All Eyes On Me

I’ve had the 19th penciled in for awhile as well. If that’s the case and we lose in the cup quarterfinals we only got 2 games without both stars

Hopefully Paolo can be back by the game on the 19th. We can be scrappy with a shorthanded Phoenix team tomorrow night and it might behoove us to just throw the stupid nba cup game in Milwaukee to get the week off after it. Such a snake bitten franchise, ugh… at least we have a buffer built up in our record and it’s not a season ender. Heartbroken for Franz as he’ll miss enough time to not be in the all-star game he deserves to be in.

you gotta be *****ing kidding me

I appreciate your unwavering optimism, Jay, but hasn’t the main issue for the past 15 years been not being able to hit the 3 ball at league average?

I’m not your downvote, but calling Mose a bad coach is a crazy take lol

Anyone else watch games on the FanDuel sports app? It’s garbage. 3 times in the 4th the commercial break went 10 minutes and missed game play entirely including the end of the game.

Hard to win when only one guy can put the ball in the basket

Aren’t you tired of the organization constantly bringing in guys that are always hurt and thinking it’ll be different here? If we wound up trading for Lonzo, he’d never play again lol

Ok, I got it. Cole, AB, Gary and would be somewhere between 3-5 unprotected picks. Couldn’t happen until Dec 15th when Gary is trade eligible. I0 man rotation would be: Fox/KCP/Franz/Paolo/Goga Suggs/Jett/JI/Moe/WCJ bottom of bench would be Joseph/Caleb. We’d have a couple roster spots open to bring in a vet PG to backup Fox and move Jett to the bench and we’d be a hot commodity for vets to want to flock to. Oh baby, it’s good to have hope again.

Fox/KCP/Franz/Paolo/Goga starting 5 is a championship contender this year, especially if the deal doesn’t cost us Isaac, Moe, AB. I wonder if there’s anyway we could pull it off to be enticing enough to Sac without dealing Suggs. Let me play with the trade machine

Fox/Franz/P would be an incredible trio. However any Fox deal would almost assuredly cost us Suggs and I don’t think we’d be willing to do that.

Can I agree with everyone’s takes on WCJ? Haha. He’s the most frustrating basketball player I’ve seen in awhile, but he will always have value. Only thing that’s annoying is we literally can’t do anything with him this year outside of bench him.

No Embiid once again for Philly tomorrow. Sounds like George and Lowry will return.

Yeah, Wendell has been benchably bad since he got back from injury. Hard to justify him even being in the lineup some nights.

Need to give the boys, especially Franz and Coach Mose a ton of credit. We’re 16-8 over 1/4 of the way through the season. 19 of the 24 games we’ve been without P5. Further than that, while we have lucked out a bit with other teams players being out, we’re tied with Detroit for most games played so far. We’ve also played 15(!!) of our 24 games away from the O, the most in the league by far. We’re in a great spot to push for a top seed out East, just need to keep grinding. Get Franz to the all-star game. Go Magic!

Oh for sure, and that’s my point. It’s like they swap good shooting nights back and forth. I’d love a game where they’re both hitting from deep

Crazy that KCP broke out of his shooting slump right when Jalen hit a major one.

Drummond and Lowry also out tonight along with Embiid and George. We play Philly again on Friday.

KD out at least a week with a sprained ankle, so he won’t be playing in Orlando on Sunday. We could legit be 18-8 going into the Cup quarterfinals with a Paolo return on the horizon

No Embiid and no PG tonight for Philly. Let’s pick back up on the Ws

We’re at an interesting spot IMO. I might get flamed for this, but even with a healthy Paolo I think this game goes similarly. We need a calming vet influence at the 1 when things start to unravel. Or, we need to admit that our ceiling is probably a 3-5 seed in the conference with a ceiling of probably making the 2nd round of the playoffs this year. Which there’s NOTHING wrong with considering how young we are. The tricky part is Paolo and Franz have gotten too good too fast for that to feel satisfying. I hope we make a trade. We have the assets and the time is now.

8-37 from deep smh… 5-33 after a 3-4 start. So bad

We need to lose by less than 37 to make a wild card. Knicks need to win by 35 for the top seed

Embarrassing.. oh well. On to the next one. The nba cup is stupid anyway :)

This half is a good wake up call for where we’re at and how far we still have to go. Paolo coming back will obviously help a ton, but Franz and Jalen’s defense (hell no to the offense) are the only things that have shown up so far this game.