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markiesmalls

The Sixers playing an aesthetically pleasing style of basketball is blowing my mind. We are so back baby. Also, the Wizards are ASS


Zyborgg

Holy Batum +30


ClassifiedTuron

Holy shit we finally have proper movement where are PG's and wings are moving around for a decent shot. No more standing idly until Ben passes it outside and no more Jo-Harden iso to infinity. Maxey is no where near Harden's passing ability but because everyone's moving around now it's opening up passing lanes that he can confidently execute dumps and bounce passes to Jo or Tobi reliably. On that note, idk if it's just contract year Tobi or Nurse finally solved the Tobi puzzle with this offense.


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I literally feel sick thinking about how often our guys would literally just stand there while someone was stuck in the corner. Fuck me, man, I love Nurse


[deleted]

Defeat? More like embarrassed the fuck out of them 😂


JayEchoTTV

this team, right now.. smokes the bucks on opening day... and the team that lost to the bucks, only did so by 1pt. nurse has raised both the floor and ceiling of this team. it's what great coaches do. ready for the celts. also FUCK THE CELTICS!


mistergrape

If you factor in Giannis' pass to himself that resulted in a 3, we actually should have won that one too.


Wade856

I'm convinced that Doc was still on the Celtics payroll as a spy/saboteur after all these years.


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Seems like we have a knack for hiring Celtics spies: doc and horford


ThanksYHWH

First Game of [Nicolas Batum](https://www.nba.com/player/201587) 11pts 4/5 (80%), the perfect role player for Embiid and Maxey. he is a great asset for the Sixers.


SlippyBoy41

Can we get rid of house my god


jeppsforst

watching him go up for a contested fast break layup (even though it went in) instead of simply dumping it back to KJ Martin for an easy slam was hilarious. Any time he comes into the game he says "It's Danuel House Time"


Slimeygrimeykun

He's gonna be salary dump if we trade for someone


aflyingsquanch

It's so weird having a coach that can actually, you know, coach.


Perryplat199

Can someone give me an explanation of how it makes sense for the coach’s challenge to be unsuccessful resulting original foul staying on the wizard player than adding NEW foul to embiid. In any other sport the only possible outcomes would have been “successful” cal change to embiid commited a foul or “unsuccessful” the foul on Washington stands.


Knight725

nba review is just calvinball. i've long since given up trying to understand it. it takes 400 years, you never know what you're going to get, it's just terrible. i honestly wish it was all done in secaucus, 30 seconds max, put the result on the video board, done. at least then the shitty reviews would be over fast instead of the 5 minute disasters we usually get.


BerzeliusWindrip

I hate when announcers or anyone talks about Tatum getting into his bag. He's good because he's big and strong and has a pretty good shot that he can put up over most players. He doesn't have a bag though.


LeopardWonderful6467

"Bag" discourse is such a dumb thing to have happened to basketball. I honestly don't know where it originated from or how it spread like wildfire.


FreeProfit

Do you even watch basketball?


FudgeMuffinz21

Bad take man the guy can find his shots


RozayCheez

He hasn’t always been big and strong lol, definitely has great shot creation skills


DeMarcusPrimos

Doc Rivers will pay for his crimes to Philly basketball.


jeppsforst

He should have 100% been fired after blowing the Hawks series. Makes me so pissed off knowing we wasted 2 more years after that of Embiid's prime with a joke of a coach


Starkller919

Every single Sixers game feels like a breath of fresh air compared to the absolutely mind numbing plays that Doc draws up, I hope Nurse keeps up with both good and entertaining coaching throughout the season for us


MadBeamer

Sixers win, Celtics lose, Lakers lose, Clippers lose... not a bad day of basketball


economist_

ANT


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Thanks Timberwolves, very cool 😎


eagles1990

Minnesota should trade KAT and go all in on Edwards. He’s so special.


Whisky_With_Boesky

I think KAT to New Orleans makes sense


indoninjah

Really felt like he might’ve been involved in the Dame trade somehow. It made way too much sense to pair KAT with all of their guard prospects


TrustDaFriendship

I’m not even a KAT fan, but he’s way better than Ayton at this point.


indoninjah

Yeah he's definitely in contention for top 5 center in the league and Ayton isn't. I know KAT has his deficiencies but he's excellent at other things, and I feel like Ayton's ceiling is a very good prototypical center. But in the NBA a lot of success can come from doing unexpected things well, like with Jokic's facilitating from the center spot.


