Mo Cheeks Is Out In Philly

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• musicrebel Posted: Dec.13 at 1:08 pm
  Wow. That sucks! I thought he worked well with what he had.

• Wes Posted: Dec.13 at 1:10 pm
  Aww… I liked my headline on Twitter better.
  Twitter.com/4point0show

• Ulee Posted: Dec.13 at 1:36 pm
  Dam. And another one bites the dust. So that is what, 4 or 5 coaches that have been fired already?

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 1:37 pm
  The myriad of analysts who picked this team to do big things feel dumb now. I don’t feel dumb. Why don’t i feel dumb? Because i said to myself “elton brand went to Dook….when has trading for someone from dook ever lead to more winning?” Then i laughed.

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 1:44 pm
  HAIKU TIME: Maurice cheeks fired/Sign brand? Dook players don’t win/Blame it on coach K.

• Myles Brown Posted: Dec.13 at 1:46 pm
  No Mo Cheeks? That’s too bad.

• Moose Posted: Dec.13 at 1:49 pm
  Randy Wittman, Eddie Jordan, Sam Mitchell, Mo Cheeks, PJ Carlesimo. The dudes are dropping like flies. As I said earlier in the month, with all of these coaches being fired, most of the coaches are with bad teams. What if the coach of a really good team gets fired? Like if the Lakers fired the Zen Master! Wouldn’t that be interesting? At least I think it would be. It’d be exciting!

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 1:50 pm
  More, you say? Coach K’s life lessons:/ Suck in the L; snitch on teams;/buy American express.

• Josh D Posted: Dec.13 at 2:01 pm
  1.This is Stupid!!!!! 5 coaches (I think, i may have lost count already) fired only a month and a half into the season
  2.Mo Cheeks was a one of the best coaches in the league he led a team with no all stars and no hope to th playoffs, this year there not playing as well, but, if they continued to have faith in them, they would of eventually made a run to the playoffs

• Roy Posted: Dec.13 at 2:01 pm
  Wow! That’s a surprise…

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 2:24 pm
  I think Mo cheeks got killed by his own monster. He took a team that was pretty bad for most of last year on a great late season run, and people expected that to be the norm. When they signed brand, people expected the Sixers to make “the jump.” But how? They added an overrated, undersized big who conflicted with their existing style to a team that radically overachieved last year, and people thought they were golden? Expectations are a b!tch.

• Russ Bengtson Posted: Dec.13 at 2:27 pm
  Ah, expectations // Come up short, and it’s a wrap // Hey Mo! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 2:40 pm
  “ECF!” Says Khalid/ “One of the league’s best benches!”/Please, stick to fencing.

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 2:42 pm
  ^^the above refers to Khalid’s season previews, an example of these deadly expectations, available here:
  http://slamonline.com/online/nba/2008/09/philadelphia-76ers-season-preview-2/

• nick Posted: Dec.13 at 2:43 pm
  My first line has 6 syllables above. I will now go and commit ritual seppuku.

• Kevin Wilson Posted: Dec.13 at 3:01 pm
  Can we have Damon Stoudamire hold the door for him on the way out?

• Tarzan Cooper Posted: Dec.13 at 3:08 pm
  the funniest part about it is the little clip espn just showed. in it, mo cheeks is doing coach stuff on the bench, then real quick they show kutcher korver, in his jazz uniform, warming up about to take a shot, when mo comes over and swats it, very funny

• Moose Posted: Dec.13 at 3:14 pm
  Russ, check the comments on your blog.

• what Posted: Dec.13 at 4:03 pm
  Underachievers/Crazy trade might set things straight/Brand for Iverson?

• what Posted: Dec.13 at 4:05 pm
  Too many haikus/Feel like its ESPN/reading TMQ.

• what Posted: Dec.13 at 4:07 pm
  (I don’t really think a Brand for Iverson trade would set things straight, I just felt like joining in on the haiku fun)

• what Posted: Dec.13 at 4:08 pm
  None of their guards can/shoot, that ain’t the coach’s fault/they miss Kyle Korver.

• jose Posted: Dec.13 at 4:15 pm
  so how many changes since jerry sloan has been in utah now?

• Dacre Posted: Dec.13 at 4:34 pm
  I wonder how long into the season we’ll get before Terry Porter is goneski?

