The only thing is that not only the defenses don’t care about Reggie getting the ball, I think they HOPE that he gets it, because they know he will fumble it, get blocked, or throw a brick. And of course there is always the “final solution” (LOL), foul him and clean the glasses that he will eventually broke shooting from the line.

In any good team Evans would be a 8th man to play 15-18 min off the bench (= Denver last year), I think everybody in the Sixers organization knows that and Stefanski said that getting a scoring PF will be our priority this summer (well, not that it took Stefanski to realize that, but anyway…)

Realistically, I guess the only solution NOW would be putting Jason Smith in at PF, if I think about it I say “do it now” but when I think it deeper I am not sure it will help HIM.

Of course Jason Smith is far more talented than Reggie and has the potential to be 10 times the player Evans ever was, but maybe for his development we have to be a little bit more patient, getting the starting spot would perhaps put too much pressure on him and I won’t like to impact his confidence, he’s slowly but progressively improving. Would you do that?

Young needs to start, you’re dead on there. I think the Reggie thing comes down to this. When he’s on the floor, defenses know they don’t have to worry about him, at all. They try to lock down everyone else, and honestly they could care less where he catches the ball. When you see the ball going to him in the post, most likely it’s because either the other team is playing really good D on the perimeter and locking those guys up, or 2 the offense has gotten lazy and taken the path of least resistance: Reggie on the block.

It’s sad, and I think the real solution is to cut Reggie’s minutes down and get him out of the starting lineup. I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon, though.

hey, we missed Green on both ends of the floor, sad to say but true, especially after experiencing what the alternative is… btw, cast your vote on my Carney poll, LOL

as for the “feeding the dog” thing, u r right on point again, I understand we have to give the lil kid a candy sometimes but my point is we are giving him too many, how about one per half and not more ???

I think there is a reason you give the ball the Reggie Evans the ball in the post. Every now and then you have to throw the dog a bone for him to stay focused and get you those rebounds. You know there is a good chance that he won’t make it but if it means giving up an offensive opportunity to get 150% effort out of him and 10 rebounds in the next 15 minutes so be it.