The HONEST TRUTH About The Philadelphia 76ers Offseason…

The HONEST TRUTH About The Philadelphia 76ers Offseason…

[Music] On today’s show, 76ers fans need to hear the honest truth on how this off season has gone for Philadelphia. They made some decent moves there on the margins, but is it enough to truly say this team can be better in 2025, 2026? That’s what we’re talking about here on today’s show. I’m Jake Chipper. Thank you so much for tuning in. Before we get started with one word only, I want you to get down in the comments section right now and describe this Sixers off seasonason. The moves they’ve made trying to prepare for this upcoming year. One word only, and I’m going to challenge you a little bit. Give me one word to describe this Sixers off season. Bleacher Report released an article where they used one word to describe every team’s off season. And their one word for the Sixers off season, precarious, which basically means there’s a lot of risk involved with what the Sixers have done. And it’s looking a little bit sketchy with some of the moves they have made. They’re not sure Philadelphia has really done enough to guarantee they’ll be better than they were last season. Grant Hughes of Bleacher Report on this Sixers off season. It’s not so much the 76ers offseason moves were shaky on their own. It’s that the Sixers entire operation continues to depend on the health of Joel Embiid and the effectiveness of Paula George. So while drafting VJ Edgecomb, signing Jabari Walker and Tren Watford and getting opt-ins from Andre Drummond and Kelly Ubé are all break even or better moves in isolation, they still feel a little bit shaky. And that is, as I mentioned off the top, the unfortunate reality of this Sixers off seasonason. And the honest truth with this team right now is that yes, some of the signings they made, I like some of the signings they made. The draft pick of VJ Edgecom I was a fan of. Jai Broom has been showing some good signs. Like they made some good moves on their own. But when you still look at this team as a whole, there’s no denying that because of the health of Joel Embiid and the health of Paul George and the question marks behind those, there’s just no guarantee that the moves they’ve made are really going to make a huge difference. know ideally they get Quinton Grimes back in here and this roster is looking a little bit more filled out but still because we have talked about in the show Joel Embiid saying that they’re taking things slower with his recovery as opposed to previous years and he may not be ready for the start of the season and then this new injury for Paul George which I’m sure reported could have had lingering issues but they had the surgery to try to prevent that. We’re already starting off the season with question marks, right? So Darren my went out and made it a priority, right, to try to get younger, try to get more athletic this off season because he said last offseason he probably went too far in on getting veterans that he thought would perform when the postseason came around. He didn’t do enough to actually get bodies that could be healthy enough to get the team to the postseason. Doesn’t matter if you think you have the right squad for the playoffs if you can’t even get there. So, while I like the additions of a Trener Watford, a Dominic Barlo, a Jabari Walker, VJ Edgecom, Janiah Broom to get younger, get more athletic, get different skill sets in here, have they really done enough to overcome the fact that two of their most important players are still injuryprone at the end of the day and currently as it stands right now with Embiid saying they’re taking things slower with Paula George now getting this surgery, I’m not sure that they are significant enough additions to truly make a difference when you look at this team ultimately winning games in 2025 2026. So it’s unfortunate because I do like the moves again but just not a whole lot to speak of when it comes to these injuries with Embiid and Paul George. Some more from Bleacher Report. There’s also a positional glut of at guard here. Tyresese Maxi, Jared McCain, BJ Edgecom and restricted free agent Quinton Grimes still without a new deal could compete for minutes and it’s not clear which pair makes the Sixers most dangerous. Now, this is something a lot of Sixers fans have brought up, and I honestly don’t agree that this is a big issue for Philadelphia. And a lot of Sixers fans would say, “Yeah, yeah, there’s too many guards.” And a lot of outside NBA fans who aren’t fans of the Sixers would say, “Yeah, there’s too many guards in that roster.” I don’t think it’s an issue, honestly, because Kyle Lowry, Eric Gordon, I don’t think they’re going to get a whole lot of minutes for this team. So, you’re looking at Tyrese Maxi, Jared McCain, BJ Edgecom, and Quinton Grimes, right? Assuming he does end up resigning. I like how those guys all fit together. I assume you start Maxi and Grimes. Grimes is a great defender, great catch and shoot guy. Showed a lot at the end of the year. I think he plays very well off Tyrese Maxi. BG Edgecomb a rookie. So, how much are you are you going to get from him right away? You can’t really depend on that. And Jared McCain’s coming off a miniscus surgery. So, you don’t really know what he’s going to provide either. But, I really like the idea of Maxi and Edgecom together, of Maxi and Grimes together, of McCain and Edgecom or McCain and Grimes. Maxi and McCain together is a little bit sketchy, but I think you can even run like Maxi McCain or Maxi Edgecom and Grimes at the same time. I think there’s enough flexibility with those guys there to run some different lineups. So, I think you always want to have some good guards on the floor. And I think that with the way that the roster is structured right now, it’s really not an issue. To me, it’s it’s a good thing that they have all these guards because they they will have enough minutes for all of them, especially with McCain coming off the injury. VJ of course being a rookie as well. Who would you play more minutes? If you’re Nick Nurse, you got to decide these rotations for opening night. Who would you play more minutes? Jared McCain. Give me JM down in the comments section. Or is this the rookie third overall pick VJO? Type VJ down in the comments section. More on the offseason from Bleacher Report. Losing Gershon Yabisell thins the front court as well, putting even more pressure on Joel Embiid and Andre Drummond. This is just always a problem for Philadelphia. I don’t think it’s ever going to change. As much as they try to change it, this front court depth, specifically center depth behind Joel Embiid, just always an issue. And it always seems like there’s more pressure on him than there needs to be, even when they’ve tried in the past to add different players to take that pressure off. Look, Andre Drummond, we’ll see if he ends ends up being on this roster or not come the start of the regular season. At this point, I think he probably will be, but last year he was hurt all year just like everybody else was on the floor. tried to play through this mysterious toe injury that kept going away, coming back, going away, coming back. But even when he was out there on the floor, he didn’t look very good. So, I’m a little bit concerned Andre Drummond might be falling off a little bit, which would hurt even more on top of the fact that you lost Yaposelli in the front court. You do have Adam Bona, right? And Adam Bonas looked pretty good, I would say, in summer league. A little bit up and down, but again, just a year two player who was a second round pick, still has some developing to do. I like what I’ve seen from him and I think he can take a big leap this season. But is it enough to take a big enough leap that he can start a lot of games if Joel Embiid misses time and help you win games? Because played a lot last year, the Sixers team didn’t win a whole lot last year. So although I like what he can be, his athleticism and his defense, he still has a ways to go in my opinion to be a truly high highly impactful player. Now Janiah Broom’s interesting, right? I was not a fan of the Broom pick at 35 for the Sixers. I thought his athleticism wouldn’t translate. I thought the shooting was a weakness for him. And I just didn’t see his skills in college translating to the NBA. But to his credit, he’s been pretty good in summer league. He’s been shooting the ball from three very well in summer league. That’s the biggest swing skill for him. If he can knock down threes in the NBA, all of a sudden he can really have a role. So, we’ll see if that does end up happening. He might have a bigger role than expected right away. Now, you kind of do assume you take a guy like Broom who had all all this success in college. The plan is for him to get minutes right away and make an impact. I think he can make an impact right away. So that can at least lessen a little bit uh the loss of Gershon Yabetle, but you also added some two-way guys, Dominic Borlo, Jabari Walker, of course, you signed Trenan Watford as well to the roster. So we’ll see if they can fill that void uh of filling in the front court because the Sixers an awful rebounding team last season. Got to fix that this year. Finally, from Grant Hughes, overall look in the Sixers here. Philadelphia could contend for a top three spot in the East or they could come undone like they did last season and land in the lottery. That chasm between best and worst case outcomes will persist as long as Embiid is the focal point of the operation. Again, kind of back to what I was mentioning at the beginning. It’s just the truth with this team. It’s built around Joel Embiid, built around Paul George as well as Tyrese Maxi. So, as long as Embiid is not out there on the floor, Daryl my can do whatever he wants with the surrounding pieces and build up this team as he sees fit. But at the end of the day, you have to have Joel Embiid healthy if you’re going to be able to win games. So, I think Bleacher Report kind of feels similar to me like like a lot of the additions they made. Think that these signings were smart for the most part outside of maybe an Eric Gordon and Kyle Lowry. But at the end of the day, if Embiid isn’t ready to go, if Paul George isn’t ready to go, it’s just not going to be the season that you’re hoping for. So, we’re praying for good health this season so that it doesn’t end up like last year because that was painful. Be honest with me. How confident are you in this 76ers team right now heading into next season? Give me a one through a 10. One being you have no confidence, 10 being you have all the confidence in the world. Let me know down in the comments section. Once again, appreciate you tuning in to today’s show. We’ll catch you next time right here on 76ers Now. [Music]

