Clips v. Sixers

Dalembert with the worst baseline turnaround I’ve ever seen.

Thanks for the fanpost john, I was in fact caught in the snow. Alls well now I get to watch THE BEST GAME OF THE SEASON.

Umm how about someone else scoring, 10 pts all by Thad!

Nice runner by Mo

Some notes up to the first time out

Baron Davis – doing whatever he wants, whether guraded by Jrue or Andre

Sam Dalembert had an embarrassing sequence that started with the worst post up move I’ve ever seen leading to his second and third fouls in under 6 minutes of the first quarter (why jordan left him in after second is question) – Speights first off the bench.

Fox SPorts felt the need to play the ‘practice’ video in their pre game – i hate ralph lawler – dude is bad.

Clippers should be working kaman more – dude could dominate the sixers weak defending big men.

Iguodala and Jrue are cold offensively and the sixers are giving up too many second chances.

In 5 minutes of time, Sam is 0-3 with a turnover and 3 fouls. There’s your starting center folks.

After that first tv time out, lou made his first appearance coming in for Jrue and Brand came in for Iguodala

Lou Willie back court should never happen – would rather have seen willie sit.

Speights and Willie don’t feel like making an effort to get back in transition after willie misses a lay up that should have gone ini – easy clipper basket.

Elton Brand may have lift problems, but he’s still good, and if Kaman is guarding him should get the ball every time down the court cause he can have his way with him in the post every damn time

Lou is NOT a point guard! He is more of a Shooting Guard…a scorer! He has a shoot first mentality. Yes AI tends to be the same way, but he also does look to get his teammates involved!! Jrue is a true point who is very unselfish and looks to dish the ball to his teammates. Lou should come off the bench! Why not try this for a while and see what happens! It can’t be worse than anything Jordan does!

Hey, at least Comcast can use the weather as an excuse as to why nobody shows up

So lou’s first moments and plays on the court – not so good

After two made free throws he runs up the court and trys to pass it to Iguodala but throws it away – takes 4 seconds.

Near the end of the quarter Iguodala finds him for wide open look at the 3 – terrible shot.

No one on the sixers – including Holiday seems able to guard Baron Davis

Willie Green has now played 3 straight quarters without rest – Iguodala and Holiday have rested after last nights entire second half – willie has not – coach jordan is still an idiot.

Weak rebounding in the first quarter to

Only gave up 30 in the first, is that a new record?

Beautiful look by Dre, nice finish brand

Holy monkey that was a nice putback

Nice energetic start to the 2nd quarter, some aggressive better defense, lasts about 3 minutes.

Holiday, Iguodala, Brand, Kapono, Spieghts the five to start the 2nd – ick

If speights showed the energy defensively he shows offensively he’d be a freaking all star

Holiday needs to learn when to shoot and when not – many ill advised shots tonight – but he’s 19

Another reason Holiday/Iguodala is a nice back court is that they both have phenomenal court vision…

I’m trying really hard to sit through this entire game, but the water of mars is on at 6 and will be a lot less painful to watch I’m sure.

Lawler and Mike Smith both had some interesting anecdotes about Moses Malone, not as a player, but as a coach, a smart basketball mind who knows what he’s talkinga bout and will gett in peoples faces – this is a guy the sixers need to bring back to smack speights around – no idea why he’s no longer working for the sixers.

A ‘3 point specialist’ shouldn’t air ball a WIDE OPEN LOOK Jason Kapono – you putz

Mike Smith of the clipper broadcast was talking about how Speights was part of the BACK TO BACK in Florida and how he was so unheralded but seemed to be a key part in 2 NCAA titles…I found that information fascinating….

Secondly, one thing I noticed about Cole Aldrich today that just angers me watching the sixers, as soon as a shot goes up on the defensive end…he almost immediately got into position to box out, he didn’t leak out, he didn’t stand around like a putz, he sees the shot go up and positions himself to grab the rebound.

Watching the sixers mockery of a defense just demonstrates how bad some SERIOUS coaching in the fundamentals of basketball is needed for the ‘centers’ on this team,

The defense couldn’t stop my middle school team right now

No one on the sixers can stop Baron Davis
Chris Kaman is having his way with this team – on the defensive glass the sixers are pathetic

Am I the only one who is irritated every time speights makes offense look so easy – since he makes defense look like something that doesn’t exist in basketball.

The clippers blew a 16 point lead at the half against New York last night, I doubt they blow a 13 point lead tonight.

I am waiting for the people to come make excuses about how the celtics game took so much out of the sixers tonight you couldn’t expect them to win

Kaman a double double in the first half
If Dunleavy didn’t rest Baron Davis so much he probably would have had one too

Two guys on the clips have 10 rebounds, and the sixers have SUCKED on the defensive glass

Sam picks up his fifth (takes less than 4 minutes of the 3rd to get 2 more fouls) after his inability to catch leads him to basically smack eric gordon.

Mike Smith of Fox Sports tells us that all of sam’s fouls tonight were stupid fouls.

When AREN’T sams fouls stupid fouls?

Thad running the break well. That’s a fresh sight.

Thad runs a fast break all on his lonesome much better in the 3rd quarter than he did in the first half – and the sixers are within 3.

Once sam sat they got much better…

I hate willie green and all he stands for

That was a great offensive rebound by Speights but a real stupid move to go back up when he had no angle.

I wonder – is Dunleavy a worse second half coach than Eddie Jordan?

The clippers forgot about chris kaman in the 3rd quarter, he started with 18 points, and 10 boards, finishes with 20 points and 10 boards…

Davis only had 3 points in the 3rd – i’m not saying the sixers played good defense, but hey

How did Andre get that open?

The clippers are nicely giving the game back to the sixers…sixers up 2.

Dear Eddie Jordan

Start Elton Brand

Sincerely

The part of your brain that knows basketball but obviously died a few years ago

If the sixers win folks – thank chris kaman for getting 3 fouls early in the third and taking himself out of the 3rd quarter

Weren’t there people who wanted Al Thornton over Thaddeus Young?

So Speights makes the ‘vet’ move to get Kaman out of the game

But why don’t the Clippers post Camby

And why doesn’t speights pass, like ever?

How the hell does Iguodala KEEP doing that?

That’s gut-wrenching

One possession late with the time out. way to go Eddie

Camby is better than us.

I turned it off because I assumed he got the shot off in time – it looked like it was off in time – ah well

John Wall.

We didn’t do what worked for us at the end of regulation; we stopped going to Brand and Speights (although Speights got some touches) and settled for Iguodala jumpers.

Lou should not have come in for Young. ESPECIALLY not in his first game back. Terrible coaching once again, as usual. I don’t know if that’s why they lost, but I know who I’m gonna blame— Thanks Eddie Jordan.

So we are 4-2 v. our division but 3-18 v. the rest of the league. Just plain weird!