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On October 08 2010 23:51 Ace wrote:
Well he's the only person on the team he can only do so much. When you're putting up good rebounding/assist/steal/blocks at your position as he is he's still a stud. Only thing he can't do is score efficiently but he's a clear perfect number 2 guy.
it's really a shame that elton brand ended up sucking major balls. I got so excited when they signed him to that contract, good god was that a mistake
As for Iggy, he's getting paid like a #1, but he's clearly a #2...I mean it's not his fault that he was the best guy on the team at the time, and he got paid like a #1, but I just wish.....we had someone better lol
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Players on the 76ers worth paying attention to
Evan Turner, He is a winner, you can tell by his demeanour, hopefully it transcends to the NBA, shall see in a couple months.
Jrue Holiday, should hold the starting position with Evan Turner beside him, and Lou Will coming behind him, if the floor is spaced enough by these two players and Iggy then he should be able to perform a bit better and put up the numbers he did around the end of the season last year.
Of course Igoudala, with his excellent performance at FIBA, only second to Durant, and a new head coach, Doug Collins, the sky is the limit for how well he performs, of course he may simply go out there and run the course if he feels he is still top dog in the neighbourhood.
No big men though, so clearly a low end team even if they have an advantage at SF almost every night.
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On October 09 2010 01:39 Holcan wrote:
Players on the 76ers worth paying attention to
Evan Turner, He is a winner, you can tell by his demeanour, hopefully it transcends to the NBA, shall see in a couple months.
Jrue Holiday, should hold the starting position with Evan Turner beside him, and Lou Will coming behind him, if the floor is spaced enough by these two players and Iggy then he should be able to perform a bit better and put up the numbers he did around the end of the season last year.
Of course Igoudala, with his excellent performance at FIBA, only second to Durant, and a new head coach, Doug Collins, the sky is the limit for how well he performs, of course he may simply go out there and run the course if he feels he is still top dog in the neighbourhood.
No big men though, so clearly a low end team even if they have an advantage at SF almost every night.
Turner has turned out to be a disappointment this far. Looked out of place in the summer league, is ineffective without the ball in his hands, doesn't play well next to Jrue (who the Sixers are committed to and very excited about), and may not even be the first perimeter player off the bench once the season starts. Still a lot of time to see if he realizes what the Sixers saw in him when he was drafted, but there have been nothing but bad signs from him thus far.
Iggy is definitely more suited to a #2, Pippen type of role next to a true superstar. Unfortunately, he'll still be their #1 option and playing out of position at SG this season (as opposed to his natural SF) due to Turner not panning out and Collins wanting to get his "best players" on the floor.
Brand is supposed to be in better condition this season than he has been since he got to PHI, and Collins has been saying that he'll feature largely in what the team does. I'm not expecting a return to his Clippers form, but we may see some bounceback this season from him. Hawes looked promising until he started missing time due to injuries again. If he doesn't heal up quick, he may just end up losing all his PT to Speights.
The team will still struggle this season for the same reasons as they have in recent years, no 3pt shooting or effective low-post offensive threat. Teams will just pack it in against them and the Sixers will have to rely on a gambling-style defense to create offense with steals and fast breaks.
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When are we getting the fantasy started?
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I was watching the Knicks/Celtics preseason, mostly to see Amare vs Garnett. Then Amare gets a technical for shaking his arms, and Garnett got two immediately after, apparently for laughing. Then there were about 2 more technicals. It is not watching basketball, it is watching egotistical refs insert themselves. -__- Not sure how the NBA continues to be so retarded, and even gets worse, on one of their longest standing problems.
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hahahahaha what? Oh man I've been reading up on these new technical rules and that's ridiculously funny.
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On October 14 2010 09:39 Servolisk wrote:
I was watching the Knicks/Celtics preseason, mostly to see Amare vs Garnett. Then Amare gets a technical for shaking his arms, and Garnett got two immediately after, apparently for laughing. Then there were about 2 more technicals. It is not watching basketball, it is watching egotistical refs insert themselves. -__- Not sure how the NBA continues to be so retarded, and even gets worse, on one of their longest standing problems.
umpires tends to be more overzealous during the preseason. it'll settle out once the season starts.
boy budinger has some hops
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On October 14 2010 09:49 Ace wrote:
hahahahaha what? Oh man I've been reading up on these new technical rules and that's ridiculously funny.
They should honour the 'no-laughing' policy by naming it the Tim Duncan rule.
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Its a good thing rasheed retired, he would get two every time he claims the ball doesnt lie.
31 ejections total last year, are we going to start tallying them for this year and see by what point in the year they exceed this number?
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Ray Allen just drove into Turiaf and hit him in the balls, which caused a lot of extended, visible unhappiness by Turiaf but he escaped getting technicals somehow.
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I'm watching this Raptors-Sixers game(I'm a Raptors' fan) and Turner has been very impressive thus far, great body control and finishing ability. He still needs to work on his jumper and defense still though.
Also, I love Jrue Holiday. I wish my Raptors could have drafted both him and Derozan.
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On October 14 2010 10:36 Holcan wrote:
Its a good thing rasheed retired, he would get two every time he claims the ball doesnt lie.
31 ejections total last year, are we going to start tallying them for this year and see by what point in the year they exceed this number?
RASHEED WALLACE RETIRED? WHAT THE HELL HOW COME I DIDNT KNOW
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HonestTea
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If anyone other than me makes the season thread they will die.
I came out of hiatus just to post that.
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On October 14 2010 12:31 HonestTea wrote:
If anyone other than me makes the season thread they will die.
I came out of hiatus just to post that.
great, now that u are out of hiatus, how about u stop being a dishonest sack of shit and respond to me like a man.
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I have to admit I'm excited about the Heat this year. It will be equally as entertaining if they dominate, or just perform well (which would be akin to crashing and burning in the media due to all the hype they've made).
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He only returns on momentous occasions bro.
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Looking forward to Raptors vs Celtics tomorrow.
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The Knicks/Celtics game was pretty interesting for a preseason game. Pierce/Allen/Rondo stayed in major minutes to try to win by one possession against the NY bench.
Amare really destroyed the Celtics with KG out, lol, it was hilarious. The funny thing was he was driving from just inside the 3 point line. They were putting Rondo and Marquis Daniels on him when he caught the ball in iso far away from the basket, I guess to try to keep him away since he was blowing by all the big men with drives, but he still drove by them. He is quick as **** -__-. So much for being nothing but a dunker catching passes from Nash. I'm predicting career best numbers from Amare now that he is going to get a lot more touches.
Also NY looks like a good team. They have good players although some of them are raw. Never heard of most of them before. Mozgov, 7'1 center from Russia, is very good but he doesn't know the NBA game much yet. Great role players like some guy I also never heard of Landry Fields. NY had very good defense all of a sudden.
I predict a healthy NY team to get into the second and third rounds of the playoffs. ^_^
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I'm liking Barbosa and Jarrett Jack right now, especially the way they played against the Sixers. DeRozan was a bit disappointing in that game though. Hope he picks it up a bit.
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On October 15 2010 05:01 jtype wrote:
I'm liking Barbosa and Jarrett Jack right now, especially the way they played against the Sixers. DeRozan was a bit disappointing in that game though. Hope he picks it up a bit.
Bargnani is playing terrible atm, what erks me about him watching the preseason is that, he's still clueless on help defense. I don't see any improvements from him defensively after watching the same issues occur for the last 5 years.
I agree that Jack and Barbosa played well last night. Barbosa has been excellent in all of the preseason games so far.
DeRozan was solid last night, except for some missed defensive assignments and missed free throws.
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