I respect him for speaking out at this point. The Sixers are one of the purer forms of trainwreck.
This...this is ‘the process’. They’ve destroyed Noel and Okafor’s careers because they were hell bent on being as bad as possible.
They got extremely lucky with Embiid and Simmons plus Simmons was after the Hinkie era where he had some type of mentors.
Nonsense. Noel and Okafor had plenty of opportunity to develop with Embiid missing 2.5 seasons. The Sixers have two undrafted players, McConnell and Covington, who have taken advantage of the opportunities that "the process" provided them.
Noel had a chance to sign a 70M deal with Dallas but his ego made him really stupid. Now he's not getting much playing time with Dallas. Where's the outrage with Carlisle not playing Noel?
Okafor was happy when he was getting his minutes on a lousy, losing team while being one of the worst defensive players in the league. Now he complains when they are winning because he can't beat out Amir and Holmes for playing time. He did have two opportunities to play when Embiid sat out this season. He put up hollow numbers in a blowout loss to the Raptors and had a terribly bad 3 minutes against the Jazz.
Maybe "destroyed" is too strong, but its pretty hard to argue that "the process" didn't significantly negatively affect both careers.
I think you could argue that "the process" negatively impacted both MCW and Evan Turner's career too, although CBS saved Turner.
How so? What's the evidence that MCW would've been better had he never gone to Philly? He was given every opportunity to play Milwaukee and then Chicago and was no good.
Turner I don't get either. He was traded out of Philly at the very beginning of "the process" and his career was in the toilet before the Celtics because he played so poorly in Indiana. I'm not sure how you blame Philly for that.
I think you are put in a significant disadvantage if the team you go to in your formative years does not develop you well. It could be because you are allowed to do whatever you want, and therefore learn bad habits, or because you are not developed in your abilities, or you lose confidence in your game.
Turner is a good example. MCW may have never been good, but he had court vision and athleticism.
Its a disadvantage that can be overcome, but it does impact you negatively.
MCW was the 11th pick in a weak draft and played on the Sixers for 1.5 seasons. The Sixers didn't destroy his career at all. He just wasn't very good.
Turner isn't a good example because he was on the Sixers when they were still a playoff team. He is the exact opposite of what you are trying to prove. The Process didn't destroy Turner, Turner just wasn't very good (though that Process half season was by far Turner's most productive season).
I edited the comment above to include this list.
Turner is a good example. MCW may have never been good, but he had court vision and athleticism. Hawes, Dedmon, Grant, McDaniels, Robinson, Canaan, and Wroten all needed to find their impact on a basketball game on other teams. There are a host of other boom or bust prospects that didn't pan out either, like Mullens, Lorenzo Brown, Brandon Davies, Daniel Orten, Elliot Williams, Arnet Moultrie, Darius Johnson-Odom, Jakarr Sampson, and Christian Wood.
I realize that many of them would not have panned out anyway, including, as you mentioned MCW. But many scouts saw potential in a lot of these players that could have developed. The Sixers could not and did not in "the process." I think you could easily argue it is because of "the process" that those players did not develop.
The success of the process has been Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and Robert Covington. McConnell and Fultz remain to be seen. Still, that's not a great percentage, and that is sacrificing a lot of players for the franchise.