Bill Simmons

The greatest version of Zydrunas Ogascus.

I'm sure that's what Joel Embiid has been striving for all these years.

It's like... The writer's room is struggling to pull it all together.

I think that's probably true.

I personally am waiting for the bottle episode of Dominic Barlow and his exploits.

I'm into that personally.

This thing though, this is what's hard about the Sixers is the East is open enough and they're good enough as is.

I think they should consider themselves to be a pretty serious player and more buyer than seller.

But what exactly do they need?

Because they're not complete, but you look up and down the roster and it's like, yeah, they could use a little more forward depth.

They could probably use a different kind of creator, especially off the bench, to kind of complement what they have.

But you don't want to take the ball out of Tyrese Maxey's hands too much.

You don't want to take away Joel Embiid's momentum.

They kind of have some of the stuff that should work in theory, but it's hard to know how much to hedge against Tyrese.

Paul George and Joel not being available for this game or that.

And what exactly you need to add to this group.

It's just not immediately clear to me where the obvious upgrade is.

And I think maybe the Grimes contract plus Cali-Ubre, plus picks potentially.

Get them into the vicinity of people.

Now that's a conversation.