DJackson10
Footballguy
I don't see Houston that great. They win because they shoot a ton of threes. I think Utah can be a very good team and I forgot to include them. I think Minnesota can if they could get some better defense.Jesus man. I know you don't like the Sixers but it just looks desperate trying to find SOMETHING to complain about with this team to validate your incorrect analysis/predictions on the team. If you dislike the team, that's fine... but maybe discuss things in the Bulls thread? We are about to win our series 4-1, and we have looked really good this series. What else do you need this team to do to impress you? They look great end of year and you say "they should be an 8 seed but only reason they're a 3 is because the conference is so awful this year"
To say that Houston isn't a great team is madness too. To say that 95% of the league is 'average' is factually impossible.... half the league is above average, and Toronto, Cleveland, Philly, Houston, Utah, etc are all definitely above average, good teams. C'mon man, we're happy fans that have waited a while for this, no need to try to rain on the parade just because you misread this team.
EDT: Wade even said this is the BEST team he has EVER faced in round 1 of the NBA playoffs. But I guess he's crazy too since we're mediocre/average/lucky not to be a 7 seed.
I get people want to be happy but I don't get it I guess. How can you be happy with a franchise that had to purposely lose games in order to become good again? To me it's pretty cheap and kind of a bad move. I guess when fans are ok with it around the league teams feel they can blatantly do it but it leads to terrible overall basketball when the teams that are tanking. To me I'm not happy when teams tank. I hate what the Bulls are doing to do it and I was never a fan of the Sixers doing it. Both franchises are actually more of the problem for them was terrible GM FO moves that led to it. The Sixers with a ton of terrible moves since after the 01 finals. The team waited too long on AI. For Chicago part of it was bad luck. Rose getting his knee injuries as well as their other big time players getting hurt at key times. I remember that first ECF show down with Mia Rose/James and people were saying this could be a great match up for the next few yrs. Saying if Chicago could get a creator and another scorer they'd have a chance against Lebron. Then do to all the bad moves Gar/Pax made some terrible decisions and moves. Traded two draft picks for McDermontt who I thought was nothing more then a poorer Korver. Gave up Gary Harris and Joseph Nurkic for the guy two guys who could've been great now. I think they got lucky on the Butler trade. Got a nice young player with Potential but injuries have stopped him from reaching his full potential in Lavine, took a guy who Minny gave up on who I think needed a better coach to develop his talent and Gar/Pax love to draft guys from Europe in Lauri.
My overall problem with Tanking is it's a cheap bush league tactic and the way the Sixers went about it was kind of brass, arrogant and pretty intentional for lack of better terms. The other problem is if you are a GM who can only be good when blatantly the best player is in front of you how are you gonna stay good when you don't have that option anymore? I think the 3rd problem is I view a lot of Sixers fans as incredible fake fans. I honestly don't view this city as a big pro basketball town anymore. I view it as a big College basketball town thanks to the Big 5. Working retail has given me some great eye witness to seeing people daily. From when I started working retail in 04 I saw some 76ers gear but it was mostly adults who had been around the block once or twice. People our age and younger I saw many wearing Lebron jerseys or jersey of whatever team was popular and won the title that year. I think the problem is many basketball fans pro wise are just fans of a particular player and not the teams anymore. In the last year or so when there was talk about the tanking stopping is when I started seeing more and more Sixers Jersey's. Especially in the last 6 months or so. Even seeing people who claimed to be fans of other teams hoping on the bandwagon. To me it seems theres just a lot of fake fans out there right now. I got friends who claim they are big time Sixers fans right now and I'm like really? Is that why you were a Cav's fan when Lebron was there and became a Mia fan with him and then when Mia lost in the finals you became a GS fan? It's why I love the Eagles and the fanbase because many call out the fake fans I noticed it back in the 01 finals run with the Sixers and now now. Just seems like forced excitement from people. Like I said I view this town more as a college basketball town then a pro basketball town and I think a lot of that now is do with the fact the Sixers have been mediocre for yrs now and the fact like I said many younger fans are fans of the players not the teams. But hey what the Sixers did makes people happy by all means cheer. I just don't want to hear people in this city who supported the Sixers tanking #####ING when other teams do it now because I'll be one of the first people calling them out on their hypocritical bull####.
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