NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Elton Brand has returned. That is all Philadelphia needed to know. The Sixers thought they were going to climb the mountain last year and be a true threat for the NBA title. After all they had made the playoffs the year before without Elton Brand and now they had a 20/10 guy on their team. How could they miss on improving and at least making the Conference finals?
They still don’t have the depth that might be needed and now that Andre Miller has bolted, …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
There are all kinds of coaches in the NBA, tough coaches, smart coaches, driven coaches, easy coaches, and so on. It seems like a certain kind of coach would be the best coach to win for every team, but that is not the case. Often a coach needs certain kinds of players or a level of players. A great coach may go to another team and not be able to coach at all.
What happened? Did he lose his coaching mojo? Nah! Certain …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Orlando Magic were expected to just roll over the Philadelphia 76ers with ease. Who on the 76ers was going to be able to stop Dwight Howard? Turkoglu was going to have a shooting hey-day, whether hey-day is a word or not.
It has not worked out that way and that has caught the attention of many.
Now we have to start the blame game. Hmm, how about the coach? That Van Gundy guy, yeah, him. He gets a little worked up over a lot of …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
You know we have sort of been sidetracked by the Chicago Bulls/ Boston Celtics series that became very interesting once Kevin Garnett was announced out of the playoffs with an injury. Don’t look now, but the pesky Philadelphia 76ers are giving the Orlando Magic all they can handle.
The 76ers made play after play at the end of the 4th quarter to almost pull out game four, in spite of Orlando’s 10 point lead. It all came down to a botched pick play by Orlando on offense …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
So far only a New Jersey Nets fan has entered the contest for a free NBA ‘09 XBOX game.
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Flip Saunders
Rumor has Flip Saunders, almost wrote Flip Wilson, coaching the 76ers. Remember he was coaching my Pistons last year. Flip Saunders was an amazing regular season coach, but just could not harness it for the playoffs. No word on how good of a coach Flip Wilson would be.
Saunders most recently coached the Detroit Pistons, and was the head coach of the Eastern Conference …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Man, today there was this crazy thought rolling through my head. What if the Pistons had kept Chauncey Billups and Iverson had stayed on the Nuggets?
Nowhere to go with that thought, so how about taking a look at how some of this player movement and coaching movement is working out?
Chauncey Billups from Detroit to Denver
Denver is 7 – 3 in their last 10 games and in 1st place
Allen Iverson from Denver to Detroit
Detroit is 4 – 6 and in second place.
Ron Artest from everywhere to Houston
Houston is …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Elton Brand dunking

Philadelphia was down 38 – 13.
Past 76er teams would have quit. We are going to lose, so let’s go home.
But they did not quit and came back to win the game 94 – 92 over the Indiana Pacers. Elton Brand had 15 rebounds and Thaddeus Young had 25 points.
“It was a great comeback by Philadelphia,” Indiana coach Jim O’Brien said. “Sometimes you get too big a lead early in the game — and the NBA is a game of momentum shifts.”
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There is no quit …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Dwyane Wade helps put a whole new spin on which NBA Conference is dominant

This year will finally be the year where balance is restored. The Eastern Conference of the NBA will be dominant. It is time to crush the West!
Let’s start with Elton Brand and Dwyane Wade.
Elton Brand went from west to east, making one potentially decent team subpar out West and making one average Eastern team suddenly look very, very good. Meanwhile, Miami essentially adds a superstar in Dwyane Wade because he’s fully healed, and …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Elton Brand will give the 76ers a player down on the blocks
Last year the Philadelphia 76ers went to the playoffs to take on the Detroit Pistons. A tall order for a team that had not been to the playoffs in quite a while and for a team that was not loaded with established stars.
The Pistons had a simple strategy for victory. There was no inside game for the 76ers. No dominant player on the box to force a double team. The strategy was to …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Andre Iguodala is surrounded by Rasheed Wallace and Jason Maxiell
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Andre Iquodala has talent just oozing out of him. If you watched the first round playoff matchup of the Philadelphia 76ers and the Detroit Pistons, it was easy to see who was carrying the 76ers.
Andre was the man.
Unfortunately the Pistons are one of the best defensive teams in the league. They blanketed Andre with Tayshaun Prince as the lead defender and help coming from any direction Andre went. Bad grammar, but true story.
Andre still …read more