Sixers played without any passion, as if they KNEW they couldn't win from the first tip. Sixers never quit under last 2 coaches...they quit before they began in the 5th game of the season. Brutal.
The NBA is not rocket science. Teams without a top 5-6 player are just filler. Sure some of the better ones may win 48 or so games, but so what? The NBA has a huge problem, only a handful of teams have any shot at winning, the rest of the league has tons of empty seats.
I havent paid attention to this morbid, hideous franchise for a long time due to their continued pathetic mediocrity (calling them mediocre might be a gift). Im bored and flipping thru the channels and see the sixers are playing the Celtics so I figure why not, I'll put them on for a while. It took about 2 minutes of watching this wretched team full of "nice little players" to realize I would be spending the next 4 years staying away. How bad is this franchise? They spent years trying to get out of salary cap oblivion to just cap themselves right out again with an injured, uninspired Elton brand and now they are stymied again for several years. No excitement, no passion. Ed Snider must wonder how many people he must fire, how many dead salaries he must pay to finally see some growth in this franchise. The worst part?? They are stuck in that quagmire where they will win just enough to get a lousy pick thats just good enough to get yet another "nice little player". 1 real good team in the last 20 years, since the Barkley/Mahorn days. This franchise has replaced the Phillies as the generations old laughing stock of the city. Phillies fans in their 20's may not realize that the Phils spent years in futility and were mocked endlessly year after year. The sixers are the pathetic joke now. How sad.
I havent paid attention to this morbid, hideous franchise for a long time due to their continued pathetic mediocrity (calling them mediocre might be a gift). Im bored and flipping thru the channels and see the sixers are playing the Celtics so I figure why not, I'll put them on for a while. It took about 2 minutes of watching this wretched team full of "nice little players" to realize I would be spending the next 4 years staying away. How bad is this franchise? They spent years trying to get out of salary cap oblivion to just cap themselves right out again with an injured, uninspired Elton brand and now they are stymied again for several years. No excitement, no passion. Ed Snider must wonder how many people he must fire, how many dead salaries he must pay to finally see some growth in this franchise. The worst part?? They are stuck in that quagmire where they will win just enough to get a lousy pick thats just good enough to get yet another "nice little player". 1 real good team in the last 20 years, since the Barkley/Mahorn days. This franchise has replaced the Phillies as the generations old laughing stock of the city. Phillies fans in their 20's may not realize that the Phils spent years in futility and were mocked endlessly year after year. The sixers are the pathetic joke now. How sad. Someone tell me how this franchise is any different from the Clippers??
Brutal; not sure how long Donyell Marshall (who is great) will be a pre- and post-game commentator on Comcast, as he buried them tonight, justifiably so. No motion, no ball movement, too much one-on-one, awful both offensively and defensively beyond the arc (as seen with the games against the Magic [48-21], Knicks [42-9] and tonight [27-3]. Reminded fans that the Sixers are not really that young, given the number of years such players as Brand, Iguodala, Williams (as well as Dalembert,Kapono, and Green) have been in the league. Called the Sixers a .500 team (he actually hesitated before saying even that). Yet, Sixers will beat the Nets on Friday night; would be nice not to be blown out by quality teams like the Magic and Celtics.
Good thing Kapono was partying at McFadden's last night at 2AM after the Phils win.
11,000 for a Boston Celtics game. Philadelphia should be embarrassed. These ignoramus fans expect a title in every sport every year and that is unrealistic. A good sports town would support a team with some intriguing young talent like Eddie Stefanski's boys have.
Jeff: in case you did not realize it, we are in the midst of a brutal recession and, on top of that, a public transport strike. Given the cost of tickets for all teams, whether we like it or not, people pick and choose and they generally choose winners and quality entertainment. Apparently, they realized that the Sixers, as we saw tonight, had little chance against the Celtics, whose smothering defense wins games, but does not provide exciting basketball, particularly against a team with no outside game right now. To call them ignoramus fans is rather harsh. Perhaps discriminating fans.
I've loved the Sixers since '79 and really like the current core of AI, Young, Speights, and Lou. But I don't have much hope for them. Brand was useless last night. Sammy was typical Sammy (good def for a little bit, an offensive spark, then wildly inconsistent and frustrating to watch). I don't have the answer. I think they may have digressed. I wish they hadn't invested in Brand and instead could make a run for Bosh next year . . .
OK, so us Philly fans have been watching this Samuel Dalembert act for 6 years now. 95% of the fans in Philly (I don't think I'm exaggerating at all here) KNOW FOR A FACT that SAM DALEMBERT DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO PLAY BASKETBALL. However, 55 year old lifelong "basketball man" Eddie Jordan doesn't seem to understand this. It's absolutely infuriating. Anyone who doesn't see that Sam Dalembert does not know how to play basketball after 6 YEARS, 6 FREAKIN 6 YEARS is incompetant. Please, please, I beg you, stop putting Sam Dalembert out there to embarass himself and the city of Philadephia. He was done 4 years ago but "lifelong basketball man" Eddie Jordan is just too mind numbingly stupid to see this. We all can see it, why can't he? Absolutely pathetic.
