Sixers losing streak reaches 12
by Jordan Sams on Dec 11, 2009 7:08 PM PST
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The Sixers continue to find ways to lose. Tonight, they dominated the Rockets during the first quarter en route to a 17-point lead, only to see it disappear by halftime. They hung in there until the very end, but were eventually handed their 12th straight loss by a better team.
- Eddie Jordan's rotations are getting a little better -- not perfect -- but better. He tried to have two rebounders on the floor at all times and it was reflected in the numbers.
- Elton Brand did well tonight. I refuse to say he "looked good", because numbers or not, he still doesn't look right to me, and it resulted in some awkward, ugly basketball.
- A.I. was A.I.
- My love/hate relationship with Andre Iguodala's jumper is currently lukewarm.
- Thaddeus Young crashed the boards and boxed out like a man possessed tonight -- the biggest positive of the night.
- Iverson is clearly the cream to Sammy D's coffee. Either that, or he promises him a Speed Racer action figure for every rebound and block he gets. He's been killin' it since Iverson's return!
- Billy Bob Green actually contributed on the glass and in the passing game tonight. Shocking, I know. Go ahead and re-read that sentence a couple times, because it took me approximately 4 and a half minutes to type. My fingers reacted to the keyboard like Fletcher Reede reacts to a blue pen. Unfortunately, Green still thinks defense consists of letting your guy score; he also took bad shots. Same stuff, different game.
- What color should I get my John Wall jersey in? Red or White?
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Missed the game as was at dinner with girlfriend but saw half time then 4th qtr score. When do ppl see us winning our next game?
I like the red jerseys, though I’ll stick with my AI black jersey (and by AI I mean the new and currently better AI of Andre)
haha me too, for my bday
and like 8 of my friends were there cause one of them bet $800 on the Sixers and bought 3 points to make them +5.5…
did Thad get hurt or something? why wasn’t he playing in the fourth? i missed most of the game due to an essay that is due in about an hour
Nope, Willie Green gave Jordan that signal that said he wanted to finish the game. Willie G has that power. Brace-Licker does not.
not really close – don’t let the points fool you – the sixers weren’t really going to win any of those games…ignore fourth quarter runs against back ups that make games closer than they appear
by jemagee on Dec 12, 2009 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
When one coach makes half-time adjustments and the other spends that time getting that piece of hot dog out of his braces, those things can happen…
by MojoPharoah on Dec 11, 2009 10:56 PM PST up reply actions
Next Win
I think we will win 3 ot of our next 5,Win= Mon vs Warriors,Sat vs clippers and 22nd vs washington. Looking at the schedule if they can find a way to close out games[Once they get a win i think they will]} at the end of january they will be 21-26. Unthinkable maybe but they have a strech after that road trip that reminds me a awful lot of that 9 game winning streak a few years back after a bad start like this. AI will stay the rest of season and barring any changes wit injures or trades i project the sixers final record to be 41-41 or 42-40 depending on if the final game means anything to the magic,i i will right a post with game by game predictions,let me know if u disagree with any
I don’t think so, because their runs were built on D, which Jordan does not believe in. If Jordan stays the whole year, get ready for lotto ball
by MojoPharoah on Dec 11, 2009 10:57 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t see ’em going 37-22 down the stretch.
by Jordan Sams on Dec 11, 2009 11:38 PM PST up reply actions
If they play .500 ball from here on out they’ll finish with 34 or 35 wins. And I think that’s their ceiling with Jordan as the coach. I’m not interested in 34 wins. Either they go on a monster run and finish with 42+ or they win 25 or so. Nothing in between will do.
by Jordan Sams on Dec 11, 2009 11:41 PM PST up reply actions
I just cant see
This team playing this bad the rest of the season,they are not a 5-18 team,ny the way what does ej mean by iverson is still getting his legs under him. Does he expect him to throw the sixers on his back and put up 41 a game??
