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Video: Should Lou Williams be the guy with the ball when the game is on the line? Will Andre Iguodala be on the Sixers at the end of the season? The Inquirer's Kate Fagan answers these questions and more.
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You don't have to "give" Lou the ball. The problem is he keeps the ball, instead of running the offense. [Last game, he had 11 points, and they won]. Jrue, Brand, Thad, Turner. Everybody else: fit in. For the most part, the rest of the team [except Hawes] are athletic-type players. HIGHEST SCORER SHOULD NOT BE THE SMALLEST GUY ON THE FLOOR [Ref.: Allen Iverson]— fillyfan- She's talking about at the end of the game situation you want to give the ball to Lou. At the end of the game, when you need a bucket you dont run an offense. You give the ball to your best scorer and put him in the best situation to score which for us is lou williams at the top of the key. She's dead on with that call. Name another player you trust to score on this team when you need a bucket. Maybe Elton Brand if he keeps this up but right now that guy is Lou Williams— 76ers in 2076
- Glad to see that I was on the right track. Anytime we need a bucket we should be going to Lou. Then again if he would have been involved in overtime (getting plays run for him or the ball in his hands) we would have won that game. When something works go with it and I think bringing Iguodala back for the end of the game and overtime is what killed us against Washington. In basketball you go with what works, Lou Williams scores so you go with him.— joecooler2u
- It was Jrue who had the hot hand to bring back the club last year when they played the Wizards (right after Abe had passed away), but it was Lou who clanked to lose by a point. I hope that this year Doug will groom Jrue and Evan towards comfort and confidence to make clutch plays, and we may have a guy or two now sitting out games in street clothes who also have some potential to make money shots.— rzzzzz
- Right now, Lou is the Sixers' best scorer, and as I first thought, Lou Williams is Allen Iverson lite, a combo guard with a great offensive game. But at the end of the game you want the ball to go to a big man in the post, not rely on officials to bail you out with an inevitable foul on a small player in traffic! Eventually I expect to see Speights get the ball at the end, to either score, or force the other team to double him, to create space for an even better shot for a team-mate.— ricky
- Speights taking the last shot???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA— T-Money
- At the end of games, teams go to their best creator, usually their best scorer, not to a big man in the post, unless that big man is their best scorer, warrants a double team, and also is a fine free throw shooter. Phil Jackson would give the ball to Kobe over Shaq for obvious reasons. Right now the only Sixer worthy of a double team is Williams, who is their best creator and best scorer. Thus Larry Brown cleared out for Iverson, not a post player. During that overtime, at no time did the Sixers isolate for Williams, a foolish mistake.— chuckw
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