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Jeanr. Why even try
No other eagles fans will use this fan thread...theyll just make a new thread every time anything happens...no matter how miniscule or irrelevant

Quote (Terps @ Nov 17 2016 12:12am)

Bad teams don't deserve fan threads

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Nicholas Sciria ‏@Nick_Sciria 6m6 minutes ago

Nik Stauskas is your leader in TS% so far this season. He might actually be an NBA player, folks.

that surprised me, but shooting 55% from the field and 46 from three will do that

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He has looked very, very confident lately.

Much needed outside shooting to compliment our big men.

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Joel Embiid continued his rapid scoring pace, racking up 22 points in 23 minutes in Monday’s win. Embiid has 184 points in 221 career minutes, a rate of 30 points per 36 minutes. For those curious, the NBA record for points per 36 minutes is 28.3, by Michael Jordan.

Embiid has five 20-point games, all of which came in games in which he played 26 minutes or fewer (the five in 26 minutes are the most such games in the NBA).

Embiid made his 11th 3-pointer of the season on Monday. He has more 3-pointers in his first 10 games than Stephen Curry made in his first 10 games. Curry made nine in 56 more minutes.

Quote (Dominicano @ Nov 22 2016 02:44pm)

Dont forget hes the 1st player ever to go 4-4 from the 3 pt line.


Over 7 foot..


In Philly.

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The Sixers have split time between Embiid, Jahlil Okafor and Rishuan Holmes at center. They have split time between Ersan Ilyasova and Dario Saric at power forward.

Soon they will have two more players who are molded to play the 4 or 5 position.

"It's going to be hard," head coach Brett Brown told the media recently. "You can talk about maybe playing two of them together to free things up. None of us can underestimate that we have pretty good '4' men in Dario and Ersan. It's not like we just bump people down. It's on me as the head coach to figure it out."

Having seven players taller than 6-foot-10 should be a luxury. The only problem is, many of those are franchise cornerstones and young players who need to see action. Short of a trade — which many expect could send Nerlens Noel packing, if not someone else — Brown will need to make sense of his roster.

Just to educate the causal fan, here is what Brown is left to deal with:

— 7-foot Joel Embiid (third overall pick in 2013)
— 6-foot-11 Jahlil Okafor (third overall pick in 2015)
— 6-foot-11 Nerlens Noel (sixth overall pick in 2013)
— 6-foot-10 Dario Saric (12th overall pick in 2014)
— 6-foot-10 Ben Simmons (first overall pick in 2016)
— 6-foot-10 Ersan Ilyasova (recently acquired via trade with Thunder)
— 6-foot-10 Richaun Holmes (second-rounder)

As you can see, there's a lot of talent — most of it drafted recently and highly — and there are only two spots on the floor, with 48 minutes each to offer the respective players above.

There is no mathematical way to get more than two on the floor at once (short of perhaps playing Simmons at small forward) and as was seen last season when Noel and Okafor shared the floor, it's hard for the aforementioned big men to cooperate.

There are certainly worse problems for a coach to have, but few envy the decisions Brown will need to make in the coming months.