The Process Was Built On Failure: Chapter 3.

What Initialized  As An Unassuming Thought, Study, And Venture InTo  Why the Sixers Failed To Make The Finals This Season, Suddenly transubstantiated Into The Sordid Epoch of The Franchise, Known To Most As The Much Malaise  “The Process.”  Here Is Some of the Views and Assumption  Of Its History,  Where Its Stands Within The World Of  Basketball Philosophy, The City Of Philly, The NBA  As A Business And Us, the  Fans, Today--Also the Corona Virus Made A Guest Appearance; Forgive Me.

“From the Process The Through The Playoffs”

2020: The Sixer’s Enviable Growth  Stagnated.

Ben Simmons  Battled A Ailing  Nerve  Injury In the Back. The Injury Which Took Place On Feb. 22. Simmons Couldn’t Avoid A hard fall in Milwaukee Which left lying Him on his back, vomiting from the pain. The Severity Of The Injury Would Only Excercatbated, Simmons Missed The Next 7 Games. Speculation Grew in Simmons Prolonged Absence And The Growing Sense And Expectation Was That He Would To Miss The Playoffs. Simmon’s Injury History Has to Remain A Poignant Point for Critics And Detractors. It’s Worsoened When COnsidering Joel Embiid Transcript On That End Of The Sport. Embiid Has Always Miss Timed, Hisn Body IsAt Time The Only Thing That Can Get On The Ground And Keep Him There. He Missed Some Time There Along with Simmons.

The Combination of Embiid And Al Horford In the Front line Proved To be  Spacing Disaster. The Pandemic Truncated The 2020 season With Sixers In 6th Place In The East An dIn A familiarity Station; Experimenting.

Injuries Aside, The Process’s Talented Had Blossomed.

Embiid Was a Regular 30 Point Per Night Guy. Simmons When Healthy Ranked Amongst The Zenith In Assists And Steal. What trouble The Sixers And Coach Brown Was Enfusion And Cohesion.

Being The 6’10 Reincarnation of Magic Johnson With A Broken Jumper Made Simmons  Positioning Strength And Liability. Playing Him At The 4 Would Push Last Off-Season Acquisition Al Horford To The Bench: That’s Not What Philly Imagined When The Signed Horford for 100 Plus Million.  Furthermore, With The Absence Of JJ Reddick, The Teams Shooting Greatly Dwindled. Playing Simmons At The One Would Be A Space And Pace Nightmare.

By the End Of The Postseason Simmons, was Healthy But The Sixers Fell in Four. Brett Brown, criticized For Not Exacting The X And Os Necessary To Unearth The Potential In His Players, Needed The Heavens To divide To Salvage His tenure inn Philly. It Became Evident By The Season End That Once He’d Fronted The Jury, Borwn Would Be Sent To The Gallows.

The Teams Brass lead By Elton fired Long Time Head coach And Herald of The Process Bret Brown. The franchise Needed To Move In A “new” direction. Brown Had finished 221-344 (.391) in seven seasons. He Leadership Brought The franchise Out Of Its Embryonic days Of The Process And Into The Light Of The Playoffs.

His Firing, The Product Of two Early exits In The Playoffs--Philly was eliminated in the second round the past two years—The Move was inevitable, But still, Sombering for A Coach Whose Reputation was now Marred In Failure, Not Of Own connection, And Sucesssses He Never reveled in.

As it been In Times Passed When A Professors At A Research Univesity Would Have Given His All Into A Massive Undertaking Of Study. Gradually He Yielded Groundbreaking results But Failed To satisfy The University Board of Trustees’ And Their expectations. Now The Decision Came Down To cut The funding And Hand The research over To Another Professor who is Ready To harvest The Results Expected.

Brown failed To satisfy The Sixers Goals.

Those goals?  

No Longer would Win And Make The Playoffs Acceptable. The Sixers were A respectable team Now And There Must Have NOw reflected That. The Sixers Had Build Themselves And Birgde As Same As All other NBA franchises; they reason The Sixers Embark on, The Process; To contend, To Propel, To win, A Championship.

