The Sixers Forced Into an Impossible Decision...

The Sixers are being forced into a low-key impossible position with everybody at the center position either already hurt, injury prone, very expensive, the team capped at an apron. It feels like there's nowhere to go with the news that Ariel Huckport is going to miss the season. Yet, it does seem like there are some one man's trash is another man's treasure kind of signings out there. And so I saw an interesting article that's going to have me shotgunning a bunch of names and options and ideas at you. But let's talk about how this impossible decision might be another opportunity to see just what kind of mojo Mike Gansey's got. What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Sixers Digest, the show where Sean and I bring you daily content, all things Sixers related. And I'm maintaining the optimism this season. This is a it's a negative angle kind of story that we have to talk about how Ariel Huckport is injured, severely injured. Dembona has a foot injury. Joel Embiid is injury prone. so between those three there is no real clear cut like we don't have an every single day center now there are some other guys that can and will step up already on the roster who can play a little bit smaller version of that but there is still a need for a traditional big man so i saw this article of seven training camp battles that could help solve the sixers backup center conundrum and it's a run through the list of some x10 and two-way deals that are going on battle wise at other training camps that we should all be glued to absolutely fixated on or you should just trust that sean and i have so little life that we are able to follow those battles for you that's why i always say like subscribe comment share follow but um it made me think about how remaining two-way contract that the sixers have available now to me feels no longer flexible and i would have said going into to um you know going into the preseason going into the season going into camp whatever you want to say having that last two-way contract available and open was a great deal of opportunity for us to do a little bit of wiggle room a little bit of jazz and be like okay what does this team really need a rebounding specialist this that we don't have that option anymore instead we need to go get a big man and you could say to me well what does a two-way contract really do i think a two-way contract right now provides us with exactly what we need given that and i'm not gonna knock on the studio wood i'm not gonna jinx it and say he's healthier than he's ever been and he's gonna play a full slate of games and beads just and bead as of right now seems to check all the boxes of great bodily care and management and in a really good spot dembona his foot is a sprain and it seems like he by the start of the regular season will be available and getting healthier progressively more and more dom barlow lebron there are other guys like i said on the roster so it's it's a weird spot of like we don't need a center but we need a center we don't need to the center but we need a center i don't i feel i feel like you guys can all understand what i'm saying there it's also a weird spot of like we have no money basically and some of you will say well what if we wave jabari walker and what if we sure if we make a dramatic and drastic step but that's one where it's like is that drastic step worth it for somebody who defensively only need for the amount of time to stop gap measure like a two-way contract offer so it's an interesting article we'll run through it all before we do that just as always gotta say a quick thank you to cal she for sponsoring this channel as a reminder we are one of the favorite teams this year to win the nba championship if you would like to get in on those markets you can use the code digest nba when you are signing up for cal she and they'll hook you up with 55 and you trade your first 25 in options okay you know like i said have a lot of names here for you and everything and i'm not going to go way too in depth through this but i want to hear from you guys if any of these stand out as names that you would like us to get after uh the pacers uh renek mast and kiba kianta um they might both be people who are potentially here uh mass listed at 610 is maybe the more traditional big i kind of like if we're going to go for a big here um i would like to not have us get an undersized plucky pick i would like a if somebody out there is available on a two-way contract we're going to take a flyer on i would like to even knowing very little about some of these guys in terms of like really their overall basketball fit i like i would like to just physically acquire somebody is huge um staying in the central division milwaukee bucks which an lol of we uh tonight brew being listed here i think that was funny um but jake stevens on an x10 could be an interesting one to watch would any of you guys want broom back i'm assuming not maybe that would be a hilarious ben simmons like a mini ben simmons type of union uh james wiseman tony bradley drew eubanks all with the knicks um and the difference there between exhibit nine and exhibit 10 could be explored and there's a lot of contract minutiae that thankfully mike and company are much smarter on than me but it does make me feel like in all of this we're not truly like out of options out of options that some of these guys look this is seven teams and each one of these teams has multiple guys that there are going to be some options come available here um the oklahoma city thunder obviously with a lot of actual starters on their team who are really good tall centers they added christopher tilly to an exhibit 10 contract so christophe tilly so he could be an interesting guy to keep an eye on should he become available looking over at the phoenix suns um duop wreath is a two-way deal uh they could have some actual nba experience with as they mentioned here i think that for me in all of this i kind of let's let's go cheap let's go big and let's go young and physical i want guys with probably as little mileage um nate biddle at the university of oregon product who's with the toronto rafters right now and another exhibit 10 deal um yeah i i don't know how much scoring really matters for me on this position um and again you can pause any of this if you really want to dive into the names i don't need to spend a lifetime going through every single one of these and if you want to check out this full article i always encourage anybody and everybody to read what we take snippets of here um jonas i do out of the utah jazz um he'd be the this is the last name that gets brought up so yeah it's an impossible decision because you sign huck party to this great deal and then you lose him and you're going to replace him with somebody's x you know exhibit 10 cast away kind of like it's not a great thing like oh and nobody's going to let go of some future hall of fame but it's a situation where you do need to make a move because it's irresponsible bull of mike gansey to just be like okay as much as i want to be a dime a dem bonus number one podcaster um i you're not gonna just be like we're gonna only play with 13 guys on the roster and just tell a dem boner to man the hell up and send him beat out for more games and just like you've got to sign somebody there and you've got to bring somebody up and so it's going to be a really interesting test to see what the front office does with this little uh this little bit of early season adverse uh or a little bit of a little bit of uh i don't want to say a challenge i don't want to say uh we'll just call it we'll call it a little call it a little early season blip uh for them to come up with to see to see what they can get through so let me know what you think on all these names or if there's anyone else that you think the sixers should go after for that last two-way spot to help shore up the center position until 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