Bill Simmons rips the 76ers and their series
by jsams on Apr 18, 2009 10:31 AM PDT
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Bill Simmons and his buddy Joe House had an NBA playoff preview podcast (extra points for alliteration) and didn't have very nice things to say about the Sixers or their series. Take a look.
BS: Orlando/Philly, God what a crap series that is. Ughhh.
JH: It's, you know, the East has one crap series every year.
BS: Annnd here it is.
JH: That's right. Each year, the last handful of years there's been one, and it always seems to involve one of these teams.
BS: Yeah.
JH: Wasn't last year's Orlando/Detroit?
BS: I think the worst thing about this series, I'd be fine with it... well I wouldn't be fine with it, cause Philly's just terrible.
JH: Yeah.
BS: But... two bad crowds.
JH: Yeah, right.
BS: Orlando's crowd sucks, and Philly's crowd is worse, like you can extensively have 5,000 of your own fans at a Philly playoff game... which Orlando won't because they don't have 5,000 fans total.
JH: I wonder if what happened here in Washington is the same thing as in Philly, cause you remember back in the day Philly used to have crazy crowds for hoops.
BS: Yeah, but it was very, like the current Warriors crowd -- very urban -- a nice mix blend of people, but you know even back then, they didn't even sell out some of those Celtics playoff games.
JH: Oh okay.
BS: But I agree with you that the spirit of the crowd was much better. They had a better announcer, Dave Zinkoff was their announcer.
JH: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
BS: Now it's like, new arena umm....
JH: Who are the fans? Who goes to those?
BS: I don't know, I mean, they, you know, they have uhh, the Eagles and the Phillies I think are just so far more important -- and even the Flyers.
JH: Sure, yeah.
BS: Sixers are a distant fourth. It's gonna be a awful series and I'm gonna try to watch as little of it as I can. But here's the thing though, if Turkoglu's hurt (sigh) maybe that's goes seven.
JH: Is he hurt?
BS: Yeah, he's hurt, he hurt his ankle last week.
JH: I mean, I know that he didn't play, right, but is he hurt, hurt? That's what I meant to ask.
BS: I think he like, really sprained it.
JH: Huh.
BS: And he was already slow anyway
JH: So, if he doesn't play... I like the magic in six.
BS: I'm gonna say 5, only because i think Philly just bites.
JH: Okay.
BS: No offense to the Philly fans, but I think they know -- I think they'd be the first to admit. And if Thad young was healthy, maybe 6, but even he's a little banged up, so...
JH: Yeah.
React as you wish. I'm going to keep my cool this time, because last time Simmons said horrible things about the Sixers -- I got super pissed -- and he ended up being right. But you better believe I'll be bringing this up if we upset the Magic, especially if we play the C's in the second round.
P.S. If you want to listen to the blasphemy with your own ears, this conversation takes place between the 14:33 and 16:43 minute mark in the podcast.
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Why am I supposed to care about what that moron says?
by The Legend on Apr 18, 2009 10:56 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Bill Simmons is a douche
he’s such a douche that he drives the douchiest car (hummer) in the douchiest color (taxi cab yellow) I bet
"Someone created the box score," Morey says, "and he should be shot."
Blocked shots — they look great, but unless you secure the ball afterward, you haven’t helped your team all that much.
by jemagee on Apr 18, 2009 12:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Truth
BS does blow but he is right. Our fan base is weak at best. WTF happened Philly?
by tymac56 on Apr 18, 2009 1:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I wish I could answer that.
It’s hard to tell, especially when you live on the opposite side of the country.
by jsams on Apr 18, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What does he know about good fans?
Like those frontrunners in Boston are something of which to be proud? He should focus on his Celtics who got smoked by a rookie today.
by ajay on Apr 18, 2009 1:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
i bet he writes a column
crying about how they lost now (kind of like his complaining piece about garnett being hurt)
by tsteidel on Apr 18, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s funny, all Bill Simmons does is do what you and millions of other sports fans do: he talks about sports with a slant towards his own teams. The difference is that he finds a way to be readable at 3000 words while most bloggers or people in the comment section are barely readable at 100 words.
by Jordinho on Apr 18, 2009 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and if he had a celtics blog/write for a boston site or newspaper i would agree…. but he writes for a national media….big difference
by tsteidel on Apr 18, 2009 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In what way is that a big difference? You’re basically saying that a columnist of any kind shouldn’t have their opinion influenced by their own preferences. That’s what columnists do. Would you like him to have no slant as if he had no favorite team? That’s what they do on Sport Center. You like that?
by Jordinho on Apr 19, 2009 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He is right though
for a major city with a rich basketball history, the fans do suck. The Sixers are a very distance fourth from the rest of the pack. they don’t draw any fans to games. and the whole line of “its because we suck” cant really work, because when the Flyers had that shitty season two years ago, the still drawled the 3rd highest attendance in the NHL. My guess is that the NBA is going through a bad time, like its no surprise that its a 2 team race right now(was 3 but KG is out now), and it will be like this for a while. but hey i still root for my Sixers.
by JpH89 on Apr 18, 2009 2:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Sixers low fan base
I am a season ticket holder and understand why it is so low. Let’s be honest, guys. We don’t have a shooting guard, we can’t score 3’s (what our fans and most fans love), and had a inferior coach (Cheeks, never won over 500% and our media loved him???). I strongly believe if they get a shooting guard (and get rid of Green) and a top coach, we will see a good increase in attendance next year.
by DeanH on Apr 18, 2009 5:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Good god this fan base discussion gets boring.
THE NBA is fourth in Philadelphia folks – just get over it already – unless they have a superstar or have a chance at a title – every year people say that Philadelphia is a basketball town and maybe it is for college but it’s not an ‘NBA’ town – people won’t show up to watch mediocrity – especially in crap economy.
Oh yeah – cavs/pistons is worse BASKETBALL than sixers magic.
"Someone created the box score," Morey says, "and he should be shot."
Blocked shots — they look great, but unless you secure the ball afterward, you haven’t helped your team all that much.
by jemagee on Apr 18, 2009 8:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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