Sixers fan trying to make sense of things for you.

Now that the pieces have been announced days ago, obviously the Sixers weren’t looking to get another wing player. They didn’t want to take any more salary because of the luxury tax and they obviously didn’t have a spot to add a wing player.

Speights was seen as a lost cause. Poor work ethic and beyond poor BBIQ. He rebounds at a nice rate and has range on his jumper. He holds his own in man defense when he’s not taking the worst flops I’ve ever seen (and by that I mean that they fool nobody, including the refs). He seems completely lost when trying to play as a team though. He makes poor rotations on defense and bad decisions on offense.

As for what seems to be a playing time issue, there isn’t much of one. Thad may look like a SF but he really plays almost all of his minutes at PF. Which is just as good because he doesn’t have a jump shot or the lateral quickness to guard opposing 3s.

The rest of the minute distribution goes something like this:

SF: Iguodala 68%, Turner 29%, other 3%
SG: Meeks 43%, Turner 25%, Lou Will 31%, other 1%
PG: Jrue 74%, Lou Will 23%, other 3%

Numbers from 82games.com. While it looks like there’s a logjam there’s plenty of minutes for all of the players. Though some believe that Turner should be getting more of Meeks’ minutes.

I just looked up a picture of him, and…yeah, you’re right. He’s a big boy.

I need to re-evaluate my sources cause I see nothing anywhere.

I’m also with you on Xavier. He was the 13th pick. He should have definitely been on a little bit longer leash. Now I know just because you were a high pick, that doesn’t mean you can’t be dealt fast (We see you Hasheem Thabeet). But Xavier was just hurt and never proved completely incompetent and unable to play basketball on any level like Hasheem did.

I would definitely do Wes Johnson. I’m pretty biased cause I love Syracuse, but I like him.