Allen Iverson
will miss tonight's game against the Bulls due to an illness in his family. Lou and Jrue will probably start at the guards, what happens from there is anyone's guess.
Here's the math, 96 minutes of action to be split among these players at the one and two:
- Lou Williams
- Willie Green
- Jrue Holiday
- Rodney Carney
- Andre Iguodala
- Royal Ivey
A rational man may actually see this as an opportunity to extend his
starting point guard beyond the 15 minutes/game he's played since taking over the starting spot. Eddie Jordan is not a rational man, however, so I'm fully expecting 35+ minutes for Lou and Willie with Jrue playing his token two runs, maybe he gets back into the game at some point for a garbage time run.
I'm putting the over/under on Jrue's minutes for tonight at 17.5. Place your bets in the comments.
Solid start to David Thorpe's chat:
David Thorpe: Jrue Holiday. Youngest kid in the NBA and very talented.
Of course, we have to give the disclaimer that Jrue was an IMG client, I believe.
Yeah, but we got the hoopsworld guy who worked directly with Jrue saying some nice things about him, and the other IMG guy pointing out that the biggest motivation for Speights to get better is his contract (which ain't a compliment to me)
Course I'm biased too - I want Jrue to be an All star
what does that mean Brian? what's IMG ? I don't get the reference, can you dumb that down for me, thx
Training academy for basketball in Florida where thorpe made his name - they work with a bunch of NBA players - hence this question later in the chat
Could you fix Iguodala's jump shot like you did with Corey Brewer?
David Thorpe (12:10 PM) Probably, but it takes more than one guy to help. Corey gets work in each day with his coaches in Minny.
Ricky
http://www.imgacademies.com/
Turns out it's not just basketball (didn't know that until today) but thorpe is the 'big name' at the basketball academy
he's also been known in the past to over hype guys he's worked with (Tyrus Thomas and Kevin Martin for instance) during his ESPN chats
Under
Willie Green gets minutes because the sixers are 'lacking scoring' with Iverson out, plus Willie has veteranability that Jrue just lacks
John's famous:
Three sixer related questions in an NBA chat on ESPN is some kind of record
Believe Sixers are still willing to deal Dalembert, though the trade kicker makes it tougher. My sense is Iguodala has the best chance of being moved, though the Sixers need to get better offers than they're hearing now for it to happen.
The Sixers could kick in $3M which would cover the trade kicker, right? John has been asking this question for a while, not sure if we've answered it properly.
According to the Coon faq - if i understood it properly - it's around 3 million (and going down daily)...the question is would comcast kick in the 3 million :)
We all know Green will have Jrue's minutes tonight along w/ IA9 being in back court. Why, the coach just has a feeling.
I wish Eddie Jordan and Chris Matthews would use common sense and brains instead of tingling feelings.......