Posted by nixluva:
Philly has a nice young group of players. Tho they likely wouldn't have caught us if we had remained healthy. This year I expect that they'll have serious problems trying to stop our power attack. We should be a few notches better than we were last year with the addition of Zach. We'll see if the Sixers were for real or if they just had a nice little spurt late last year. What some of us here are quick to forget is that we were actually increasing in wins each month as the season went along and that only stopped when the injuries mounted.
You still peddling that BS?
What stopped was the steady flow of sub .500 opponents. As soon as they actually had to play good teams with more frequency, the wins stopped coming. I believe it was something ridiculous like 29 teams in a 35 game stretch in the middle of the season were under .500 at the time the Knicks played them.
You act like the Sixers were able to play a consistent group of players all year and had a nice little spurt at the end of the year. They traded away their franchise player and struggled to put together a competent team for months afterwards. To their credit, even though shorthanded, they played hard and were able to string some wins together. As opposed to the Knicks who just cried about injuries and tanked the rest of their season.
The Sixers have heart to go along with their nice group of young players. That's why they're sleepers. The Knicks are a collection of overpaid underachievers. Zach is just another one of them. The Sixers should win 33 games but could surprise and be around .500. The Knicks should be around .500 but would surprise nobody if they won 33.
If it didn’t work in Phoenix with Nash and Stoutamire... it’s just not a winning formula. It’s an entertaining formula, but not a winning one. - Derek Harper talking about D'Antoni's System
