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The Fixer wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

gonna be fun to go up against those chumps. also will be fun to have the whole country rooting for the sixers.

will definitely be a fun series. even though I think it's gonna be ugly for our guys

well you're also the guy that thought we were bad enough to tank and get a top 10 pick, so that makes sense...

i think i heard game 1 would be sunday. hope its after the phils. juggler will be hall of fame club bound.

The Fixer wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

will definitely be a fun series. even though I think it's gonna be ugly for our guys

well you're also the guy that thought we were bad enough to tank and get a top 10 pick, so that makes sense...

i think i heard game 1 would be sunday. hope its after the phils. juggler will be hall of fame club bound.

I still think they'd be better off in the top 10 of the draft than getting bounced in round 1.

but they'll be picking somewhere around 20. just as they have the entire decade. that seems to have worked real well for them :?

this is the definition of broken record.

The Fixer wrote:

The Juggler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

I still think they'd be better off in the top 10 of the draft than getting bounced in round 1.

but they'll be picking somewhere around 20. just as they have the entire decade. that seems to have worked real well for them :?

this is the definition of broken record.

just saying man. this hasn't worked. they need some star power on this squad. it's easier to get stars if you're picking in the top 10 than it is if you're pickng around 20 (as this franchise has proven this decade).

so I'm standing by my stance that they would have been better off playing turner over meeks...and speights over the crap in the frontcourt...trading brand and/or iggy...and ending up in the top 10 fo the draft

the making the playoffs is good experience for the young guys doesn't hold any water. they've been saying that for a decade.

you know what's good for the young guys? putting talent around them

there's no way they would have ended up with a top 10 pick this year. this year's draft class is poop anyway. nba draft is total crap shoot after top 3 or 4 picks anway. how do you not know this by now?

they had the 2nd pick in the draft last year.
they drafted an all star caliber player 2 years ago (holiday will be a star in this league within 2 years. no doubt in my mind)
they drafted a potential star in thad young the year before that.

nobody's taking brand. don't understand why you keep talking about that. dude's great for this team anyway.

trading iguadala after this season and moving turner into his point/forward position would be an ideal scenario to me.

speights is garbage. he can knock down a jump shot and that's it. he needs to be on a western conference team that doesn't play defense.

when they have cap room in a couple years all these young bucks will all be in their prime at the same time. this experience is great for them.

round and round we go....

neilybabes86 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

neilybabes86 wrote:

does the fixer have beef in here..don't read this thread?

this thread should be called the juggler/fixer dojo.

we disagree about the sixers. his level of excitement about the direction of this squad is way higher than mine

they suck compared to most in the east

:?

just put your money on the heat. please. please bet on the heat. sixers will need all the help they can get.

thank you.

only real advantage, other than coaching, the sixers have is their bench. gotta hope the heat get in foul trouble. meeks and williams must also hit their outside shots.

i've said it before but kate fagan is awesome. this last paragraph of her article is spot on. spot on:

Bottom line: Get ready for the truth to be revealed. It’s been a great regular season; we (those who’ve covered the team) have generally been complimentary of the performance of this team. And we’ve been that way for good reason. They jumped from 27 wins to 41 wins, which is nothing to complain about. But in the NBA, the jump from bad to mediocre is not in the least bit important if it’s not coupled with the inherent potential to jump from mediocre to good. As Collins said today: in the NBA, this second jump is the most difficult. You can make the first jump just through focus and hard work, playing hard all 82 games, but you can’t make the second jump unless you have something different: talent, yes, but also a core of belief. The Sixers have seven young players around whom they might be able to build something, but what that “something” might be, we really don’t know yet. This playoff series will reveal a lot about what’s needed in the off-season. The Heat will attack the Sixers’ weaknesses, exposing them for the fans as well as the front office. Two years ago, the Chicago Bulls were the eighth seed in the playoffs and they took the Boston Celtics, then the top seed, the full seven games – all of them contested until the final seconds. That was an example of a lower-seeded NBA team that was clearly on its way up the NBA hierarchy.

Which one will the Sixers reveal themselves as? And will the knowledge gleaned from these next two weeks (or perhaps more) provide a blueprint for pinpointing the necessary future additions?

It all begins tomorrow afternoon.


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