I don’t understand what you mean. It can’t possibly be a surprising and previously unknown fact that we were not the first basketball team to suffer injuries. You must think it was a divine disclosure, but Doogie I’m not god.”

It was sarcasm, but it wasn’t aimed directly at you, Hubie. Many here keep saying that the only reason we had injuries last season was because of Thibs overplaying guys, but other teams also had injury situations at least as bad as ours whether or not the coach was overplaying guys.

And he had 11/8/5 in 22 minutes. That’s more than he got in his last five games for us combined.

When a team is over performing or under performing there are usually temporary reasons. Usually it’s injuries, either the team itself or drawing lucky and facing a few teams with key injuries. It can be random good or bad luck shooting. It can be incorporating new players. It can be locker room/coaching issues etc…. But in the end talent/fit is what matters as long as you are evaluating the talent and fit correctly.

The 76ers are a very good team.

If you want to argue Embiid is done, you can try to make that case, but that’s far from certain. If you want to argue that one of either Paul or Embiid will be hurt for the payoffs, that’s a risk. But IF they do get into the playoffs and are healthy you’d have to be a crazy person to want to face the 76ers.

It’s more like Celtics in tier 1 and some teams trying to contest them in tier 2, and the Knicks are there, that’s enough for me. Cavs are there too, of course, maybe the Sixers if they are healthy.

The Celtics in a tier by themselves makes sense but the Knicks in the same tier as Cleveland does not.

Guys they’re killing people and hardly breaking a sweat. We’re going to the whip in November and getting mixed results against non playoff teams.

A lot can change between now and May but until it does we are simply not on their level.

And the Sixers are not on ours. Please stop fellating these bums. They need to get off the mat first.

Looks like that “team meeting” narrative was a wake up call to the NBA refs, Embiid back to his foul winning ways.

The refs were actually in the team meeting.