<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The brutal truth is it has not been a promising start for the likable Cheeks: 1) It has been widely reported that he ask Iverson to shoot less and become more of of a facillitator. Instead Iverson shoots about two more attempts per game (although he has raised his FG% from around 43% to 46.2%), and even though he averages over seven assists a game - much of the time the ball is in Iverson's hands on offensive possessions. 2) He was expected to install an offense that went through Chris Webber more than last year. This has been a significant dissapointment, as for except for a few games, this has not happened. Webber has been productive in other ways with a 19 PPG and 11 RBG average but only averages 3.4 APG. He is still too good with the ball in his hands at finding the open man to have that last stat and he tends to get the ball near the end of the shot clock too often. 3) Cheeks in my view, has done some strange things with the starting rotation, especially down the home stretch of the season. Many would agree that Kyle Korver should come off the bench; but is it an upgrade to do so in favor of Kevin Ollie? The use of Ollie came after an experiment with John Salmon at the shooting guard did not bring the expected results. Meanwhile, promising young center Samuel Dalembert pulled a muscle and is now benched in favor of one Steven Hunter (yes the same poor rebounding center who was almost traded to the Hornets, before he failed his physical for unexplained reasons). Although Hunter, has had some fairly nice individual games, he simply does not possess the talent of Dalembert. Moreover, even in a greatly reduced role, Dalembert still averages about nine rebounds a game and 2nd in the NBA in blocks at 2.92 per game. Without him in the line-up the Sixers are just not intimidating anyone inside these days. 4) The Sixers have lost numerous games late with poor execution and questionable substitutions. 5) Despite Cheeks? preaching of defense all year the Sixers performance in this area may well be most dissapointing part of his realm in Philadelphia. The Sixers give up 101.7 PPG and a 46.2 FG percentage. That simply won?t get it done. Cheeks, by all indications, will get certainly at least another year to prove his mettle as a Sixers coach. However, no one can honestly say at this point he has truly been an improvement over O?Brien. </div> link: http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_16580.shtml i agree it has been a dissapointing start, but firing JOB at the time was a must. the players all hated him, and if we didnt let him go, we wouldnt have been able to sign green and sammy, which were our biggest priorities in the off season. i also hope to god that BK doesnt fire him and signs another new coach. this team has gone through enough coaching changes and just needs to stick to one gameplan
what if the sixers at some point in the game put in both dalembert and hunter for a little bit? that might beef up the inside defense a little...
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">i agree it has been a dissapointing start, but firing JOB at the time was a must. the players all hated him, and if we didnt let him go, we wouldnt have been able to sign green and sammy, which were our biggest priorities in the off season. i also hope to god that BK doesnt fire him and signs another new coach. this team has gone through enough coaching changes and just needs to stick to one gameplan</div> Do players like Larry Brown. I was like one of the only JOB supporters and I have to say I really wished he wasn't fired. The team played so much better under him. He had a clear plan for this team, the team came out with more energy and were overall better prepared. The whole thing with WEbber, well it was a work in progress. I think if he was never fired and we had a second go around with him, we would be better off.
Who cares, you know we're gonna lose in the first round even if we make the playoffs. I'd rather go to the lottery.
