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The 76ers practiced today at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. They play their fourth pre-season game tomorrow night against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Earlier today, the Sixers announced they waived point guard Sean Singletary and power forward Stromile Swift. Swift hadn't practiced since the morning session on the first day of training camp. Singletary was getting limited practice reps behind the stable of guards already on the Sixers roster. The team now has 15 players in training camp, with Dionte Christmas and Brandon Bowman being the only remaining free agent players trying to make the team.

Injury update: Swift might still be out with a left hamstring injury, although we wouldn't know if he practiced today because he's no longer on the roster. Royal Ivey (strained left hamstring) practiced today while "being monitored" and will make the trip to NYC. Rodney Carney (strained left hamstring) participated in non-contact drills and did some shooting. He will not be making the trip to NYC.

After practice, coach Eddie Jordan had four players playing 1 v. 1: Andre Iguodala vs. Thaddeus Young and Elton Brand vs. Marreese Speights. Afterwards, he said it was something new they were doing, to keep their individual skills strong within such a team offense. Each situation was like a Low 1-4 in an end-of-game or end-of-quarter situation. (In case you're wondering, Iguodala beat Thad .. I wasn't paying attention to the other end. Check out the video of AI vs. Thad in the video player on the right.) We asked Jordan about the Princeton Offense after practice; I think the specific question was whether this offense was a "no-ego" offense. I liked Jordan's response. He said he didn't agree. He said that he wanted his players to have an ego within the offense and to take advantage of the different post ups, pick-and-rolls, and cuts and to be confident in those situations that they could make a play: either for themselves or for a teammate. 

Iguodala said afterwards that they're just working out which cuts and options are going to be open. He said that at certain times in the pre-season schedule he has thrown passes he knew would be turnovers just to show a teammate where something might be open. I like the idea that all pre-season turnovers are intentional. Intentional turnovers ... as opposed to mistakes. But, seriously, I get what Iguodala is saying. He referred to a specific cut on which he connected Friday night: it looked like a curl cut with Young. Iguodala said he threw it twice in Ontario to show how open it would be. On Friday night, I remember Iguodala and Young connecting twice on that cut.

We spoke after today's practice with Christmas. Because he's stayed so long at Sixers camp, and it's getting late in the European season to add players, Christmas acknowledged that he's "put all his eggs" in this basket, into making the Sixers roster. Jordan said he really liked Christmas, really liked what he's done, and really liked the kind of kid he is. Jordan said that it would be an "organizational" decision (keeping or not keeping Christmas), but that he would certainly have input.

Kapono was working on transition three-pointers yesterday after practice. He was coming in from half court, running the lane wide, catching a pass around the wing from a coach, and shooting threes.

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--Kate

The 76ers announced this morning that they have waived point guard Sean Singletary and power forward Stromile Swift. The Sixers roster now stands at 15, including former Temple star Dionte Christmas.

--Kate

Just got back from the locker room here at the Wachovia Center. Here's the news: Royal Ivey, Rodney Carney, and Stromile Swift all out for tonight's game with strained left hamstrings. That means we'll probably see more of rookie Jrue Holiday tonight.

Sixers v. New Jersey Nets in tonight's pre-season home opener. Should probably be a sellout crowd. Jokes.

But, for real, I'm interested to watch this Princeton Offense in something other than a practice. Here's a few things to watch (listen), for those of you watching (listening). (This game isn't on TV, but you can listen to the live stream at SIXERS.com.)

1.) The two guard situation. There's no point guard ... we've heard this all summer and pre-season. Lou Williams is an attack guard, not a point guard, and Eddie Jordan feels their is no pressure on Lou to be a point guard. I wasn't in Canada, but I heard that Andre Iguodala and Williams shared lead guard duties. Lou even said he thought Iguodala handled the ball even more.

2.) Dalembert. Okay, so I've already said he looks better in practice. But I'm interested to see how he runs this offense tonight. I'd like to see him get some looks in the post and see what cuts they run off of him.

3.) Kapono. Now they have their three-point shooter, so let's see what kinds of lanes he opens for them ...

We're still over two weeks from the season opener so these story lines have such a long time to play out. Also, I'll try to be on Twitter tonight. Feel free to follow: Deep Sixer. Check out the video from behind the scenes. It's in the video player at the right.

Until later ...

--Kate

76ers practiced today from about 10-1 at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. They got back from their two-game Canadian swing early this morning and they play the New Jersey Nets tomorrow night at the Wachovia Center.

