The faces on the 76ers players on the bench, as the 76ers are about to go down 0-3 in the series.
To get swept after coming back from a 3-1 deficit last round. Must be hard for the sixers fans to watch.
From heaven to hell in exactly 7 days
Orlando went from hell to heaven back to hell in 7 days
Turns out Orlando was in the Bad Place all along, they just didn’t know it.
Gramscifi figured it out?!?!
This is a low point … this one hurts
LOL
I mean yea, it’s Florida
BORTLES!
The opposite actually lol nothing to be proud of about a 4-7 run. I guess the fight in games 5-7 last series? But tough to get excited about winning like 36% of your games in the playoffs
Could always do something hilarious and come back from 3-0
You just want us to be next to you so bad
You see right through me
Lmao f you man 🧡
The east bad blood is crazy
Im surprised its not like that in more places. I feel like Oakland and san fran is the only one that is automatic beef out side of the nyc Philly boston triangle
East coast sports is so much fun
Nah we beat the Celtics, we exceeded expectations and I can rest easy now
See you in Valhalla brother
carrying the flame
Your sacrifice will not be forgotten. Much appreciated.
And flyers beat the penguins. Philly fans can feast off those two series wins for years.
Funny it happens the same year and both will be swept it looks like in the 2nd round
Hang the banner
We’ve seen worse
they’re just outdoing themself, coming back from a 0-3 deficit
next round they’ll come back from 0-4
Philly fans are going to watch the Flyers and 76ers get eliminated back to back.
How bout them Cowboys?!?!
This is a rerun lol. It’s been airing for years.
That said, both teams provided a lot of joy by exceeding low expectations. At least we weren’t regular season dogshit… we were playoff dogshit!
The future is bright in Philly though.
That Maxey Edgecombe backcourt is gonna terrorize league for years.
The future should be bright but I don’t trust Josh Harris or Daryl Morey one bit.
The McCain trade should kick Morey out to the curb but I don’t expect Harris to do anything.
Our depth is so ass and we’re playing Maxey 48 minutes every game in the regular season and post season while McCain is over in OKC being a key rotational piece
It was Harris’s decision.
I kinda get the desire to keep retooling around Embiid but the franchise would be better off in the long run if they commit to Maxey. And if they don’t do it soon then they might just have to forgo Maxeys timeline and rebuild, he’s not going to wait forever.
If it helps, there hasn’t been a team in over a decade that won the whole thing after needing a 7 game series in round 1.
The east is cooked.
Well, Knicks took care of business in six, so we will see how they fare from here
Honestly it’s not that bad - the roster is really kind of a car crash and expectations aren’t high with this group. The Sixers won’t win a championship for a long time and once you accept that you enjoy the smaller wins, like overcoming the 3-1 deficit against the Celtics, on their own merit.
Being a hater of both Boston and Philly this is my Christmas.
Maxey needs another ball handler. He’s an elite SG but a below average PG.
The Roster depth is atrocious. Talent completely falls off after like 6…
Sixers have been like this for eternity
They also had the perfect guy to develop into a microwave bench scorer earlier this season and they gave him to OKC for free
Man I still can’t believe that happened. OKC depth is actually funny. It’s what every future GM playbook is gonna look like or at least be molded from.
The next era of the NBA is just going to be how good are your rookie contract players
Ah, the NFL model
The problem is Presti is good at drafting, getting assets and the Thunder have been good at developing players. Its not like this is rocket science and a large majority of teams can’t do that. Very few teams are whiling to trade away players at the right time to cash in their value.
Daryl Morey refuses to adapt to the times and is stuck in 2017 roster building strategy
The anti Howie.
Trust the process!
Shit been processing forever this can’t be healthy 😭
Well they’re not called the 11ers for a reason.
I think a bigger problem is your 4 star players giving you 15, 18, 17, 11 on a combined 25-56.
Embiid and George your two veteran leaders are 13-35.
There was no foundation laid for the bench to build on, Grimes, Barlow and Drummond aren’t signed to lead bench units they’re signed to be complimentary while one or many of the front line four carry’s the load.
Whenever Embiid plays VJ becomes more passive. They don’t have any chemistry together since Embiid has had such freak injuries
As much as he is known as being able to play on the perimeter, Embiid is still jsut way more useful close to the basket or around the nail. Feels like when he’s down there, thats what makes VJ uncomfortable to aggress. Drummond somehow turning into a mildly reliable corner shooter really frees up VJ to attack downhill.
