Basketball Sense: A Lesson on Ed Stefanski's Ignorance

“Basketball sense” is the same thing as “playing the right way” either you get it or you don’t. You don’t like what is happening so now you want to blow it up. OK, let\’s see if that really makes basketball sense as I subjectively understand it.

Timing is everything and even if you decide to blow up a team, you need to have a plan and the ability to achieve the plan’s objectives.

So let’s think for a second about how to build a successful franchise: You need available money to sign the players, and you need to get ones who are in the top 5 at their position in the NBA, not necessarily now, but at some point in the future.

Now, if you accept this, then the question must be (from a basketball sense standpoint) does blowing up the team help you to get back to building the franchise you want, or is it just another way of shooting yourself in the foot, jetisoning players before you can even determine their potential.

Iverson ain’t with the team, Jack, and we’re stuck with Brand , cause we payed him based on what he could do in his past, and not necessarily now. You can cry about that all you want, but sometimes the best thing to do with a mistake is to live with it. Brand is worth more as an expiring, and that’s the way it is, so that makes basketball sense! And if we get lucky, and he regains some of his ability, he is a pro’s pro and a good guy to have around, not a prima-donna like a few players.

Yes. let’s get rid of Thad Young, we know he can’t play, Speights doesn’t play defense so he’s a bust. Let’s continue to talk about trading Andre, cause well. he’s the only one we have that anyone wants. Lou Williams isn’t a starter so we should get rid of him, Gotta get rid of Willie because he takes up so much cap space.

Stop offering desperate moves and think about how to acquire more talented players and not get rid of the ones we have! Too bad we didn’t get Favors since that would have fixed one hole, and worse because now we don’t know if Evan Turner is a player or not. But that, if it was a mistake, was one that the majority of you wanted. There were no opportunities for us to make a deal this summer, so quit your whining and see what we have.

At least we got rid of the idiot coach, one in a long line of many who were not good teachers or great strategists. Which by the way, is the worst thing to do when your trying to build through the draft. Collins is a good coach and will figure out how to use his players to cover their weaknesses and maximize the value of what they can do. A good team is always more than the sum of it’s parts, dependent on their ability to play the right way, which simply means getting the ball to the guy with the best chance of sinking the shot! It is the coach that has to instruct the players so they play the right way and think the right way.

The basketball sense thing to do now is to let Doug sort out the talent, figure out who he can work with and who he can’t. Then you will know who to trade and not to trade. Given the faulty feedback from last season, that’s the only thing we could do!

We’re going to suck this season, no matter what Turner does because I can’t see the Sixers current front line competing. So we should have a decent draft pick next season, and i think that Doug will find a way to get value out of our last few draft picks, Thad, Lou, Mo, even maybe Carney and of course Igoudala. Whatever happens we’ll have a much better understanding of which moves to make, because now at least, we can trust the coach.

I think he’s calling us “whiners” (or at least me :-) ). Now, I prefer “activist fan” who doesnt like to get shafted without reacting…..or at least trying…

However, the idea of seeing what we have after removing that abomination of a coach (sorry to his orthodontic fans) has some merit.

i kinda hope we do blow this year….great big manhopfully comin out in enes kanter and one of the most intriguing players i ever seen in perry jones, 7 foot small forward :O

" I’ve been advised that Philadelphia, with its surplus of swingmen, is open to moving sharpshooter Jason Kapono, who has one season left on his contract at $6.6 million. Kapono is a natural target for teams in the hunt for a perimeter specialist with Mike Miller and Kyle Korver getting snapped up early in free agency. "

I thought all of us would get a kick out of this breaking news……