The only necessary change is a new defensive minded coach and a goto scorer. The latter can easily be swung in a trade for one of our young assets. ES isn’t as bad as the teams record indicates. Most of his bad decisions seemed pretty good on paper before the reality happened. I think most of us would have made the same choices in his shoes, but of course hindsight is 20/20.

I’m a real fan, and I really believe in Ed Stefanski. I think the Sixer have done a great job drafting ever since they picked Iguodala, and they have successfully assembled all the necessary components through the draft and free agency to have a winning team now.

I’ve been watching basketball for a long long time and I think I know what it takes for a team to win in the NBA, and this year, finally the Sixers have it.

It takes a couple of near 7 footers to defend, rebound and score. If you have a dominant big man like Duncan, Howard or Gasol, it goes a long way towards putting your team in the finals. The Sixers have Brand and Speights and Dalembert and Smith that’s 4 big guys and two of them, Brand and Smith are real bangers. I think Speights has the potential to be as dangerous a scorer as any big man in the game. If he does, then that puts the Sixers that much closer to a title.

Of course you need more than just big men, You need ball handlers to distribute and you need finishers to score the ball on the break. The Sixers have a bunch of gazelles in Iguodala, Young, Iverson, Carney, Williams, Holliday, Dalembert, Speights…

They have enough good shooters to spread the floor and enough depth to create matchup problems with their size. If they have enough discipline they should be able to get a good shot against even the best defense, a good shot or a trip to the foul line.

There are two things holding this team back from winning a title right now. Some of their players are a bit young and inexperienced. Can Marreese continue to match the output of the other teams Center when they play Gasol or Garnett or Howard? When he played Howard he was better and he got under his skin. Garnett kept jawing at him too. Speights is a big man who can score, the most important piece towards winning a championship. He’s our Kareem, our Duncan. But he’s also very young and isn’t quite as strong as he needs to be. He isn’t being pushed around like he was last year, but he doesn’t push the other players around yet either. As he gets older he will.

Speights isnt the only one. Iguodala is still only 25. Brand and Dalembert are the oldest players on the team, until Iverson is signed. Young hasn’t reached his full potential, either has Williams, Smith or Holiday. I assume the younger ones will all continue to improve with time and experience. But right now their inexperience can be a disadvantage.

The other thing holding them back is that they don’t know how to play together and have yet to figure it out this far into the season. I think they are showing some improvement and injuries have had an effect, but I also think Eddie Jordan is not a good coach. A bad coach can ruin a good team, and a dumb coach can continue to put bad combinations on the floor.

The addition of Iverson and the return of Speights will make it harder for Eddie to put a bad lineup on the floor. This team has a lot of talent when it’s healthy, a lot of players who can put up 20 points a night.

Brand is getting back to his old form, and this should not be overlooked. We have a physical presence down low, a banger. And this bothers other teams with finesse centers. I think Smith is banger too. Championships teams always have a tough guy in there to rebound like a Rambis to Kareem or Perkins to Garnett. Championship teams always control the boards. I think Dalembert and Brand should be a pretty good combination on the Glass. Speights will get in there too.

If AI can still dominate and put up 25+ this team should go deep into the playoffs. They have him slashing inside with Brand or Speights waiting for a pass, with Iguodala and Young ready to go. Sounds like a very potent offense to me!

doctor j made me a fan and even in video games i like making bad teams better but.

First of all Im a philly native born and raised in west philly. Second I have been a sixer fan since the days of DR J . Ive been with them since 77 when the said they owed us one for losing the championship to the Bill Walton led blazers which they finally paid 83 when they got Moses Malone and won the championship. Im glad Iverson is coming back to philly so we have a chance to become winners again and shut all these wannabe fans mouths up.

Iverson is going to make the sixers a different team because he is older and hopefully wiser.This team needs him to provide them with something they dont have and thats heart. Iverson played hard everytime he put on that Sixer uniform and thats what the team needs right now a 34 year old icon playing hard to win games.