Reassessment was in Order. Wholesale changes Were, reportedly, in order.

“It sucks. Man, it sucks when you play super hard and do everything possible to win games, and you come up short. No one wants to be in this position.”

This Quote, An exert From An Interview following The Celtic sweep, is Another  Striking Point.  Losing was exactly The Position The Sixer Wanted To Occupy Only A few Years Prior.

Losing To The Celtics, The Team Who Had Ousted Philly  From Their Last Pre Process  Playoffs eight Years earlier. Another reason that Set the  Stage for This 2020 match Up.  Perhaps This Loss  Cut The Sixers Organization Deeper. The Celtics title window Had Closed And Opened within The Same Time It Took For The Sixers To Build Theirs.

The Celtic and The Sixers are Atlantic Conference Rivals; They’d Been rivals In The Eastern conference across all Boards For Dedacdes; the two franchises are interlocked on course Through The east For Decades. Highlighted By their Battles In the 1980s, when Both Franchises Achieved Championship Glory. Three years ago, the East’s future belonged to Philadelphia and Boston. In  2012’s Aftermath, The Celtics  Had embarked On Their Own Reclamation Process. They Ship Away the remaining Cornerstones Of The Big Three championship Compendium Away to 5Brooklyn For Heist Of Draft Picks. Rajon Rondo  Felll was Out Of favor And On The Table, Battling Several Injuries Before He, too, Was traded. Coach Doc Rivers Was traded to The Clippers, and The Celtics Collectivized A New Core for the Future Under New Coach Brad Stevens.

Thanks in part  To The Peirce And Garnett Trade, the Celtic’s  Graze Through their Model of The rebuild And were Praised for Their Approach To “Processing.” The Trade Cut years Off Of what could Have Been And was expected  To Be  Another Decade Of Celtic Flutily.  Some Pundits As robbery bewailed the deal with Brooklyn. It forced The Nets back Into a Mired Obscurity. Never the Less,  The Celtics Never Relished In The  Malign Atmosphere The The Process Shrouded Over the Sixers.

Not The Mention The divergent Draft results.

In The 5  Years, 2013-2017, The Sixers failed To Make The Playoffs As Apart Of the Processes’ development Stage. Philly Officials  Shared Top 10 Selection with the Celtics 3 times;

2014, PHI: Joel Embiid, 3rd, BOS: Marcus Smart 6th;

2016, PHI: Ben Simmons, 1st, BOS: Jaylen Brown 3rd;  

*2017, Phi: Markelle Fultz 1st, BOS: Jayson Tatum 3rd.

Note: The Celtics Traded The first Pick To The Sixers in Exchange for The 3rd, And And A future Frist Rounder, Which Would Turn Into Mikal Bridges

Except for Embiid In 2014, The Celtic’s Bested The Sixers On every Pick. Even So, When Evaluating Embiid Talent, His injury issues, conditioning questions, loose shot selection, and decision-making remain concerning. These Are All Mark Against His reputation despite How Remarkably he Has Filled Out his Potential In His Six years in Philly. Furthermore,  Philly held The Higher selection Slot Every Year; The Two teams Met In the Top Ten.  Along With Another top 10 Pick In Mikal Bridges in 2018, Whom The Sixer’s traded.

In The aftermath Of Brett Brown, Firing Praised, And Censure Was Laid At His feet Onn His Exit Out Of Philly. In The first four seasons, Brown Coached In Philadelphia went 75-253; the last three seasons, 146-91. He Guided The Franchise Through Some Of Through One Of The Worse Stretches In History, Held The ever Precarious Process, oft  Near the Precipice Of Failure, steady. But Coach Brown Could Not Maximize The Talent He Been given, in The time He’d Been Loaned.