We watched about the last 30 minutes of practice, all scrimmaging. Guard Royal Ivey joined forwards Rodney Carney and Stromile Swift on the sidelines: all have strained left hamstrings. All are listed as day-to-day though from watching Carney on the sidelines (the bike, etc.), he does not look like he will be playing tomorrow or anytime relatively soon. He looked a little gimpy.

Since we didn't travel to Canada, today was the first change to talk with coach Eddie Jordan about how things went. Jordan said the No. 1 issue going forward was keeping the tempo and pace of the game, especially with the offense. He said he felt the second game against the Toronto Raptors, the team walked the ball upcourt too much and didn't get into the offense quick enough. That's primarily what they worked on yesterday ... getting into the offense in 5 or 6 seconds instead of maybe 10 or 11.

I'm not going to try to assess what happened in those first two preseason games considering I wasn't there, nor were the games on TV. I know the team had a lot of turnovers, but that's to be expected with this new read-and-react offense.

Here's what I noticed from today: Samuel Dalembert looks happy to be running this offense and he's actually running it quite well. Considering we've been less than complimentary about Dalembert's state of mind the last year or so, I think it's only fair to say that -- so far -- Dalembert looks effective in the Princeton Offense. Which is surprising. Also surprising is that Jordan said Dalembert was the second-best shooter on the team, perhaps tied with Andre Iguodala (obviously Jason Kapono being the best). I'm not sure if I'd agree with that. But Jordan was effusive in his praise for Dalembert's pre-season effort, saying he's passing the ball well, being unselfish and effective within the offense. From what I've seen, that's actually not an exaggeration, Dalembert has looked really good.

During today's scrimmage, he had a couple of give-and-go situations where he dished to a cutter for a quick score. He's been moving well off the block, to the high post, in order to open up those lanes. He's also not been afraid to make a 1-on-1 move when it seems the right decision within the flow of the offense.

Dalembert himself said he's loving the offense and that he thinks opponents will have to worry about this added dimension to his game. We'll see, of course, once the season starts.

Until tomorrow ...

--Kate

The 76ers just finished practice today at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. They went about 2-1/2 hours and are flying to Ontario this afternoon for tomorrow's opening game of the preseason against the Toronto Raptors.

First things first, with about 10 minutes left in practice, while they were scrimmaging, Rodney Carney aggravated the left hamstring he initially strained during Saturday night's scrimmage at Saint Joseph's. Carney had a breakway on the left side and he seemed to pull up in mid-explosion. He immediately went to the corner of the gym, laid facedown, and grabbed his hamstring. A minute later, he was helped to the training room by the training staff. He was putting a little bit of weight on his leg, but was walking gingerly. After practice, the Sixers confirmed he would not make the trip to Ontario, but would stay behind for treatment. Sixers are saying he is day-to-day and will not, as of now, being receiving an MRI. (Also of note, if you were following Deep Sixer on Twitter, you would have known this info about Carney about an hour ago. Feel free to join, the goal is 1,000 tweeps. Click here: DeepSixer3.) Power forward Stromile Swift still did not practice due to the left hamstring he tweaked during the first session of the first day of training camp. He, too, will remain in Philly. That means of the 17 guys on the roster -- don't forget the Sixers released Rashad Jones-Jennings this morning -- 15 will travel to play the Toronto Raptors.

There's a Deep Sixer video in the video player along the right rail. Assistant coach Aaron McKie working on shooting post-practice with Andre Iguodala, Lou Williams, and Thaddeus Young.

Sixers practiced long today. We watched about the last 25 minutes of practice, which was a scrimmage w/out referees and looked like 8-min long quarters. Teams were split first team (Lou, AI, Thad, Elton, Sam) and second team, although Jason Kapono was running as a sub on the second team and he's definitely one of their top-10 guys.

This is about the fifth time we've seen them scrimmaging each other and it's getting to the point where it's impossible to tell if there is improvement, considering they all know the offense and the defense knows where the offense is trying to go. Good thing games start tomorrow. That said, here are a few things coming out of today's session: 

1.) The offense is good-looking basketball. It remains to be seen how they'll run it against a live NBA defense, but the cuts they're making are pure basketball. And it's interesting to watch the movement and the counters. From knowing the layers and intricacies of offenses like the triangle and Princeton, they really do appear to be running the offense well. If anyone watched Saturday night's scimmage, please, feel free to add your own thoughts about likes/dislikes of Jordan's system. Jordan said today he's adding options on the Princeton quickly because the offense needs more options considering how well the defense has been playing.

