Even Sixers Couldn't Mess This One Up

Filed under: 76ers, NBA Draft

PHILADELPHIA -- Sometimes there really is no decision. The universe makes it for you. The fork in the road is really a butter knife, the other way blocked off by a hooded shadow carrying a sickle and a danger sign.



In draftspeak, it means no torturous deliberation.



In draftspeak, the sign reads: THAT GUY, DUMMY.



Evan Turner made sense for the Sixers the way accepting the second overall pick at the draft lottery did.



Here's a team that needed a face-the-basket player in a face-the-basket league. That has been looking for a face of the franchise since Allen Iverson. That hasn't had a legitimate off-guard with size and a shot since Hersey Hawkins and before that, Andrew Toney. That didn't have a single player on the roster with a midrange game.



And Evan Turner's is reminiscent of Rip Hamilton's coming out of Connecticut.



Here's a team that once drafted Shawn Bradley with the second overall pick. That once drafted Keith Van Horn with the second overall pick and traded him draft night for Tim Thomas, a player of epic softness who had the reputation of an epically soft player in college and who played his college ball all the way at Villanova, which is just zip codes away from where the Sixers practice.



That once passed up Paul Pierce in the draft for Larry Hughes.

 

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