'Anybody who does not see a path forward for this roster is guilty either of a lack of imagination, a lack of basketball knowledge, or a self-destructive amount of cynicism,' writes ByDavidMurphy on the Sixers.
When the Sixers president arrived in town in October 2020, he inherited a team that many swore had nowhere to turn. Two years of haphazard decision-making had left the franchise with little apparent room to wiggle free from an ill-fitting roster that was coming off a first-round sweep to the Boston Celtics in the NBA bubble.
The important thing to remember is how well the reshuffling worked. The Sixers parted with two starters, a combined 61 minutes per night, a combined $38.5 million in salary, and a first-round draft pick, and they went from getting swept in the first round to the No. 1 overall seed and a Game 7 loss in the second round. They did it by adding two starters whose skill sets better complemented the three incumbents, and at a combined price tag of about $23.2 million.
Here’s my read on Harden after watching and listening to him for three months: The guy wants to win, and he is acutely aware of what he needs to do in order to facilitate the process of winning. He is the anti-Russell Westbrook in terms of self-awareness. He understands that he was not physically capable of doing things the way he did them in Houston, and that’s why he did not try to do them that way. The guy understands team basketball. He feels the flow.
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