Lol we got peak Playoff Harden today. I love it.
This could be an interesting offseason in the NBA. Very interesting.
76ers may be at a crossroads
And this is like the 3rd one! This is one of those things where how do you improve now? They're staring up at the top now. They built a legit superteam when they got Butler then chose Simmons over him. It might not have seemed like doom at the time but we know how that ended. Now Harden is basically pressuring them to give him all the bag by using his old team as leverage? wow, hahaha. They will either get desperate or just sit in the middle. It would be almost impossible to see Harden as addition by subtraction at this point.
Kings have made it to the conference finals more recently than the Sixers and we had a 17 year span where we missed the postseason entirely. Time to start the second process?
Hey, at the very least, they are consistent. That's a well controlled process.Kings have made it to the conference finals more recently than the Sixers and we had a 17 year span where we missed the postseason entirely. Time to start the second process?
Losing in Game 7. Just anotherSixersDoc Rivers tradition.
And this is like the 3rd one! This is one of those things where how do you improve now? They're staring up at the top now. They built a legit superteam when they got Butler then chose Simmons over him. It might not have seemed like doom at the time but we know how that ended. Now Harden is basically pressuring them to give him all the bag by using his old team as leverage? wow, hahaha. They will either get desperate or just sit in the middle. It would be almost impossible to see Harden as addition by subtraction at this point.
They have the current MVP on their squad, a good coach, a couple of very good young guards in Maxey and Melton, and just one year left of that Tobias Harris albatross contract. James Harden having another poor Game 7 is a bit concerning given that it feeds an existing narrative but like others have said, Tatum was in line for all the smoke until he suddenly came alive at the end of Game 6 to extend Boston's season and now he gets to be the hero. Steph Curry very nearly ended the Warriors season with his TO at the end of Game 4 in our series and then he ended up having that huge Game 7. Harden didn't have a great series overall but he carried them in Game 1 without Joel and had two games of 40+ points so his poor shooting in Game 7 isn't indicative of anything other than bad timing.
Then again, this is the NBA so panic and overreaction is pretty much a given right?
If this were their first go around it would be something else. They do still have talent but they are definitely heading into gambling range. If they sign Harden to a max deal, what does Harris coming off the books do? See how that works? This will basically be their 3rd iteration. If Embiid is cool with a partial reset that would be the best course of action but definitely means letting Harden walk. We'll see, never know they could work some Lakers magic and fill a bunch of holes with teams stepping up to help.