<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The air-ball debacle occurred five feet from the basket with just 5 minutes, 15 seconds remaining in the 76ers' season. The ball came from the hands of Chris Webber, indicative of a performance that can only be described as impotent and offensive. And if such derogatory words chip away at the aura of optimism surrounding this franchise for the days, weeks and months to come, just deal with it. Everyone else will have to. While Friday's Game 3 was the time to celebrate victory and Sunday's Game 4 was the moment to lavish praise for the Sixers' courage and valiancy, last night was nothing more than a reality check, a wake-up call, for all that still ails the Sixers. It's bad enough that Detroit's backcourt of Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups looked bored while combining for 46 points and 12 assists. It's even worse that their lethargic effort enabled the Pistons to negate a 34-point output by Allen Iverson in last night's pivotal Game 5 of their playoff series. But stomaching Webber's 11-point, 4-for-16 performance as the summation of this Sixers season easily can be called an exercise in cruelty. How will this Sixers team move forward? What will it do from here? How will Iverson ever be able to excel if his 6-foot-9 power forward continues to limp on bad wheels, reducing himself to a legless jumpshooter? The Sixers' season ended last night, and by virtue of their performance in this series, they should be proud, along with the rest of us. Few expected them to get a game in this best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round series. No one expected Iverson to get them more than a game. Yet, this series was nearly tied at two games apiece on Sunday after the Sixers summoned a level of competitive fervor few knew they had. Then Webber showed up at the Palace of Auburn Hills last night. Had it not been for his questionable knees, who knows what would have been tossed from the stands in his direction? Maybe he's just out of shape. Whatever the case, Webber didn't appear interested in performing at all in his final appearance of the season.</div> Source
yeah webber disappointed me this year...i'd thought he play with inspiration and drive in teaming with AI, but he was a disappointment...I'm interested to see what the Sixers are gonna do about him...it should be an interesting offseason...
The Sixers are probably stuck with Webber. Good luck trading him. Kyle Korver was also very disappointing the series. After a great season in 3pt shooting, he shot only 7-243PT (29%). If they get any kinda contribution from him then the Sixers would probably be in a game 6 right now.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Heat4Life:</div><div class="quote_post">The Sixers are probably stuck with Webber. Good luck trading him. Kyle Korver was also very disappointing the series. After a great season in 3pt shooting, he shot only 7-243PT (29%). If they get any kinda contribution from him then the Sixers would probably be in a game 6 right now.</div> We aren't stuck with him because we want him. We dont look at it as a bad thing here in Philly. He will be a major piece in next year's season.
I think he's a great player to have and the Sixers need to make him a distributor on offense if they want to take full advantage of what he offers.. I just thought that "Shooter" was saying that they wanted to trade Chris Webber. I don't think many teams are interested in trading for him because of the contract/knee injuries. He's still a damn good player and can really help the Sixers as well as any team though.