2.) Jrue Holiday is struggling. He's not getting a ton of play in the scrimmages and when he does he is clearly off a beat on the pace/physicality. After practice, Jordan said basically that he's being hit hard with what being a rookie is all about (i.e. having his eyes opened to the pace of the NBA game). This is specifically noticeable because last season's rookie, Marreese Speights, earned playing time so quickly. Of course there were times Speights looked like a rookie, but rarely to the point where you thought it would impact his playing time. Jordan said Holiday will make a breakthrough soon and things will get easier. I'll keep you posted on such a breakthrough.

3.) Speaking of Speights, I'm sure we haven't talked enough yet about how he's playing. He sort of faded to the background with all the other storylines: Holiday, Brand's return, Jason Smith coming back from ACL, Dalembert's contentment, Lou at the point, Iguodala at the shooting guard, etc., etc. Speights looks just like he did last year, which I think is a good thing. He's shooting the ball a lot, but that might be because he's not comfortable yet with the offense and that's a better decision than making a bad pass. He's getting most of his minutes on the second team with J-Smith. As for the folks asking if he'll be starting over Dalembert: nope, that does not appear to be the case.

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--Kate

The 76ers announced this morning that they have waived Rashad Jones-Jennings. The team had signed Jones-Jennings, a 6-foot-8 power forward, as a free agent last week during the middle of training camp.

The Sixers training camp roster now stands at 17 players, 13 of whom are under contract. The team practices today at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine before flying to London, Ontario, where they will play the Toronto Raptors tomorrow night.

--Kate

Second-to-last day of 76ers training camp is complete. If you want to be a part of Deep Sixers on Twitter, click here: DeepSixer3. If you wanted to check out any of the videos from Saint Joseph's, check out the video player to the right.

The Sixers ended practice today with a scrimmage: They split the teams evenly and played two 10-minute quarters. The Sixers are scheduled to practice twice tomorrow, their last day of camp. They play their first pre-season game, in London, Ontario, on Tuesday against the Toronto Raptors.

Here are a few observations from today's scrimmage: 

1.) At the end of the first quarter, the white team had the ball with about 7 seconds left. Andre Iguodala took the ball at the top of the key, got an on-ball screen going left, dribbled off of it and nailed a three-pointer over about three defenders. More importantly, it seemed like a glimpse into what the Sixers might be doing with their end-of-quarter possessions (and end-of-game ...). Eddie Jordan has said he will call certain options off the Princeton, but if there isn't enough time to get into the offense, we'll likely see the ball in Iguodala's hands at the end of possessions (or Lou's).

2.) Jason Smith looked awesome. He ran w/ the white team (Iguodala, Thad, Dalembert) and it was the first time this training camp he'd looked in rhythm. He hit all three of the jumpers we saw, one of them after pushing the ball in transition. He grabbed a bunch of offensive rebounds. Both Jordan and Smith said afterwards that it was the best he'd played all week. Smith said he felt like it was his first day back. If Smith can keep rhythm -- although that will be tough coming off an injury -- it'll be nice for the Sixers to have him as an option at both the 4 and 5 spots.

3.) Speights said he's put on about 7-8 pounds of muscle this off-season. That's good, considering adding bulk was probably the biggest thing he could do in the off-season.

4.) Jason Kapono's jumper looked good in the scrimmage. He hit about two 18-footers (and didn't take many more).

5.) The Sixers might need to consider keeping Sean Singletary as a back-up option to Lou Williams and Jrue Holiday. Holiday appeared to struggle a little bit w/ the basketball during today's scrimmage, turning it over a few times.

6.) The Princeton Offense looked good during the scrimmage. Jordan has added the "flash-cut" option (I might have just named it that), which allows the forward to relieve pressure when the off-guard is denied. The forward flashes up, jumpstops, and catches as the guard runs backdoor towards the hoop. Jordan has about 100 of these cuts to counter pressure. It's a fun offense to watch because of all the movement and backdoors.

All right, that's it for now. More tomorrow.

--Kate

Today is the 76ers second-to-last day of training camp. Only one practice today; they'll go two practices tomorrow.

Sixers just finished. I'll be sure to give an in-depth assessment on here after the Live Chat. But if you have a few minutes, we're going to be chatting Sixers at 3 p.m. Stop by: Live Chat.

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--Kate