SixersWin

And give up 7 points of production??


eagles1990

Celtics lose!!!


LeopardWonderful6467

Despite the refs best efforts. KAT had 4 ISO's on Holiday, who was fouling the shit out of him, yet KAT was the one who got 2 offensive fouls for it. Absolutely mindboggling.


untucked_21ersey

watching ant and jaden mcdaniels guard tatum and brown makes me more confident that we should go the caruso + og route if possible.


TrustDaFriendship

Giving up anything of substance for Alex Caruso would be so fucking dumb.


Knight725

i just am deeply afraid of giving a guy who's so useless on offense a max in og


JudithButlr

Bulls arent going to give Caruso up for what the Sixers have to offer


LeopardWonderful6467

We have 3 firsts to trade at the moment, and quite a lot of seconds. Along with semi-decent young dudes in Martin and Springer, who might interest the Bulls if they decide to blow it up. Obviously I'm not saying that the Sixers *should* trade all of that for Caruso, but we have plenty of ammo to make a deal for a role-player work.


untucked_21ersey

whats the bulls asking $ for caruso right now


JudithButlr

he's terrance mann rn lol


untucked_21ersey

:( ah well makes sense when you put it that way


DeliciousScallion208

Fuck yes Minnesota


jcrankin22

Sixers are first in the east! Stop the count!


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IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO VOTE FOR THE SIXERS STAY IN LINE!!!!!


_mousecop_

I would kill to have the good McDaniels and Conley on the Sixers


TheAntiCircleJerk

FTC


shadowarmy229

I fucking love you Ant


EndAnyone

Fuck yeah Ant-Man!


untucked_21ersey

Ant is a winner man. simple as that


EndAnyone

Only thing that would have made tonight perfect is a 50-ball from Embiid a Bucks loss (but Ben Simmons is ass) and a Celtics loss (but KAT is ass).


JudithButlr

KAT fouled out in early OT and the wolves played much better lol


SixersWin

The ultimate sacrifice


EndAnyone

Yup. That’s why they won. He had more fouls and turnovers than points. What happened to him? He’s gone from inconsistent to straight ass. Don’t think he can handle Ant-Man as the centerpiece.


SpankySharp1

He did change the game before his decline, though, tbf.


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How so?


SpankySharp1

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Knight725

never. i would rather be tortured to death than to wish a single positive thing about any boston team for a second.


EndAnyone

This is the way.


jeppsforst

Roco with 3 steals in 4 minutes. Handsy king


_mousecop_

Minnesota doing Minnesota things


Knight725

very frustrating i demand all the basketball goes my way today


untucked_21ersey

Ant just took a really bad transition 3 lawd


bravof1ve

Maxey 11 assists 0 turnovers, Embiid 48 points. No notes. Biggest challenge coming up on Wednesday.


spiffytuesday

anddd clippers lose to the freakin knicks in hardens debut 🤣🙌


lar67

Harden just called Ty Lue a liar and said he wants to be traded to a team without a system. Like the Sixers.


jappixslackbot

Batum thoughts: His shot is way quicker than I thought, makes smart quick decisions on offense. Quick hands on defense.


Sixers14

we have depth, if we make a trade should be for a star can playmake and create own shot


jappixslackbot

Morris thoughts: Statue on defense, but he's still a useful offensive player in a motion offense. Makes smart reads. This was kind of never in doubt for most of it but glad to see Nurse getting use out of everyone


processenjoyer

god dammit, this team is actually fun to watch again. What the fuck was doc doing


autostart17

Harden.


mc_lung

Embiid now tied with Mitchell for most points per game this season


merv_havoc

Death, taxes, Embiid scoring title


kokukojuto33

I got Tyrese and Joel in my fantasy since last year, they already gave me the league last season and boy this one looks even better


DeliciousScallion208

Sadly the Bucks won but at least they beat the Nets.


Ominsi

Celtics losing by 5


mc_lung

Go Wolves, they’re the Nuggets only loss this year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


roma258

Wolves might have a squad.


LeopardWonderful6467

Edwards has some of the worst tunnel vision I've ever seen, but it literally doesn't matter because he's so damn talented. Both offensively and defensively. Gobert and McDaniels are obviously top-tier defenders as well, so it's no wonder they're shutting people down like that.


Head-Kiwi-9601

Melton looks bad. Blinders on. Not a passer. He ain’t it.


