Daryl Morey is about to make the same mistake with Paul George and half this fanbase is eating it up.
LuckyCulture7
I think this really sums it up. I was a Tobias defender for a long time. I cheered everytime he started a game with 6-10 points only to finish with 8-12. I lauded his size and build. I talked about what a good dude he is off the court.
I was wrong to defend him as a basketball player. Really wrong and he proved me wrong every chance he got.
Good luck out there Tobi, please don’t ever put on a sixers jersey again.
Bruce_the_Shark
Take your shitty cookies with you, ya bum.
TheAntiCircleJerk
> The simplest way I can describe the Tobias Harris conundrum is this: on a good team, he is nowhere near good enough as a scorer to be your second or third best player, nor is he anywhere near good enough at role-player responsibilities (shooting open 3s, defending the other team’s best player, etc.) to be your fourth or fifth best player. Even at his best, he is stuck in this limbo of never having the proper role to fit into. He is somehow underqualified for any role you put him in – there is no situation you could put him in that would allow him to impact winning at a high level on a night to night basis. The best thing that Tobias Harris could ever be in the NBA is an empty calories scorer on a mediocre team; the highest purpose in his basketball life is to bring a 34 win team to a 37 win team.
> But everything I just described? That still only applies to Good Tobias. When he’s in Bad Tobias mode – which he was for basically the entire second half of this season – he is one of the single most harmful high-minute players in the NBA.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
He’s a shit player who played even more shit the second half of this season.
vicky255
The amount of rebounds that fall in his lap and he somehow manages to tip out of bounds because he refuses to go up with 2 hands. The backbreaking momentum shattering blown layups/dunks when we are on a run. Refusal to get on the floor for a loose ball. Being good for a short stretch and ruining it after proclaiming himself to be a “Sharpshooter” and a dad/agent who clearly enables his BS by calling him an assasin scorer. This albatross of a contract is finally over.
Well-written and despite its strong criticism of Tobias it still isn’t enough. The biggest thing missing in this was he was LAZY.
He refused to rebound which is EFFORT. He refused to COMMUNICATE on defense which is again EFFORT and DEDICATION. How many open 3’s in transition did he let up? How many rebounds did he let bounce off him because he wouldn’t get to the floor or lock in. He’s an absolute bum
Head-Kiwi-9601
“Watching Tobias on a nightly basis is like watching a cheesy horror movie every night in which the characters keep making unrealistically awful decisions that get them in trouble.”
Amen.
PS – Michael missed this tidbit – zero fouls in game 6. How can you play defense for 35 minutes and not commit a foul?
what-do-ya-know
You know what makes me mad about his last playoff game in a sixers jersey? We all know he had zero points, just a few rebounds, and sure he got a few assists… but he didn’t even pick up any personal fouls. He was guarding Brunson a good few instances, you’re not going to at least try hard enough to get called for a foul or two? He wasn’t pushing himself for that contest and catching some of the player? Why not just give him a hard foul to send a message. Just a whole lot of nothing out of him in that elimination game. So sad and frustrating. Excited to see what we do with that space.
NoCup4U
Good guy. Bad contract. Should be a bench piece, not a starter.
Elton Brand Gay love affair or Josh Harris Epstein flight logs. Tobias has one of them there’s no other explanation.
mjd1977
Imagine pulling a max contract, being fully available the whole game, season on the line, and taking 2 shots for zero points.
It defies logic.
BlueAc215
0 points… See ya
supzy0
tobias has the uncanny ability to turn a 50/50 ball into a 10/90 ball. fuckin zero heart bball player
secretlypooping
> The knock on Joel Embiid’s career is his series of failures to put the Sixers on his back and get them over the hump, despite being so damn good that he still always at least gets them to the doorstep. The knock on most of the running mates of Embiid’s career – but perhaps especially Tobias – has been their inability to rise to the occasion to pick up the slack for an injured or slumping Embiid just one single time. Embiid will forever bear the brunt of his playoff shortcomings, but in just one of those years where they had a real shot (2019, 2021, and 2023 especially), if Tobias or Ben Simmons or whomever play at the level they are supposed to, the story of this era is completely different.
This is something that people outside of Philadelphia (and many in Philly) will never truly appreciate.
The amount of dead weight that Joel has been straddled with throughout his career is mind boggling. Tobias / Doc / Ben / Horford / Fultz / Brand / Coangelo / etc. – just worthless teammates, coaches, executives for so much of his tenure here.
Joel is just that fucking good that he propels the team to “contender” status and covers up so many faults in the organization. Until he has a bad game or an injury or just has to step off the court to catch his breath and the wheels come off.
He’ll get all of the blame for this long list of bums unless Morey can put together a real team around him and Tyrese this summer and make a deep playoff run.
