Brett Brown is the Sixers new head coach.

[Kelly Green]

Yo Moron...

...I have forgotten more about basketball than you have ever known or will ever know!

Oh yeah -- shove your misguided opinions up your ASS!

[3rd & Inches]

...I have forgotten more about basketball than you have ever known or will ever know!

Oh yeah -- shove your misguided opinions up your ASS!

Thats right, thats right KG! Drop another DIPWAD on this young punk!

[Sect 236]

Ah yes, the old cliche that people who don't know anything love to us.

That's right KG, the reason every opinion you have on basketball is so wrong is because you've forgotten so much.

Stick to field hockey you hack.

[TerpEagle]

They don't need a big scorer -- they need a rebounding/shot blocking intimadator. You may have missed the part about 10 or 12 points a game. Read it again!

So you were just being ambiguous with your original post?

...somebody who can do what Wilt and Moses did for those Sixers' teams, it doesn't matter WHO they hire as head coach.

You didn't say specifically what they did for the Sixers. I mean, they're HOF players and on the NBA's 50th Anniversary all-time team.

What they DID is quite extensive and I'm pretty sure they scored more than 10-12 points per games. More like 20-30 points per game. Were we supposed to assume that aspect of their game wasn't included in your analysis?

Regardless, your suggestion as to how to win a championship was have guys that play like HOF guys. That's almost like saying the key to winning the game is scoring more points than the other team.

[DJCon57]

They don't need a big scorer -- they need a rebounding/shot blocking intimadator. You may have missed the part about 10 or 12 points a game. Read it again!

You haven't watched the NBA in awhile have you?

[JuTMSY4]

So you were just being ambiguous with your original post?



You didn't say specifically what they did for the Sixers. I mean, they're HOF players and on the NBA's 50th Anniversary all-time team.

What they DID is quite extensive and I'm pretty sure they scored more than 10-12 points per games. More like 20-30 points per game. Were we supposed to assume that aspect of their game wasn't included in your analysis?

Regardless, your suggestion as to how to win a championship was have guys that play like HOF guys. That's almost like saying the key to winning the game is scoring more points than the other team.

So? Nerlins Noel?

KG's just butthurt we might end up with another Bowie or Oden. Ultimately though, it's not nearly as much risk.

[Kelly Green]

Yo, Shit Fer Brains...

...I like that one, too.

[Kelly Green]

Unless They've Changed The Rules...

...you are still allowed to grab the ball if an opponent's shot misses the basket, and to use your hand to swat shots away from the basket before they get there so the other team doesn't get credit for additional points. If you do that often enough in a game, your opponent's ability to score points is diminished greatly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they still call those actions rebounding and shot blocking -- am I right on that? I mean it's been AGES since I watched an NBA game and maybe you can't do those things any longer.

[slag]

They have changed the rules

Relatively new rules about hand checking and the defensive three-second violation have made the traditional center basically extinct the NBA.

Have you watched the NBA in the last 15 years?

[Two Gap Penetrator]

You're so sarcastic, KG

This is one of those times I agree with you. (I think) Maybe the game has changed some, but it's not because people wanted it to. There just aren't that many good young centers right now and the game has had to adapt. You don't need a dominant one. Just a good 15 points, block some shots, grab some boards, get in the way. (think a healthy Bill Cartwright with the Bulls) Now if you can get a dominant one, you are in great shape. Someone like Kareem Abdul Jabbar would be nice. Score at will and block a ton of shots. Hey look what Dikembe Mutombo did for us. If it wasn't for him, The Sixers would NEVER have a chance against a Tim Duncan or a Shaq team. That's another thing that's lost here. You have to match size with size. So if the road to success goes through teams with size, you have to match it. In the NBA, that is. In college, size doesn't mean a G-damn thing.

[slag]

Well, then you're wrong also.

Shot blockers and low box scorers are dodo birds.

The only thing that is old school center-like now is a position-wide characteristic ... nobody can shoot foul shots.

EDITED TO ADD: Dipwad!

[Kelly Green]

Answer Two Questions

1. Are you still allowed to rebound?

2. Are you still allowed to block shots?

If the answer to both questions is YES, then a player who can do both of them, do them very well and occasionally score a few points, is what the Sixers need. I don't care if the "new" rules dictate he has to stand in the corner of the court to do them -- as long as he does them well enough to limit the opponents' ability to score, that is all I ask.

NOW do you understand??!!

[slag]

Oh, you want a response to your revised position that blocked shots and rebounds are nice?

Ok ... DUH

[Kelly Green]

My Position Has Never Changed

The use of Wilt and Moses was because they were dominant rebounders and shot blockers. Both also were dominating scorers but I specifically said the guy the Sixers need should score 10 to 12 points a game -- in other words the other four players can rack up the big numbers.

Please tell me you're not so dense that you're not capable of seeing the difference.

[slag]

Yeah ... I'm dense.

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/10/23/a...lot/index.html