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81

obvioulsy, that 98-99 team was a disaster....

then they got somebody decent to build around (you might know this guy, he's your current PF), but traded him so they could do the twin tower of eddie curry and tyson chandler. chandler has turned out to be a solid player, if not a star. curry, well, he's a major flop in NY.

so the rebuilding began anew with the likes of small guards and bad trades (tyrus thomas for aldridge)

than they got smart and flopped during hte 07-08 and entered the lottory. thankfully, the nba is crooked and stern gifted teh top pick to the Bulls.

the rest is how you say history.

so the key is....next time the Philly region is going to produce a stud, choke that season away.



trust me, it was a long painful decade.

this year has been so refreshing.

The Juggler

81 wrote:

obvioulsy, that 98-99 team was a disaster....

then they got somebody decent to build around (you might know this guy, he's your current PF), but traded him so they could do the twin tower of eddie curry and tyson chandler. chandler has turned out to be a solid player, if not a star. curry, well, he's a major flop in NY.

so the rebuilding began anew with the likes of small guards and bad trades (tyrus thomas for aldridge)

than they got smart and flopped during hte 07-08 and entered the lottory. thankfully, the nba is crooked and stern gifted teh top pick to the Bulls.

the rest is how you say history.

so the key is....next time the Philly region is going to produce a stud, choke that season away.



trust me, it was a long painful decade.

this year has been so refreshing.

ha... i hear you. the year you "tanked or flopped" you won 33 games and got lucky. that should have been a pick in the mid teens without stern's gift. the years you really did tank you didn't get much because the nba draft is a total crap shoot. getting the top pick like that rarely ever happens. last two years they languished around 40 wins too. sixers should have picked around 10th last year and got lucky with the 2nd pick. jury is still out on turner obviously.

i admittedly don't follow the nba nearly as much as i used to but how did the hawks build their current team? with where the sixers are, i would think they'd be a realistic team to emulate.

81

if memory serves, hawks drafted most of their team outside of joe johnson who they signed away from phoenix.

81

looking over the sixers roster and there is nobody that makes you go WOW, we need to build around him. Ten years ago Brand was that guy, he was a beast. 20 points and 10 boards per game as a rookie. IMO, one of the worst trades ever for the Bulls. so stupid. they had a proven big guy and they trade him for the a draft pick to take a high school kid. that still pisses me off.

outside of carmelo, there aren't even any good free agents this year.

The Juggler

81 wrote:

looking over the sixers roster and there is nobody that makes you go WOW, we need to build around him. Ten years ago Brand was that guy, he was a beast. 20 points and 10 boards per game as a rookie. IMO, one of the worst trades ever for the Bulls. so stupid. they had a proven big guy and they trade him for the a draft pick to take a high school kid. that still pisses me off.

outside of carmelo, there aren't even any good free agents this year.

who did they trade him for again?

yeah that's the sixers problem. they have the pieces of the puzzle, but they're missing that one key cog. and they're most likely not getting it with the 14th pick in the draft. it is what it is. so i think playoff experience, albeit a short one, can only help their young players grow up quicker.

when's the trade deadline? 3 weeks from now?

81

one of the Bulls worst trades ever. you just don't trade a big guy that can post up and rebound.

Two years ago, the Chicago Bulls made Elton Brand the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.On Wednesday, they traded their best player to the Los Angeles Clippers for the rights to 7-foot high school forward/center Tyson Chandler and forward Brian Skinner. Brand, who shared the NBA rookie of the year award with Steve Francis after the 1999-2000 season, averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds during his two seasons in Chicago.

Chandler was the No. 2 pick by the Clippers. He averaged 26 points, 15 rebounds and eight blocked shots at Dominguez High in Compton, Calif.

The Bulls now have two high school players on their roster. With the fourth pick Wednesday night, Chicago took local product Eddy Curry, a 6-11 center from Thornwood High of South Holland, Ill.

The Juggler

jrue holiday's messing around....one rebound shy of a triple double...

edit---there it is. first triple double of his career.


3 back of the knicks with a home and home this weekend....take the night and run motherf#ckers!

