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Amaro on MLB TV about winter meetings

jemagee — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:34:09 -0000

Amaro on MLB TV about winter meetings

GM Amaro interviewed on MLB TV yesterday (12/8) regarding winter meetings and how great Polanco will be at the top of the order.

Let's Look at it this way - roster swap

jemagee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:46:21 -0000

Ok, so the sixers are bad. They're possibly as bad as they have been in 15/20 years, possibly worst team since the 83 championship team, but we all know that. Now they've signed Iverson and just like Flash, he'll save every one of us. (Fire Ajax Missiles)

I don't know about you, but I've run out of something new to say about Iverson, or Jordan, or Stefanski or the sixers. I mean what else can you say about this team that someone else hasn't already said. They're terrible, record wise not the worst team in the league, but let's see how you really feel about this team and roster going forward.

It's a simple 'game' really. There's 30 NBA rosters, 13-15 players per roster, regardless of record or injury, let's see which rosters you wouldn't rather have than the sixers. Which rosters do you find so pathetic that you wouldn't trade the sixers roster lock stock and barrel for.

I haven't researched all the rosters but off the top of my head the knicks and raptors come completely to mind, maybe the kings but i think they might have more upside right now, the clippers are an interesting case cause healthy they ain't bad but they have a crap coach.

Not changing coaches or GM's or ownership JUSt the players.

So which rosters wouldn't you want over the sixers current roster?

Who is your coach?

jemagee — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:08:30 -0000

Ok, so the sixers are deep enough into the Jordan era so far...I'm curios to see where people stand.

I wanted Mo gone, I knew DiLeo was a stopgap to save money...and jordan seemed like the right guy to many of us, but is he still the right guy for you?

Simple poll - make your choice.

Who would you prefer be coaching the sixers right now?

Poll will stay open for 2 weeks (was short the 75 words)

Poll

Of the three below, who would you most like be coaching the sixers right now?

Thanksgiving isn't the only Holiday to celebrate

jemagee — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:46:29 -0000

So, injuries suck, Louis Williams was doing a good job as a starting pg in the NBA, he wasn't sucking, I was pleasantly surprised, but as anyone who reads this blog even a little may know, many of us were rather vocal about how the PG rotation was playing BEHIND Williams. Specifically, there was one player being almost abused mentally by coach eddie jordan.

Last night, someone, some how, broke Lou Williams Jaw - I didn't see the game, I don't know how it happened, and it sucks for lou that it happened, but in the vein of every cloud has a silver lining - Kate Fagan sends this twitter

Look for rookie Jrue Holiday to start tonight in place of Sweet Lou. The future is now.

Now, if history holds, Jrue will be on a short leash and if he screws up might be headed back to the bench for willie green or royal ivey, but I felt that Jrue wouldn't even get the chance when I first heard Lou had a broken jaw.

Worst Current Contract

jemagee — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:48:44 -0000

So, it's the holidays, the sixers stink and it's a time of giving and the sixers lost to the wizards today, a team with a lot of bad long term deals and it got me to thinking about who might have the 'worst' long term deal in the NBA right now. Guys like Dalemberrt, Curry, even McGrady are coming to the end of their terms atop the bad contract heap.

Now I know sixer fans first jump will be elton brand (and some may even say Iguodala) and yes willie green is a douche but he's not paid a lot of money.

My first instinct is to say that without examing contracts too deeply - Gilbert Arenas has one of the worst contracts in the NBA right now? Other contesntats could be Ben Gordon, Charlie V, Hedo, maybe even Jamsion?

Eddie Jordan Comments - Post Memphis

jemagee — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:54:59 -0000

Eddie Jordan has some post game comments from Memphis that are published here. I wanted to take a look at them.

"There were two different teams out there tonight," Jordan said. "One team (the Grizzlies) rallied around each other and the other team (the Sixers) fragmented.

"I'm not going to sugar-coat it. We had five different guys go five separate ways. It's about team vs. non-team. It's a game we could've won if we'd have had some camaraderie and positive energy."

"If you're not a physical team," said Jordan, letting the phrase fall off. "It's an old saying that if you don't bite as puppies, you're not going to bite as dogs. If you didn't rebound as a young man or teenager, you ain't going to rebound when it's time to be a man. We just don't happen to have those types of guys right now."

"There was no leadership. Coaches can do so much - getting up and clapping and cajoling and encouraging them in the huddle. It just didn't happen. Their will and determination were just much higher than ours. I'm singling out our team and not one individual. OK? Thanks."

Jordan may not be singling anyone out in any of these quotes, but I can tell you what he is doing, at least as I see it, he's covering his ass, he's shifting all blame to the players with out taking any responsibility as the coach of a team that is terrible right now. They're worse than last year, and the major change over last year isn't roster, it's coach. This is a play right out of the rats book, blame the players, make yoruself blameless.

