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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 3478044, member: 1674"] I'll give them a pass for selecting Fultz because he was the consensus #1 prospect and something bizarre clearly happened there. Certainly fair to question trading up at all, but once they did, it really only made sense to do so for Fultz. Agreed, Brown should have been fired years ago. It's really no different than Kidd or Scott Brooks; he was fine for developing young guys but the team is past that stage of the rebuild now and he's clearly not good enough to win a title with. Smith was an intriguing prospect as a Bucks fan at the time, but the only way Philly was ever going to work with Embiid & Simmons as the foundation was by adding as much shooting as possible. If they still wanted to trade down, Kevin Huerter should have been the pick. The trades for Butler and Tobias were both horrible. Butler because he's pretty much a non-shooter himself and therefore was a terrible fit with Simmons and Embiid, and Tobias because it was simply an overpay. The Al Horford contract was horrible the day he signed it. Ultimately though, it really all comes down to the fact that Simmons and Embiid will likely never work together. They still have time to trade one of them, but that's pretty much where they're at at this point. If they absolutely must keep both for some reason, Tobias makes more sense as a 3rd wheel than Butler does because he at least spaces the floor, but they're kinda stuck right now building a team around two non-shooters, one of which simply isn't healthy enough to carry the team all game, and one of which who just isn't good enough in the halfcourt to carry the team when the other guy can't. Like the Dame/CJ pairing (but much better), it's a really talented duo but they just don't make sense together. Until Philly realizes that and makes a choice between the two, they're going to struggle to become a true contender. [/QUOTE]

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