I will likely catch some shit about this, but if you think independently, you might agree.
Sam Presti is on the very short list for most overrated GMs in NBA history. How's that for a start? His "genius" began by accident. As he said at the time and many times since, he has said had he won the first pick, he would have taken Greg Oden over Durant. It was a coin flip between taking Westbrook over Kevin Love. A young Durant/Love frontcourt could have been second only to Bird/McHale in the post merger era. But Westbrook was a Top 5 pick. The next year Harden was expected to go in the Top3/4. The one excellent pick he made was fining Ibake. He deserves credit for that pick. Without question, Presti was hamstrung by OKC's ownership's cheapness at not wanting to spend another $10M for tax over a couple of years to keep Harden. However, it was on Presti to get more than a pick that turned into Steven Adams for Harden. That was a failure.
The concept that all the picks Presti has gotten are "genius" is ludicrous and millennial bullshit. The closest to have any value could be the ones from Houston. They could have some value. The picks from the Clippers are going to be above #20 which have little value unless you can get lucky with combining them with Houston's, but most GMs realize #20+ are of little value. The three picks the Thunder got from the Lakers and Sixers are also basically worthless. On top of that, unless Presti has a landing place for Adams or Horford, using that much of their cap for those two redundant pieces doesn't make sense.
Whether you have one piece of shit or a dozen pieces of shit, it's still shit.
Sixers new leadership is mediocre. From everything I've read or head, Doc Rivers is one of the real good guy in the NBA and has been for 35 years or so, However, he's a coach who has historically gotten less from more. From his Shaq days in Orlando thru the Clippers, his teams all seem to have excuses for underachieving. Yes, he won a title with the Celtics, but any average coach could have won with KG, Pierce, Allen and Rondo.
Morey is even more overrated than Presti. Maybe, the Rox make the Finals if CP3 doesn't get injured, but Morey also blew up a successful team and turned them into a middling team that would never have had a chance to be better than that. The theory that you could even win in the NBA with a team that has no one over 6'7 is batshit crazy. You might put some fans in the stands against bad teams, but even bad will exploit you.
Yes, the Sixers had to get rid of a bad contract in Horford, but they effectively got nothing back for him at all. Danny Green used to be the epitome of 3 &D at guard. He isn't any longer. I was never a Josh Richardson fan. I thought he was mediocre at best, but Seth Curry is one dimensional and to have give up another pick as well to save $2M seemed silly. If you got Danny Green and Seth Curry and have Thuybelle and Korkmaz, drafting Maxey makes no sense.
Morey is that shiny object, a crazy professor, but not the "genius" some make him out to be. Remember, he had THIRTEEN years at Houston to win something.