Wow. no center, no backup pg, no shooting guard, major trade involving our two 20 point scorers, count how many people have two 20 point scorers on their team and one automatic double double ( randolph )., point is, we still consecutively dismantled the horners, and bulls, the celtics, the suns, the rockets, the hawks before running into the buzz saw of elites including starting off their road trip against portland ( should of won ) bottom line they are a superior basketball team, especially at home, The clippers loss heartbreaking, but in truth we lost by our player weaknesses not our coaching weaknessess. AS far as having players who know how to win down the stretch, we do have those, nate, duhon, chandler, and I believe that if gallo gets the chance to get touches down the stretch, the guy is a proven winner, and has no fear. guys like lee get a lil shook, tim thomas honestly is willing to make the open shot, our only fault, and my only problem with Mike D, is al harrington....harrington is becoming the allen iverson of the sixers, where around him is all this young talent blossoming, and we are building the offense around a player who probably wont be here in a year and a half. Now I understand you have to play harrington, but im hoping after that last game Mike, D chewed his ear off as far as how much he stunts this offense. The ability that harrington has can create so many mis matches, if he just wouldn hold the ball, jab step, back the defender down, and then pull up for a fade away jump shot from the same place he caught the ball, I call it useless motion..crawford had it, Q rich does it ever so often, nate robinson used to do it but has learned to be decisive and just attack, gallo never does it, chandler never does it, duhon does once in a while, and less gets all of his points off of second chance points, and pick and rolls. point is, we need to get rid of the stallers in order to see the true beauty of mike Ds expertise as a coach, as far as the defense is concerned, we have no SHOT BLOCKERS, AND NO GUARDS. I cant be upset that we give up crazy amounts of points, because it is virtually impossible with the players we have to win games on the defensive end. its just not possible. WE can get Tom T from the celtics today, and he would put his hands up and say, until we get a shot blocking center, and a back up tough nosed, pg, and an actual shooting guard, we cant guard the better teams in the league, we cant switch on defense like the spurs do to try and stop a kobe, you end up with nate attached to his hip, or lee getting his shins snapped in half trying to back peddle while lebron runs right at him. I dont blame the players, no rthe coach, I blame isaih thomas for bringing these do do birds in, its similar to allot of the people who hate on obama because of this or that, when really, obamas mistake is coming in to clean up some one elses mess, Mike D is now cleaning up zekes mess, and I beleive he is doing an incredible job.
we are watching basketball after the all star break for once.