How Does Daryl Morey View the Current Sixers’ Roster?
With a fast-paced off-season on the horizon, the new president of basketball operations, Daryl Morey, is surely preparing to make some moves.
While plenty of moves are expected simply because of Morey’s history as a wheeling and dealing executive in Houston, questions still remain about what kind of moves will be made.
Will Morey go after another star-level player? Will he try and dump bad contracts no matter what other assets it takes?
Will he make small moves to fill in gaps on the roster?
These questions have everything to do with how Daryl Morey views the Sixers’ roster as it currently stands.
It’s no secret that the 2019-2020 76ers were among the biggest disappointments around the NBA. Even with a clunky roster filled with overlapping skill sets, the team showed flashes of dominance. Before the shutdown, they were a league-best 29-2 at home. Despite that great success at home, the consistently poor play away from home had fans wondering what the ceiling of that team was all season long.
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Executives around the league seem to have been in a similar position; intrigued by the flashes of brilliance, yet confused and frustrated with the team’s inability to put it all together consistently. Knowing Daryl Morey was fully prepared to take some time away from the NBA, we have to assume he was intrigued by the flashes of greatness shown the last couple of years, particularly in Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons. Morey knows this is a star-driven league. Embiid and Simmons have proven themselves to star in their own ways.
While Morey hasn’t had much chance to speak publicly on the state of the Sixers’ roster, we do have plenty of quotes to dissect from him, thanks to The Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast.
Just before teams began to play in the bubble, Morey agreed to come on to the podcast and had plenty to say about the Rockets, Sixers, and more. “You have to be on a success cycle,” said Morey “which is, when you’re down, you’ve got to build up your store in the armory as much as possible, and then when you’re up, you’ve got to use it all, to eke out small advantages to increase your chance to win.” Even though last season was not what we all expected, this team is still in the “up” part of what Morey was talking about. There are two-star players in place here, so based on this philosophy, it seems like Morey would be willing to “use it all to eke out small advantages.” At this point, there isn’t much stored in the armory, but whatever’s left could seemingly be used to make this current roster a lot better.
It’s hard to imagine that Daryl Morey signed a 5-year deal to run the Philadelphia 76ers if he didn’t envision winning titles in the near future. He’s always been fearless in the way he makes moves, and if he sees an opportunity for a title, he will go all in. The only question for the near future is, does Daryl Morey see the current Sixers as having any chance at winning a title? If the answer is yes, expect several wins now moves to unload the armory, so to speak.
This is sure to be a fast-moving and fun off-season filled with plenty of telling decisions on how our new president of basketball operations sees the team.
We will very soon learn a lot about the future of this team, and with Daryl Morey overseeing it all, we can all feel pretty confident the right decisions will be made.
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