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Daryl Morey is about to make the same mistake with Paul George and half this fanbase is eating it up.
I think this really sums it up. I was a Tobias defender for a long time. I cheered everytime he started a game with 6-10 points only to finish with 8-12. I lauded his size and build. I talked about what a good dude he is off the court.
I was wrong to defend him as a basketball player. Really wrong and he proved me wrong every chance he got.
Good luck out there Tobi, please don’t ever put on a sixers jersey again.
Take your shitty cookies with you, ya bum.
> The simplest way I can describe the Tobias Harris conundrum is this: on a good team, he is nowhere near good enough as a scorer to be your second or third best player, nor is he anywhere near good enough at role-player responsibilities (shooting open 3s, defending the other team’s best player, etc.) to be your fourth or fifth best player. Even at his best, he is stuck in this limbo of never having the proper role to fit into. He is somehow underqualified for any role you put him in – there is no situation you could put him in that would allow him to impact winning at a high level on a night to night basis. The best thing that Tobias Harris could ever be in the NBA is an empty calories scorer on a mediocre team; the highest purpose in his basketball life is to bring a 34 win team to a 37 win team.
> But everything I just described? That still only applies to Good Tobias. When he’s in Bad Tobias mode – which he was for basically the entire second half of this season – he is one of the single most harmful high-minute players in the NBA.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
He’s a shit player who played even more shit the second half of this season.
The amount of rebounds that fall in his lap and he somehow manages to tip out of bounds because he refuses to go up with 2 hands. The backbreaking momentum shattering blown layups/dunks when we are on a run. Refusal to get on the floor for a loose ball. Being good for a short stretch and ruining it after proclaiming himself to be a “Sharpshooter” and a dad/agent who clearly enables his BS by calling him an assasin scorer. This albatross of a contract is finally over.
[Tobi’s goin’ away! ](https://youtu.be/My-VUirw76w?si=XrK_8dDoOVojwKBE)
Well-written and despite its strong criticism of Tobias it still isn’t enough. The biggest thing missing in this was he was LAZY.
He refused to rebound which is EFFORT. He refused to COMMUNICATE on defense which is again EFFORT and DEDICATION. How many open 3’s in transition did he let up? How many rebounds did he let bounce off him because he wouldn’t get to the floor or lock in. He’s an absolute bum
“Watching Tobias on a nightly basis is like watching a cheesy horror movie every night in which the characters keep making unrealistically awful decisions that get them in trouble.”
Amen.
PS – Michael missed this tidbit – zero fouls in game 6. How can you play defense for 35 minutes and not commit a foul?
You know what makes me mad about his last playoff game in a sixers jersey? We all know he had zero points, just a few rebounds, and sure he got a few assists… but he didn’t even pick up any personal fouls. He was guarding Brunson a good few instances, you’re not going to at least try hard enough to get called for a foul or two? He wasn’t pushing himself for that contest and catching some of the player? Why not just give him a hard foul to send a message. Just a whole lot of nothing out of him in that elimination game. So sad and frustrating. Excited to see what we do with that space.
Good guy. Bad contract. Should be a bench piece, not a starter.
[meanwhile..](https://www.si.com/nba/76ers/news/daryl-morey-doesnt-rule-out-return-sixers-tobias-harris)
Elton Brand Gay love affair or Josh Harris Epstein flight logs. Tobias has one of them there’s no other explanation.
Imagine pulling a max contract, being fully available the whole game, season on the line, and taking 2 shots for zero points.
It defies logic.
0 points… See ya
tobias has the uncanny ability to turn a 50/50 ball into a 10/90 ball. fuckin zero heart bball player
> The knock on Joel Embiid’s career is his series of failures to put the Sixers on his back and get them over the hump, despite being so damn good that he still always at least gets them to the doorstep. The knock on most of the running mates of Embiid’s career – but perhaps especially Tobias – has been their inability to rise to the occasion to pick up the slack for an injured or slumping Embiid just one single time. Embiid will forever bear the brunt of his playoff shortcomings, but in just one of those years where they had a real shot (2019, 2021, and 2023 especially), if Tobias or Ben Simmons or whomever play at the level they are supposed to, the story of this era is completely different.
This is something that people outside of Philadelphia (and many in Philly) will never truly appreciate.
The amount of dead weight that Joel has been straddled with throughout his career is mind boggling. Tobias / Doc / Ben / Horford / Fultz / Brand / Coangelo / etc. – just worthless teammates, coaches, executives for so much of his tenure here.
Joel is just that fucking good that he propels the team to “contender” status and covers up so many faults in the organization. Until he has a bad game or an injury or just has to step off the court to catch his breath and the wheels come off.
He’ll get all of the blame for this long list of bums unless Morey can put together a real team around him and Tyrese this summer and make a deep playoff run.
Good riddance, Tobias.