Isn't It About Time For Some Herb Hill

[SendEm]

A torn meniscus is an injury that players usually get that have alot of wear and tear on there bodies. Hill is 6'10 and 23 years old, not a good sign for his career to have that sort of injury so early with no rigorous 82 game NBA season under his belt. But for the facts on Hill's game he is a deep bench player because his lack of rebounding dictates that. He has an abnormally good touch around the basket for someone who doesn't rebound the basketball so people will always be interested in his game once he hits the floor. Hopefully he can be the next Chris Gatling type player. But according to his college career stats and what I seen from him over the summer he has no nose for rebounds. Right now Herb looks like the low post scoring version of Evans rebounding. Just one dimensional. Hopefully it doesn't remain that way.

[freshie2]

Let him heal...they don't have a lot of money wrapped up in him, give him a few more weeks, and hopefully he's ready to go...maybe he contributes, maybe he doesn't, but I think he'll get some PT once he's healthy.

[Sixerscan]

And as I said before TGP, if Smith is logging minutes at PF and Hill looked better than Smith in preseason, then why on earth would you make the statement that you "wouldn't be shocked if he dresses for less than 10 games this season"? That's antilogic.

Hill barely even played in preseason, while Smith had a strong showing, don't know where you're getting that. Maybe in Summer league, but then again Lou Amundson was better than all of them in Summer League. It's a completely different game that's next to meaningless.

Hill will play eventually, sooner if they can dump Evans.

[The Guilty Party]

Ahhh.... there you go STChaser. If, and hopefully WHEN, the Sixers trade Evans... your boy should get some run. Again, I'm not sure why you're expecting something from this guy other than just another body on the floor.

[Sandalf42]

It'd be nice to get him playing time, but honestly, I don't see him being a factor in the long run (hopefully I'm wrong )

[The Sixer Fixer]

I'm just thinking back to the draft thread from last year...

Who was it that said Hill was going to be a 20-10 all-star level player in the league? If I'm not mistaken, he was compared to Boozer. I mean, I admit I was hoping the Sixers took a shot on Hill (I though he was very underrated coming out of college), but I would never envision him being that good. I could see a Joe Smith type player eventually (the current version).

Anyhow, anyone remember who that poster was...was it Dedicated? I might have to look that one up, lol

[Dedicated_76ers_fan]

I never compared Hill to Boozer. Put down the pipe.

I compared Thaddeus Young to Glenn Robinson. That's as high as I went with these 4 rooks.