2014-2015 Sixers - The Saga of Hinkie Magic and it's Hold on the NBA Continues

[PhillyPhreak54]

you should apply for the mascot position

Liking the team or any Philly teams not required. You'd fit right in.

[MDS]

for the 100000th time there's a difference between liking them and what you do

[PhillyPhreak54]

Nope.

[ice grillin you]

1 - 3
1 - 15
2 - 35
2 - 45
2 - 57
2 - 60

1 - 2
1 - 4 (currently lakers pick top 5 protected)
1 - 16
1 - 18 (currently thunder pick top 18 protected)
2 - 35
2 - 37 (denver tank mode has really shot this pick up the board)
2 - 46
2 - 57
2 - 60

[ice grillin you]

just found out phil jasner's son writes for the sixers website

[MDS]

he also writes for the union site

nice guy

not his pops

[BigEd76]

TRobinson0
All thanks to GOD ! Thank you Brooklyn

Oops. Hink claimed him off waivers an hour ago and plans to keep him around

[phattymatty]

haha billy king can eat a fleshpop.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Igy's first cuzzo Angelo "the voice of the people" Cataldi weighs in...

http://www.phillyvoice.com/no-idea-what-sam-hinkie-doing-neither-does-he/

He actually uses the "what do I tell my son" argument!


The little boy with a Michael Carter-Williams jersey will never understand why his favorite player is not a Sixer anymore. How are we supposed to explain to a child what "optionality" is?

Last week, in his latest venture into a murky future, GM Sam Hinkie traded the NBA rookie of the year because he wanted more options. In Hinkie's twisted world, the correct term is "optionality" – the process of turning the known into the unknown, a tangible reality into a vague new promise. Or something like that.

In case you missed my previous remarks in this space about Sam Hinkie, here is a synopsis: He is the biggest fraud I have ever encountered during my 40 years in sports media.
Sam Hinkie never saw Carter-Williams as a 23-year-old point guard still learning his craft. Carter-Williams is a real person, with all of his flaws and eccentricities. Hinkie prefers blank spaces on future draft boards because they never throw the ball out of bounds or miss an open three-point shot. Analytics is theoretical. Real life is not.

In case you missed my previous remarks in this space about Sam Hinkie, here is a synopsis: He is the biggest fraud I have ever encountered during my 40 years in sports media. He is a charlatan, a snake-oil salesman. He is the Pied Piper of the young and the naïve, people who are not savvy enough to spot the con.

To these cultists, nothing can penetrate their admiration for a man who has accomplished nothing, a mysterious figure with a network of enablers who are hypnotized by his elusiveness. Through it all, none of these people – my most recent Internet poll had his number of admirers at 52 percent – has any interest in simple logic.

The real story of the Carter-Williams trade was that it involved a player Hinkie himself had drafted. Didn't the GM's extensive analytics research reveal that Carter-Williams was not much of an outside shooter? There was no computer analysis that revealed a tendency to turn the ball over? These flaws were not evident 21 months ago?

When Hinkie traded his own hand-picked point guard at the deadline last week, he revealed two things he would prefer to hide for as long as possible. The first is that his ability to evaluate talent is vastly overrated. And the second is that he has no actual plan to rebuild the team.

How can I be so sure? Well, let's start with the basic ingredient in every rebuilding plan, the players. Does Hinkie have any specific college stars in mind right now? No, doesn't know where he will pick in the lottery this year, and even less of a notion of whom, or even what year, all of these future picks will be.

Plus, all rebuilding plans need a timetable. Hinkie used more than 300 words to say nothing when asked for a date when the team will be a contender again.

The follow-up question was: How will we know?

"We'll all know," he said.

And so it goes, one insultingly vague answer after another, spouted in a mumbo-jumbo style by a man asking for blind faith in a city of cynics. Of course, in Hinkie's analytics world, there are no doubters. A carpetbagger who emerges from his cocoon a few times a year, he even has the audacity now to imply an intimacy with the fans.

"Our fans understand that what we are trying to do is build something great, " he said.

Not really. The father of the little boy with a Michael Carter-Williams jersey called my WIP radio show last Friday. He doesn't understand at all what Sam Hinkie is trying to do.

"What do I tell my son?" he asked me. "What am I supposed to do now?"

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GETTING TRADED FOR YEARS!! Was this Hoyda who called in to ask what to tell his kid (and he's a Hoyda who should have a vasectomy immediately) around when other Philadelphia players were traded? Jesus tapdancing Christ!

lil guy will love this though. Especially the worship part.

[SD]

That Canaan 3 was sick

[MDS]

sheep j playing into the philly voice's hands with his #hotsportstake reaction

btw now that i am up early again i am listening to the legend and am being reminded of why he is the best. sure his knowledge is minimal and his opinions worthless, but the man can entertain.

[BigEd76]

Joel draining 3s from out of bounds in Milwaukee

[MDS]

last year the bucks were worse than the sixers

now they are a playoff team and most of it was done without their #2 pick. but sam hinkie is the genius, not the team with the jail bait owners daughter

[ice grillin you]

Wolves puttin it on the bullets in a gigantic result for the sixers

[ice grillin you]

Last year was an aberration for the bucks....they basically have been a 25-35 win team for 15 years....sixers been there and done that....shtein sixers were a game away from the conference finals a couple years ago....sixers could have kept erkel Thad etc and got the six seed this year....that ain't their goal tho

I mean my god five people from this board could get the six seed in the east

Hideous trolling or idiotic comparison....either like I've said a million times stay away from the nba