They will have to re-sign or replace 3 guys from their top 8 man rotation who are also among their best three point shooters. That shouldn't be a big problem, except if there was a way for Philly to mess this up, this is where it would happen.
Depends, do they plan on keep giving him 23 mil a year?Giving a guy a one year deal and then having him put up a career high in PPG is bad?
That has nothing to do with his contract thoDepends, do they plan on keep giving him 23 mil a year?
His contract was 1 year, 23 million dollars, so that is directly related to his contract. Now, if it was just a one time deal and they are not going to give him anything like that again, fine. No problem, good one year deal. But, if Philly ends up giving him something even close to that this summer, then that could be a problem.
I will probably be signing another one-year deal as bandwagon fan of the Suns. It looks like my one year of being a TLosses fan last year has already tanked them into oblivion!
Why are you already characterizing it like some terrible deal? They signed him for one year for $23 million. It worked out well. We can discuss what happens if they resign him. But for some reason you're categorizing it like they made some awful decision already. Even the way you initially described it is weird. You mention per year and expires at the end of the year like it was some five year deal that they're finally getting rid of.
Reading comprehension must be at an all time low. I didn't say the current Reddick deal was a horrible deal. I said that Philly overpaid him for this past year at 23 million a year (which is true), but I made special note that this was just a one year deal which expires at the end of this year. I went out of my way to say in the following post that as long as it was only a one year deal, then it was perfectly fine. Why are you trying to argue with me on a point that I agree with you on? The only danger I pointed out is that if Philly (more accurately Bryan Colangelo) tries to sign Reddick to multiyear deal at anywhere close to his current deal, then it would be a bad mistake.
Hinkie’s best move - and IMO the best part of the process - is not overpaying average players. Basically every team that is stuck in basketball limbo has some ungodly contract that is holding them back
I generally agree with this except that they did give JJ Reddick 23 million per year (expires at the end of the season).