Sixers '10-'11 Season Thread

[Sgt PSN]

I didn't see any of the game but I pulled up the box score when I got home.  I literally had to do a double take when I saw Hawes played 6 minutes and was -18.  farging terrible.

He's a statue. Awful trade, Sammy would actually fit nicely with this group, that and his contract would come off the books at the end of the season. Another piss poor move by Ed.

LOL....I didn't even know he was traded.  Just looked it up and saw that the move was made while I was deployed.   

[ice grillin you]

cant defend the front of the rim...elton brand was just pathetic on those two late drives by mo williams

and they still dont know how to finish

[SD]

Look, we've mentioned this in previous posts, but not as bluntly as we're about to right now: Spencer Hawes has been awful this season. Collins' decision to start him has made sense, up until now. Basically, if Collins doesn't try to get a few good minutes out of Hawes at the start of the game, it's pretty much a given that Hawes will contribute nothing for the entire game. At least with Hawes starting, Collins can eat away a few minutes before going to a small lineup or before going to Tony Battie, whose legs just can't handle extended minutes all season long. But the problem, through six games, is that Hawes isn't just treading water and getting the Sixers to the 6:00-minute mark of the first quarter about even, he's digging them into pretty deep holes. He's slow (the Cavaliers absolutely destroyed the Sixers on any pick-and-roll Hawes was involved with), he can't rebound, and he's playing soft. He doesn't even appear too concerned about all of these things. The starting center position is a massive hole right now for the Sixers and Collins' decision to bench Hawes in the second half of last night's game was the right one. This is a big deal, because there really isn't a solution. Collins could start Battie, but that's asking for trouble: by midway through the year, Battie could be sidelined if his minutes are too extended here at the start. But it's possible, if Collins can stay disciplined with Battie's minutes, that he could be inserted into the starting lineup and get the team off to a better start before Collins goes to Marreese Speights and then Brand at the center spot.



Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/deep-sixer/Hawes_to_start_or_not_to_start.html#ixzz14WkFtIN1

[SD]

How do they continue to stick with Ed? Like his personality and all but he's driven this team from mediocrity to shtein his time here. What a mess.

The Sixers' current roster costs about $70 million - approximately $12 million over the salary cap - and ranks No. 9 in most-expensive NBA rosters. Entering Saturday night's NBA schedule, the combined record of the eight more-expensive teams was 27-12. The combined record of the four teams just below the Sixers - the Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs, and Portland Trail Blazers - is 15-7.

It's easy to be cheap and bad (see the Sacramento Kings and Minnesota Timberwolves), but it's much more difficult to be expensive and bad. And it's truly remarkable to go from being expensive and bad to more expensive and worse.

Which is what happened this summer to the Sixers.



Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/20101107_Inside_the_Sixers___A_roster_that_is_expensive_and_bad.html#ixzz14bIURs00

[BigEd76]

another win at MSG

[The BIGSTUD]

Thorn runs the basketball decisions now. Ed Stefanski basically does nothing.

[Rome]

[BigEd76]

so he's a Yankee fan in the US and a Phillie fan outside it

mock

[Sgt PSN]

Ed must be the last person on earth to realize that hats are nothing more than fashion accessories to athletes. 

[BigEd76]

damn I thought DeSean was always a Nats fan

[ice grillin you]

good stuff

[reese125]

the turnovers that jrue makes i cant even understand it.

the guy is evolving taking the ball into the paint and makes so many good plays, but man his brain just goes blank making these not even close off-the-wall passes.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

the Sixers eclipsed 100 points in a fifth straight game for the first time since December 2005

[SD]

Holliday to Brand is the new Stockton to Malone

In all seriousness Brand looks like the player they envisioned when they signed him. The encouraging thing about that is the possibility a team takes him off the Sixers hands.

[reese125]

Yeah...his mid range shot % is crazy high right now. Not to mention he's hustling his ass off. The only downside is his ups are diminished big time-where he used to be able to contend shots on the regular because of his length.

I do like the way he fights for the ball though.