Multiple Injury Updates...

Multiple Sixers injury updates to get to as we close in on the last of the preseason games. We have the regular season right around the corner. We got to know what's going on with two of our key bench pieces and the remaining question marks that will come from whether or not they are going to be active both in the pre or regular season. What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Sixers Digest, the show that's got to give you an update on my boy, Adem Bona, aka the missing link, the big piece, the guy who's actually going to hold all of this stuff together. I say that somewhat sarcastically, but you know on this show, we are Adem Bonists number one internet fan cast. As always, if you want to like, subscribe, comment, share, follow, all those other YouTube buttons, Sean and I got daily content for you all season long, no matter how good, bad, or anything it goes in between. The headlines being that we are running out of time in the preseason, and I'm not entirely sure as to the necessity of the preseason, but the good news here is that progress is being made as of today both Simons and Bona are being announced as partial participants in the last training camp session but that doesn't update the timeline on returns as of us recording it right now the timeline is four days between now and the rematch of the century as we take on the Sixers once again for the final pre-season game of the season a total of eight days between now and us taking on the Knicks to start the season off now reminder before we go any further we got to say thank you as always to Kalshi for sponsoring this video remind you that we are the third favorite team in their markets to be the NBA champion and if you want to sign up you can use the code DIGEST NBA when you are signing up and Kalshi will hook you up with 25 or with 55 dollars when you trade your first 25 dollars in options um Simmons let's talk about Anthony and him being ruled out in advance because of his hamstring talked about how he hasn't been discussed being severe enough to have him be an issue in terms of missing regular season games the same seems to kind of go for the Adem Bona issue of him being talked about how um he and Simmons both a bunch of existing experience and how they don't you know is it going to be an issue, isn't it going to be an issue who's really going to have an impact because it seems like with uh with Simon, with Anthony Simmons it was just he's guaranteed to be a bucket and he's he's got a guy he's not there's no competition for him in terms of is he going to make the team or not there's no competition for him in terms of is he going to get some playing time in the rotation he's not in the running to like unseat anybody in the starting lineup but it seems kind of guaranteed that he was part of and will be part of Nick Nurse's plan for the season, the same with Adem Bona he wasn't or isn't in the running to unseat Joel Embiid as the starting center despite some of you guys thinking that he shouldn't even be in the NBA you know i got his back on that conversation but it's a question of do they need to play in the preseason and if they do not play in the preseason but it gives them enough time between now and the regular season to get you know healthy not that anyone's ever at a hundred percent health but if it gives them enough time to get healthy in the preseason i think kind of we're looking at right now like what is the general i don't even know if it's you want to say learning curve but what amount of time do these guys then get in the regular season to get up to speed Joel Embiid is going to play obviously the starting center on game one against the New York Knicks in MSG like this is not a demo bonus game to steal but demo bonus i would hope is available for some degree of time we saw and we have seen what it looks like with a variety of different cats at center this preseason and it isn't like it isn't the end of the world but we don't have a we don't have a backups backups back there is no fourth string center currently available and i doubt that they're going to give Ryan Repaired a starting job on this team he's probably going to be one of the two-way contracts and probably not going to be somebody that they're going to spend one of those two-way slots early in the season in terms of the total number of games available for him to come in and back up and bead and then be like his number two off the bench so Bona coming off of a foot sprain And I guess I would place the importance at him getting out there for the last of the preseason games at like a 2 out of 10. I don't think that there's a ton of rotational coordination and whatnot that is needed for Adem Bona to like fit into the offensive end of this scheme. Obviously, there is some desire to you know get everybody on the same page and not have him playing his first meaningful basketball minutes of the season in the regular season but i don't think that he is somebody that is gonna throw the whole thing out of whack if he's you know not a viable offensive option those first couple of games he needs to be defense defense defense rebounding defense Anthony Simons I would say let's crank that up to a I would place the importance of him getting at least some preseason time at like a 7 out of 10 I will be curious what Nick Nurse's overall game plan is number two against the Celtics I would assume that the starters will get some degree of minutes out there just to get some last little looks but does sort of seem like the vision is much bigger and broader for this team so the risk of re-aggravating or injuring something just arbitrarily to get Anthony Simons out there in the preseason so that he can get a little bit of the rust off and get some looks with Justin Edwards and LeBaron Finlan and Dean Wade and KCP on the court in a meaningless game like i'm not trying to risk another two-week setback or whatever re-aggravating that hammy but at the same time i would say that Anthony Simons is somebody who is going to be part of that like first wave off the bench whether it is going straight to him or to Dean Wade or KCP maybe it rotates from game to game i think though that it will be something where Anthony Simons is going to be out there on the court with a ton of different looks ranging from starter heavy to bench heavy and everything kind of in between so to get any amount of that gelling going is you know it can't be understated with his importance in terms of the fluidity of this team and and getting him some of that so that's where i'm kind of sitting at it i'd say it may be like i would place it at a six out of ten in terms of my need to see Anthony out there for the preseason two out of ten for my need to see Bona out there in the preseason the only questions i have lingering about Bona is just if if he is if there is a longer term of his foot just not getting healthy then the Sixers like have a real true issue like a structural fundamental roster composition issue that needs to be addressed if it's just uh is he going to play now versus the you know if he's going to play the 16th versus the 20th just give him give him give him to me on the 20th for 10 minutes and then let's you know hell or high water on in terms of his offensive numbers that's what i got for you today let me know what you think like subscribe comment share follow all those other youtube buttons until next time we'll talk to you guys soon