But then of course, you’ve got Andre Drummond on the floor in 2026. Which is also not great. Though he did put in some good possessions against my team… Either way, VJ will be back better. He’s still a rookie, I don’t blame him for being a little overwhelmed or nervous when games werent set up optimally for him.
You don’t think that them being fatigued has anything to do with that? PG went from Steph Curry to Anthony Bennett in a matter if minutes
Not really, I think the last game fatigue showed in the fourth.
Tonight Maxey was incredibly passive all night, VJ looked like a rookie, PG settled a lot and so the percentages evened out, Embiid who knows, I don’t believe a reliable version of him exists.
Fatigue is just such a cop out for a team that hasn’t once shown the mentality needed to win the series.
The game switched when Shamet came in the second quarter. We don’t have anyone that can come in and do that. It could have been McCain
Six is being generous
They didn’t have any bench points until like halfway through the 3rd quarter tonight.
6 is generous.
I got downvoted for talking about the Sixers having a 6.5 man rotation
They had a young guard to score off the bench to supplement grimes but decided to trade him to the best team in the league for some reason
If only Morey didn’t just give away McCain
McCain isn’t a PG either
But he’s a ball handler. He would be a very valuable surge of shooting and score and take some of the load of Maxey. It would allow Maxey to have more juice down the stretch.
he’s not a ball hander he’s an off ball catch and shoot guy
I don’t think McCains uses have really been explored by Philly or OKC enough to say he’s not a ball handler.
fair, but at the same time, there’s a reason why it hasn’t been explored
Because both teams he’s been on have established ball handlers but needed shooting more? Idk, I feel like we are unnecessarily limiting a guy who hasn’t had the minutes to show us his capabilities.
Shamet isn’t a PG either but look what he did in this game
omg i understand that being reactionary is normal for sports subs but r/nba may be the worst one. you guys have been talking about mccain as if he is one of the goats when in reality the guy has 54 minutes in playoffs.
He has 42 points off the bench in 55 minutes played. The Sixers could have found room for that instead of skirting the tax.
it’s mostly because of how efficient he’s been in his minutes for the thunder this postseason. but you’re forgetting that he was a roty candidate before all this, it’s not like people are over exaggerating his talents solely based on these 54 minutes.
there’s plenty of evidence to show that he’s a great player who can handle the ball and would’ve taken some of the load off maxey this series
he is playing in a very good team which makes every player shine. he is not gonna make philly eliminate knicks.
Isn’t Edgecombe the second ball handler? He’s just not ready for the playoffs yet.
Hopefully will grow into that, but is mostly an off ball player at this point. Has been solid in that role most of the playoffs.
The problem is that both of them ideally play the same role.
It’s a similar thing to Donovan Mitchell. They’re great players, but it’s hard to find the right compatible player.
They’re fine VJ is gonna be a star
Meanwhile, McCain single-handedly outscores the entire 76ers bench. They sure could’ve use someone like him!
that dude got absolutely blessed
If they wanna keep Embiid alive they need to get a front court. How is the front court depth this bad when your highest paid guy is falling apart at the seams?
The sad part is you could make a case that Drummond is the best backup big Embiid has had. Wild that three front office regimes haven’t invested in that position despite the obvious.
Any secondary help. At all.
Embiid doesn’t even play basketball.
It’s Maxey, Embiid flops and straight bricks.
I think I know a guy but apparently he was a sell high candidate
he’s not a ball handler whatsoever
Pistons vs Knicks will feed families
This sub will be an absolute shit show because of the bad blood from last year
Don’t care, we need it more than water
NBA needs it
Last year?
Last year’s series was physical and it made the Knicks many of enemies in Detroit. Pistons fans HATE Brunson.
I’m just saying there’s also been plenty of bad blood this year lol
Oh yeah definitely lol. We literally haven’t beaten them or the Thunder all season. If we want to win our first championship since 1973 we have to beat both.
Spurs have a great chance against the Thunder. And we have a great chance against them. Which means there’s a chance that the Pistons will be our biggest threat on the way to the chip, and I’m curious to see how that plays out given their struggles against the magic. There’s also a minuscule chance the Cavs wake up and steal the series, in which case I think the ECF will be a total walk
I hate using the term ‘soft’, but the Cavs are soft and will be lucky to get one win off the Pistons
Regular season is irrelevant. When will people learn this
That’s what I’m hoping for. That it’s gonna be like Twolves vs Nuggets bad blood.
