I hate to be a Grinch on the second day of Christmas (Christmas Day is the first day of Christmas, and the Epiphany is the 12th day on January 5th for all of you public school alums out there) but I won’t be as bad a grinch as Caleb Martin was yesterday, that man was icy… But I do want to talk about the Philadelphia basketball Seventy-Sixers.
Insanity Defined: The Sixers’ Season in Review
The definition of insanity is repeating the same action and having the expectation of it yielding different results. The Sixers seem to be rounding into form as they have won 4 of their last 5 and 8 of their last 11, so the ship has been righted?!? Uncapsized?!? I’m actually not sure what the correct descriptor would be in this scenario, again I’m the hockey guy and the Sixers are simply my favorite team’s favorite tenants, well at least until 2031.
To bring you up to speed if you weren’t like me and actually spent time with family yesterday in Christmas’ loving embrace, here’s the sporting rundown of the holiday: Both NFL games sucked on ice, I mean blowouts that were not worth even having on in the background. And the NBA games were all competitive, some coming down to the final shot, and certainly worthy of being on if not being the focal point of the holiday because Lord knows it’s either basketball or the over-commercialization of a religious holiday that originated as a Pagan holiday…
Back to the City of, the Sixers played the team that earlier this year I had already crowned as champions and urged them to go full Tankapotamus to try and hold onto their first-rounder (top 5 protected) because of the wealth of talent at the top of this year’s draft class (I might not NBA, but you bet your ass I watch ALL college sports, that’s right football, basketball, baseball, hockey, volleyball, EVERYTHING!). So that bright idea is DOA, the sixers are one game out of a play-in spot, so I fully anticipate they get into the expanded, bloated, watered-down playoffs in some capacity and find a way to disappoint all over again, which is what I saw yesterday.
The “Sixers Wheel of Suck”
They looked good, and they beat the team that will probably repeat as Champions so for those playing at home we are on the “Sixers Wheel of Suck” (patent pending you vultures) where they look like a title contender after playing a great game and we all get our hopes up again that this year might be different and they DO HAVE WHAT IT TAKES… So we’re about to go on a run of a few weeks that puts them into the top 6 seeds in the East and we will get fully on board, only for a late-season injury or slump to get in the way and then we get into the playoffs with the same expectations as always and get ousted in the first round or worse, the play-in round, and then the offseason will commence and the Wheel of Suck will move to its logical next spoke and the process (pun intended) will reset itself.
Same Movie, Same Ending
I want to be wrong, but I’ve seen this movie sooooo many times before that I’m projecting the ending to the fifth installment based on what I’ve seen in the first four. Also, the Sixers are not the pioneers of the Wheel, I have been on this wheel since the NHL put a salary cap in place and the Flyers have been running the Wheel like a hamster on meth. Happy 2nd day of Christmas to all, and a first-round exit in our future! Cheers!
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