Mary Mac: How soon we dismiss playoff run

I've heard that expressed before about Keon, and I do wonder how that got started. Guy was a knucklehead, inconsistent, and faded/pouted down the stretch as the minute crunch got acute with everybody coming back healthy. But along the way he was an impact bencher for us, blocked nearly 2 shots a game in a smidge over 20min a night, threw in a couple of game winners over Dallas, and was a major factor both in our defensive prowess that year, and in us being able to withstand the awful barrage of injuries that befell us all season long. I'd take him, from that year, back on this current team in an instant. Very good 4/5 bencher against all but the Shaq-sized monsters.


Keon would start for the team we have right now IMO
 
I agree with you and the series of events that happened..but I just think that when the season started (before Webb came back) our team was the number 1 seed. We played hard and had an amazing flow to our game and then Webb came back. He basically destroyed the team; there was lack of ball movement and people were in stand still positions. And then because of the lack of fluidity to our game, everything unraveled so quickly after that (from the players to the organization)...That whole situation shook up everybody so quickly.

The team before Webber came back benefited from a cushy schedule and never would have won anything worth winning if they'd finished out the season without bringing Webber back. Pretty, but utterly irrelevant, and would have been exposed as soon as the schedule got tougher.

And that number one seed nonsense is a lot of the reason Chris' injury was so devastating. I fully believe the "success" of that team has changed how the organization as a whole views a winning basketball team. We should be trying to rebuild towards making another '02-'03 team, but it seems more like the recent patch jobs have been made in an attempt to recapture the false glory of the pre-Webber '03-'04 team. Just silliness, really.
 
Yeah... Keon wasn't great, but he was the personification of some things this team needs and (aside from Justin's few minutes) doesn't have anymore. I'd start him too... he had his faults, but look at what we have instead. KT? Corliss as a center? Where's our Bench Mob?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkCe1I8tAuo


Man I love most of Yinka Dare's mixes.

But yeah Keon would actually be the best player in our frontcourt IMO. He would atleast give you a few boards, 2 blocks per game, and some decent defense. Lately our frontcourt not only sucks on D, they suck on offense too.
 
It was luxury tax relief, not salaray cap relief. The full contract would have still counted against the cap and still have to be paid. The team would only save whatever penalty they had to pay for being over the luxury tax. They have hovered at the luxury tax level for awhile, so the savings would be minimal if any. There was no benefit to waiving Webber there.

Edit: There was no special benefit for Philadelphia to waive Webber there. :p

Thanks for the info!
 
Wow. It's gotten so bad that people are actually wishing we still had Keon Clark?

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TEAOS can't get here soon enough.

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^^ well, he did have quite long arms! lol

We can all wish for players back from days gone by (not are they are now, but as they were then....)

No point in making the list, we all know the team we loved a few years back!
 
This team needed a reliable PF/C who could defend, rebound and block a couple of shots per game.

He was never acquired, season after season, while talented PG/SG/SF were added all the time.
 
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