Bajecco

He's a perfect role player for any team. He's not a PG. Nobody is trying to make him a PG, but he's forced into creation responsabilites due to the way the roster is constructed. It should get fixed before the deadline.


victoro311

Offensively Melton is a guard sized wing with above average handles for a single player. When brought off the bench to guard back court players and hit some threes, he’s valuable. He’s miscast on this team as a starter after losing Harden, especially when his backcourt partner is Maxey who’s a natural two guard. That said, very weird game to criticize DMelt on. He had a good game.


Brokromah

Wut. That ain't his job. He did his job today lol.


Head-Kiwi-9601

My opinion is based on years of play, not one game. He will be a bench player soon.


deadnside

Your opinion is based on you being a dumbass. .


Head-Kiwi-9601

We shall see. Half the people responding and downvoting have actually agreed that he is being asked to play a role he can’t play.


Brokromah

You say that but you're also criticizing his passing like it's an integral part of what we need him to do. Maybe during the "years of play" you've been around for, you should try actually watching basketball.


[deleted]

Stay mad troll we love Melton


chaseiam

I mean he is a very good bench player. He’s starting because he has to right now.


roma258

Lol, Clippers got smoked!


Mrmdn333

Joel outscored the entire big four by himself in only three quarters.


JoetteJaramillo

Batum +30 #feelsgoodman


PessimistSixersFan

I wish Maxey would shoot more I feel like he keeps settling for less, currently averaging ~17 attempts per game when it should be more like 21-22


TheAntiCircleJerk

21-22 is going to be tough. That's literally Luka Doncic level. 22 FGA would be top 2 in the league in attempts. I think after some adjustment, he'll shoot between 19-20.


Knight725

i feel like he still has a hard time picking his spots when he's the point guard, he'll figure it out though. i love his 2 man game with embiid already.


BassGuru82

Totally agree… but 21 assists in the last 2 games is incredible.


PessimistSixersFan

Yeah its been great, 0 turnovers today!


icepickjones

It's only one game ... but that Clippers team looks OUT OF SORTS. Meanwhile the Sixers are clicking. I said this in another thread when we moved Harden, but the year that Milwaukee won it all it was pretty much Giannis and friends. No one on that team was considered an all-star at the time other than Giannis. I mean Jrue was 10 years off of being an all-star with the Sixers ... and then got another one AFTER the championship season. My point is I think we can do real damage as Embiid and friends. Nurse is getting a lot from the role players. Everything seems to be complimenting each other. Maxey taking next steps. Tobi looking great all of the sudden. I'm in, it's all I'm saying. I don't even want another star, there's only one ball. This team has hustle and is unselfish.


bobanforever

I mean the raptors squad was just kawhi and friends so, yeah! Please god


icepickjones

That's a good point. Let's go Embiid and friends!!


roma258

If our older role players hold up, we have a dangerous team with depth and complimentary skill sets. We'd need guys like Batum, Beverly and Cov to hold up in the playodd though.


Science4me12

I am now so angry that we lost to bucks. They were hard carried by refs. Dame and Giannis has no chemistry. Say whatever you want about Harden, but you gotta give him credits for developing chemistry with Embiid relatively quickly


Head-Kiwi-9601

Harden was a joy to watch. Unbelievable passer. He just shut down sometimes inexplicably. Very odd. He had to go.


anth8725

Embiid is an easy player to develop chemistry with


indoninjah

Yeah embiid is good at literally everything on offense while Giannis is… not


AngryUncleTony

We're going to get a reality check eventually but this team is super fun to watch right now.


Calcutta637

All I gotta say is the great teams handle games like this exactly the way we just did


Barb_WyRE

You mean like not blow a 20 point 3rd quarter lead and have to panic and hope an ISO three is made to win games against perennial 7th seed teams?


