The Philadelphia 76ers are having a huge letdown of a season. With Andrew Bynum's status still unknown, the lack of a reliable big man is starting to take its toll.
Just take a look at Doug Collins. He was having the time of his life when he served as color commentator as Team USA won men's basketball gold at the 2012 Olympics. Now he looks more like Merle from The Walking Dead.
Philadelphia, once right in the race for the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference, has lost seven games in a row, with their last win over a playoff-caliber team coming on January 26th when they beat the New York Knicks.
Their last foray above .500 was on December 14th when they were 12-11. Since then, they've gone 10-23.
A knee-jerk reaction would be to blame Collins. There has to be someone to blame, and their collapse this year is eerily similar to the collapse they had a season ago.
At the start of the 2012 season, the 76ers were 20-9 through the first month-and-a-half of the season and had an offense that was near the top of the league and a stiff, brick wall of a defense.
The defense started to bend as the season went along, while the ...
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