<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Philadelphia 76ers will tip off the 2006-07 campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 1, at the Wachovia Center against the Atlanta Hawks (7 pm). The Sixers 82-game, regular season schedule features 15 nationally televised games, including eight on ESPN and seven on NBA-TV. The Sixers nationally televised games on ESPN include road match-ups at Phoenix (Nov. 17), at Chicago (Dec. 6), at Dallas (Dec. 15), at Boston (Dec. 22) and home games versus Cleveland (Jan. 26), New Jersey (March 4) and Houston (March 18). The 2006-07 schedule includes 22 sets of back-to-back games, including five sets in the month of December. The 76ers will travel out West twice for at least three games. The longest road-trip of the year takes place during December?s holiday season when the team heads West for a seven-game, 11-day road trip as Disney On Ice presents Princess Wishes at the Wachovia Center from Tuesday, Dec. 26 through Sunday, Jan. 7. Among other highly anticipated match-ups throughout the regular season: The Sixers host defending 2006 NBA Champion Miami Heat twice at the Wachovia Center (Nov. 5 and Jan. 19). The Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James visit Philadelphia twice, including a nationally televised game on Friday, Jan. 26 (ESPN) and the 2006-07 regular season home finale on Tuesday, April 17. The 76ers host a 2 p.m. matinee against the Toronto Raptors in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Jan. 15). Philadelphia will welcome Western Conference powerhouses San Antonio (Jan. 21), Dallas (Feb. 11), Phoenix (Feb. 28), and L.A. Lakers (March 9). Of the team?s first 33 games in 2006-07, 22 will be played on the road. The Sixers will enjoy a seven-game home stand from Feb. 2-21, part of a 15-game stretch that includes 13 games at the Wachovia Center. Each season the Sixers play an Eastern Conference opponent from outside the Atlantic Division only three-times. In 2006-07, the Sixers will face the Central Division Chicago Bulls (2 home/1 road) and the Southeast Division Washington Wizards (2 home/1 road). </div> View Schedule
Logical, we weren't bad, we were flat our embrassing and humilating. We weren't the passion and pride Philadelphia Sports represent, you can blame most of that on MO.
I’m strangely optimistic for this upcoming season. I got a feeling that the 76ers are going to be a lot better than people think.
As long as Maurice Cheeks is coach, things will remain the same. I have been preaching his firing for over a yr and a half now
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">As long as Maurice Cheeks is coach, things will remain the same. I have been preaching his firing for over a yr and a half now</div> WTF? That must mean you wanted him fired before you actually gave him a chance. EDIT- A year and a half ago would mean before he even took the position... PREACH IT!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Super_Sixer_Fan:</div><div class="quote_post">As long as Maurice Cheeks is coach, things will remain the same. I have been preaching his firing for over a yr and a half now</div> Jim OBrien, Randy Ayers, Ford, and now Cheeks at what point are you finally going to come to the realization it is the players not the coach that are the reason this team has been a dissappointment?
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Jim OBrien, Randy Ayers, Ford, and now Cheeks at what point are you finally going to come to the realization it is the players not the coach that are the reason this team has been a dissappointment?</div> Yeah but Ayers flat out sucked...
If the 76ers fire another coach then they will official be through, they are almost at "through" level now. They have got to make a commitment to a coach, or this team will be in the guttre for a while.
Why not commit to the Playoff veterean Head coach in O'Brien over the nutcase in Maurice Cheeks? If Dalembert/Green don't like working hard, then they could've been Sign and traded, they had value back then, now they don't.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Super_Sixer_Fan:</div><div class="quote_post">Why not commit to the Playoff veterean Head coach in O'Brien over the nutcase in Maurice Cheeks? If Dalembert/Green don't like working hard, then they could've been Sign and traded, they had value back then, now they don't.</div> You got it completely backwards the nut case was O?Brien his unexplainable lineup changes, and cold coaching style was rubbing everyone the wrong way. I?m going to say this once and only once no one on the 76ers liked O?Brien (according to reports). Cheeks does a good job as a coach I personally think he is underrated, but with the talent he is given you can?t blame the guy for the team failing to make the playoffs. Maurice Cheeks is a good coach.
I really can't see how Maurice Cheeks is a good coach,when there isn't even any ball movement for a STANDARD period of TIME, much less 48 MINUTES. If AI and C-Dub continue to take 18 foot jumpers and make the 76ers offense look like, well even kids can do better then that.
