Pissed off Elton Brand leads Sixers to 86-84 win
by jsams on Nov 18, 2009 6:47 PM PST
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- After one good game, I'm not ready to remove the "Reggie Evans 2.0" tag from Elton Brand, but tonight was a step in the right direction. He played inspired basketball from the get-go, showed off his three-inch vertical, positioned himself for offensive rebounds, and used his long arms to disrupt the awful Bobcats offense. In other words, he did everything an 80-million dollar man should do, including getting the game-winning deflection. I never watched Elton in Los Angeles, but I'm starting to think that he was never the "explosive" athlete we thought he was, and his 20-10 numbers were product of him playing on a bad team (except for one year), and having the offense run exclusively through him. Not to sound like Jon Gruden or anything, but that "explosion" we're looking for from Elton in terms of athleticism might never happen. That said, he might not need explosive athleticism to be a good player, which was evident tonight. Elton turned in his best game of the season, and the rumors of him being benched clearly lit a fire.
- When the Sixers struggled defensively -- mainly in the first quarter -- Lou Williams was the main culprit. Lou cannot stop penetration or rotate correctly. (Thaddeus has trouble rotating as well.) The most frustrating thing about Lou is that he has all the tools to be a good defensive player, but things like stopping penetration and rotating correctly don't show up in the stat sheet, nor do they reflect directly on him. Point being, Lou is either lazy, not a team player, or both. On offense, Lou played pretty well, but not well enough to make up for his bad defense, in my opinion.
- The Sixers biggest offensive problem is settling for too many jumpshots. You can see why this would be an issue, considering the team's biggest weakness is... shooting! Last year the Sixers were 6th in the NBA in free throws attempted and free throws made; this year they're 18th and 15th respectively.
- Rodney Carney is the Sixers best backup (now that M16 is hurt) and he showed why tonight. He should be the first guard off the bench every game. I'd even go as far as saying that he should replace Sam Dalembert in the starting lineup, moving Thad to the four and Brand to the five. Eddie had the right idea with benching one of his starters, but wanted to bench the wrong guy. Carney rebounds well, his defense is very, very good, he can make threes, and his athleticism is beastly. *Nickname Alert* RC Cola *Nickname Alert*
- FREE JRUE!!! FREE JRUE!!! FREE JRUE!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! FREE JRUE!!! FREE JRUE!!! FREE JRUE!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! FREE JRUE!!! FREE JRUE!!! FREE JRUE!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!! NO MORE ROYAL IV!!!
- Overall, the Sixers are still a very mediocre/bad basketball team and did nothing to disprove that tonight. How many times are we going to say, "A win's a win" this year? The best part about tonight was we hardly mentioned Eddie Jordan's name.
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Agreed about Brand
Once he starts stringing several of these games together, then I’ll change my mind.
by soundofphilly on Nov 18, 2009 6:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
CMON EDDIE ARE U SERIOUS
eddie jordan is really pissing me off, why cant he play jrue? jrue is probably pissed too….. he deserves playing. Eddie is too stereotypical when it comes to rookies and it doesn’t help if ur rookie is actually good enough to play
eff you we winning anyway
by eagleswin on Nov 18, 2009 7:00 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I can understand playing Green ahead of him in some situations, but not Royal Ivey.
by jsams on Nov 18, 2009 7:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
yea lol seriously ROYAL IVEY??????????? LIKE WTF i can play better than him
eff you we winning anyway
by eagleswin on Nov 18, 2009 7:21 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
“Win’s a win.”
by TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsMichaelBourn on Nov 18, 2009 9:27 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
EB's rare qualities
EB is quite a rare type of player in the league. Extremely professional, with a huge work ethic and an acceptably high basketball IQ. The sixers do not have too many players like him in the roster. So let’s be patient and hope he will fully recover.
by apfan on Nov 19, 2009 2:37 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Who would've thought
Playing Elton Brand in the fourth quarter wasn’t a bad thing?!?!?! He took some of Sammy’s minutes at center, so I’m not sure if that’s preparing for the near future (hail mary for a trade please?) but it’s a good thing. And if this is what it takes to motivate Brand then I’m all for it if it keeps working.
by guitarmouse35 on Nov 19, 2009 8:49 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
And
I was glad to see Carney getting more minutes as well— wish I could say the same about Jrue (who’s theme song is now implanted in my brain as ‘Christmas is coming’ by the Vince Guaraldi Trio—go to sixers.com, you’ll know what I mean).
Jordan— RC cola is not a bad nickname, but I also like Danger (Rodney Dangerfield), or RC Danger, or any variation of that. Let’s think of a couple more nicknames and make an ‘official Rodney Carney nickname poll’.
by guitarmouse35 on Nov 19, 2009 9:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Free Jrue is correct. We have a talented gaurd on the bench and his name is Jrue Holiday “the gemini”, we had a gemini on this team before and his name was Iverson. He may not be as fundemental to NBA standards yet but he sure give us that energy we need from the gaurd position. Also, Brand you did a good job “buddy” but this is where you start showing consistently, one thing we do know your consistent at getting 9pts a game. You need to show your loyal sixer fans what consistency your going to bring to the tabble day in and day out. Eddie.. I like you coach but we do have one of the better rokie gaurds in the league and he needs to play. You want to see better defense from Lou, put drue out on the floor and you will get the effort your looking for in Lou. Lou plays off of entitlement emotions and thats why he plays selfish defense. Lou is not entitled and needs to remeber from whence he came the bench.
by KamauFox3000 on Nov 19, 2009 12:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
there was something about brand last night that was different. it was almost like he was actually trying last night. he was cutting towards the basket, dunking on people (or at least with people around him haha) and not bringing the ball down by his knees and getting it stripped. he almost threw down on someone with one hand but it got blocked from the side. And he wasnt making his jumpshot last night, which he will eventually get back. last night was the first time he looked similar to the elton from LA.
by scarhart3 on Nov 19, 2009 1:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
t. it was almost like he was actually trying last night
Why do people say things like this – it really is tiresome to think people believe he ’wasn’t’ trying.
You know what was different about last night? THe bobcats SUCK and have no real big men aside from chandler who played only 15 minutes because of a bad back and the idiot coach didn’t pull brand in the fourth quarter cause ‘brand can’t play 40 minutes’
brand is fine – and people ready to write him off are probably the same folk ready to write Iguodala off after less than games last year…
But he’s not as good (yet) as the numbers last night – the bobcats are just awful
by jemagee on Nov 19, 2009 5:58 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
thats not exactly what i meant although I can see why you would think that. i know elton is not the type of player who takes nights off. he clearly had a fire lit under him last night for whatever reason because he looked a lot different. and your right the bobcats suck but so do the nets and the knicks and he didnt do much against them. plus, when chandler was in, brand was lookin good against him.
by scarhart3 on Nov 19, 2009 6:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
The knicks and nets suck in different ways and have more PF than just their gimpy starting center…
The only way to take a comment that states ‘like he was actually trying last night’ is that you feel there have been nights he wasn’t trying…if there aren’t then there’s no reason for the statement in the first place.
by jemagee on Nov 19, 2009 8:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
i said its ALMOST like he wasnt trying as if it seemed like it, never said he wasnt actually trying. its funny how you left that part out the second time you posted. youre gonna tell me what I meant in MY statement?
and yeah, david lee is a great defender, i guess youre right.
by scarhart3 on Nov 19, 2009 9:00 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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