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I read his resignation letter on the train this AM, yikes his logic & strategic thinking isn't wrong but wayyyy too deep and philosophical for something like basketball.
I've never seen him or the 76ers address the fact that they have fielded a team for 3 years and sold tickets to watch that team and expected other teams to try and sell their fans on watching that team. They are not in the championship or nothing business, they are in the entertainment business.
Add to that the losing culture that they steered into and made no visible efforts to counteract and you have a recipe for disaster. They've traded 3-4 years of worthless crap basketball for a maybe 33% chance to hit the jackpot with their various draft picks and contend for a championship. But they've continually reduced that % chance of hitting the jackpot by creating a negative losing culture of bad habits, immaturity and impatience masquerading as a long-view. They almost always preferred draft picks over players even if those players were contributing or had upside, and combined this with drafting very young prospects unable to contribute immediately. Embid & Noell were chosen knowing they'd each miss their first year, they also drafted the Dario Saric guy sitting in Europe.
I simply don't understand how you craft a thoughtful long-view strategy that totally ignores the present WHEN people are paying real money for that purposefully forfeited present. The most telling part of his letter is that Hinkie actually wrote that he expects the ownership will be separating Delaware County residents from their wallets for years to come. That's the problem.
I've never seen him or the 76ers address the fact that they have fielded a team for 3 years and sold tickets to watch that team and expected other teams to try and sell their fans on watching that team. They are not in the championship or nothing business, they are in the entertainment business.
Add to that the losing culture that they steered into and made no visible efforts to counteract and you have a recipe for disaster. They've traded 3-4 years of worthless crap basketball for a maybe 33% chance to hit the jackpot with their various draft picks and contend for a championship. But they've continually reduced that % chance of hitting the jackpot by creating a negative losing culture of bad habits, immaturity and impatience masquerading as a long-view. They almost always preferred draft picks over players even if those players were contributing or had upside, and combined this with drafting very young prospects unable to contribute immediately. Embid & Noell were chosen knowing they'd each miss their first year, they also drafted the Dario Saric guy sitting in Europe.
I simply don't understand how you craft a thoughtful long-view strategy that totally ignores the present WHEN people are paying real money for that purposefully forfeited present. The most telling part of his letter is that Hinkie actually wrote that he expects the ownership will be separating Delaware County residents from their wallets for years to come. That's the problem.