Game #59: Philadelphia 76ers (31-27) vs New Jersey Nets (21-38)

[pd7631]

If Evan Turner makes a play like Iggy just had, he gets berated by Doug and doesn't see the court the rest of the game. That might go down as the worst turnover of the year right there.

[pd7631]

Wow, good thing we made those lineup changes....clearly that was the problem with the team.

[bholly]

Drop off? What the--?

Evan HASN'T started in, oh I dunno, FORTY games? So where's the "drop off"? We played EVERYONE during that time!

We're at about .600 with him on the pines; and 7-11 with him as a starter. (What's that? 38%?)

Huge lol back atcha.

The two games we won - the two you're crediting ET's benching for - were against New Jersey (.356) and Toronto (.339). Our strength of schedule before that was well over .500. That's a drop off in competition.

And, as I've said multiple times, we weren't playing that amazing before he got promoted either. The reason he got promoted was because we were sucking it up - we were on a 2-7 run and 8-10 in the 18 before he started.

The pre-ET stretch wasn't just one big consistent stretch of 22-16 basketball, which you seem to have forgotten. There was the creampuff schedule start to the season, where we went 16-6, and then it turned around in a big way, well before ET started, when the schedule got tougher and we went 6-10.

The only way you seriously think ET is the main ingredient in the different runs we've had is if you're incapable of considering any other variable.

[bholly]

Slightly related note. Orlando is down by 20 at the half, if they lose and we win (which is no guarantee), that would put them two games ahead of us for the 6 see going into our game Monday.

And Dwight is set to miss the next few, apparently including our Monday game.

[Justsomeguy76]

Wow, good thing we made those lineup changes....clearly that was the problem with the team.

Agreed, because our offense is now 10x better. We need a make-over big time in the off-season.

[pd7631]

One positive I think we can all take from this season, is that Thad has really developed a dependable mid-range jumper. It's good to see that he was able to make that improvement.

[thevcballer]

eh a wins a win if we win im chill

[NewEraFt.ET12]

Cmon Sixers we need this one esp. with Orlando going down tonight

[Justsomeguy76]

Turner at the 4 and Thad at the 5....Wow

Shockingly we don't have any interior defense.

Our PA announcer has to be the most boring in the league.

[NewEraFt.ET12]

We look energized. Just need to finish at the rim better

[pd7631]

I like watching Jrue and Evan out there together without Iggy, hopefully this is what we see next year. I also like Thad at the 3 with those guys.

[NewEraFt.ET12]

Celtics down 11 in the 4th. Looking more and more like we could see the Pacers but we NEED this win cmon

[Justsomeguy76]

The Nets want this more than we do haha.

[pd7631]

Keep attacking, we lose this kind of game every time because we take long jumpers.

[pd7631]

Evan Turner comin up large