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For all the doom and gloom, which we have real reasons for this is not glazing, we're 6-4 in our last 10. Amazingly only 1 team (Raptors, 7-3) has a better record in the East in the last 10. There are a bunch of teams that are 6-4 the last 10 and the Knicks are 3-7 in the last 10. We're still only 7 games back from the 1 seed, not saying we're likely to catch that but we're like an 8 game winning streak away from being a top 4 seed.

Maybe Paolo just wasn't having fun because he missed the Wagner boys.

Also Anthony Black with the dunk of the year. Love that dude.

Good W. If Memphis don't hit every shot they take in the first quarter we probably blow them out. Franz Wagner is my hero. Couldn't hit a shot in the paint all night but the defense was awesome as usual.

All I know is I once watched Paolo Banchero, Jalen Suggs and a rag tag group of bench players (Chuma Okeke started that game, Trevelin Queen and Caleb Houstan both played big minutes off the bench, our only healthy big was Mo Wagner) go into Denver and win against the full strength Nuggets because they played with effort and heart and Paolo's gravity got everyone else open shots (and Jalen Suggs hit 7 3s) And now we're at the point where Paolo + Bane + WCJ + a surging AB + like 4 other bench players better than any combination of Okeke, Queen and Houstan, can't even beat some of these mid teams we've been losing to. Because we're no longer playing with that same effort and heart and togetherness. And that falls mostly on Mosely and his staff, though it does also fall on the best players for not making this work because we've seen it work when everyone buys in. It's not perfect but we won games a lot more convincing and played a lot more passionately and in a way I didn't actively dislike. (Boxscore for the mentioned game: https://www.espn.co.uk/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401585116 )

That's not what we're talking about at all when we talk about aprons.

I'm not blaming Paolo for guys being unable to shoot to be honest. I'll blame him for a lot of stuff but not that. Guys still shot the ball well playing with Carmelo Anthony who was a ball stopping forward. Kawhi is a pretty ball stopping forward and guys still shoot the ball well when they play with him. Giannis is a big, ball handling forward/big-man who gets doubled a lot and guys still shoot the ball well playing with him. I've seen guys shoot well playing with Paolo. This has got to be offensive system based, nothing else makes sense.

I'm with you buddy. I was gutted I didn't get tickets to the London game and now I'm glad I didn't spend the money.

We even made that look more difficult than it should have been but at least we won and didn't need a miracle shot to make it happen. Goga had his best game of the season.

Start him at PF, only half joking.

Mo Buckets!!!!

Paolo has to be willing to change though. He seemed more than happy the last few years to pound the rock and play like Wish Jayson Tatum (with no defense).

Wendell started the season really well but he's been bad basically since Franz went down. That 76ers team aren't even close to a contender and the only reason they didn't blow us out is because they couldn't hit a shot in the first half. Miserable offense. Lazy defense. Mindless rotations. Paolo terrible again. The difference between the two teams is Philly could isolate PG or Embiid or Maxey and get buckets. Paolo iso is just turnover or bricks. Bane doesn't have that game and neither does AB.

I want so badly for this to be a weird blip in Paolo's career. The section of the documentary where he's going through adversity before coming through the other side. Like I'm not actively rooting for him to fail. If anything I so badly want him to succeed and carry this franchise to glory and be the superstar we need... So i hold him to the standard of superstars. I went on the 76ers reddit to see what they thought of the game tonight and they were all calling Paolo trash and like... I wanted to defend him... Despite myself coming on here and trashing him for weeks now...

Me this time last year: "you can't just look at stats to say Franz is better than Paolo, there's nuance to it etc etc" Me now: "Franz is better than Paolo".