I think we may be watching Marcus Hayes’ mind unravel. In just 15 days (and over the span of only five games), he has gone from why the rush to trade Jahlil Okafor to FUCK JAHLIL OKAFOR. Let’s go step-by-step.
Step 1. Trading him is bad (February 7):
The point: Young centers take years to reach their potential.
The relevance: The Sixers have three young centers: Nerlens Noel, Joel Embiid and Jahlil Okafor. They control all three for at least one more season.
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At no point this season did they have a serious chance of reaching the playoffs, and had even less of a chance of winning a playoff series, regardless of what type of player they added to their lineup by trading one of the Big Three.
The deadline is Feb. 23. Why consider trading any of them?
Frankly, it seems foolish to consider trading any of them at any point in the past or the near future.
Step 2. Trading him is good (February 8):
Embiid has played 31 games at a dizzyingly high level. Simmons clearly is a savant. Really, what will playing a handful games in 2017 mean if it jeopardizes the team’s chances in 2021?
Besides, there are a couple of beneficial by products if the Sixers limit (or shelve) Simmons and/or Embiid for the rest of this season.
First, they would be able to better showcase Jahlil Okafor, their lumbering second-year center whose artistic offensive game does not compensate for his dispassionate play on defense and on the boards. The Sixers want to trade him, but they want a decent return; after all, he was the No. 3 overall pick in 2015. When Embiid plays, Okafor does not. When Okafor sits, his trade value decreases.
Step 3. Okafor is a piece of shit (February 22):
[Okafor is] a true Hinkie product: He’s tanking himself.This is a tough-guy city that revels in its Rocky Balboa persona. Dr. J choked Larry Bird. Allen Iverson took on Dennis Rodman. Charles Barkley fought Bill Laimbeer (and, for other towns, Shaquille O’Neal and Charles Oakley).
Okafor fights punks on Boston streets. He will dunk on Rudy Gobert on consecutive possessions then disappear for 10 minutes, or 10 days. More and more, he plays like he’s made of porcelain, with all the backbone of gefilte fish…
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Don’t get trader’s remorse at the last minute, enchanted by his elegant offensive skills. Don’t fall in love all over again with his big frame. He has exceptional talent and perfect size, but Philadelphia scorns the Bobby Abreus and James van Riemsdyks. They aren’t bad guys, and Okafor isn’t a bad guy, but if you’re not going hard into the corner then you don’t belong in Philly, pal. Okafor can take his one-dimensional game and his empty chest cavity and make his big money somewhere else.
Jim: We wrote about the first two columns before (the second one in a post that didn’t go up, actually) so let’s start with the most recent one. What. The. Shit? Hayes, who blamed Okafor’s fight in Boston on a lack of a decent point guard(!!!), now uses it as a crutch to beat Okafor over the head with?
He does have talent and good size, Marcus. But those are the exact reasons you said the Sixers shouldn’t trade him 15 goddamn days ago. Am I imagining this? I’m so lost right now. I feel like Wayne Campbell when his ex-girlfriend tried to give him a gun rack:
Kyle: HOLY FUCKING SHIT! This is the take to end all takes. The takes stop here. Honest to God, if I thought Marcus was smarter, I’d swear this was parody. The Rocky sentence can’t possibly be real. It just can’t. He couldn’t have possibly used gefilte fish as a punchline twice in the same column. TWICE IN THREE PARAGRAPHS! I live in the weeds and even I’m grossed out by whatever this is. It’s borderline libelous. He called him pal! The guy actually posited (incorrectly) that the Sixers should keep Okafor (all three centers) and then thought no one would notice when he wrote a drive-by hit piece on the same player, questioning the contents of his anatomy and running him out of town for being a spineless asshole, two weeks later? What makes it worse is that Okafor has actually handled himself pretty well throughout all of this. He hasn’t even punched anyone this year! Really, this is bad. I don’t even have snark. This is remarkably brutal. It’s proof that unions keep unqualified shitheads employed. There is not an ounce of substance to this slop, and worse, the guy who wrote it directly contradicts his own shitty opinions. You just have to read it for yourself. It’s that bad. It is, without hyperbole, maybe the worst column of all-time. Read it here.
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Anything on cecily tynun hanging up her panties and retiring from the broad street run
those panties
Jim,
Is it sexist to think that Leslie isn’t strong enough to handle the comment section because she is female?