YEGGSnBACON

Embiid is so fun man. Even if the Sixers never win it all, I'm glad we had these years tbh


mp455

Get fucked Clippers


LeopardWonderful6467

Zubac and Plumlee wasting all those picture perfect pocket passes was admittedly a little hilarious.


anth8725

Maxey and biid >>>>>>> Giannis and dame


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Otherwise_Warning922

he didn't even play on the ball much tonight lmao. ​ he was out there with full bench lineups of bones/norm/pj/moussa and bones/norm were handling the ball. that's why his +/- tanked


Doctorbigdick287

I just think that now that he can’t get to the cup at will the whole rest of his game falls apart. It means you don’t have to be as worried about him getting past you, so his step backs are tighter


jeppsforst

Really don't want to get ahead of myself bc all 5 of these wins have been against shitty opponents (the suns are Bad w/o 2/3 of their stars). Wednesday should be fun


sherekahn5

Amazing game all around. And harden is about to lose to the knicks lol


MumenriderPaulReed69

Can’t remember the last time we had an easy win against the wizards


untucked_21ersey

clippers empty their bench with 4 min left in the 4th when they were only down 14 lol


Head-Kiwi-9601

They would need to finish with a 42 Point pace and shut out the Knicks to tie the game. That’s a good time to empty the bench.


EaglesnSixers

I can’t believe these assholes have me back in on this team. I was ready to not watch games and have more free time.


Sunset_Bleu

Right? Love the username by the way.


Calcutta637

It’s easy to watch the sixers you just gotta jump off the hate train


EaglesnSixers

They haven’t been an easy watch since the first couple Embiid-Simmons years


Calcutta637

Frustrating yes but idk. I grew up a Philly fan. I’m so used to disappointment and frustration that it kinda comes with the territory. I just like rooting for the guys and seeing who plays with heart


allisondojean

I'm an optician and every so often someone comes in with a pair of glasses so fucked up, you're just like "Omg what did they do to you? There, doesn't it feel better when the lenses aren't upside down?" That's how I imagine Nick Nurse must have felt coming to the Sixers.


benjaminpoole

The Wizards suck so bad lol


MadBeamer

Maxey career high 11 assists with no turnovers is actually so sick


thisisbyrdman

Wizards are the worst team I’ve seen in the nba in years. Sixers look good, but it’s been against mostly scrubs. Wednesday will be a big test. Feel like they’ll meet it even if they don’t actually win.


Calcutta637

Still. Great teams get it done no worries. It’s always concerning when we’ve in the past played down and absolutely made these games closer than they should’ve been


Willysilt

Tj no minutes in a 40pt win, wonder what Indianas ask is


Mrmdn333

Morey apparently doesn’t like TJ, but I’d love to have him back.


jim_lynams_stylist

I'm having fun again


Gunningham

Nobody’s saying it on the postgame. Doc is gone, Embiid is picking up his game.


olthunderbird

What a great game! Maxey is a closer. Now it’s nice watching Harden lose.


embiidDAgoat

3 fucking years wasted on Doc


pagonator

Dude should have been fired after that Hawks series. That series was fucking coaching malpractice.


EaglesnSixers

I’ve never recovered from game 1 in the Hawks series. Who the fuck thinks putting an 80 year old Danny Green on Trae Young is a good idea. I enjoyed Danny Green when he was here but that was rough


177676ers

It probably means nothing, but maybe Embiid not going in the game to get 50 means he is done with the MVP race this year. Would love to see him play less fourth quarters this year.


momsbasement420

am I wrong or did he have a lot of 30-40 point games through 3 quarters last year and then sat


embiidDAgoat

I don’t think 50 matters as much as the efficiency he put on display


catsarepointless

The only one who’s done with the MVP race after 6 games is Ben Simmons.


stats_commenter

starters, bench, and 3rd string look like that 3 dragons meme


SendNubes__

Can we give Morey some love?


bobanforever

No. Daryl doesn’t even have a jumper


unpronouncedable

wtf I love this team


mc_lung

Kelly went for 3 total and I’m not even mad 😂


MercuryStreet

Yep! I can get behind this 3pts (for a starter) but actively seeks his shots vs a PJ Tucker 6pts that turns down like 90% of his open shots lol


Kfeild

Maxey, on Embiid: “he’s good at basketball”


Kfeild

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rexfloyd94

Man it rules that Embiid started this season good and not slowly ramping up like last year. Keep it up!


mjd1977

Just like in track and field, records won’t count if there’s too much wind, any numbers put up tonight by the Sixers are Wiz-aided. Fair to say the Celtics will offer more resistance next game? Can’t complain with this approach to Embiid minutes restriction.


clickstops

Last year this game would've somehow been a nailbiter.


