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The Juggler

PJ_Soul wrote:

I know nothing of the 76ers, but this thread has my favorite thread title. There is just something about it.

clap your hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKK3GVd150

PJ_Soul

The Juggler wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

I know nothing of the 76ers, but this thread has my favorite thread title. There is just something about it.

clap your hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEKK3GVd150

Highly enjoyable.

81

http://deadspin.com/5988117/?utm_campai ... socialflow

cutz

well this is true...but he had to pass a physical in order for the trade to go through. nobody expected him to miss an entire season.


Yea, that's a GREAT question: How in the hell did Bynum pass the physical?

The Fixer

The Juggler wrote:

umm...they tore up the roster last year. you realise they only brought 4 guys back from last year's team right?

to the casual observer, just looking at the record, this is the same kind of sixers organization we always have had. but that is not true. the typical sixers move, after getting to within 1 game of the conference finals last year would be to keep the status quo and hope to improve.

this regime realized they had a tremendous amount of luck to make it that far and gutted the roster. they traded their best player and shed themselves of a huge bad contract/got rid of their leader. they swung for the fences for what would be considered the best center in the eastern conference if healthy. these are all precisely UNsixer like moves.

obviously this has not worked out quite so well. the guy they built their team around has not played 1 second. the risk was worth the reward. and most people recognize that. it just didnt work out. this team was pretty much assembled like the dwight howard magic teams before that went bad. imagine that '09 team if howard missed the whole season. they would be in a similar position that the sixers find themselves in now.

this season has turned into an unmitigated disaster, so now you tank (seems like they already are). get a good pick. they have cap space. they do not have any long term contracts except jrue and thad. huge off season is coming up. the typical sixers would not have any flexibility to improve. this team has flexibility.

and that josh smith trade that you hoped would happen would have been a regular sixersy type move by the way. i'm surprised you were for that. they're still only a handfull of games out of a playoff spot. that would have made them a little bit better in the short term. might have slipped into the 8 seed. we don't need that. turner and hawes only have 1 year left on their contracts. those are tradeable parts this summer if they so choose.

the problem is that they brought back hawes on a new deal...refused to trade turner (and hawes)...then brought in a bunch of crap like nick young, kwame brown, etc. they should have more avail cap space than they do, but they wasted money on a bunch of stiffs this past offseason.

I dont understand collins insistence on playing royal ivey. They have to get a new coach (again).

trading for smith wouldn't have necessarily made them better. this team has so many holes I dont think one player makes that much of a difference. getting rid of the two stiffs would have accelerated clearing cap space (assuming they don't re-sign bynum, which will probably happen because they are still the same old sixers) and making them a weaker team next year (giving them a top 5 pick).

This franchise is a lost cause. Tear it all down and start over. Please...just do the right thing for once

The Juggler

i just think trading for smith would have given them the low post presence they are presently missing. pairing him with an all star point guard, would have made them a bit better. you'd also open up some better looks for their wings who have not gotten many this year without bynum clogging the lane.

then you'd be tinkering on the 8 seed again, as they're not that far away from it in the east. as they've demonstrated this year, it's easier to lose without a decent big guy than it is with one.

turner and hawes only have a year left. they are very tradeable this summer if need be.

huge off season coming up.

Dr. Delight

Bob Ford article:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/six ... _fade.html

"I loved playing basketball, so I would play in pain. I did that for many years," Magic Johnson said over the weekend on an ESPN pregame show. "Andrew Bynum was here in Los Angeles with the Lakers. He wasn't a guy who could tolerate pain. When he was injured, he wasn't a guy who worked hard to get back. This doesn't surprise me."

The Juggler

a look at the options the sixers will have to consider this summer...

http://www.the700level.com/basketball-p ... eedID=8510

The Fixer

The Juggler wrote:

a look at the options the sixers will have to consider this summer...

http://www.the700level.com/basketball-p ... eedID=8510

their issues start from the top down. does anyone have confidence in rod thorn and tony dileo? nope, me neither.

