Mik317 wrote:again the gameplan seemed to be for Biid to make sure his guy can't get to the boards due to his lack of lift. Most of the orebs were from Hart flying in from the 3pt line for example which is moreso on Tobias/Batum IMO.
But also they are simply an insane oreb team lol.
sometimes its okay to give credit to the other team without it being defcon 1 over here and the team needing to be imploded lol
many seem to have gone into this series with the belief that we simply outclass the Knicks when all season long that has proven to not be the case. Each loss from the regular season came due to being killed on the boards, random hot shooting, and no Biid....and what do you know? Same thing happening now.
The way I see it...we are a two and maybe a half man team rn. McBride is outscoring our bench by himself most nights. They pretty consistantly have gotten 4 good-great performances from players most nights...and even when guys like Hart have off nights...he still pulls down 17 boards. I feel like a broken record but basketball is a TEAM sport and the bottom line is that we rely on one guy to do too much atm. They have survived subpar Brunson performances; we need Biid AND Maxey to score 30 no matter what. Bu-but they are the best players so they HAVE to do it anyway or else they are fraud beta quitters with no dawg who don't want it enough doe. I just don't think that is the correct way to approach anything imo.
We aren't trading Biid or Maxey. Morey didn't reup to rebuild. Nurse didn't sign here to rebuild. Harris wants a new stadium and going Process 2.0 doesn't seem to be the best way to do that. So even if you really really really want it and think thats the best path forward....i simply do not see it happening atm and thus it is really pointless to even talk about...because if thats the case then I will keep going on about how we should just get Wemby for Paul Reed. THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU CANNOT "CRITICIZE" BIID. Again I have been waiting for the real stinker game from Biid this entire run. I have said on plenty of occasions that I don't think you can win with Biid as the do everything guy. There is more than enough to get on him for.
I like(d) this place because it was the one place in which the discourse wasn't always "this guy sucks and we should trade him because he is a bitch"; that you get everywhere else...and yet every single loss here we go lol. I am so zen about the losses this year because despite it all I think Maxey and Biid have shown enough that we still have a shot even if said shot is miniscule as ****. I am the guy who made the negative nancy thread (was more of an attempt at a reverse jinx....kinda worked because that Miami game was my biggest fear...as it would mean we would have had to face boston) ffs. The way I see it...despite Biid being a corpse again and Maxey going awol for long stretches and the rest of the team being old, buns, or somehow both...and despite us being down 3-1 and probably about to lay the biggest of stinkers in game 5...we have been in every game which a shot to win it. Now I don't know what is possible this offseason and I have my doubts a bout Morey's plan....but it doesn't feel as near hopeless as previous end of year times were IMO. I would have traded Biid for Scoot Henderson last offseason it was so bad lol. That can quickly change and this is very much the last rodeo so to speak but idk I don't get the angst this year.
tldr: we are losing "mostly" due to our 3-15....most of which won't even be here next year; relax.
Fully agree. Remember that this is the year we traded one of our stars for Batum, Morris, RoCo and replenished our draft assets. I think it was quite clear that the roster construction as is, had a very low probability of making a deep play off run given Embiid's health. I predicted that trading for Hield was a mistake, since it costed us somewhat valuable picks but wouldn't be enough to get us over the hump.
This offseason will be so huge, since we have to determine our path forward. I do hope that this series pushes our FO towards a direction of having a really good 7-8 man rotation instead of 3 stars, surrounded by scraps.
I kind of enjoy watching the Knicks to be honest, the level of cohesiveness on defense, the balance between hustle/energy and composure is amazing. With the modern NBA and defenses being capable of helping and rotating back on such high levels, requires all players on the court to have amazing processing speed. I think the best example is Lowry probably being our 3rd best player this series, despite being 38 years old and 6'1''.
But ultimately we need Maxey to make another development leap (perhaps unfair to him), but we need better playmaking from him if he simply can't blow by people. Let him watch Brunson navigate screens the entire offseason. Throwing the ball to Embiid in the 4th quarter is just not a sustainable clutch offense.
