Everyone had to see this move coming. After just one disastrous season in Philadelphia, the Sixers have fired head coach Eddie Jordan after he led the team to a 27-55 record, their worst since the 1996-97 season. The move means that the Sixers are looking for their seventh head coach since Larry Brown left after the 2003 season, and the young players on the team are going to have to adjust to another coaching style, but hopefully the next coach will be better suited to work with the young guns this team has.
Jordan's Princeton style offense never caught on with the Sixers, who started the year 10-25 and never recovered. Young players like Thaddeus Young, Lou Williams and Marreese Speights seemed to regress this season as Jordan never settled on a full time starting lineup. The defense was one of the worst in the NBA, Elton Brand still is a square peg trying to fit into a round hole on this team, and Samuel Dalembert is inconsistent, at best. I don't even want to talk about the Allen Iverson fiasco, aside from the fact that it was good for a one game attendance pop, and that was about it.
There was nothing good to say about the Sixers this year. They never got the hang of Jordan's system, and by the end of the year, it seemed like most of the players had started to tune him out. For a coach in his first season with the team, that is the last thing that you want to have happen, and that's when the writing on the wall became apparent to everyone. The team didn't carry themselves properly, they couldn't play well on the court and the product they were putting out every night wasn't worth paying money for, which is why the Sixers were playing to empty looking crowds at the Wachovia Center for much of the year.
The Sixers made the right move by firing Jordan. This team has some young talent, but they need the right coach to put everything together. They need a system that fits what they have in place already, and what they are going to get with a high lottery pick in the NBA Draft. I don't know who that coach is, or how they're going to get this done, but they need to. Aside from the 2001 season, the Sixers have been an afterthought in Philadelphia for far too long. It's time for them to get their name back on the front page again for something other than what Allen Iverson is doing.
R.I.P, 2009-2010 Sixers season. You will not be missed.
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