<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Press Release - Philadelphia 76ers Head Coach Maurice Cheeks announced today that Moses Malone has been added as an assistant coach. A former Sixers player, NBA Hall of Famer and a three-time league MVP, Malone will primarily work with the team?s big men, after spending time as a team consultant last season.Selected to the NBA?s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1997, Malone averaged 20.6 points and 12.2 rebounds in his NBA career and 22.1 points and 13.8 rebounds per game in the postseason. A 12-time NBA All-Star, six-time All-NBA selection and a 2001 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, he still owns the league record for most career offensive rebounds (6,731).Earlier in the day, they also added Jim Lynam.</div>http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/423...coaching_staff/
Man this is great. He's been mentoring the players for a while now. And now he'll be here full time to help out our high potential young bigmen.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheAnalyst @ Sep 28 2006, 05:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Man this is great. He's been mentoring the players for a while now. And now he'll be here full time to help out our high potential young bigmen.</div> Yeah, and what a great effect he's had...Hiring HOF bigmen seems to be the popular thing to do (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Patrick Ewing and now Malone) but none of these hires have never made a noticeable difference. Bottom line, players are going to do what they want to do for the most part. Moses Malone won't make Dalembert better. What high potential bigmen? Shavlick Randolph, Steven Hunter and Dalembert? Yeah...okay...
Although I see why we signed him, he's not going to have a huge impact on Dalembert... maybe a minimal one at best. Atleast now Dalembert has somebody who will consistently be on his ass...