Hinkie Resigns!

[xepicx2729]

Sam Hinkie, GM of the Philadelphia 76ers has resigned. Finally. Bryan Colangelo could replace him. No more best player available!

[kq76]

So I guess you guys gets to look forward to a team full of Bargnanis now.

[rudel.dietrich]

This would be a great job for any GM to come into.


You get pretty much four free years of saying 'the previous guy ****ed it up so badly that I can't be expected to win now'


You have a load of draft picks and have a chance at two top 5 picks this draft (this draft is not super strong)


Embiid is looking like a whiff because his body is a wreck and he can't keep his weight down.


But they do have Saric sitting in Europe.
They need to bring him over ASAP. Pay his team and him whatever he commands to get him out of his contract.
Just get him over here and start getting him minutes.


Noel is looking like a quality role player. Okafor....who knows. Mental issues and atrocious defense and he looks like basketball in 5th or 6th on his list of priorities.


But yeah, as a GM you will have a lot of picks, a lot of cap space and 4 years where you can blame everything on the previous guy.
This is a job any front office person would love to have.

[TribeFanInNC]

Kinda surprising he lasted that long. Good for the fans of Philly, who don't have tons of good spring sports at the moment (unless you count Nova).

[rudel.dietrich]

I am still torn on if his idea was a good or bad plan.


On one hand he was the victim of some bad luck and bad drafting.
Embiid was very highly regarded out of Kansas but his body broke and then his commitment issues arose.
Saric is also very highly regarded but his European team keeps giving him massive contracts to keep him over there.
He also has a clause in his contract to where he himself receives between 30-50% of his contract buyout so his Turkish team is not super interested in parting with him.


He tried drafting big men at a time where the league is going smaller and floor spacing is more important.


However I am not sure his approach was truly bad.
Look at teams like the Nets. A team that tried to compete. Spent a lot of money, never went past the second round of the playoffs and now is in terrible terrible shape with no future for the next four years.


I don't think we fully yet know how to best build a basketball team.
I still think it is a combination of drafting well, spending money wisely, having a good staff and front office in place and then loads upon load of pure luck.




I sort of wanted to see if the 76ers could play out and see if the 'process' would actually work
I guess now we wont really know.


But I am not a 76ers fan so I never felt the fans pain either.

[TribeFanInNC]

The plan certainly has some logic. But the execution of the plan was poor (i.e. they didn't end up getting good players) and it took too long. And in the end, it turned into "suck until we get another Allen Iverson (or plug in a superstar here)." That could have never happened at this rate.

[rudel.dietrich]

Originally Posted by TribeFanInNC

The plan certainly has some logic. But the execution of the plan was poor (i.e. they didn't end up getting good players) and it took too long. And in the end, it turned into "suck until we get another Allen Iverson (or plug in a superstar here)." That could have never happened at this rate.

I somewhat disagree


A lot of franchises have hit the lucky 'draft a superstar' card


San Antonio and Duncan
Cleveland may not even have a team if they had not won the lottery for Lebron




There skill and luck both in drafting.
The 76ers would be viewed differently if they had won the lottery and gotten Davis.
Embiid looked like the real deal.
I was never inside any front offices. Maybe there was concern about his injuries and work ethic before the draft.
But I do know that many teams were interested.


I am not saying Sam was completely blameless.
But if he had gotten the #1 overall in any of his years or if Embiid had worked out I think his plan would have been more vindicated.




And Sam actually is a smart guy and I think can be a good GM.
I just don't think giving him complete control of the franchise was a good idea.
I also don't agree that building young players by accepting losing is a good idea.
The 76ers always played hard and never 'tanked' in terms of throwing games.
But drafting big guys and never surrounding them with good guards is not a good way to develop them.


And Sam also won every trade he conducted.
He traded MCW who does not have a future in the league.
His Nik Staukas trade was bending over Vlade Divac and committing sodemy.
That trade alone might be one of the best trades of the last 5 years.
The Kings were trying to free up cap room for a player they did not even get and gave away the farm to do it.

[TribeFanInNC]

Agree that fostering a losing culture is one of the biggest problems. This also translates to a culture of apathy with the fans. I don't agree with fostering either.

[rudel.dietrich]

Originally Posted by TribeFanInNC

Agree that fostering a losing culture is one of the biggest problems. This also translates to a culture of apathy with the fans. I don't agree with fostering either.

I also partially blame the NBA.


There needs to be stiffer penalties for not meeting the salary floor.


As of now if you do not meet it you simply take the amount below the floor and cut a check and divide it up between your current roster.


The NBA needs to modify this that if you are 5% below the floor then you forfeit a 2nd round pick.
If you are 10% below then you lose a 1st round pick.


Repeat offenders needs harsher punishments.


Of course teams could come up with joke contracts like Javale McGee.
But right now the penalties are so soft that teams like the 76ers don't even have to assemble a real team and can be well under the floor.