Shai-less Thunder > 76ers

Embiid not playing is their natural state.

He’s played 4, they’re 3-1 in those games

Maxey is better than Embiid.

You guys have an elite defender at literally every position. SGA might even be your worst perimeter defender which is insane to me

It was 45.9% before today’s game, its 44% now.

Josh Harris who appeared on the Epstein list shitloads of times? That Josh Harris?

The crazy thing is I don’t think it did? I think trading Eric Gordon was enough….

It’s one of those ones where the optics and semantics are important to navigate.

The justification for the trade is that they were selling high, but you probably want to put it in different words that convey the exact same thing while not seeming dismissive of the dude.

He was asked directly asked about the idea that he sold low. That’s why he said it. He says too much sometimes 

Frankly as a fan I prefer when the GM says too much, because I want to know what he’s thinking. 

I don’t consider myself to be an employee of the team’s PR staff. But that’s not a popular position now

I mean you still need bench scorers and you actually gota good return for Giddey

Idk. Even if it was a tax expenditure, they got basically nothing back for him. A 2026 first round pick from Houston and 3 2nds for McCain is chump change, that 1st rounder is gonna be like pick 26 or 27. Meanwhile the Sixers will be sending a late teens pick back to OKC, like you coulda at least secured your own pick in this year’s draft with McCain.

Those guys are playing 40 minutes a night. I don’t understand the thinking having four guards who can play is a bad thing. Thunder are more loaded at guard than the 76ers and McCain has found a way to make an impact and be valuable.

He’s played 2 games with Shai? Last night he had 12

Grimes has been playing well? Tf you watching, last years tape?

Morey bad, upvotes please.

He played in 23 games…

We’re almost two years removed from his rookie season. How long does he get to skate on his jump out of the gate. I agree he’s a solid role-player, but acting like he’s some valuable asset completely ignores his completely forgettable second season so far.

That means they’re 5-3 without SGA, so no I don’t find that impressive for a team as good and deep as the Thunder haha

I’m not doubting he’s been a useful piece, I just really don’t find team records relevant at all once the slightest bit of context is considered

McCain is playing well, that’s really all this post should’ve been

He’s filling the Ajay Mitchell slot right now. J-Dub and Ajay have both been injured since the trade. He isn’t getting 6th guard minutes

He’s a valuable role player because Thunder need an offensive spark in the backcourt at times. Their defensive role players are the ones fighting for time.

How many games have those guys played out of the last ten?

If your 6th guard in the rotation is getting minutes then the answer is yes. Most teams do not go anywhere near that deep at guard depth.

Why does this have any upvotes? Even a damn Thunder fan forgot a lot of the players he just listed haven’t even been playing for his own team🤣

Why does this have any upvotes? Even a damn Thunder fan forgot a lot of the players he just listed haven’t even been playing for his own team🤣

This sub is wild- how many players averaging 13ppg (with poor defense) in this league are worth a frp and 2 2nds? 

Payne can play pg- mccain is a wing in a pg’s body.  Philly needed a backup pg.

We literally just needed a guy to come in and get 6 or 7 ppg off the bench because that’d been the difference in most of our losses this year and in the playoffs last year. And that’s exactly what McCain give us.

I fully agree that the timing is open to debate. My assumption is that they saw little chance his value had much room to increase, particularly if he was played off the floor in the playoffs, but more chance for it to decrease, if he remained somewhere from 6-10 in our rotation. I had visions of Jaylen Brown relentlessly hunting him in a series, for instance. McCain started looking way better in the couple weeks before the trade, and my preference would have just been to keep him for another season or two. But he was almost certainly going to be traded at some point, and I think people are underestimating the value of restocking on some solid but not spectacular picks for Philly as they try to kind of two-timeline this thing. 

I disagree. OKC has so many picks that this trade affected their trade resources only a tiny amount. Whether they made this or not will not change much of anything they do this summer. For the sixers, they are restricted by things like the Stepien rule which this helps alleviate and greatly expands trade options this summer. For instance, this pick could easily be the difference between us being able to move off PG’s contract or not (I don’t favor burning picks to do so but it’s an option), and so it drastically affects our options this summer and beyond.

Yall are way better than us

What does that have to do with Embiid’s absence affecting results?