How Sixers Loss to Bulls Fits in History Books
I commend Derek for even attempting a cogent recap for last night's game. The 45-point loss to the short-handed Chicago Bulls is historic in its embarrassment to a team that's only 6 games ahead of them in the standings. I figured there had to be something statistically relevant to just how bad of a whooping the Sixers were handed. Let's hit the history books for some bullet point facts I uncovered on Basketball Reference.
- No championship team in the modern era (1979-now) has lost by 40 points in a regular season game. The '06 Miami Heat and '05 San Antonio Spurs both lost to the Dallas Mavericks by 36 points. It's ridiculous to even think of the Sixers as a contender, but that's what Dei Lynam did here.
- The Sixers haven't lost a game this badly since March 18, 2007 when Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets stepped on their face 124-74. Steven Hunter and Willie Green started that game for the Sixers, and Bobby Jones played 13 minutes off the bench. Yeah.
- Even the Eddie Jordan-led Sixers' biggest loss was only 31 points.
- The Bulls haven't won a game by this much since January 13, 2007, when Mike Sweetney and Viktor Khryapa combined for 25 points in a 111-66 rout of the Memphis Grizzlies.
- This is the second-most points the Bulls have scored this season, and the second-least they have allowed.
No sane person is deluding themselves into thinking these Sixers are a championship team, but even somewhat good teams don't lose by 45. To all of this, coach Doug Collins said: "It happens." Well, not to championship teams, Doug. Play your young guys. Trade Tony Battie. Thanks.
The Sixers are now 1-1 on the difficult 10-game road trip, after being handed a gift-wrapped win by the Magic when they had a half-team handicap. No rest for the awful, as they head to Boston to take on the scorching Celtics tonight.
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That was disgusting, and I somewhat blame Collins. Holiday picks up two fouls and is not seen for the rest of the first half, instead Lou Williams took over the PG duties, we could see that the Sixers struggled to get good shots and the lead grew more out of control.
And of course the starters(or at least Jrue), having virtually not played a half of basketball comes out flat.
Firstly, what’s with the switching? We didn’t do that these last couple of days, we were lazy and switched on the screens and Deng took advantage.
Obviously we could’ve thrown anyone at them and lost with the way we played, but we could’ve executed alot better IMO.
I know Collins and most coaches are too competitive to not do your best to win now, but he just has to accept they can’t win a title. It has to be like Iverson in his first few years (and we’re well-aware those coaches didn’t stay with the team) but Iverson had time for the team to be terrible and take a million shots per game and grow into a star.
Feature Evan Turner completely, see if we have a star, and accept losing now. People can say Evan Turner is a bust but really we have absolutely no idea until Igoudala is gone and he’s completely featured.
I said last night in the game thread that there is no point in having Songaila activated over Brackins because when the game was out of reach that could of been a time to play Brackins. I don’t know what Brackins will bring to the franchise later in the career but he will be here longer then Songaila so why not see what he has.
That picture
is the BDL create-a-caption today
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by Tanner Steidel on Dec 22, 2010 11:13 AM PST reply actions
They got it from me!
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by Michael Levin on Dec 22, 2010 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
Wow
Doesn’t get much worse than this, wonder how were going to bounce back for tomorrows game against arguably the best team in the league on the road lol. Who else liked that offer from the blazers?
me.
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by Michael Levin on Dec 22, 2010 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
i wish collins would see the team for what it is and not just say this happens. it does happen…to really bad teams. this team is not a contender despite playing well of late. i hope they are not being fooled into thinking they are because they better wake up to reality. they have some nice young players and that is it. they stink and have no star or stars because ownership doesnt want to spend money. its ridiculous to think people are going to pack the arena to watch this team. trade iguodala now and get picks and possibly a center. continue to play the younger players too see what we have and go from there. turner needs to be told that he is going to be featured and he in turn needs to be more aggressive. until then, this is what we have. a team that will hang around games and show from time to time just how fugly it can get. i truly hope ownership gets a star to make this team great but until then i will cheer and hope the young guys progress.
Big Men
Collins you do not have any BIG People in the paint. Against Chicago it was like watching “WET PAINT DRY”
I think its time for a change from top to bottom. What you did before coming to the “76’s” go back.

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