That's fine. That front office is run by a bunch of clowns, as evidenced by the whole Okafor trade debacle, so it really doesn't mean anything to me. I'm confident in my assessment. Confident enough to back it up with money.

Towns is the best player on either team. I need to see more toughness out of him.

He isn't better than Embiid. Embiid is a bonafide difference maker.

That's exactly what Towns is. He just doesn't play with the same intensity as Embiid. He does everything better except defend the rim. He's a young Tim Duncan.

Too many variables for me to take that bet.

To take it a step further in a weak draft Noel was taken 6th. In a strong draft Okafor was taken 3rd.

Noel is garbage as hell. Skinny shot blocker that really doesn't Block many shots doesn't glass an can't score.

He is garbage and his starting is more circumstantial than anything else. Sort of like Taj starting with the Bull

Who gives a shit where they got drafted? That type of logic will have you saying Derrick Williams is better than Kawhi Leonard.

The rest of your post is some bullshit that you don't even believe, as evidenced by your unwillingness to take the bet.

There's like three good centers in the entire league and I guess poor Okafor is just gonna get stuck playing behind them his whole career, huh?

i just think the sixers are a poorly constructed team. they remind me of the mid 2000 Bobcats, always trying to find a long SF and missing on all of them. biggest bust was probably morrison, but josh childress was a disappointment too.

like i said, they keep drafting injured guys. they can't really expect great things.

There are about 10 that are currently better just off the top of my head. I haven't thought that long and hard about it to be honest. I will simply say this. WhIle on the same team Philly thought Okafor was clearly the better player. Don't think much has changed in the span of a week.

Alright. The starting thing doesn't matter, I was just saying he's clearly a starting caliber C and that will show over the near and long term future.

He's gonna be better than Okafor in almost every category except ppg over the next few years and probably career. Rpg, TRB%, spg, bpg, apg, Ast%, PER, Win Shares, WS/48, Box +\-, VORP, etc

I don't think he will be better assisting. Noel is terrible offensively. Doesn't have one move in the low post. I'm absolutely confident that Okafor will be the better player. He is now and going forward. Noel is destined to be an "energy" guy off the bench. He just happens to play on a team that is rebuilding and has no center. He is a default starter.

If you're confident make the bet on any of those statistics. Btw, Noel is averaging 1.6 apg, and a 9.9 AST%, and Okafor is averaging 1.1 APG with a 8.3AST% for their career so far.

The fact is you're not confident Okafor is going to be the better player, because there is no evidence of that. You're just stubborn and backed yourself into a corner here. That's why you won't bet on any of the many other stats outside of ppg. Don't claim it's about starting now.

Fair enough. To be clear, we are talking about the NBA here. You don't win the potential bet if Okafor is MVP in China or the NBDL two years from now.

If he's healthy Noel will play for another 12+ years in the league and start most of them.

:lol:

I think Noel will be a solid rotation guy for sure, maybe not a superstar

Once Okafor lands somewhere else preferably a veteran team you can check him for 18-20 a game and about 8-9 boards a game.

This really isn't debatable at this point.

you're not one much for debate anyway. Suits just fine.

Ok Stephen Douglas Ben Simmons is the real deal...you watch any LSU games ??? He's got no outside game...the will be in the finals....never

You probably say that about every team in the league. Bitter pill for a bitter man once someone actually screws up the theory by making it.