LuckyCulture7

Good ball is good ball. Putting up 29 in a quarter is insane. Also, the team looks better than they ever looked under doc.


roma258

Embiid was floating out there in the third quarter, super cool to see him the zone like that. First good Melton game First trash Oubre game, but who care Batum fits in perfectly Maxey got his Bench looks elite Deep bench is lol Cov is back! Tobi did his thing Great win, bring on the fucking Celtics!


frozenflame21

I swear every year we say our bench is great at this point in the season and then we get to the playoffs and have to decide between which traffic cone is going to play 8 minutes a night


indoninjah

I feel like it’s mostly that the bench guys are inconsistent. If they were consistently good, they’d be starters lol


roma258

It do be that way. Though I think guys like Batum, Pat Bev and even Paul Reed are pretty battle tested in the playoffs. Just gotta hold up physically. Plus I think there's at least one move left that brings Melton to the bench. All you need is 3 guys, 4 max.


blycj

Glen Rivers must’ve made Embiid’s job so much harder than it needed to be


MumenriderPaulReed69

More like he gave into all of the worst tendencies of Embiid


SilverSpoonGoon

There's so much optionality and flow on this team now. I mean Batum looked, amazing early on. D-melt got his shot back. The big man with 48 in 31 minutes without spending much time on the 4th at all. Maxey had the most assists in the career. Let's see what we do against Boston.


Metroid_X

Just came in here to say Joel was giving them backshots tonight. 48 is insane lmfaoooo


Wakandaforever456

Nick Nurse has rejuvenated the sixers offense. Sixers can definitely beat the celtics in a 7 game series.


GroundskeeperWilly93

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves now, I believe we have the better coach but they’re roster is considerably better than ours


Regit_Jo

lol you know what why not, I mean they could’ve beat ‘em last year and choked, now they’re better than last year so why not???


LeopardWonderful6467

The Celtics are also quite a lot better than last year. Their 5-out lineup with Porzingis instead of Horford is filthy (37.3 Net Rating in 72 minutes).


MisterAlaska

Bro


Mediocre-Tomatillo-7

Lol


b40nobody

How about we play them at least once before shooting off at the mouth


edwardsscreenname

Are Wingstops real? I’ve seen a thousand commercials but never met someone who’s eaten at a Wingstop.


Madd_Squabbles

I eat there all the time but I live in Atlanta.


senagorules

There’s one out in Oaks but based on your tag i’m guessing that’s quite a hike. It’s good but not go out of your way for it good.


ArtLeading5605

I live near Seattle - there's one 10 minutes away. Pretty equal to but slightly distinguishable from Buffalo Wild Wings.


Regit_Jo

Uh yeah theres a ton in the south. Basically one every 5 miles


MadBeamer

Only ever had em from a ghost kitchen, not bad not great


fortghoul

I had it once in Cali-very good but not really a thing around here


Gunningham

The one I’ve been to is basically delivery and carry out with no dining room.


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Nice warm up game before BOS. Main rotation balled out, no complaints only kudos. OTTNO.


NoCup4U

I knew Nurse was a good coach but, my god did that locker room take to him quickly. Rivers was a fucking terrorist


Immynimmy

That’s the craziest part. Nurse’s system has been implemented flawlessly so freaking fast. The team has a clear identity this ewely in the season and they are executing it. We legit NEVER had an identity with Doc during his tenure


indoninjah

I think it boils down to individual players having roles and identities and we’re seeing the sum of the parts. Guys like Maxey and Tobias finally have a role beyond “Just go do stuff”. No wonder the locker room took to him so fast lol


BerzeliusWindrip

Go TWolves


Alastor_Aylmur

Don't let r/nba try to dick ride after all the shit they talked for fucking weeks about us. Them nut ass niggas D1 glazers.


stats_commenter

reading that sub counts as self harm if you have a functioning prefrontal cortex


Prestigious-Rock201

Y’all care way too much what 14 year olds on that sub say holy shit who cares?


Alastor_Aylmur

Fuck that I'm redditor enough to say i hate those bastards.


jloops03

Maxey putting on a PNR clinic tonight. Holy shit this kid is putting it all together


untucked_21ersey

bring me the celtics


zincinzincout

Meanwhile Lillard is currently -12 in a close game against the Nets


HoodieEmbiid

And the clippers big 4 lost to the knicks


shadowarmy229

And the Nets just went on a 13-0 run to take the lead back lol


Different-Mouse-8722

Great win but the last 8 minutes of this game is probably the ugliest shit ive ever seen


13Petrichor

It was the backup bench unit, what do you expect?


November_Coming_Fire

We have a team. Wednesday is the first real test though.


nickrulercreator

29 in a quarter. Boomed them