It is amazing to me how you guys cannot just admit something isn't working or hasn't worked yet. You act like these drafts didn't happen. Let's try this again slowly: the Sixers have tried to lose as many games as possible in order to achieve the best possible draft position. They have sold a bill of goods that has never been proven, that the only possible way to win in the NBA is to try and lose games. In this quest, they lost games for two straight seasons. This was supposed to provide the building blocks that would change the culture and go towards building something. They acquired two lottery picks last season, a top pick this year and multiple 2nd rounds as well as cap space. This was to wheel and deal to remake the team. After our third draft, the only thing the Sixers have to show for all this losing is Noel. Note, it cost them a quality player in Holiday so it's not without cost. Despite the hard and fast evidence/roster, you guys want to act like these last 2 years and 3 drafts didn't happen. Excuse after excuse. They got Embiid, who is projecting as a nothing. Saric, who hasn't played one minute of NBA ball and none of us know what he is at the NBA level, Okafor who slipped once the NBA scouts realized he cannot run the floor, cannot defend and cannot shot, and another top 10 pick who looks like half the other top 10 picks that flame out. Teams can absolutely build through the draft. However, you guys have some how equated building through the draft as tanking to only get high picks. The point from Golden State is that you don't need to do tank in order to build through the draft. You simply need to draft well at your given picks. Which is my point. The Warriors at 7, 11 and 35 got better players than the Sixers were able to get despite trying to lose all in order to draft better players. Now here is the real kicker. They actually developed those players because they drafted older guys who were more ready to play and surrounded them with structure. The Sixers got unlucky in the draft. However, when your strategy is partly based on getting lucky and it doesn't happen, you guys want to divorce that from the strategy. However, you cannot do so. The GM has to be accountable because that's a key element in his plan and why they keep hording all these picks. They are simply playing the percentages which demonstrates a lack of confidence in your ability to do it the other way a la Golden State, nail your picks and try to build something without sacrificing 3 years to do it. The Sixers are tanking for the third consecutive year and you guys all want to sit around and act like this was the plan all along. No, this was the year they were supposed to be competitive and have multiple pieces playing in the NBA. It hasn't happened. Why are we trying to argue otherwise. We can all look at the roster and see they are in a similar spot today as they were 3 years ago. They have one good young player a bunch of picks and "what if's". And please don't point to all these picks as being players who win games. Until those picks are actual players who help win games the only thing they represent is another paycheck for the GM who keeps kicking the can a year down the road each offseason.