I love the people who say that they have to sign bynum because they gave up so much for him...that they can't go into next season without getting something from that trade. An asinine line of thinking if you ask me -- only complicates their problems. Let the turd walk, get a real GM, a new coach, try like hell to trade the stiff brothers -- hawes and turner (derrick favors just cracked the starting lineup...he would look awfully good in a sixers uniform -- someone here wanted to draft him instead of turner), get rid of shitty vets like collins' boy ivey, wilkins, brown, etc, give time to young guys like pargo, moultrie, etc...pretty much start over and try to give holiday and young some players who don't completely suck.

On a scale of 1-10, my confidence level that they will do any of this = 1. Because they're the sixers

polaris_x

The Fixer wrote:

their issues start from the top down. does anyone have confidence in rod thorn and tony dileo? nope, me neither.

I love the people who say that they have to sign bynum because they gave up so much for him...that they can't go into next season without getting something from that trade. An asinine line of thinking if you ask me -- only complicates their problems. Let the turd walk, get a real GM, a new coach, try like hell to trade the stiff brothers -- hawes and turner (derrick favors just cracked the starting lineup...he would look awfully good in a sixers uniform -- someone here wanted to draft him instead of turner), get rid of shitty vets like collins' boy ivey, wilkins, brown, etc, give time to young guys like pargo, moultrie, etc...pretty much start over and try to give holiday and young some players who don't completely suck.

On a scale of 1-10, my confidence level that they will do any of this = 1. Because they're the sixers

fyi ... favours is only starting because of injuries ... first to milsap and then to jefferson ... guy can start for a lot of teams no doubt but technically he's only starting now for the jazz cuz of injuries ...

The Fixer

polaris_x wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

their issues start from the top down. does anyone have confidence in rod thorn and tony dileo? nope, me neither.

I love the people who say that they have to sign bynum because they gave up so much for him...that they can't go into next season without getting something from that trade. An asinine line of thinking if you ask me -- only complicates their problems. Let the turd walk, get a real GM, a new coach, try like hell to trade the stiff brothers -- hawes and turner (derrick favors just cracked the starting lineup...he would look awfully good in a sixers uniform -- someone here wanted to draft him instead of turner), get rid of shitty vets like collins' boy ivey, wilkins, brown, etc, give time to young guys like pargo, moultrie, etc...pretty much start over and try to give holiday and young some players who don't completely suck.

On a scale of 1-10, my confidence level that they will do any of this = 1. Because they're the sixers

fyi ... favours is only starting because of injuries ... first to milsap and then to jefferson ... guy can start for a lot of teams no doubt but technically he's only starting now for the jazz cuz of injuries ...

didn't know jefferson was hurt. knew millsap was back.

favors is only 21...dude is only going to get better. just add that to the long list of sixers screw ups

The Juggler

fixer...come on now. you like to rewrite history. you said you'd be cool with either favors or turner at the time. granted, you did push for favors a little more. but you ultimately said you'd be fine with either one.

i like favors. but as polaris said, he's only starting because milsap and jefferson are out. been coming off the bench since he was drafted. i believe millsap is an unrestricted free agent. seems to have gotten better each year. always liked his game...

but 14, 7 and 4 from turner this year...those are not bad numbers on a bad team with no inside presence. and he would have only been more efficient with the big man out there...



one thing we can agree on now with this team is it's all out tank time now. i think moultrie's gonna get more and more minutes down the stretch. i liked that pick last year. time to see what the kid can do.

eeriepadave

actually played better than I thought they would last night, lol.

Dr. Delight

How anyone could/would pay hard earned money to sit and watch that garbage is beyond me.

The Juggler

tank tank tankadelphia.


hey the covered last night! :thumbup:

eeriepadave

gonna give them props for 47 minutes last night.

The Juggler

eeriepadave wrote:

gonna give them props for 47 minutes last night.

jrue dunked over lebron. that was kinda cool.

81

Season ending surgery tommorrow

The Juggler

81 wrote:

Season ending surgery tommorrow

where did you see that?

should have done that 3 months ago...

81

The Juggler wrote:

81 wrote:

Season ending surgery tommorrow

where did you see that?

should have done that 3 months ago...

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