Quote (Sopranos @ May 4 2017 03:11pm)
Makes a raptors bashing thread
Roots for the sixers
I mean the irony is just palpable. At least the turds can make it to the postseason. Sixers wont reach that territory for another decade.
You literally just can't comprehend the situation...
No shit the Raptors can make the playoffs, but they have no chance of winning it with this team. They will NEVER beat the Cavs, let alone the Warriors or Spurs or even Rockets lmao. That's a treadmill team, a team that can run all day long with the same success but never actually has a chance of advancing into the next level...they're running in the same spot, all day long.
Sixers have a really bright future, and actually have a vision and the potential to break into that level with top level caliber talent. We would rather be shit for several years to build a core like that, than be "good" but not contenders for years only to end up having to blow it up and restart like the Sixers already decided to do several years ago.
Hinkie said it best, so let's just refer to his resignation letter once he was foolishly forced out by Sixers ownership:
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"There has been much criticism of our approach. There will be more. A competitive league like the
NBA necessitates a zig while our competitors comfortably zag. We often chose not to defend ourselves
against much of the criticism, largely in an effort to stay true to the ideal of having the longest view in the
room. To attempt to convince others that our actions are just will serve to paint us in a different light among
some of our competitors as progressives worth emulating, versus adversaries worthy of their disdain. Call me
old-fashioned, but sometimes the optimal place for your light is hiding directly under a bushel.
A league with 30 intense competitors requires a culture of finding new, better ways to solve
repeating problems. In the short term, investing in that sort of innovation often doesn’t look like much
progress, if any. Abraham Lincoln said “give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four
sharpening the axe.”
It is critical to be cycle aware in a talent-driven league. In a situation like yours at the Sixers, where a
variety of circumstances left you near a trough in the cycle (and falling), amplifying this cycle became crucial.
Today’s outcomes for every team are heavily impacted by decisions past (who to draft, sign, trade, hire, etc.).
Jeff Bezos says that if Amazon has a good quarter it’s because of work they did 3, 4, 5 years ago—not
because they did a good job that quarter. Today’s league-leading Golden State Warriors acquired Draymond
Green, Andrew Bogut, and Klay Thompson almost 4 years ago, nearly 4 years ago exactly, and almost 5
years ago. In this league, the long view picks at the lock of mediocrity."
This post was edited by Sixers on May 4 2017 01:34pm