 The Sixers would Secure championship A Caliber Coach Doc Rivers to replace Brown. Doc Had A reputation for reclaiming. Coming Off Of A Second Round Exit In The Bubble After 7 Years Of Trying To Lift A Talented Clippers team into The Conference finals, In Fully. LA Had Soured On The former hawk’s Point Guard, Turned coach Who Renown As A Coach proliferated After His famed Coaching Boosted The Celtics Into The Finals  A decade  Over.

 In Philly, River’s Was Inheriting A Roster in Influx.

The Al Horford, Joel Embiid Frontline Had Not to Produce The Results Some The Team had Anticipated. Tobias Harris, Who The Sixers traded for Inn 2018 To Help Flush Out The Processes, Had Battled Injuries And Yet To Prove Himself In The Playoffs. In The Sweep At The And Of The Sixers, Has Made Two Three-Pointers All Series.

2017 Number 1 Pick Markelle Fultz uncover Trouble In His transition Into The League. Entering His rookie Year Fultz Split Time touring Ball control Duties With 2016 number 1 pick Ben Simmons. The Tandem creates A Floor Spacing Catastrophe. Playing Off Ball exposed Fultz's “deficiencies” as a Shooter and even More Sever Defect In His Physiology. The Jimmy Butler Trade Ony Worsened Fultz’s Position On The card.

Around This Time Fults Freethrow Shooting became So worrisome it Began To inspire Physic’s Studies And sometimes Worse, in the age of the internet, Memes And Mimic.

The “double-clutch, or hesitate, fearful the ball may slip,”  was Now Fultz’s approach. Never The Glorified Shooter Coming Out Of Washington, Fuult’s Mechanics Showed enough Promised To warrant, Or at Least Justify His Selection Position. That Scouting report Was Now throw Out the Windows. The Problem, designated As A “mental hurdle as it is a physical one.” It was chaotic And near Dejecting To witness A Young Player Lose His feel for Game, His Confidence In Everything He Had Worked For

“Just trial and error,” Fultz Said, Addressing His Fluid Mechanics. His formless approach to Shooting Basketball. Another Medical diagnosis Upon Diagnosis, Fultz’s was Diagnosed With Throtrasic Nerve Syndrome. And Malady More Common Amongst Baseball Players. Some Much So, That It Took Several Doctor Months to diagnose Him.

No Matter, After Two years In Philly, Fultz reportedly wanted Out, And eventually, He Was traded To The Magic Ahead Of the 2020 Season.

Just Trial And Error.

Fultz’s Draft classmate, Jayson Tatum, Lead The Celtics To A Sweep Of The Sixer’s In That Year’s Playoff.

Only A Year Into His four years, $109 Million  Contract, The Sixer’s traded F Al Horford to Thunder, Moving The weight Of His Contract of The Books And The Weight Of His Play Out Of The Lineup.

With The  Cap Flexibility Procure In The Exchanges, The Sixers were Able To Holter The Salvo Of Shoppers the Roster AHd Been In dearth Of For Some Time. They Snagged Danny Green Form The Lakers And Seth Curry From The Blazers And Plat Primarily Small ball With Harris At the 4 Spot.

After fallings-out In The east In 2019, Thanks To The Epic Kahwi Leonard Buzzer Beater, making The Critical And criticized Move To Focus on Tobias Harris Instead Of Jimmy Butler In free Agency, then Being Sweep Out In The First Round A Year Later.

Come The End Of The Corona Virus Impeded Season; The Sixer Had The  Roster Needed To Achieve Their Goals. Gone Were The fans with Mask. The “Free Jah” Signs. Hinkie Jokes. The Markelle Fultz’s Drama. The Brina Colalgelo Fake Twitter Expose, I Neglected To Cover.

This was Not the roster The Process had Built. Not A Roster comprised Of Draft Picks and Cast Off G-Leaguers. Phi sent that roster Of Some 102 Players To The card Grave Yard.

This Roster was One Of the Proven veterans, All-Star, And A Proven Leader At The Helm. The Sixers Team Could, Would,  Achieve The Franchises’, Elton Brand’s  Suppressed, Dormant, Unexpressed Goal. The extinguishment of “The Processes.”