Anyone else always think about how close this team was to a championship? Healthy Embiid, prime Tobias, JJ, JIMMY. Ben even despite his problems played insanely well. Bench had TJ McConnell, Mike Scott and Boban.
This was also before Brett Brown checked; the players respected him.
It’s worth mentioning the 2021 Sixers who also went to a game 7 but they folded under Doc. 2019 was literally IN GRASP until the final seconds………then Kawhi
by Plastic-Confusion645
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Shut up it was 5 years ago
Why must you remind us about the shot during a time that we could possibly fall faster than the eagles?
has any them had more chaos than the sixers in the last ~10 years? every season some bs happens
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It in fact was not a Championship team. Because they didn’t win a Championship.
It was a championship level starting 5, pretty awful bench. Definitely could’ve won it all if we beat the Raptors and if the warriors still lose Klay and KD
Depth wasn’t great.
Would have lost the next round anyway
Biid wasn’t quite Biid yet
Ben was Ben
JJ was a defensive liability
“prime Tobias”
Bench was sus
Bucks beat us in 6
I don’t remember them winning a championship
If we beat the raps we win the chip
Ritual cope post. Should’ve would’ve could’ve
That was an interesting, but deeply flawed team.
i’m not sure if they could’ve won a championship, though. Elton Brand’s confounding inability to get a playoff-caliber backup for embiid doomed whatever hope there was for the season. greg monroe was getting minutes, and boban (despite being the world’s nicest person) was not playable in a playoff series.
do you remember that greg monroe was -9 in TWO FUCKING MINUTES in game 7 vs the raps? in a 2 point loss!!
All Harris had to do was knock down his 3s or do some gotdamn layups
Fuck you!
No they weren’t. They didn’t win a Championship.
What if Marco Belinelli’s toe nail wasn’t past the line? What if Markell Fultz never forgot how to shoot? What if Silver didn’t send the Colagelos to Philly?
Embiid will win one and he will win it here, but it wasn’t that team.