The Philadelphia 76ers have been busy this NBA offseason, retaining players like Kelly Oubre Jr., Andre Drummond, Eric Gordon, and Kyle Lowry while signing Trendon Watford, Dominick Barlow, and Jabari Walker and losing Guerschon Yabusele to the New York Knicks. However, has Daryl Morey truly done enough this offseason around Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Paul George to turn the Sixers around? 76ers Now host Jake Chipper discusses the latest Sixers news & rumors around the 76ers offseason on today’s Philadelphia 76ers YouTube video!

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Bleacher Report on Philadelphia 76ers offseason:
“It’s not so much that the Philadelphia 76ers’ offseason moves were shaky on their own. It’s that the Sixers’ entire operation continues to depend on the health of Joel Embiid and effectiveness of Paul George. So while drafting VJ Edgecombe, signing Jabari Walker and Trendon Watford and getting opt-ins from Andre Drummond and Kelly Oubre Jr. are all break-even-or-better moves in isolation, they still feel a little shaky.

There’s also a positional glut at guard here. Tyrese Maxey, Jared McCain, Edgecombe and restricted free agent Quentin Grimes (still without a new deal) could compete for minutes, and it’s not clear which pair makes the Sixers most dangerous.”

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Bleacher Report on Sixers offseason:
“The Sixers could contend for a top-three spot in the East, or they could come undone like they did last season and land in the lottery. That chasm between best and worst-case outcomes will persist as long as Embiid is the focal point of the operation.”

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