I keep hearing Adams is a huge issue with us giving up the 3...

Adams idea of offense is to sit under the basket staring at it waiting to get the rebound. Does he get the rebound? NO, he pretends like he is playing girls volleyball and swats the ball giving the Pels a 50/50 shot at getting it.

I would love Adams, for way less money and NOT the primary center. Bring him in for Embiid, otherwise lets get someone who can not put us in a 4 on 5 on offense every trip down the court.

When Adams has been banged up, which has been most of the year, he hasn't been significantly better than Billy.

There also are 2 things that Adams brought to start the season that had a value which no longer fits. Before point Zion when this team didn't really have a point guard, Adams was acting as a dribble hand off offensive hub. It was a turnover prone offense so I understand why it went away, but the team just doesn't need it now like it did the first several weeks.

Similarly Adams was good at screening and getting the ball to a mobile shooter like JJ, who we no longer have. So 2 of the better things Adams brings to the table now have no place on this team on top of him being banged up most of the season leading to him playing at a lower than expected level.

Hopefully Griff will be able to use him in a good trade like Demps eventually did with Asik, but right now that extension is not looking good. If Adams wasn't on the team would you want to use $17 million in cap space to add him this offseason? Maybe on a one year deal if no other options panned out, but you wouldn't give him 2/$34.

That extension was made to justify the high price Griff paid to acquire him, not to save the Pels future money. It was throwing good money after bad, and until Griff finds a trade to undo it, it's going to be viewed as a mistake.

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yet even when he's out we still give it up. And our defense sucks with him out. But yeah let's keep blaming the guy that keeps people out of the paint and helps seal defenders for Zion to work in the paint, because Jax ain't at that level and Willy damn sure isn't.

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Offense is the bigger issue for him.

Defense is much better when he's on the court. Offense is much better when he's off the court.

Overall, the team is slightly worse when he is on the court, which isn't exactly ideal for a dude we're paying $28mil this season. Willy has a better on/off and Jax slightly worse, so point being, we could have been mediocre at the center position for really cheap with Willy/Jax as opposed to mediocre at the center position for $28mil.