Pistons/Knicks and Thunder/Spurs is exactly what Adam Silver desperately wants
I think Cavs still have a shot. 2 close games on the road means you still have a fighting chance as the series goes home.
Agreed that series isn’t over, won’t be shocked if it’s 2-2 in a few days tbh
I can see the series going 7 and Detroit winning. Cleveland seems incapable of winning on the road.
Its crazy how quickly people are counting them out
How many ejections?
Give us Spurs vs OKC and we will all feast like kings.
Hope that they invert the jersey colors with respect to each other.
1 Based on blue other based on white and visa versa.
I might just go hang out by MSG so I can be in the sidetalk NYC video that come from this
WE
MISS
BOSTON
Philly realized that they don’t really care for the championship, they just want to beat Boston.
It was their championship
For a team that wasn’t winning the Championship, I’d say coming back from 3-1 to dust your rival in their house and kick off a news cycle about what an idiot their best player is was a successful postseason.
Beating the Celtics and the proceeding hate thread train about Jaylen Brown soothed me greatly. I got what I wanted out of this season.
I respect the hatred
Jaylen Brown is not their best player
Was this year
Next year the 2nd round is their championship. One step at a time
We know the 2nd round is their championship because they never win it.
Maxey can’t win with these cats
Free him. I want to love him so much but he plays for Philly
How I feel about Brunson and Luka
Brunsons dope man IDC. Dude is clutch AF even the games he starts slow he’s just a menace in the fourth.
I really love Mavs Brunson
I agree but hes also been a non factor way too muchthis series. Dont wanna say that the sixers are better with embiid out but.. they were definitely more difficult to defend and were definitely harder to score on down the stretch
That’s how I look during my annual performance review.
Me at parent teacher conferences
I’m actually a bit surprised by this outcome without OG being out and Embid playing. Just shows how depth can beat a only 6 man team
They’re a 4-5 man team really. And two of those 4 are never healthy.
I’m now baffled on how they beat Boston 3 straight times with this level of play. Is their roster perfectly suited to counter Boston, or did they just get lucky? I know they’re not a 100%, but i’m just surprised of the dominance of the Knicks against the Sixers.
Boston’s terrible center rotation and insistence of chucking 3s did them in
Their last two playoff series vs Knicks and Sixers were the worst 3pt % efficiency I think ever
Boston had no bigs basically
KAT diff
I honestly think the Celtics would have pulled through if they had Mitch instead of Vucevic
And Robinson
We played exponentially better than we are now. And the Knicks are a tougher matchup for us with their height and physicality.
When Embiid played, the Celtics had no answer for him. And the Celtics bigs were brutal. Now Embiid is not moving as well and just not playing as well. He’s gotten caught up in trying to get guys in foul trouble instead of just trying to play.
Maxey doesn’t really seem interested in taking shots now either.
As a whole we played with much more intensity too. Our effort on defense was so high fighting through screens and being locked in each possession. Our effort on the glass in the latter half of last series was incredible too; so much better than it ever was during the season. We had all 5 guys boxing out and and aggressively going up high for the board. Now we stopped boxing out with such intensity
Because this wasn’t their level of play. They played extremely well in games 2 and 5-7.
if they still had Jared “sold high” McCain this would not be happening
I hate Daryl Morey everything about him and the Sixers Owner screams to me that they believe they are the smartest guys in the room lmao
Morey absolutely should be fired this offseason and honestly should’ve been fired after last season. Sure he’s hit on some draft picks, but that doesn’t make up for some inexplicable moves at the time and in hindsight. Sixers own 2 of the 3 worst contracts in the NBA and have zero bench and cap space. Combine that with Nick Nurse, a coach who tends to run his players to the ground, and you have what’s going on now.
How do we search our old comments? I’ve been saying for years that Morey is garbage and only got lucky to move on from Simmons cause Harden wanted to come to the Sixers. I kept getting clowned in and people kept saying Morey was a genius for that. Bro has had 0 success but people still wanna act like he’s the GOAT GM.
Morey is absolutely the type of person to think he’s the smartest guy in a room
Which ironically makes him an idiot
Brunson putting his ass to work, once he get that switch
When I was watching OKC last night, everytime McCain made a three I kept thinking “yall really gave us him?”
