The man is full of hope and optimism for the team. Maybe he's misguided, maybe not. This team is a true unknown. It may work or it may fail. Either way, it would look exactly as it looks right now. Some people have hope for the future. Some people see the failure as permanent. I'm not sure what either view says about…

Are you basing that on traditional scouting or advanced metrics?

He knew what was going on. The man saw an interesting challenge, agreed with the philosophy, especially the focus on player development, and dove in head first. He's exactly where he wants to be, and yes that happens to be south Philly.

Maybe you're right and the Sixers can go screw. I'm an 87ers fan starting now, before it's cool. Fishtown is gonna fall in line right behind me.

No, but the previous 15 years of irrelevance makes Hinkie a welcome change. I'll take a few years of watching some young guys develop (read bad basketball) if there's a decent chance of contention at the end if the tunnel. You may disagree, but I think there is. Talk shit about the process if you want; Lord knows it's…

I like MCW a whole lot. But the Sixers know way more about the kid (and basketball) than I do, and if they think MCW isn't going to be good enough to run their offense through, I gotta defer. No, I'm not happy about it, but I don't entirely disagree with it either.

Covington, Grant, Thompson, McDaniels. Wait, scratch that last one.

Some people are very studied about the affects of extremely obscure shit on other extremely obscure shit, so very studied.

KJ would probably have been gone next year. Why not get something for him instead of letting him walk?

The length thing is presumably about being disruptive on defense, which MCW is. He also sees the court well and makes heads up plays. My guess is he was traded because his value is high by virtue of his inflated counting stats and ROY. He hasn't developed as a threat to get to the basket and he still can't shoot. If…

As a Sixers fan, this is a nightmare scenario. Embiid's our best shot right now. And speaking of shots... Here's to hope!

Yeah well, it's somewhat established that they're not trying to win this year.

MCW put up good numbers, but they're inflated because he's on a bad team. The numbers are what make him worth a high 1st round pick (and got him ROY). He has good D and court vision but a mediocre handle, and no shot. If the Sixers don't think he's their PG of the future and they think the draft is deep, I'm all for…

KJ was on a 1 year deal. I doubt he would have signed with us next year. A second round pick is better than letting the guy walk.

Maybe so, but as a Sixers fan I'm okay with it as long as I don't have to watch us trot out some predictable 8 seed team with upside role players trying to be super stars. I don't know what more intelligent strategies you're referring to, but I've seen a bunch of then over the past 15 or so years since we were…

That's not really fair. We'll redefine pumped about our team maybe. Personally, I was pumped to see Pirates hats the past couple years, where I hadn't seen any for years. Pirates fans weren't insufferable, they were happy to see their team finally winning again. Look, a lot of fans are being defensive, but a lot of…

I see your point. But no, I wouldn't be excited because I wouldn't get to watch the team grow and I would feel no attachment to the players we end up with. This way, when (if) the team gets there, I'll be so fucking stupidly pumped about it. For the record, I personally think we have more like a 70% chance of…

MCW was a good defensive point guard with great court vision, but little patience and no shot. He was a triple double machine, partly because who the hell else is going to rack up stats on the Sixers. I'm definitely a fan of they guy, but if the Sixers didn't see him as their PG of the future, how can I say they're…

Assets work. We just got OKC's 1st round pick for literally nothing, because we had the cap space (an asset) to take on JaVale McGee's contract. Hinkie turned Jrue Holiday (an asset) into Nerlens Noel and the Laker's 1st round pick (probably a top 10) this year. Sure, it might not work, but that doesn't make it…

We don't know what we got for MCW yet, but it's at least the Lakers 1st round pick. The Sixers do not want to win now. We also got OKC's 1st round pick for literally nothing (signing and cutting JaVale McGhee). Now we potentially have 4 top 20 picks this year in a reportedly deep draft. I'm still excited about 2017,…