• B Posted: Dec.13 at 4:46 pm
  They cant spread the floor they just pack it in on Brand and they force him to pass outta the double team to Andre Miller and Iguodala. The only one that was doing well with Brand being there was Thaddeus Young and now they got him coming off the bench. They probably need to trade Iguodala for a Stephen Jackson or somebody like that.

• KobeWearsAPurpleThong Posted: Dec.13 at 5:07 pm
  He’s technically a 2 guard. They’re only firing PG’s. Moose, no disrespect, but they don’t fire coaches of good teams because they’re usually good coaches. You’re not the sharpest tool in the shed, ‘eh…?

• B. Long Posted: Dec.13 at 6:16 pm
  This is all Khalid’s fault!

• Paps Posted: Dec.13 at 6:44 pm
  Brutal. Another coach gone.

• Candice Posted: Dec.13 at 6:59 pm
  Mo did have his faults. His roatations were awful and it was mind boggling when certain player’s didn’t even play or played minimal mintues.

• Boing Dynasty Posted: Dec.13 at 7:12 pm
  Kind of like how Sam Mitchell gets fired, and Joey Grahme starts putting the whole league on posters…

• B. Long Posted: Dec.13 at 7:56 pm
  New ish on the B. Long Blog!

• ClydeSays Posted: Dec.13 at 9:21 pm
  Really? Is this how it’s going to be now? Every coach under .500 gets fired? Teams are going to have to pay more and more. Sorry, but what the Celtics did is the exception, not the rule. Remember, they had 3 All Stars, and 2 good complimentary players who knew their roles and a solid bench. How many teams can say that? Not Philly, Sonic/Thunder, Wolves, or most of the teams in the League. Give these guys a decent roster and bench and THEN give them a chance to play together.

• Yeeearlsky Posted: Dec.13 at 10:56 pm
  Was Tillery at the game tonight? I’m sure he has some kind of report.

• Dma Posted: Dec.14 at 12:21 am
  nice to ‘Mo ya (again).

• Dma Posted: Dec.14 at 12:24 am
  for every owner that complains about the luxury tax, they sure do fire and hire coaches like non other.

• Jacob Posted: Dec.14 at 12:32 am
  thats 4 down, whos next? my guess is ivoroni or whatever his name is

• ktokyo Posted: Dec.14 at 1:09 am
  I blame Allen Iverson.

• BETCATS Posted: Dec.14 at 3:53 pm
  i think either Thad young or Iggy needs to go. 2 players that do the exact same thing from the exact same side of the basket and force 1 of the 2 play out of position will never work. And Dalembert is not doing what i thought he was gonna do this year

• Jimmy G Posted: Dec.14 at 10:59 pm
  This is the new era of sports. The GM makes bad moves, gives out crazy money, or has unreal expectations (like what’s happening in philly), we blame the coach. Let me gets this straight 76ers, you thought a Iguodala, Brand, and Miller big 3 would get you on the level of Boston, Orlando, Cleveland, or Detroit? Man give me some of the stuff you guys are smoking, because it must be amazing.

• TADOne Posted: Dec.15 at 11:09 am
  Jimmy: I’m not sure about that level, but I definitely saw the Sixers as a formidable team that was just a tad bit under Detroit and Orlando. I love Mo, but the writing was on the wall from the 4 other head coaches fired before him this season.

• Jared Zwerling Posted: Dec.15 at 11:22 am
  Mo Cheeks looked 30 years older than he actually did sitting on the bench most of the time. The Sixers need a more energetic coach roaming that sideline.

• illydiva Posted: Dec.15 at 1:48 pm
  Next would be Reggie Theus….if you believe what Marc Stein is reporting.

• SLAM ONLINE | » Why Mo Cheeks Was Fired Posted: Dec.15 at 2:25 pm
  [...] The truth is Cheeks was struggling. Regardless of anything else and anyone else and the other components of the tea, Maurice Cheeks was struggling. When news broke Saturday afternoon, my initial thought was not of surprise but of expectation. I have been talking about this for a couple of weeks now so this wasn’t exactly shocking. Yes, it was early and you have to be patient, but the rotations weren’t set and it’s Week 7 of the season. Cheeks seemed to struggle with in-game adjustments and, at times, seemed overwhelmed with figuring out how best to use his players. [...]

• SLAM ONLINE | » Black And Proud Posted: Dec.18 at 6:50 pm
  [...] and more important—race is an issue here, but in a good way. Even with Theus, Eddie Jordan, Mo Cheeks and Sam Mitchell all out of a gig, it leaves the NBA with nine black coaches (Jordan and Theus were [...]