The Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers kicked off the exhibition season (yesterday/last night/Euro time) in grand fashion, losing to the El Guappo Matadors in the NBA Europe Live mini-tourney thing, 109-104.
Before we get into our thoughts, allow us to say that there’s no reason to jump the gun and say that the Seventy-Sixers are in big trouble this year, or that the Seventy-Sixers are in for a season of turmoil and despair.
Fact is, the Seventy-Sixers have only had four practices, and played against a team that’s had more than four. The Matadors have had at least seven.
Anyway, Seventy-Sixers star Allen Iverson goes into Seventy-Sixers coach Maurice Cheeks’s take on the situation.
“It’s just like Mo was telling us before the game,” said Allen Iverson, who received the loudest cheer of any player on either team in pregame introductions from the spectators, hundreds of whom wore Iverson’s No. 3 jersey. “It’s like a lose-lose situation.”
That’s some great motivational tactics to toss at your team there, Mo. “No matter what happens, people are going to yell at you.”
Do you get the sense this might be the most hopeless season in Seventy-Sixers history?
We’ve searched far and wide, and we’ve yet to find a preseason picture of Allen Iverson smiling, or Chris Webber’s knees without ice. We did snag a pic of Seventy-Sixers GM Billy King doing something, but we’re 105% sure it was Photoshopped.
That’s not to say they won’t win some games this year – 35-38 looks about right, which means they can get that coveted #9 pick in the draft next year, allowing them to get 34-37 wins in 07-08, which’ll get the Seventy-Sixers the 8th pick in the next draft.
You see the pattern forming? Scientists call it a “down” chart.
Seventy-Sixers.
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