2011-12 season team was 35-31, lost in conference finals
2012-13 season, team was 34-48, no playoffs
5/14/13 Hired by the Team
6/27/13 Drafted Michael Carter Williams
7/12/13 Trades True Holiday to NO for Nerlins Noel (who was the 6th pick that year) and top 5 protected 2014 1st rounder
2013-14 season, team finishes 19-63, MCW rookie of the year
6/20/14 Drafted Embiid with the 3rd pick
6/20/14 Drafted E. Payton with the 10th pick from the Holiday trade with NO
6/20/14 Traded E. Payton for D. Saric and a 2017 1st round pick
2/19/15 Trades MCW for LAL 1st round pick, top 5 protected in '15, top 3 protected in '16 & '17 unprotected in '18
2014-14 season, team finishes 18-64
6/20/15 drafted J Okafor with the 3rd pick
7/19/15 trades two nobodies and a 2nd rounder to SAC for 3 bench players = the right to swap 1st round pick in /16 and '17 and SAC 1st round pick in '19
2015-16 season, team finishes 10-72, one game short of all time worst record. It is the worst W-L% by any NBA team over a three year period
6/23/16 selects Ben Simmons with the 1st pick of the draft.
As the team is constituted now, neither Noel nor Okafor was deemed good enough to get the 3rd pick in this year's draft as they have lost value since drafted. (23rd and 6th picks) The team with three bigs have at least one part that doesn't fit.
They have future assets of:
All of our 1st round picks
LAL 1st round pick top 3 protected in '17, unprotected thereafter
SAC 1st round pick in '19
SAC right to swap spots with them in '17
A shitload of money to spend, however, with rising cap, teams are less needing to let good players leave for money reasons.
My question is, if neither Okafor and Noel are worth the 3rd pick of a two player draft, and Embiid is a big man who hasn't played in 2 1/2 years with foot problems, even if Simmons is good, how good is this team? We were in conference finals in 2011-12, how long till we get there again?
If you had to do over, would you adopt the Hinkie plan?
What makes it easy for me to tolerate, is that this is not the Eagles. I have no addiction to Sixers b-ball, so when they tanked, I just tuned out. To me, I have no time to watch a team that is trying not to win. If they change that philosophy this year, then I will tune in. For any who bought into Hinkie's plan, would you be able to do that for a team you love, like the Eagles??
And if this year we are bottom three in the league again, is a FOUR year tank worth it?
How long is an acceptable window until we get back to the conference finals?