2006 - 2007 Sixers Season Thread

[reese125]

I love how Webbers foot and ankle problems will be miraculously healed by switching teams

Its one thing to get traded when your healthy and try to revive your career, but that shtein aint happening when your crippled and traded.  That trade was simply a beg, plea and back-office nut rub to Dumars just to end the career with his family

nice work Chris

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I want my $10

[MDS]

2 down, 1 to go. The losses at Charlotte and Toronto were huge. This Memphis game might be even bigger. Total must lose. Games against Miami and San Antonio are next, and those are definate losses. You're talking about a 5 game losing streak to some pretty stiff competition for those lotto balls. Not bad at all.

[hunt]

go griz!

[BigEd76]

Memphis gave up 110 at home to Phoenix after only 3 quarters last night.  We might actually win this one... 

[ice grillin you]

phoenix >>>memphis >>>>>> sixers

memphis can score with anyone and will drop at least 110 on the sixers if not much more and win easily

[Seabiscuit36]

the Daily news today has

[BigEd76]

Link to Jerardi's article

"He'll be special because he's so big, he's so long," one NBA scout said. "One thing I noticed about this kid is that he has great patience. A lot of young players, they want to score 20 points on one possession."

Oden, the scout said, waits for the double team. If it comes, he passes the ball out. If it doesn't come, he works his way to the rim, where he usually dunks with such force that you know nobody is going to want his hand up near the basket for fear it will get crushed. He doesn't just block shots. He often controls the ball, like Bill Russell or Bill Walton.

"He's like a great winner," the scout said. "He's content scoring six, eight points, but dominating the game blocking shots, rebounding. He affects the game without having to score."
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Some have called Oden the best college big man since Patrick Ewing, which, of course, ignores the fact that David Robinson, Shaquille O'Neal and Duncan have all played college basketball since Ewing. The point, however, is still the point.

Greg Oden represents the basketball Holy Grail - the big man with all the skills, the interest in being taught, the body to handle the schedule and the will to compete, the one player who, like Shaq and Duncan, can take a team from nowhere to a championship.

Right now, Oden is still adjusting to the college game. Or maybe it is adjusting to him.

"It's just a physical game," Oden said. "I thought I wouldn't get double-teamed, but it's happening. I've just got to play through it. It's a lot more physical. You get a little more freedom, though. I've had a couple of teams that have played me one-on-one."

That never happened in high school.

"I had minimum two guys on me every time," he said.
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"I don't know if there's been anyone in my 27 years of his size and stature and athleticism that I can think of," [Illinois coach Bruce] Weber said. "He's the rare kid that comes around, like Pat Ewing, Shaq and Bill Russell. The reason I say Bill Russell is because [Oden] likes to win. Bill Russell loved to win. That's what he was about: championships. That's what this kid is about. He wants to win championships. He's not about an ego, he just wants to win."

That is the recurring theme. Oden wants to win. And he does win. And, if you are in the NBA, you have to think he can make you win.

"You hate that feeling of losing," Oden said. "So I go out there and play my hardest. It just happens that my teams win most of the time."

He thought his team's high school record [103-7] was "decent."

[MDS]

He's gonna have a tough time winning playing in the frontcourt with Samuel Dalembert. But nevertheless, tank it and get him.

[Seabiscuit36]

Is he coming out, has he said he's leaning one way or another?

[MDS]

He will be the #1 pick if he comes out, and would have come out and have been the #1 pick last draft if not for that rule. So, yea, I'd say he's coming out.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You never know.  Leinart won the Heisman and the National Championship in the same year and would have certainly been the #1 overall pick, but he decided to give one more year of college the thumbs up.

[Geowhizzer]

You never know.  Leinart won the Heisman and the National Championship in the same year and would have certainly been the #1 overall pick, but he decided to give one more year of college the thumbs up.

And the next year Leinart, though he had a good season, dropped to #10 and cost himself a lot of money.  That may make it less likely for someone to forego the draft that is a good chance of being that high.

And then again, maybe they equate hot college girls with that kind of money.

[MDS]

nba ass > ohio state ass

[The BIGSTUD]

Kevin Durant might be the better selection at #1 overall if he keeps playing like he is now. The guy is special.