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4 days off...what happens?

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4 days off...what happens? 

Post#1 » by ComboGuardCity » Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:38 pm

Trades?
Practice?
Fights?

This is the longest amount of off time the team has had in a while. What your thoughts on what happens during this break?
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#2 » by Blkbrd671 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:15 am

ComboGuardCity wrote:Trades?
Practice?
Fights?

This is the longest amount of off time the team has had in a while. What your thoughts on what happens during this break?


venture to guess we work hard on our defensive principles and our rotations begin to solidify themselves. i personally hope there is at least one fight, we need someone to show some fire.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#3 » by Kilo » Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:17 am

Lay an egg in the first game back and blame the down time for rust.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#4 » by ImHeisenberg » Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:34 am

Nothing happens. Media will hype up all the practice they had, and they'll lose their next game and blame it on rust.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#5 » by Canadafan » Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:40 am

Change starting lineup. SJ and KCP become our wing pitbulls and Morris becomes our stretch 4. Tobias remains 6th man
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#6 » by chrbal » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:13 am

ComboGuardCity wrote:Trades?
Practice?
Fights?

This is the longest amount of off time the team has had in a while. What your thoughts on what happens during this break?


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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#7 » by 7r5ur » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:21 am

Canadafan wrote:Change starting lineup. SJ and KCP become our wing pitbulls and Morris becomes our stretch 4. Tobias remains 6th man

I want Stan to start SJ only to pull him 2 minutes into the game because he had a -1 plus/minus rating.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#8 » by flow » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:33 am

That's basically a mini-camp. Ok coach, let's see what you've got. Surprise me.

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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#9 » by russkopp » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:36 am

Well, Chicago is back at .500 and the Wiz are hitting their stride as they just beat the Celtics. The pack pulls away.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#10 » by flow » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:49 am

russkopp wrote:Well, Chicago is back at .500 and the Wiz are hitting their stride as they just beat the Celtics. The pack pulls away.


And don't look now, but the Sixers are making the playoffs. Calling my shot.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#11 » by bballnmike » Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:08 am

More importantly, what happens to this board? By day 2 we start to question our sanity. By day 4 we've started eating the weakest posters
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#12 » by DBC10 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:47 am

Honestly if the Sixers make the playoffs, their "Trust the Process" worked. It's a notch on the belt for tanking properly.

But yeah we're going to be rusty and the blame game will start again.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#13 » by bballnmike » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:04 am

Seriously though, this is the first time all season our entire roster has been healthy. Four days of practice could go a long way.
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Post#14 » by Pharaoh » Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:20 am

DBC10 wrote:Honestly if the Sixers make the playoffs, their "Trust the Process" worked. It's a notch on the belt for tanking properly.

But yeah we're going to be rusty and the blame game will start again.

The Process already worked!

Got a dominant big man who looks capable of being the MVP once he's off a minutes limit.

Got Simmons for the next 4 years

Got Saric too

Even if they get minimal assets by trading Okafor and Noel they've got a frontcourt that is likely going to at least match up well with everyone else for the next 3 years.

Throw in multiple Lotto picks coming their way...

Hinkie killed it! Which is why he got moved out lol

Can't have 5-10 teams tanking for 4 years - ruins parity lol

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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#15 » by Moses ShamMoses » Wed Jan 25, 2017 1:16 pm

Sink or swim time for the Pistons. They are close enough to the 8 seed that a run would put them back in the mix but a losing streak probably kills their chances. I guess we'll see what happens.
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Post#16 » by GBanga3 » Wed Jan 25, 2017 1:57 pm

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russkopp wrote:Well, Chicago is back at .500 and the Wiz are hitting their stride as they just beat the Celtics. The pack pulls away.


And don't look now, but the Sixers are making the playoffs. Calling my shot.



Sixers will come close to taking out the East soon, if not next season then for sure the one after.

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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#17 » by El Chivo » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:19 pm

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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#18 » by hoophabit » Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:21 pm

Based upon the season to date, I'm going to say very little happens. They'll have some good games, but mostly play like a bunch of selfish strangers with little real interest in being a good team. They'll refuse to share the ball with any consistency on offense, and make halfhearted effort on defense. After bad games they'll look glum and talk about how 'we gotta do a better job of (insert some fundamental precept of basketball).' SVG will appear after these games looking vexed and confused and give a terse post game, and on we go. Don't misunderstand, I'm hoping to be proven wrong.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#19 » by Han Solo » Wed Jan 25, 2017 4:34 pm

We beat 2 good teams in a row and completely **** the bed against the Kings. That's been this whole season so far. I'd like to see Baynes at least moved soon.
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Re: 4 days off...what happens? 

Post#20 » by whitehops » Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:00 pm

if we beat the kings i feel more people (myself included) would be optimistic, saying we've won four in a row, we have 4 days to practice, we're finally healthy and we'll make our push.

instead we had a letdown loss to the kings and now it's four days of uncertainty.



people call us a treadmill team, but why does it feel more like a roller coaster :(

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