Die Sixers hatten vor dem Trade schon 15 Spieler im Roster, oder?
Dann wäre Anthony der 16. gewesen und somit hätte man diese Transaktion nicht durchführen können.
Richtig, Jakarr wurde nur entlassen um den trade durchziehen zu können.
Die Sixers hatten vor dem Trade schon 15 Spieler im Roster, oder?
Dann wäre Anthony der 16. gewesen und somit hätte man diese Transaktion nicht durchführen können.
That's the problem with building a team around an offensive-minded 5 - you are going to be waiting a long time for their defense to catch up. The Sacramento Kings have this problem with DeMarcus Cousins and the Orlando Magic have this problem with Nik Vucevic. DeMarcus has only begun to figure it out on defense in the last 2 years and that's still pretty hit or miss. Vucevic hasn't figured it out at all and my suspicion is that his presence at the 5 is one of the reasons why all the talent in Orlando hasn't coalesced into a winning basketball team. There's just a ceiling on how good your team can be when you are playing a sieve at the front of the rim - especially when there are a lot of young players in front of him who are making mental mistakes and giving up penetration - and it doesn't matter how many points he's scoring on offense if he's giving up just as many on defense.
The thing people don't get about the draft is that it's not just about finding the best players and maximizing the WARP you can select from your draft position. You have to draft players with an idea of what they are good at and what type of role they can have on a good team and then put them in a position to succeed. Nerlens could be a starter on an elite team if he's the roll man in a spread pick-and-roll outfit surrounded by shooters and playing with a high-level PG. Asking him to be the 4-man in a two-post offense that wants to play in the half-court is a recipe for disaster. I'm not sure he fits with Joel Embiid and I know for a fact that he's not going to fit with Okafor. Philly's going to have to do something and there's not exactly a huge market out there to make a big for wings trade.
It's the same thing to a more limited extent in Philly. They've had Nerlens for 3 years and they are no closer to fitting him into a role that makes sense for his skill-set. They are just trying to draft the player with the most upside at every spot in the draft and hoping they will be able to figure it out later. The problem is they aren't figuring anything out and the guys they are drafting are making each other worse and not better. You can't draft players in a vacuum - if they have 4 first-round picks in this year's draft, who they draft with their first pick should have a huge impact on who they draft with their 2nd and their 3rd and their 4rth. That's also why there's a diminishing return for having too many draft picks because you can only commit to building around so many young players at a time. Whose their core and who are they trying to build around right now? Who knows?
Robert Covington - The crown jewel of their developmental model. He's bigger, more athletic and more fluid with the ball than Thompson. He might be a starting small-ball 4 on a good team but he's probably going to be best as a bench shooter. That's a problem when the crown jewel is a 7th or an 8th man on a good team.
Angeblich hat ja nicht viel gefehlt und Okafor wäre nach Boston getradet worden.
Allein die Tatsache beweist doch, dass man sich in Philly der Problematik mit dem
Duo Okafor/Noel bewusst ist. Wäre doch verwunderlich, wenn nicht.
Die on/off Statistiken sprechen ja auch eine deutliche Sprache. Auch wenn es schmerzhaft ist,
je früher man sich von der Illusion verabschiedet, um zwei (Starting) Center ein junges Team
aufbauen zu können, desto besser fährt man.
In Detroit hat man auch zulange geglaubt, mit Monroe/Drummond eine starkes Fundament gelegt zu haben.
Natürlich hat man mit miesen Coaches und der Smith-Verpflichtung alles getan, um diesen Plan
zu torpedieren. Dennoch passte es einfach nicht mit den Beiden. Wie viele Beispiele für ein derartiges
Experiment gibt es in den letzten 15 Jahren eigentlich in der NBA? Jetzt möge bitte niemand
mit Duncan/Robinson ankommen, zwei absoluten All-time Größen, die einfach talent- und skillmäßig
in einer anderen Sphäre unterwegs waren als die genannten Namen.
Im Sommer wird ein Trade erfolgen müssen. Spätestens dann sollte man auch Gewissheit haben, ob
Embiid jemals wieder den Platz betreten wird. Selbst wenn, glaubt wirklich noch jemand an eine Comeback
und eine längerfristige NBA-Karriere? Der Typ hat zwei Jahre nicht gespielt, einen kaputten Fuß und
ist in der Zwischenzeit nochmals gewachsen und sieht so aus wie ein Gigant, der 320+ Pfund durch die Gegend trägt.
Ganz bittere Geschichte.
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/7047/the-kevin-durant-conundrumNBA General Managers have selected Kevin Durant as the player most likely to have a breakout season, and he's everybody's pick to be the next player to join basketball's two most exclusive clubs: Team USA and the All-Star team. It's no surprise that Durant is on billboards and the covers of video games. (A surprise of the off-season was word that the Thunder won't be on national TV much; Durant has the trappings of a player the world will crowd around television sets to watch.)
And yet, a shocking piece of news: The Thunder have, over the last two years, consistently performed worse than normal when Durant is on the floor. Any way you slice the +/- numbers, he's one of the Thunder's worst players.
You read that correctly. Kevin Durant, uniformly regarded as an out-of-this-world NBA player, has been killing his team.
Sometimes +/- can punish players simply for being on bad teams, but this is more than that. Mavericks' statistical expert Wayne Winston's in-depth lineup data shows that every one of Durant's key teammates -- Russell Westbrook, Jeff Green, Nenad Krstic, Nick Collison -- gets better, in many cases far better, results playing with less heralded teammates Thabo Sefolosha or Kyle Weaver while Durant sits.
Ich denke trotzdem, dass viele von euch das Standing von Schröder in der NBA unterschätzen. In einer Team wie Philly legt der Allstar-like auf.
Ob das Team dadurch gewinnen würde ist eine andere Frage, aber einen aggressiven, scorenden PG zusammen mit einem dominanten BIG (wir hatten die Diskussionen mit dem perfekten Sidekick zu AD gerade im Pelicans-Thread-deswegen kann ich hier mal glänzen), könnte doch den Sixers gut stehen, oder?
Thema Embid+Schröder....