As far as I'm concerned, this team is done, these quotes, thad being lost, the idiotic comments about brand earlier this week and the rebuttal from Brand about '40 minutes' - the ongoing comments about the 'psyche' of players and how he's 'protecting' Jrue Holliday? Sorry, but to my jaded cynical eye the sixers are a fractured locker room and the coach is already playing the blame game to save his ass, and who knows how the players are going to like that?

I know it's only 11 games and I Know there's some injuries and everything, but every day I become more and more certain that Eddie Jordan was the wrong hire and that the longer he's herer the farther this team gets away from being even a playoff team.

Monta Ellis

jemagee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:16 -0000

Ok, so Stephen Jackson was never coming to the sixers and I never wanted him on the team, however, the Warriors implosion and Titanic sinking MAY lead to a more attractive (to me) player being made available for trade. So let's discuss it because there's only so much to discuss with the current roster.

According to Tim Kwamakimi of the SJ Mercury News, Monta Ellis is about to be actively and aggressively shopped by the Golden State Warriors. Click Here to read.

Monta Ellis isn't Stephen Jackson, he's a 2 guard, he's a 2 guard who can score efficiently (at least if you don't count 3's) and fits on this roster in my opinion. He also wouldn't be cheap...however, he does have 4 years left on his deal so financial savings would be a consideration in making this deal on the Warriors side.

Here's my suggestion without looking at any salary implications or cap matching or whatever.

The sixers trade Sam Dalembert and Thaddeus Young to the Warriors for Monta Ellis.

I understand this will be met with disdain by many, but that's ok, Young may develop into a great player, might, but he's off to a slow start, and Iguodala is in his prime now, Ellis is in his prime now...I like the idea of Ellis Iguodala in the near future a lot more than Young Igudoala the way things are going.

Feel free to demolish

Winning a Title

jemagee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:20:42 -0000

Well, Speights is down for 6-8 weeks, Brand is the highest paid player on the roster and he'll be coming off the bench soon, the sixers currently will be starting 2 (maybe 3) guys who wouldn't be starters on quality NBA teams with a shot to win a title, so I thought I'd propose the following discussion and see where it goes.

Winning a title. Isn't that what it's about in sports...I mean once you hit high school varsity (or even middle school) it's not about 'everyone playing' anymore, it's about winning. Hell for me, it was around 6th grade when I played goalie for a DELCO soccer team (do they still have those any more). I'm a fan of the sixers (and phillies and eagles and wisconsin badgers) but even I admit I pay more attention when the team looks like it has a chance to contend for a title (or even making the finals).

Sure, there are professional sports teams out there with cheap owners (Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Clippers for example) who treat their teams more of a tax write off than trying to build a title or with crazy owners (Oakland Raiders, Golden State Warriors) or with rich owners who don't know when to get out of the way (Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins)...and come on, no one expects any of those team (any of them Jordan) to win a title as long as the current 'junta' running said team is in place. If I was a fan of any of those teams, I'd be tempted to jump ship, cause just once, I'd like a realistic shot of winning some time in the future.

Sure, I got a win from the phillies, and maybe someday I'll get one from the eagles, but the sixers are the ones I want the title from. I'd trade those world series wins for another NBA title.

Since 2001, I haven't looked at a sixers roster and thought, this is a roster that can win a title, now or in the future, and I still don't see a roster built to win any time soon...do you?

What's wrong with the roster? Is it the fact that Comcast has to answer to the bottom line (which I think is an incorrect way to run a professional sports franchise, if you win it, they will come), is it the fact that while DiLeo drafts while he doesn't draft good pieces? Is it the curse of the rat? Of Iverson?

It's 8 years since the last time the sixers made the NBA finals - and as far as I'm concerned they don't look any closer than they did 5 years ago...

What do you think? And Why?

Iverson Waived by Memphis

jemagee — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:01 -0000

All stupid idiotic suggestions that somehow bringing Iverson back to the sixers would help either at the gate (woo hoo last in home attendance) or on the court, please limit them to this location and this location only for the sake of clarity and ease of understanding.

In short, if you want Allen iverson back on the sixers, you want the sixers to lose. You want them to be terrible and you want to set back the development of every player on the roster.

Speights Done for 2 months

jemagee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:35:23 -0000

So, that whole debate regardinh who should start at center is just kind of over, and the development of one of the most important players to the sixers future success has taken a pretty big hit, thanks to the twit from the Sixers I just received.

Forward Marreese Speights to miss 6-8 weeks; MRI reveals a partial tear of the Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) in left knee.

Speights collided knees with someone last night, I missed who, but up until then he was have a pretty craptacular game against the BUlls, unable to do anything against either Noah or Miller or even stop them.

Overall though, this just kind of sucks, though maybe it means Brand gets some 4th quarter minutes at least so we can see what he can do?