Sixers defeat Nets 97-94
by jsams on Nov 6, 2009 6:40 PM PST
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Short and sweet tonight.
- A win's a win, but the fact that it took the Sixers a full 48 minutes to put away a banged up, 0-5 New Jersey Nets team is troubling.
- Thaddeus Young continued his poor play on both ends of the floor. He traveled on back-to-back possessions, threw lazy passes, bricked shots, and missed free throws. He did however, hold future Hall of Famer Trenton Hassell to a mere 17 points and 12 rebounds tonight. He looks like the eighth or ninth best player on the team right now. Hopefully it's just a slow start, otherwise I'm concerned.
- Lou Williams played another lights out game. The offense runs much smoother when he's in the game. He is the best on the team at creating his own shot, and he has the ability to take over games when he has to. Honestly, he's the guy I want with the ball in his hands in a must-score situation. He finished with 18 points and 6 assists to go along with a team-high 9 rebounds zero, yes ZERO, turnovers.
- Why did Elton only play 18 minutes? He wasn't in foul trouble. He isn't injured. The best explanation I got was from TK76 during the game: "He started running to the scorer's table [in the third quarter], but time expired before he got there." Seriously, I want a better explanation than "Any time you have a chance to play Jason Kapono at the four for an extended period of time, you have to do it." or "We wanted to play small ball," from Eddie Jordan later tonight.
- Why did Eddie Jordan opt for a lineup of Lou Williams, Bill Green, Rodney Carney, Jason Kapono and Mo Speights in the fourth quarter? It absolutely murdered our defense and rebounding. I could realistically make 42 bullet points questioning Eddie Jordan's rotations, but I won't and just hope one of the reporters asks him.
- Jason Smith and Marreese Speights both played well off the bench tonight. Smith was all over the place, taking charges, blocking shots, keeping plays alive, etc.
- I'm not sure what to make of the Sixers right now. Are they really bad? Are the just trying to figure things out? Still a long way to go.
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That was an absolutely hideous performance. For some reason I saw it coming. However, this is a strange day in basketball – as the Bobcats whupped the Hawks by 20 points.
Anyway back to the sixers…
Lou had a great game stat-wise, Sammy had some nice blocks, and Iguodala played some nice defense at the end. Those are about the only positives I can take from the game.
If they play like this next week it’s going to be a nightmare. Does anyone here have an answer as to why WG was playing more than 8 minutes?
by jefu on Nov 6, 2009 6:51 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I agree for the time I saw him play. Crappy league pass was doing it’s usual error during the games I actually want to see.
by jefu on Nov 6, 2009 7:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I think they’re playing poorly because they are still trying to figure things out. At least half of the blame should go to the coach for poor rotations. The first few minutes of the fourth quarter when they weren’t able to get any rebounds was just excruciating to watch. Again, the blame should go to the coach. I hope to never see Kapono playing PF again.
by jefu on Nov 6, 2009 7:33 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
and more elton
he was actually playing well tonight.
by jsams on Nov 6, 2009 7:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
and less Thad
till he turns it around. He traveled 2 times in a row. And he just keeps shooting up bricks. He cost us 10 points in less than 2 minutes tonight at one point!
by DeanH on Nov 6, 2009 8:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Paid attendance
10,000. Ouch.
by tsteidel on Nov 6, 2009 9:49 PM PST via mobile reply actions 0 recs
two reasons: 1. people are not interested in the sixers until they “escape mediocrity.”
2. people are not interested in the sixers playing a crappy nets team.
by jefu on Nov 6, 2009 10:20 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Rotations are scaring me a bit. From what I can read on here and have seen online (as none are on in my market) Lou looks pretty good. I also was glad to go to team by team stats on espn.com and click on 3P% and see the sixers 19 (tied with 4 teams with highest @17) instead of dead last (shoting 33%) but it is still only plus only .01% just league is shooting worse so far this yr.
by fantasybc88 on Nov 7, 2009 8:31 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Lou and Andre have been our best players by a mile.
by jsams on Nov 7, 2009 8:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I feel like at this point in the season a win is a win. Maybe I am wrong because I have been unable to watch much of the Sixers so far, but I think Thad will get back to being the Thad that I am so high on soon. I think that the Sixers, similar to the Flyers, will eventually settle in and start to play more consistently despite their ugly performances thus far. However, the ceiling is really not that high for this Sixer team sadly.
by flyrsfrk05 on Nov 8, 2009 7:52 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
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