December
I think they finish december 5-4 and i expect[hope] they turn there season around by winning 6 out of 7 during this stretch vs Was,tor,@det,NO,NYK,Sac,and @min. For some weird reason i see EJ making the right adjustments when speights comes back,if he does mark them down for 41-41 and the 6th seed,if he doesnt mark them down for 38-44 and eaither 8th seed and get knocked out by Bos/Orl or the last pick in lotto with no chance of moving up
rockets fan here
it’s easy to point to your team’s defense as a reason for losing games (and it will probably continue to cost you, as it does the other defenseless teams in the league), but i really feel like it’s your bench that’s killing you guys. with all of those injuries and what not, your bench is really thin and that’s something that’s hard to cover up.
good luck with AI and hopefully you guys get that run that gets you into the playoffs. i really like iggy and young’s game. and if you’re interested, you can read my blog at 5mansymphony.blogspot.com
Wafer . . . again. (Marv Albert, HOU v. CLE Feb 2009)
-one of the FEW at Toyota Center who has the Wafer jersey
It’s not just the bench, but it ain’t helping
The Sixers continue to find ways to lose. Tonight, they dominated the Rockets during the first quarter en route to a 17-point lead, only to see it disappear by halftime.
they dominated the first 7:10 seconds of the first quarter, that’s it
by jemagee on Dec 12, 2009 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
Right, they dominated until they had to make a substitution. That’s why it’s the bench!
IF the first big off the bench is Speghts, then you’ll get production off the bench. When you’re backup guards are Iverson and Holiday, then you’ll get a lot of production off the bench and the Sixers problems will be close to over.
They will be able to score enough to win most games, but you can’t make any predictions until you see that group together and in a rhythm.
what about the first six minutes of the third quarter?
all starters – outscored 18-3
by Tanner Steidel on Dec 13, 2009 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
Come on – that’s not their fault right ricko?
by jemagee on Dec 14, 2009 7:39 AM PST up reply actions
Of course that’s their fault! One of the reasons I’m not laying all the blame at Jordan’s feet. The only explanation that exonerates them all is that the starters are gassed at the start of the third, because Jordan can’t afford to play the bench players too long without falling behind in the first half.
But they did have halftime to rest up right!? And, most of them are young players and should be able to play 35 min. at a high level.
I don’t have any other explanation, but I’d like you to come up with a better one. How does the same group of guys come out and build a 17 point lead and 24 minutes later that same group gives the points back? What do you do when you’re the coach and you’re starters fail on you like that? What can you do, when you only have worse players on the bench?
Could Eddie Jordan be getting outcoached that badly at halftime? Did you see anything different about the Rockets attack? Or did our players just get outplayed, outworked and out-hustled?
Actually there’s lots of explanations that exonerate them
Most of them start with eddie jordan being a god awful NBA coach who never should have been hired in the first place but because he was (relatively) cheap and a friend of stefanskis he got a job he shouldn’t have gotten nor did he deserve.
The fact that this team of mostly the same core players (minus andre miller and reggie evans and if you think evans is important i can’t help you) played much better for mo cheeks and tony dileo
Eddie Jordan is an awful coach
by jemagee on Dec 14, 2009 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
Neither Mo or Tony had to deal with all the injuries.
Look, its the same players that you started the game with. Your coaching got them out to a 17 point lead. You put them in to start the 2nd half, same players, same sets and they don’t put the ball in the hoop. Unless they’re gassed, how is that the coach’s fault?
What would you have done differently, or how would you have responded as their coach, when you saw that they didn’t score after 2 or 3 min. My point is that anyone coaching the Sixers would have the same problem: no good options.
You take any team and take away their starting point guard and their 2nd best big man and they’re not going to win as many games.
You give me a team with only 6 quality players, and two of those names are a reach as you well know… and realize that you need almost 20 points a piece from each of them to be competitive and it’s not hard to figure out why the Sixers aren’t winning! And no, it’s not just the coach.
Iguodala, Young, Brand, A.I. : all quality NBA players. Dalembert =average player. BENCH: Green=slightly below average. Jason Smith =? Rodney Carney, Royal Ivey = below average. Jrue Holiday = ? Injured: Mareese Speights = Top 10 NBA big man, Lou Williams, above average NBA point guard.
I would hate coaching this team with Speights and Williams out and Jrue not healthy. I think no matter what I did, eventually my players would start to give out, and if I put in his bench replacement things would be even worse. That would really suck. Of course I would be giving Smith and Carney a lot more burn and cut back on Kapono until I could figure out a way to get the team to pass to him.
We get it – you think Eddie Jordan is a good coach and will find any amout of excuses to make for him
He stinks here, he stunk in washington, but he’s cheap so the sixers like him…continue making excuses for him and I"ll continue ignoring what you ahve to say because it’s not going to make any sense to a rational person without some sort of blinders about this team on.
You refuse to see the reality of how bad this team is but make excuse after excuse about this team – and that’s great – if it works for you – but it’s pointless to discuss the team with you because I don’t think you have any rationality
by jemagee on Dec 17, 2009 3:45 PM PST up reply actions
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