Mo Cheeks is a capable coach, but he needs the pieces.

I’m not sure if A Iggy is a number one go to player.

I’m not sure if players around the league want to come here because of the way they treat their stars.

That straight up sucks.

As a New Yorker who has suffered through decades of futility in many sports (albeit nothing comparable to your pain), I came to understand that those losing franchises were not accidents – that the ownership was not actually committed to winning.

Coaches were shuttled in and out. Elite players were shuttled in and out. New schemes replaced old schemes and change was always the watchword. It’s why I became a Steeler fan back in the mid 70’s. Aside from the fact that they wore Black and brought the pain, I respected their consistency and style of play. It was a championship style – a power style.

In Philly, the teams seem not to have made the determination to win a championship – regardless of the sport. It seems incomprehensible to me that the Eagles won’t go out and sign a power back to relieve some of the pressure on McNabb and Westbrook. McNabb, whose career closely parallels John Elway’s (except that D-Mac had better numbers early – and more injuries) needs a power back to stay alive. In baseball, the Phillies seem to always be changing direction. Now they have it together. Will they keep it together? They have a new stadium and new revenue streams. There is no excuse. And the Sixers should simply be embarrassed. There is no legacy – no tradition that the franchise feels beholden to honor. It’s great the Mo Cheeks is the coach, but the Sixers should be predicated on playing a Philadelphia style of basketball.

Philly has a great hoops tradition beyond the NBA that is a championship style. The paradigm out of Temple is tenacious D, heady point guard play (Andre Miller, check), unselfish offense and the capacity to win close tight games. The Sixers need more than one piece. They need to embrace the ethos of North Philly and try to create a legacy for themselves as players in a city with high hopes.

I’d talk about the Flyers if I’d watched hockey since Forsberg left the Avalanche. I will say, though, that perhaps the Flyers have done the most to get over the hump and stay there. Over the past decade and a half, they’d had some very talented players. Who could have possibly known that New Jersey’s Scott Stephens would completely own every inch of space in Eric Lindros’ head? Maybe the Flyers should have brought in someone like Brashear when Lindros was getting tattooed.

In any event, Philly sports could be doing what Boston sports are doing…but the owners don’t seem to want it.