It’s over at 35-47 (.427)

Yeah I know it’s too late for writing a post about the end of the eason, when it came like 8 days ago. But sometimes I also have to work, and unfortunately that moment came at the wrong time… so here we are with a recap of this crazy 2006-2007  (the first italian Sixers blog started on November 1st, day of the opener, remember?)….

First it would be fair to admit that that my 43 wins prediction was way off.  I could say that the prediction was made for the team with Iverson and Webber, but I would sound even dumber than I am since our final record after the Iverson trade is 30-29, and after Webber’s buyout is even better, 26-21. Yeah, we were 5-18 when we traded our franchise player (the embarassing 121-94 loss @ Bulls on December 7th was his last game as a Sixer) and 9-26 before getting rid of the Detroit native. Uh !

Unfortunately Sixers4guidos was right few weeks ago only when it said that with that streak of (stupid) wins at the end of the season we would have surpassed many slumping teams, putting us in a higher (=weaker) position for the lottery but with no real playoffs chances. That’s exactly what happened: no playoffs, no top lottery pick either (I’ve read somewhere that we have like 7/1000 chances to get the #1 pick…).

So all those wins had basically one main consequence: keeping Mo Cheeks (in the picture smiling, after he knew he would return, I guess…) on the bench also for next season. That’s why I think that they were not only useless but even detrimental.

Not surprisingly, the “best” Sixers in the last games of the season was Willie Green, being even more detrimental playing well than what he does on a daily basis – when he plays bad, I mean. “Thanks” to stellar (?) games by Willie is-it-true-that-I-have-four-teamates? Green we won @ Detroit @ Toronto, just to name the last ones. Finishing at 31-32 W (= behind Indiana, Charlotte, New York, Sacramento…) would have meant more ping pong balls in the lottery. So I just gave you one more reason to hat.. – ops !! – DISLIKE him.

So we didn’t tank. I know it’s bad to tank and watching Memphis and Boston did it so openly was really irking, but we could have done it in a better way. That’s why I still have mixed feeling about the end of the season, but the main one is disappointment. 

I would have liked to have a better shot at a top 3 pick, honestly. Let’s hope we won’t regret it and that I miss another prediction. I would be happy to be wrong this time.