Yeah it would lol
Is it just me, or do you not pull your starters in a playoff game
Exactly, they gave up a couple of possessions too soon
Yeah, you gonna go down 3-0 like why wouldnt you go hard those last 2min and see if a miracle happens
They’ll probably have a better chance with Barlow than 2026 Paul George
Way-off P coming to a 4th quarter near you!
Honestly, my first thought was they were thinking “we’re not gonna win this game, so let’s pull our guys and give them rest so hopefully we can avoid the sweep”
If they went any harder, they wouldn’t have any legs for game 4
D rose… if the game is over pull your starters man its not worth a franchise altering injury. Thats why i think its good OG sat, Tatum sat and Luka is sitting
This is the only argument I can see making. Rather not risk them getting injured by playing super hard in a game you are most likely to lose. I can see that argument.
Yes, in spirit you shouldn’t, but there is no way this team is coming back from that deficit against this type of defense.
Okay, let’s say they pull Embiid and keep the rest of the starters in to go hard.
Maxey just played 47 minutes the previous game, if he tweaks something going all out or maybe George or Oubre then you have zero chance next game.
Have to be realistic.
Doncic isn’t out there.
I feel like the differential is high with to justify pulling the starters with that much time left
I have trauma from starters not being pulled
What is Nurse supposed to do, his starters play the entire game, they can use the extra couple minutes of rest
Embiid is literally falling apart I don’t think they have a choice
Hang the “eliminated boston” banner
The reactionary takes after beating Boston are hilarious.
I hate to see such a pretty man looking so sad. Oubre and his baby blues greens
He shouldn’t be allowed to look so sexy all the time, it’s distracting
the video didn’t load on my phone I’m so dead lol
https://imgur.com/a/pB4LSC5
lmao you can’t make this shit up.
Sucks for them but fuck Embiid
“Fuck Embiid, Smoke some Weed”
Knicks Fan on Sidetalk
Final stage: Acceptance
They know this series is over
Yeah it’s over. FTK tho
Fuck you too my man
Looked like Oubre said “I don’t know, man.“ Me either, bud
All the “Brunson Stopper” shid died real quick. He been frying their ass all series lmao
This series makes me really appreciate Dyson Daniels.
Compared to last series, he’s having the time of his life lol
Oubre is just so beautiful
I’m half convinced his wife pressured him to do that to his hair so that we’d all stop being distracted by his beauty.
Shes gotta try harder im still mesmerized.
Yeah it’s over and they know it
Looks like Playoff P just doesn’t care and cant wait to get back to his podcast.
Do not care. These men died for us on the battlefield to prevent another global catastrophe. I will see them in all in Valhalla.
Embiid will get past the second round one day! Trust the process.
Kelly Oubre is hella attractive
maxey was better than brunson i thought
EVERYBODY IS BETTER THAN BRUNSON UNTIL ITS TIME TO BE BETTER THAN JALEN BRUNSON
Embarrassing series. Embiid can’t make a bucket without free throws. His stat line is embarrassing and then watching him flop around and complain is just tough
Danhausen
Embiid don’t give a fuck
Daryl Morey is a liar
That face looks like pretending to be sad but excited for the upcoming amazing summer vacation.
Pacers would have won this game with 1:30 left down 13. Weak mentals imo
processing the process
Maxey is a star and a good dude. VJ is just a dawg with incredible upside. You can’t tether those 2 to PG and Embiid. Shoot those 2 into the fucking sun.
Those contracts have to be some of the worst in the league and they play so god damn slow, which negates Maxeys super power.
It’s like having 2 Lamborghinis and you’re trying to drive thru a traffic jam for 48 minutes.
sixers offensive numbers are so much better with Embiid on the floor, and despite what people think, the pace does not actually change much. Maxey cannot run an offense currently, at least not vs a good team.
Long term for sure the Sixers need to find an Embiid replacement, but right now between his contract and the current roster, he still presents the clearest option for success.
Sixers need to build a playable bench, which is something Morey seems incapable of.
How can we look at the faces of that which does not exist?
Sixers have no bench.
The Knicks don’t even realize they’ve fallen right into our trap. We have them exactly where we want them…
Remember when they were laughing at the end of game 1 down 40… I remember. I hope they keep that same energy in Cancun.
NY - San Antonio finals would be good for the NBA
Maxey’s hand must be hanging off the bone, he wasn’t even trying to get to his spots let alone actually taking shots
Yup. They look how I’d expect
They thinking about that Cancun trip
I guess there is no karma for the guy who interrupted the moment of silence
Hey no need to punish all of us for one douchebag