06-21-2024, 03:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-21-2024, 03:41 PM by KillerLeft.)
(06-21-2024, 02:56 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Truthfully Philly is tired of Harris mostly because he isn't good enough to be a 2nd-3rd option.
He was asked to be the 2nd scorer when Ben Simmons was around and he couldn't do it. He was asked to pick up a lot of nights offensively when Harden couldn't get it done. That wasn't his game.
Now he was asked to be the 3rd scorer behind Maxey and Embiid, but Embiid was injured, and Harris once again couldn't be that guy.
He's a luxury. A great 4th option that can have big scoring nights but I'm not surprised Philly fans are sick and tired of the guy they were paying 40mil to average 15ppg.
In Dallas, he really just has to be able to hit a spot up 3 and occasionally get his own shot. Far cry from what he was asked to do in Philly.
I remember when they had Butler and Harris was a 4th option he was pretty much universally loved in PHI, so much so that they chose handing him a 180 mil deal over extending Butler.
Just to clarify, because I haven't seen enough of Harris recently to weigh in with much confidence, but that's NOT the vibe I got from this conversation, or, for that matter, from numerous other discussions about Harris I've heard over the last couple of seasons. Those who follow Philly do think he was overpaid on the last deal, you're right, and that's obviously correct. But, the vibe I always get is that they believe he's flatly a bad player in a vacuum. Disappears, makes no impact on the game, etc, etc. I have no idea if I'd agree with them if I had been watching the 76ers consistently, but I also don't usually agree with the flak Hardaway gets around here. Listening to these guys talk about Harris is almost identical to listening/reading Hardaway opinions from Dallas followers. They really hate Harris that much. I'm just mentioning it because I think it's interesting.
For the record, if the Mavs' interest is real, I might get it if it's about getting him at Kleber money or cheaper as option to find someone more available to replace HIM in his, specific off-the-bench role. I don't think the best of Harris is as impactful on defense as the 20-30 games of "truly healthy and playing well" Kleber the Mavs have been getting, but if they don't believe they'll ever get more games than that from him again, I can see it.
As a starter next to Washington? Hell to the naw.