The Sixers Make a Big Roster Move...

The Sixers have made their final decision on a two-way contract, and I hope you like Taco Tuesdays, because that's not just a LeBron reference now. What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Sixers Digest, the show that is ready to put the preseason behind us and finally get to this year. I am absolutely pumped. Even with injuries and the little bumps and bruises along the way that have come from this preseason training camp, I'm still really, really excited. And if you want to follow along, Sean and I got daily content for you all season, so like, subscribe, share, follow, all those other YouTube-y buttons that I'm always supposed to tell you to press. Taco Tuesdays, it is official. Taco Fall is getting the last of the two-way contracts for the Sixers this season, and I am infinitely curious to hear from you guys. we're going to get to some of the general feedback from the public not that it entirely matters but it's just interesting to see the take on this as the Sixers apparent you know need for a center for front court for depth for rebounding for all of that comes front and center on this last decision feels somewhat like their hand was forced given the Ariel Huckporty injury but yeah it's official uh we got Ryan Rupaire Caleb Love Taco Fall as the final or as the three two-way contracts now i will be infinitely curious how quickly we get to see Taco Fall given that he has missed this entire preseason with a hip injury and is somebody who i i can't imagine is gonna get thrown just immediately into the deep end of like hey you didn't have any preseason time to really get with us but we need a backup center and and bead is taken tomorrow night off so go out there and do it i think that that means we will probably see some other options we'll get to Adem Bona's health in just a minute the other corresponding moves Jameer Nelson Dylan Jones Tay Fields Chris Carroll have all been waived and will likely head on to Delaware to start the season with Blue Coats and uh you know what i have loved to have seen Jameer Nelson get that last two-way spot you know in the conversation for it um but nonetheless they go with Taco Fall now i'll remind everybody that even with these decisions we are still heavily favored on the Kalshi markets to be one of the top NBA teams this season and thank you as always to Kalshi for sponsoring this video if you would like to sign up using the code digest nba kalshi will hook you guys up with 55 when you trade your first 25 options okay the response from the public seems to largely and i i get this is not entirely uh twitter is twitter and it's not it really has no impact but huge waste of resources talking about the general decision to sign taco fall and to spin that last spot on him as opposed to somebody who can be more of an offensive option it is i think incredibly apparent that this is a a combination of having their hand forced by the huck party injury and to a degree the bona injury but also their financial resources being limited if you will by the different aprons i think it'll be really interesting now a couple of things to watch in all of this being like i said how quickly does taco fall recover from his hip injury and get actually placed into the rotation obviously with the two-way contract you have a max number of games that you can be up on the squad for this season it feels like this could go one of two ways and they just um they spend it early to have a have a big guy there and then around december mid-ish to late december it seems like that's when veteran minimum pro rated contract uh michigas can kind of pop up and be like okay now there's a little bit of room to make a move or is taco fall just the only available big man and he's recovering from something so they're just gonna have to play some small ball the adem bona recovery seems to be going well the quote from Nick Nurse being that he's moving pretty well uh he tends to do that when he's got some time off he looks extra bouncy when he's got some time off so i think that's showed up as well but i think again it's not completely pain-free yet getting closer i think we're just making sure so um his foot sprain you know not uh getting closer just making sure is not a hyper specific medical analysis of being like okay yeah we are three days away or two weeks or whatever from specifically seeing Adem Bona but to me if he is somebody who is in the gym it's not a break it's not a tear it's just a sprain and if he's in the gym practicing and looking good i would assume given we have a couple more days until this season starts that he's probably not going to be like immediately available unless they need him but might or might like i would assume he'll be active but that they're not dying to go to him and and re-aggravate that early out the gates we're probably going to see some of the other options at center plus hoping that you know Embiid can carry a bit of the weight early on but then that's where i will get super curious as to what Nick Nurse does we've talked about the desire to use the depth that he has right now to get a little bit more into his bag get a little bit more creative and that he's talked about how in the past couple seasons he's just not been able to implement stuff that he wants to be able to implement he's just got limited roster and health options right now we are teetering i think back onto that and there is a lot of backcourt depth there's just not a lot of frontcourt depth so does Nick Nurse get crazy with it and do all sorts of defensive rotations and stuff that make you go kind of like whoa like he's really like going nuts or does Nick Nurse just say look we're going to dial up some offense and i'm going to focus on that and yeah the first 10 games anyway we're still figuring all of this out so we're not going to worry about the center position for a minute because you know in i would assume by game five that Adem Bona is fully back activated and then maybe we do see Taco Fall brought up a little bit and they make a decision come december to really commit to like okay we're going to shuttle Taco up and down for that third spot as the third string center or we're going to actually just go out and make a move it's a tough spot to be in and i am glad that it's the spot of the backup center and something where it's like technically we have the best center ever or generationally available right now the healthy knock on wood but good to go in Embiid and so it's not like we don't have a five of our starting five it's just and you know Embiid can't play every minute every game all season long even if he was healthy and not historically injured like he just it would be unrealistic to ask anybody to do that so gonna be really interesting to watch between now and the start of the season slash first couple weeks of the season exactly what this health situation is and how quickly we see Taco activated or if he is just on that two-way contract as a backup sort of just-in-case emergency option kind of vibes. I think Mike Ganci, having spent some time with Taco in Cleveland, probably checks the boxes in addition of the financials and availability. It also just has some degree of familiarity and comfort with him. And that's probably why he went out and gave him this opportunity anyway. So that's what I got for you today. Like, subscribe, comment, share, follow, all those other YouTube-y buttons. Go Sixers! Until next time, talk to you soon.