Fill Out That Roster Ed!

The Sixers recently signed two free agents to begin the process of addressing their needs and rounding out the roster. It should come as no surprise to anyone that we picked up two cheap guys who will seem to have limited roles. We let a lot of people go prior to this for two reasons: first, in order to make the money work for Brand and second, because they weren't any good anyway. I simply could not take this team seriously if they resigned Louis Amundson. Now there are certainly spots for players like him and it's at the end of the bench or the D-League. We need to move forward. Royal Ivey is probably going to be a player somewhere in between Willie Green and Kevin Ollie but we need him as a backup. Actually, I'm mildly surprised that we did not resign Ollie to a cheap deal. Where else is he going to go at this rate? Why not keep his steady play and veteran locker room presence around? Plus, he's the Chaplain of the team and therefore an automatic "glue" guy. Oh well, not a big overall loss.

I actually like the signing of Kareem Rush. I remember watching him in his rookie year for the Lakers and he could flat out shoot the ball. I always wondered why he fell off the map for several years. I think it's probably one of those things that we saw with Korver at the early part of last season: you can't all of a sudden force a strict, roleplaying shooter into becoming a versatile wing player. It just does not happen that way. It's much easier to get a wing player to develop an outside shot to diversify his game. Either way, we needed some kind of shooter and everyone was acting like we were going to some how be worse off compared to last year by basically adding Brand, taking Evans out of the starting lineup, and trading Carney. People need to realize immediately that we became a better shooting team by doing those aforementioned things so I'm not that concerned. Either way, nice to have a threat off the bench for.