Improving the Sixers

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I would:

Get a new vet Coach with a good track record who believes in greater lineup concentration or will accept a mandate to practice such.

No lineup used over 72 minutes and 619 total is just totally unacceptable, to me.

Trade George if you can. For multiple pieces.

Fix Embid or trade or medically retire.

Keep one of Maxey and Grimes. Look to sign n trade Grimes or trade Maxey for preferably several players including most importantly a starting forward.

Give McCain big minutes.

Tell Oubre you intend to trade him if he takes his contract option.

Do what it takes to retain Yabusele.

Let Lowry go.

Hope Drummond moves on his own but weigh whether to retain if he takes option.

Do not retain Hood-Scifino.

Dowtin, depends on other actions and price.

Retain Butler.

Do not retain Walker.

Gordon depends on other actions but probably would try to trade later if he picks up option.

Not wedded to Bona or Council or Edwards but probably retain unless something clearly better is available. Probably retain Reese.

Add to / improve front office staff involved with lineup management and drafting.

Draft strategy should probably be swing for fences over picking up bench parts, if you see such an option. Focus on forwards. Likely Murray Boyles if retain high pick and available. Toppin, Lendeborg and Kaufman-Renn as main alternatives. If all they have is the 2nd rounder it could be lots of guys depending who remains available but should still be a forward.

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I guess I forgot to explicit list tanking to retain top draft pick or didn't think it necessary.

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Brissett and Okeke are decent choices to give another look. Both are looking good on ts%. A/TOs are horrendous and awful. Same for defensive rebounding. But see where they are at end of season. Reese looks pretty good in most ways but also has weak A/TO. Teammates, system,, coaching implicated. Sixers 29th on assists, 24th on turnovers.



Just 2 of 12 most used lineups positive. 19 of 20 most used pairs negative with the positive at +0.1. Poor results with lineup selectivity, starts with issues with roster selectivity. 14 guys better than -2 BPM, 12 worse.

Justin Edwards. Some ok stats but doesnt pass much and rarely gets to FT line. Leads to a nearly -4 BPM. Awful raw on / off. 40 minutes last night. -20 on court. 8 straight negative +/-s, 5 really bad. Weak overall on offense and defense in G league but elevated. Outside shot was decent but not alot else. Very weak as a freshman on a disappointing team. But I hear he was hot in high school.

Not that much to back that up since, but check back later I guess. March was weakest month yet on offense, defense, ts%, 3pt fg%, assists, rebounds...

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Edgecombe and Broome are good picks.

Will be interested in how much (if at all) Broome plays power forward.

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DraftKings expecting Sixers to be a 8th seed. If they are, will that be enough to defer major changes? Plenty of past talk about failure to get past 2nd round. Not impossible but doesn't seem like a good guess to make 2nd round. Missed games from injuries is obviously a major variable.

What level of Embid returns?

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Grimes still unsigned at this moment. Big gap in offer and request.

211th on Darko. Top 60ish on offense but bottom 30ish on defense. Pay for guys around 200 on Darko is all over the place. Lots of pay to performance mismatches both ways.

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Grimes takes QO. Under circumstances, understandable. Assume he is gone next season or possibly by trade he approves of.


Last chance in Philly for Embid? George? Nurse? Morey?

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Sixers at 1833 quads used last season was 2nd most chaotic at this level.

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Surprisingly good without the big name vets much.

Still hard to guess what happens this season and beyond.

154 lineups used. None over equivalent of 2.5 minutes per game for season. None in even half the games. 12 over 17 minutes is somewhat interesting. 8 positive, 4 negative. 10 most used pairs positive. 20 of 21 most used trios positive. Edgecombe in all 3 of best pairs over 150 minutes is impressive. Maxey in 4 of the 7 worst of that size. Drummond, 3. Not much at the top is beyond moderately negative.

Besides too many dinks, this is a good look.

Pretty average offense and defense and in the factor detail, except for 5th lowest foul rate.

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Maxey +6 BPM, Embid and George +3, Edgecombe -1. +3 for George is way better than last season's-0 4 and consistent with 2 previous seasons but still slightly below career average. +3.2 for Embid was 10% worse than last season and a career low but could be worse.

Embid with 13 games played. Most minutes of season yesterday at 32. Last 4 games were all top 5 for the season on gamescore.

Hear a lot of unsatisified Sixers fans because of the mid record.

George with good raw +/-, Embid barely positive. George 10 positive games, 3 negative. Embid 9 and 4 but not as strong in the detail.

29th on team efg% holds offensive efficiency to just 17th despite top 10 on other 3 offensive factors. Defense is a mix of top 10 on shot defense, average fouling and bottom 10 on opponent turnovers and defensive rebounding (worst factor at 22nd best).


7 of next 9 on road, including tomorrow against Thunder. Then 9 of 10 at home and so on bouncing around.

Lots of end of roster jockeying but nothing significant since draft.

McCain struggling and being criticized. Broome has barely played but has been awful. Edgecombe was good in Octover and again in December but had a weak November. Mostly ok on stats 37% 3pt fg% is probably the highlight Weak shooting otherwise, including just 58% at rim.

The main role players are decent (good), the deep bench is quite weak.

2 of 3 most used lineups are horrendous and barely above effectively 1 minute per game for season. 268 total lineups is pretty typical and typically way too much imo. What do they "really know" about lineups more than 1/3rd way thru season? Nothing reliably. At pair level, 6 of 7 best in 20 most used have Maxey, Edgecombe or both and none have Embid or George because of minutes at least. Embid 5 positive / 5 negative on 10 rotation pairs. Best with Barlow and George. Most of the negative are very mild but indicate tension with perimeters. George mostly good but also just meh with Maxey. Best trios are almost all totally perimeter, if you count Oubre as perimeter / non-big.

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Sixers adjusting.Embid playing, George not for a new reason but will be back. McCain let go.

Better than last season but so they matter in playoffs? We'll find out