players seem to be pretty pissed that he was let go

joe table wrote:Wasn’t Udoka only here for like a year? He’s not a Brett crony

Yes but did we notice any improvement at all this year from any part of the coaching? This may have been the entire staff's worst year.

Udoka was head of defense this season, right? maybe the worst our defense has looked for all of BB's tenure.

Is Luc Mbah a Moute a coach yet? Feel like we should get him on staff

Front office and coaching take: Get rid of them both, and now. Keeping one of them doesn't solve anything. This league is based off three point shooting and defense, and he built a team that would have been awesome in 1988 with all the size. Need at least four above average shooters, with two of them coming off the bench. Brown was hamstrung with Horford (terrible signing) and Embiid because they would get doubled and there wasn't a consistent long range threat. Harris and Richardson are so-so from deep, you need snipers even if you pay for it on the defensive end.

Talent take: Honestly one of the most difficult teams to assess. Does Ben ever get a jump shot that he can consistently drain from 18 feet? Does Embiid stay healthy? Horford and Harris have close to immovable contracts, you have to pay to get them elsewhere, and I think Horford will never get traded due to age, skill decline and contract. No real shooters. Shake Milton is a scrub, the Celtics ate him alive all series.

Overall, the franchise obviously has a ton of talent on the individual level, but the chaos associated with lack of coaching and talent management is really disturbing. Don't like that list of coaches, Wright can stay at Villanova and is already considered an all time great. Sad state of affairs.

Napalm wrote:Is Luc Mbah Moute a coach yet? Feel like we should get him on staff

Have to see what Jim Lynam thinks about that.

MoBettle wrote:

Napalm wrote:Is Luc Mbah Moute a coach yet? Feel like we should get him on staff

Have to see what Jim Lynam thinks about that.

I'd also like Randy Ayers' opinion

I dont see Wright leaving Nova. The rest of that list who knows

ek20 wrote:I dont see Wright leaving Nova. The rest of that list who knows

Do we know if Lue is actually good? I know when LeBron is basically your coach you just get minimized but maybe he's good?

I will say this in Brand’s defense: the team would be really good (and not out of place in this millennium) if Harris scored more and more efficiently and Richardson played more like his Miami version.

I think he botched the roster. But he’s collected good talent (disregarding the price) and it would be fair to let him try to get a coach that will maximize his team.

I would like to clean house, but I won’t be too upset if Brand gets another shot. Also, Brand is a smart guy who hasn’t been in the job long. It’s a harder job now that we’re capped out, but we shouldn’t discount the possibility of him getting better at it.

Should he be fired as a punitive measure for fucking up the current roster or as a preventative measure to keep him from fucking it up more? If it’s the former, are we actually accomplishing anything productive by firing him? If it’s the latter, maybe we should account for him improving.

It would’ve been nice for him to go through growing pains when we weren’t trying to compete for a title, but that’s life sometimes.

In under 18 hours I swung back from being done with basketball to being a hopeful optimist again. Record timing.

i pretty much think the sixers would be on his very, very shortlist for wright making the jump to the NBA. his family loves philly. i think it's a perfect time for him. the college season is a question mark. it allows the university to save money on his salary and forced to go the interim route with kyle neptune. he's actually doing neptune and the rest of the staff a favor by letting them see how they do in whatever kinda year they put together for college hoops. if let's say he goes to philly and gives it a couple of years and fails, he can live out the rest of his days on tobacco road when a certain job there inevitably opens up.

Lots of doom and gloom with the Tobi and Al deals all over local and national media. The Sixers may have 2 of the 5 worst contracts in the NBA, which is special.

I feel like they can fix Tobias still. He was an elite corner 3 guy before he got here. I am gonna hold out hope that a new coach can get him to be a catch and shoot 3 guy at the 4, stop putting him at the 3 where he just doesn't fit. If he has a mismatch on a hard close out, drive. No more 1995 plodding post ups that result in 15 foot turnaround jumpers. No more ball stopping.

Yeah, contract aside, Tobi is hardly irredeemable. He’s a real pro, works hard and with the right coach in the right system there’s no reason he can’t contribute.

We used to run the hammer for Dario and I expected us to do it a lot for Tobi when he got here and I don’t really remember that ever being a part of our playbook. Am I just not recalling it or did we not really run it?

Gimpy wrote:We used to run the hammer for Dario and I expected us to do it a lot for Tobi when he got here and I don’t really remember that ever being a part of our playbook. Am I just not recalling it or did we not really run it?

good point.... i'm having a difficult time remembering this either.

azrider wrote:i pretty much think the sixers would be on his very, very shortlist for wright making the jump to the NBA. his family loves philly. i think it's a perfect time for him. the college season is a question mark. it allows the university to save money on his salary and forced to go the interim route with kyle neptune. he's actually doing neptune and the rest of the staff a favor by letting them see how they do in whatever kinda year they put together for college hoops. if let's say he goes to philly and gives it a couple of years and fails, he can live out the rest of his days on tobacco road when a certain job there inevitably opens up.

While I agree that the Sixers are pretty much the only NBA job Jay would consider (even he's said as much), I just don't see why he leaves Villanova unless he's just completely bored (and he doesn't seem to be).

Also, pretty sure a healthy chunk of his compensation is covered by boosters, plus basketball is Villanova's top marketing vehicle, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to make that the focus of any cost saving measures IMO.

Eddie Jordan wrote:I feel like they can fix Tobias still. He was an elite corner 3 guy before he got here. I am gonna hold out hope that a new coach can get him to be a catch and shoot 3 guy at the 4, stop putting him at the 3 where he just doesn't fit. If he has a mismatch on a hard close out, drive. No more 1995 plodding post ups that result in 15 foot turnaround jumpers. No more ball stopping.

JFLNYC wrote:Yeah, contract aside, Tobi is hardly irredeemable. He’s a real pro, works hard and with the right coach in the right system there’s no reason he can’t contribute.

Agree that Tobias can turn it around, but certainly very concerned with what we've seen over the past two seasons, particularly in the playoffs. I worry about his assertiveness and I'm just not sure how you fix that - hopefully through confidence via a better scheme and position.

Seems wrong that the team hasn't officially fired BB yet and there are already names being leaked to the press for a replacement. I can't stand Brett as a coach but he doesn't deserve to sit through something like that playing out in the media. Fire him now

Not surprised at all

His assertive will probably always wax and wane, but I thought it was strong the past few games. Just in the wrong way -- stopping the ball, yeah, and just sort of crashing into people in the lane.

Blows my mind there wasn't a concerted effort to park one of him or Horford in the corner, trigger finger primed, at all times.

Grotewold wrote:His assertive will probably always wax and wane, but I thought it was strong the past few games. Just in the wrong way -- stopping the ball, yeah, and just sort of crashing into people in the lane.

Blows my mind there wasn't a concerted effort to park one of him or Horford in the corner, trigger finger primed, at all times.

I think Brett felt the weight of the situation and probably coached his worst 4 games of his entire tenure. Nothing really made a whole lot of sense, he's fortunate that the team didn't just outright quit because otherwise you easily could have had a few more games that resembled game 2.