The Juggler

iguadala...another nice game. :think:

xavier mcdaniel

The Juggler wrote:

iguadala...another nice game. :think:

Big home and home this weekend, battle for sixth and seventh place. I predict a split with the home team winning each time. Perhaps the Sixers will stay out late Saturday night for the noon start on Sunday..

polaris_x

The Juggler wrote:

iguadala...another nice game. :think:

25 dimes on 6 turnovers in the last 4 games ...

The Juggler

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

iguadala...another nice game. :think:

Big home and home this weekend, battle for sixth and seventh place. I predict a split with the home team winning each time. Perhaps the Sixers will stay out late Saturday night for the noon start on Sunday..

the battle to lose to the bulls as opposed to miami or boston is heating up....

sixers are so much better at home than the road. i would agree with your take.

xavier mcdaniel

The Juggler wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

iguadala...another nice game. :think:

Big home and home this weekend, battle for sixth and seventh place. I predict a split with the home team winning each time. Perhaps the Sixers will stay out late Saturday night for the noon start on Sunday..

the battle to lose to the bulls as opposed to miami or boston is heating up....



sixers are so much better at home than the road. i would agree with your take.

Though the Sixers did not come down with a case of New Yorkitis, the last time they played a noon Sunday game here. I still have nightmares of that four-game sweep they laid on the Knicks two years ago.

The Juggler

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

the battle to lose to the bulls as opposed to miami or boston is heating up....



sixers are so much better at home than the road. i would agree with your take.

Though the Sixers did not come down with a case of New Yorkitis, the last time they played a noon Sunday game here. I still have nightmares of that four-game sweep they laid on the Knicks two years ago.

i think we talked about this before but it would be pretty cool to have both teams be good at the same time. that has not happened too often. briefly in the late 80's. it's sort of like the mets and phils...

81

some would say AI is playing at an all star level

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba-315939

xavier mcdaniel

I seem to recall it occurring during 1988-1989 and 1989-90. I think by the time the Knicks became really good, the Sixers had begun their post Barkley decline, which eventually led to Allen Iverson. I still remember opening night 2000-01 at MSG when the Sixers laid a beating on the Knicks.

The Juggler

81 wrote:

some would say AI is playing at an all star level

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba-315939

that actually mentioned elton brand too, which is ridiculous.

but he's actually having a really productive season.

The Juggler

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

I seem to recall it occurring during 1988-1989 and 1989-90. I think by the time the Knicks became really good, the Sixers had begun their post Barkley decline, which eventually led to Allen Iverson. I still remember opening night 2000-01 at MSG when the Sixers laid a beating on the Knicks.

that's pretty much right.

i remember that opening night too. it was my last semester at college. one of our roomates was from the nyc area and a huge knicks fan. sixers started off 11-0 or something that year. it was fun to bust his stones and tell him the sixers were going undefeated for the first couple weeks of the season.

i think that game was halloween if i'm not mistaken.

xavier mcdaniel

This is the game: http://www.databasebasketball.com/teams ... 031&tm=NYK

In my first job out of college, my maniacal boss, who I got along with was a huge Sixer fan. Every time Aaron McKie would do something, he'd yell out "Yeah Blue". Once he wanted me to get something from MSG for his kid and he reimbursed me with a Sixers' check.

The Juggler

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

This is the game: http://www.databasebasketball.com/teams ... 031&tm=NYK

In my first job out of college, my maniacal boss, who I got along with was a huge Sixer fan. Every time Aaron McKie would do something, he'd yell out "Yeah Blue". Once he wanted me to get something from MSG for his kid and he reimbursed me with a Sixers' check.

ha...was this when you were a writer or something?

totally remember that game

xavier mcdaniel

The Juggler wrote:

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

This is the game: http://www.databasebasketball.com/teams ... 031&tm=NYK

In my first job out of college, my maniacal boss, who I got along with was a huge Sixer fan. Every time Aaron McKie would do something, he'd yell out "Yeah Blue". Once he wanted me to get something from MSG for his kid and he reimbursed me with a Sixers' check.

ha...was this when you were a writer or something?

totally remember that game

This was when I worked as an overnight editor at the wire service in Jersey City. I used to always dread writing Sixers recaps but I never wound up having any problems, even with the few times I wrote Sixer playoff recaps.