76ers @ Cavaliers 3/30/08

[dond]

just a bad all around game from Mo Cheeks
so many mistakes, so many bad lineups
no time outs left at the end

LOL ....

[LongLiveHinkie]

Well guys..it looks like we've got the Pistons in the first round. I think we're starting to fall back to earth. It was bound to happen sooner or later

1. Better Detroit than Orlando.

2. We'll still get the #5 seed, so don't worry. It seems like you never really bought in with this team in the first place, but they are still a very good team. We'll bounce back. I think we could win out honestly.

[is1531]

Young and Iggy are the goats of this game. Iggy with 1:20 left in the game goes 1 on 3 with a 3 point lead. A simple pass off the drive would have given the 76ers a shot at a tray. Young missed three layups tonight and Lou Williams made 3 bad decisions.I think the Cavs deserved the game. Willie Green did not play the last 17 minutes of the game after a lousy efffort. You know Mo will let him start the next game. This is a horrible loss.

I think the 76ers lost their last chance at the 4 position tonight. Now we must hope the Lakers beat Washington. If the 76ers land the 6th, 7th or 8th position, I do not see them beating Boston, Detroit or Orlando. I just think the 76ers folded under pressure tonight.

[ITK9]

^we won't get the 5th seed

[LongLiveHinkie]

^we won't get the 5th seed

Wanna bet on that? Take a look at Washington's schedule and then get back to me. They play the Lakers, Detroit twice, Boston, and the Cavs.

[cavsfan_osiris]

Great game guys ya'll have a really nice squad that's going to do some damage in the post-season.

With respect to this game there were 3 things that stood out to me.

1.) Philly didn't stick to their plan of taking the ball out of LeBron's hands leaving Iggy 1on1 against him. That was a mistake. Trap him and make someone else win the game for them.

2.) I'm a fan of Thadd, but he laid an egg tonight. He played really soft and because of that missed at least 4 easy baskets.

3.) Iggy is a beast, but he doesn't have the best of handles and doesn't always make great decisions. Dre and Lou are equally as good options as go to players in the clutch. LeBron has improved his defense. The 76ers should have gone away from LeBron and got better matchups. They have other options than Iggy.

gg again, I hope Philly rebounds and gets back to playing to their potential because they haven't the last couple games

[dond]

Just a loss. No big deal. We have been getting used to winning all of these types of games. This changes nothing. They played hard and things didn't go like we would like. I still like this team and I like our chances of getting through the first round in the playoffs. I am pretty sure Willie Green is going to get over this slump by playoff time and that will certainly help a lot.

[ITK9]

we won't get the 5th seed.accept the idea.we blew our chance tonight.i would be very pleased if we go 4-4 in the last 8 games.5-3 would be brilliant but still not enough for 5th seed.

[ryst]

Two thoughts:

1) Thad can't blow that many buckets within 4 feet of the rim

2) Iguodala wanted to be "the man" in this game and came up extremely small over the final 3 minutes. I know this is "SendEm-ish" but \Iguodala most definitely isn't a number 1 and shouldn't have been given as many chances as he was to score at the end.

i think Igoudala did a very good job in the final minutes
he drove 4 times to the basket
the first time he scored
the second he got fouled hard on the play and the refs didnt call it
the third time he gave Thad a great pass for an easy layup and Thad missed it
what else do you want him to do?

its true, the ball bounced out of his hands but the sixers still kept it and Lou missed a wide open three
then he had to take a tough shot with 2 seconds on the clock while 2 players defended him

i think Igoudala did a very good job in the final minutes.
he needed some one else to come and help him, but no one did

i belive Mo lost this game when he played Green more minutes then he should have been , its like playing 4 ver. 6

[LongLiveHinkie]

we won't get the 5th seed.accept the idea.we blew our chance tonight.i would be very pleased if we go 4-4 in the last 8 games.5-3 would be brilliant but still not enough for 5th seed.

Wow great argument there backed up with a lot of good insight.

[ankle420breaker]

pitiful game.... I swear I want to break something every time we give Evans the ball down low..... Its a turnover waiting to happen... him and Willie combined for quite a few wasted possessions in the 3rd quarter...

By the way, is there a bigger tool on this planet than Bob Salmi? His attempts at humor are the only thing uglier than Reggie's post game.