Not sexist at all, as of matter of fact if she can’t take the heat of the comment section then get out of the kitchen!
OK OK!!!
Cecily could have raised a lot of $$ for charity if she ever put her broad street run panties up for auction
so would Adam Josephs’
y whiteys
There’s no more overused word than “take”
LOOK AT THESE TAKES. OMG. LOL.
Have to agree with this take. Btw, Leslie’s reporting has always been worth pausing to catch. Today’s piece no different. She’s always delivered the most solid Phillies stuff you’re going to find. Seems like a cool chick, too.
Oooof. Stop deleting Leslie comment.
Peeeeeeeeeek-a-boo
better yet, stop posting stupid shit about her tough guy
I challenge you to a duel.
no thanks
In my top 3 favorite bands of all time. Pink Floyd being #1. SATB was soooooo ahead of their time. Unfortunately, the only songs that did well for them in the US were total garbage.
What’s the third band?
Look for my next 25 Random Points article, where I will offer you my own, personal take on Pink Floyd and other Classic Rock artists. I will rate the top 5 prog-rock bands of all time, but will exclude Pink Floyd because they aren’t obscure enough. I think I might just assign King Crimson to all 5 slots…
What is going on with Eytan Shander? I landed on that station the other day while driving. It sounds like he has announced a jihad against some callers and is asking his listeners to engage in fan-on-fan crime.
I know right. He is too young to be slipping into the world of dementia but it seems like he is.
My two favorite SATB songs are The Passenger and Dear Prudence. Such great lyrics.
NO ONE CARES!
Hot Take:
Jim enjoys narcotics
To be fair anyone who writes often enough will run out of quality content and resort to “hot takes” after a while. Kyle and Jim don’t have this problem because all they do is copy and bash original pieces.
You just keep drinking the Cool-aid these Bullshit columnist in our town keep serving you!!! Philly Phans are supposed to be knowledgeable!!! Thank God they scaled back CSN, the writers they always have on have developed over inflated EGO’s Keep up the great work Kyle & Jim….
Who the hell is drinking any “cool-aid”. I wouldn’t even know Hayes wrote this dribble if Kyle and Jim didn’t have their daily phony outrage over it. Hayes is an idiot, but at least he’s original unlike some other people…
Because Rocky must be fucking executed. Immediately.
That no one’s gonna read…zzzzz
On one hand Lesslie is probably the better writer, but on the other without the comments it’s like a tree falling in the woods.
Miss me now doncha?
the least they do is accompany her articles with a picture of her in a bikini!
*least they could do
Turn of the Millennium era only, please.
Why, because you think the comments about her are funny? Better stick to your studies, high school is a little tougher than middle school.
Who’s Randy Wolf, mom?
Literally no one cares about Rocky in this city. Please retire that tired cliche’
Where’s my dinner, bitch?
I fed your fucking dinner to the ‘beaver’.
Cook yourself a fucking swanson salisbury steak tv dinner fuckwad!
Gee Ronnie, now we’re gonna get yelled at.
The idiots who plays that Rocky clip at the beginning of every fucking eagles game care!
Its a fucking curse.
They haven’t won shit since they started playing that.
Douchebag they haven’t won shit ever!! Rocky wasn’t even out in 1960 now sheeeeep bow to the juuuuuu
I can’t blame Leslie Guedel for not wanting comments enabled on her articles.
You fucking fuckups are a bunch of fucking assholes with the comments!
I hope Mr Gudel slaps all around with his shock bataan!
Leave Leslie alone, she’s good peoples!
and besides, she knows more about sports than the other idiots, who write articles here,
and more than you fuckheads combined.
Knowing more about sports than Laskowski and the hipster isn’t a high bar to clear.
I’m thoroughly enjoying the joshing. I, when in my cups, often make light of my dear wife’s shenanigans with phillies of yore. You could park a car in her t wat.
I’d like to do a deep dive in Leslie’s muff.
I parked my car in there numerous times.
Anything on the roast?
For the record, the Gefilte fish is one of the hardest fish to catch. A 400 pounder usually takes 6-8 hours to land. Unlike sharks, which only have cartilage, all fish have bone vertebrae, and the Gefilte has quite a backbone.
Kyle Scott
Hint: she hates comments.
lesl_e gudel I would like to buy a vowel
Chris crispy might replace mike francesa, wth?
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