I think that whatever optimism I may have had concerning the Sixers'
season has already been dashed after reading this: [from P. Inquirer]

"There's more emphasis, and that's something we need," guard Willie
Green added. "Mo and the coaching staff are doing a great job of
saying, 'This is how we're going to play this year.' We're going to
play defense and we're going to rebound and we're going to play
together, and if somebody doesn't want to do that, they're not going to
get a chance to play."

The philosophy, which Cheeks emphasized "is not a new defense," was the
focus of summer meetings among Cheeks, his coaching staff and the front
office headed by president and general manager Billy King.
***

Are King and Cheeks trying to be the Bush/Rumsfeld tandem of the NBA?
So much ideology and empty rhetoric, such little analysis or strategy.
It appears that not only are King and Cheeks pushing the same
platitudes as last year (play harder bums! teamwork!) but they're now
elevating it to the level of a game-plan. It's nice that the
braintrust of said summer meetings among the coaching staff and
management apparently involved a lot of nose-picking and
head-scratching until someone came up with...."Ummm. Let's play
better!" Oh, and since they decided not to change anything, did anyone
notice all those 4th quarter collapses, perhaps a result of aging
players already playing hard but wearing out from too many minutes?
Maybe they should have considered using those exceptions to add players
who could give more of a lift off the bench than...Alan Henderson.

"Ian Kognitow" <covanus@gmail.com> wrote in
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Why don't you take your poitical crap and shove it up your ass.

bdog wrote:


While I think there are better ways to use it, at least you seem to
define a clear strategy and method of implementation. I find you more
creditable than the management of both the Sixers and the United States
government. Cheers.


-IK

"Ian Kognitow" <covanus@gmail.com> wrote in
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I always try to be conscious of trans-continental relations.

bdog wrote:


Indeed.

Ahhh, let's not over-react to one exhibition game halfway around the world.
Especially a game that would have been won merely be shooting fouls at the
baseline percentage. Let's not assess team talent on how smart or stupid
are the Sixer interview comments!

----- Kurt Straub

"Ian Kognitow" <covanus@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:53:28 -0400, "Kurt Straub"
<jkurtstraub@comcast.net> wrote:

I agree. We should evaluate the team on if they can win games. From
that point of view I dont know why they'd be any better then last
year, unless their young players improve to another level, which is
not an unreasonable expectation.


Swyck

Kurt Straub wrote:

Well, my original post was before the exhibition, so I'm not reading
too much into that, particularly with no video and without even being
able to find a boxscore. Anyway, while I'm not measuring 'talent' per
se by my previous comments, I do think that it is useful to criticize
such comments. First of all, with no significant player movement
(excepting the possibility of Carney), all one can really look for is
evidence that the team is changing strategy. Unfortunately, the people
*most* responsible for implementing such change have been saying
directly that they plan to do nothing of the sort.

-IK