[ITK9]

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Wow great argument there backed up with a lot of good insight.

and what were your argumets smart guy?

[dond]

i belive Mo lost this game when he played Green more minutes then he should have been , its like playing 4 ver. 6

LOL ...

[LongLiveHinkie]

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and what were your argumets smart guy?

Washington's schedule is about 10 times harder than ours and on top of that we play them and get a shot to get a full game on them by beating them.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable argument to me. Not to mention Toronto's schedule is harder than ours too and they lost tonight.

[tk76]

I just hope this doesn't make them revert back to their old ways

Mo has already reverted back to starting Green and Evans every games. Makes us like that 18-30 team again... I guess he forgot what got us back into the race.

Also, we lead the league in getting guys hit in the face. Who was it who hit Iguodala- I'm thinking it was Sendem...

[Fire BK]

pitiful game.... I swear I want to break something every time we give Evans the ball down low..... Its a turnover waiting to happen... him and Willie combined for quite a few wasted possessions in the 3rd quarter...

Mo will absolutely blow games in the post-season due to his irrational insistence on starting these two scrubs together at every half. It's getting to be a joke at this point.

Again, Mo has done a wonderful job of rallying troops and motivating guys this year. But his talent evaluation as fleshed out in his rigid rotation is getting costly. The great coaches in this league are bold enough to make adjustments. Now is the time to bring WG off the bench, but I'm afraid Mo will never see this.

[Dedicated_76ers_fan]

Maurice Cheeks got outcoached

Accept that

Also accept that he's not a good NBA coach for ANY NBA team

3 timeouts, to a pitiful 1

We had no fouls to give, NONE.

Every NBA coach keeps that last foul for tight game situations.

We put the ball in Iggy's hands? Sendem will enjoy this day and this part of my post because we agree: He's not a number one, never will be. Give it to the kid who can break down the defense and hit a shot and/or go to the line: Lou Williams.

In all: Fire this idiot, he naturally played the talent on the team, therefore the team won. It's not Mo, never has been and **GASP** NEVER WILL BE. The players won't mind, there's not a system in Philadelphia, hell there's not even a rotation.(Because if there was, by all logic Willie and Evans come off the bench.)

Mo is an embarassment and a disgrace, even his playoff teams sucked. WHY: To win in the NBA playoffs, it's not about the talent, it's about **GASP** the coach. Let's try and talk Rick Carlisle out of ESPN. At least we'll get a good offensive-headed coach.

[is1531]

It's amazing in the 4th quarter when Evans pulled down the 76ers offensive rebound, he did not dunk that ball. Instead he tried a layup and blew it. This game was a total choke. Evans took the ist 2 shots of the game, both misses. Mo, tell the man not to shoot the ball.

[freshie2]

Two thoughts:

1) Thad can't blow that many buckets within 4 feet of the rim

2) Iguodala wanted to be "the man" in this game and came up extremely small over the final 3 minutes. I know this is "SendEm-ish" but \Iguodala most definitely isn't a number 1 and shouldn't have been given as many chances as he was to score at the end.

Just in case you missed this...LBJ is a pretty good defender. Iguodala hit a three and a tough driving layup late, then he had a tough miss and got stripped. Not sure if you caught this game, but Lebron completely shut down Kobe a few weeks ago at the end of the game...never saw one guy shut down Kobe, but he did it. It's not shocking that Lebron made things tough on him late, nor was it shocking that Lebron made the game winner when Iguodala had great defense on him...Lebron is the best player in the world.

When we get into Iguodala requesting to be 'overpaid', after Kobe and Lebron, everyone who is in the 10 million/year range is stealing money. When SendEm ironically refuted his own side by posting the top 50 salaries, you see that Iguodala falls right in the middle of that list. There are guys that are paid under 11.5 (for reference) who probably are better than guys who are over 11.5. Iguodala was not out of place anywhere on the list.

[tk76]

Mo made a great adjustment when he moved Thad into the starting lineup at PF. I guess he just somehow forgot.

If I break my TV over a WG bad shot will the Sixers by me a new one?

I can forgive Evans for dumb mistakes and bad shooting on offense- because that's not what he is there for. Willie Green I can be less forgiving of his bad decisions. If you are still hurting then don't shoot... in fact, just don't play... please. I'l by him a new TV if he sits down and watches the game instead of ruining my ability to enjoy it.