Gimpy wrote:Howard Eskin ‏@howardeskin 3h
Took #sixers all day 2 deny @SixersCEOAdam report? Just another "spin" 4 a team that wants everything 2b a secret. Let's c how it plays out

I like how instead of "I was wrong" he says "what a joke of an organization! It took them all day to deny the phony report I made!"

Anybody that actually listens to this guy should be rounded up in some sort of camp.

mcare89 wrote:Yeesh, I'm away for one day and I missed four pages of whining. Time to set a couple of things straight, which I'm eminently qualified to do since I've been to so goddamn many Sixers games that I know what time the "This City" montage starts (6:31, for those of you scoring at home) and I memorized the Rock's return promo that they'd play at halftime for like three months (IT'S BEEN WAY TOO LONG BUT FINALLY, etc, etc) and apparently that's all it takes to have meaningful opinions.

1. I do not care that the team doesn't have a coach. Is it a little weird? Yeah, I guess. Seems like something you'd want to have in place pre-draft just to have another pair of eyes in the room. But really, I've seen far crazier things in the NBA.

2. This is not going to be an exciting hire. Brad Stevens is not walking through that door to coach the 76ers. I don't need an exciting hire. I don't need to blow the confetti budget on a sexy hire. Chris Finch or FIZDALE or whoever they hell they want to hire is honestly fine by me. My first choice was Shaw, and evidently he wasn't a fit. No big deal.

3. I'll never understand the vitriol towards Aron. I get that he's a little grating on twitter when most of us just want to be miserable about SIZZLERS ACTION, but look at all the bitching people do when everything's cloak-and-dagger. Aron has about as much to do with basketball decisions as I do. He's a marketing guy. If he wants to run around telling you this news can only be considered great, that's his schtick, and he does it well.

4. I pretty much agree with my esteemed colleague Mr. Table on the Hinkie logic with regards to where I think he's at with the coaching search.

The bottom line is that this guy has a plan. That's more than can be said for any Sixers team of the last 25 years. He's a smart guy who sold another smart guy on how he's going to create a winning basketball team. No matter what you think about analytics and nerds and all this manufactured stats vs I WATCH THE GAMES bullshit, when you take all of that out, this was the assistant GM of a team who won a shitload of games, and then when the window closed on that core, rebuilt until they had the assets to trade for a star. I trust the guy because unlike anybody we've had for a long fucking time, he has a track record of doing exactly what we want this team to do. Collect good basketball players. Trade those good basketball players for better basketball players. It's such a simple philosophy that even morons like Eskin and hay it's j.mitch should be able to figure it out.

Quick other thoughts:

- The Sixers coverage in this town is an absolute disgrace. I realize nobody gives a shit about the Sixers, but there's hundreds of smart writers out there that could and would cover this team for cheap. Everybody dropped the ball on Aron because everybody has the same goddamn source, and when that guy is fed misinformation, everybody gets taken for a ride. They're like us waiting for morsels from the RealGM boards.

- The idea of the paying customer getting fucked over in the case of Tanksville is fair, but if it's part of a long-term strategy, I think any businessman worth their salt (even TD could run this business!) would take a year of losses for the reward of several years of sustained success. Normally I'm anti-tanking, because at best you have a 25% chance at getting the top pick. But I love so many guys at the top of next year's draft that even getting in the top 5 would be worth it long-term for this team. If you're a season ticketholder (ATTN: DANROSZ), and the determining factor for you enjoying your time is Sizzler wins and losses, you have to see what they do and consider taking a year off, maybe supporting one of the many local college teams. You can suffer through J-Mitch at Temple with me!

- I'm tired now. The tldr version of this is EVERYBODY CHILL THE FUCK OUT. Also, Team Adi.