Sixers, have close to the most talent

[Blueaz]

according to all of these experts... so, they should be one of the very best teams and are expected to make a huge playoff run?
Of course not... they say; too young, no proven leaders, no really good vets, need to mesh and gel as a team, one injury can turn it... 3-4 years the will be great.
They will be extremely lucky to be .500 this year.
But Cal haters, say Cal can't coach because he can't WIN IT ALL (had to have Davis) with all the great potential lotto picks that he has had.
6 elite eights. 4 final fours. 1 championship. Most tourney wins. Most wins overall (with ONE crap year) since arrival at UK. But, he can't coach. I am so sick of that crap.
Yes, he should have at least one more tile, so the eff what.
RP should have at least one more title and two more FF...and YET, he is considered by almost everyone as a GREAT coach.
Smh...jsmdh

 

[Nuke99m]

NBA is a different beast than the NCAA.

 

[DSmith21]

The 76ers are going to have to gel with each other for several years before they can contend. Embiid will have to stay healthy and Simmons must learn to be less selfish. I bet that one or more of their stars leaves before that all happens.

 

[Big_Blue79]

according to all of these experts... so, they should be one of the very best teams and are expected to make a huge playoff run?
Of course not... they say; too young, no proven leaders, no really good vets, need to mesh and gel as a team, one injury can turn it... 3-4 years the will be great.
They will be extremely lucky to be .500 this year.
But Cal haters, say Cal can't coach because he can't WIN IT ALL (had to have Davis) with all the great potential lotto picks that he has had.
6 elite eights. 4 final fours. 1 championship. Most tourney wins. Most wins overall (with ONE crap year) since arrival at UK. But, he can't coach. I am so sick of that crap.
Yes, he should have at least one more tile, so the eff what.
RP should have at least one more title and two more FF...and YET, he is considered by almost everyone as a GREAT coach.
Smh...jsmdh

Just as with UK, people confuse talent with current production. One measures potential, the other measures output. The word "talent" is the most misused in all of college basketball (and probably sports).

 

[Big_Blue79]

The 76ers are going to have to gel with each other for several years before they can contend. Embiid will have to stay healthy and Simmons must learn to be less selfish. I bet that one or more of their stars leaves before that all happens.

Realistically, teams control first round picks for 8 years (rare exceptions, like Monroe). That puts Embiid leaving in 5 years. I think they'll do all right before then.

 

[DSmith21]

Realistically, teams control first round picks for 8 years (rare exceptions, like Monroe). That puts Embiid leaving in 5 years. I think they'll do all right before then.

That is unless they do more stupid things like trading Noel for next to nothing.

https://www.si.com/nba/2017/02/23/nerlens-noel-trade-mavs-76ers-grades-justin-anderson-andrew-bogut

 

[seccats04]

Yes but every good team is young nowadays in college basketball because that's where all the good players are and they leave early. That is no excuse. The NBA is full of vets so it's much harder to win with a young team.

 

[Smashcat]

NBA is a different beast than the NCAA.

And becoming even more different.

 

[BlueBomb]

Ya'll just need to accept the fact that Cal will have to live with the "under-performing" label until he wins another one.

And I can certainly understand why: I guarantee you that if any of our rival coaches had as much talent as we have had, that most all of you would say he underachieved under the same circumstances. That's what fans do. If you're being honest, you'd probably agree.

Personally, I do not think Cal has under-achieved. But if he fails to win another title while at UK, it will be tough to argue his case.

 

[Big_Blue79]

Yes but every good team is young nowadays in college basketball because that's where all the good players are and they leave early. That is no excuse. The NBA is full of vets so it's much harder to win with a young team.

UNC last year was young? Villanova in 2016 was young? And relative youth is not "where all the good players are" in the NCAA. For example, Frank Mason, or Kennedy Meeks. Or Justin Jackson. All excellent college basketball players last year, all with substantial experience. Yet these guys went second round, outside the lottery, and undrafted, respectively. So while the most "talented" players were almost all young, a lot of the best players in the NCAA last year were not so young.

 

[JLucky1]

NBA doesn't have a single elimination tournament either. If Kawhi doesn't get hurt the Spurs would have won the first game of the series with Golden State. The ncaa tournament is so unpredictable when you get the the elite eight and final four.