The Sixers Now Belong To Jrue Holiday And Evan Turner

I was just arriving at work the other day, and I was sipping on 24 oz coffee from Wawa (100% Columbian to be exact). I love me some Columbian.

One of my fellow co-workers came strolling in and said, ” How about them Sixers?!”

I respond with “Yes, I know. They got their asses handed to them. They got flat-out exposed.”

We go on talking about the game and how we both can’t stand Spencer Hawes. The game we where talking about was the Rockets game.

Then my co-worker started telling me how the Sixers post game crew was saying when Turner plays well, it doesn’t translate into a “W”. That the Sixers win when Turner doesn’t play well. I did not watch the post game show. I shut off the game with about 30 seconds left.

Right away I started to defend my “Man-Crush”.  The Sixers don’t necessary play well, when Evan does? That’s “BS”. How dare they come at my homie like that?! I did think my co-worker was screwing with me because he is known to do that. He said he was not lying. So after cursing and yelling about this a little more I decide to check it out myself.

I figured 17 points was a good number to judge by, when Turner scores more than 17 points the Sixers are 7-4. In those 7 wins he has 4 double-double’s and in the 4 loss he has 1 double-double. Two of those losses are without Holiday playing. I dropped the number to 16 points for last season’s totals. We all know about ET’s struggles last year. When Evan scored more than 16 points the Sixers were 6-5.

Listen, I know that everything about this team starts with Holiday. The evidence is clear in the 4 games he missed if you needed any evidence at all. BUT if you took away Turner in those 4 games you would likely see the same result. Holiday is the better player but I truly believe that they are equally as important to this team.

They are the only two that can create offense for themselves and for others. Nick Young can create offense for himself, but passing forget about it. Here are some numbers:

Turner’s numbers

In Wins	37.0	.486	7.8	4.2	0.4	0.4	2.7	17.1
In Losses	35.3	.411	5.9	4.2	0.2	1.1	2.4	13.7

Jrue’s numbers

In Wins	39.2	.460	4.3	9.5	0.6	1.5	2.7	18.4
In Losses	37.2	.434	3.4	7.9	0.1	1.3	2.5	17.6

There is a very good chance that we will never know what the combination of Holiday, Turner and Bynum could have done. I really don’t feel like bringing up Bynum’s name anymore but just for this post.

This team belongs to Jrue and Evan. They are the future and their games complement each other very well. They both can create for others and themselves and both bring toughness to this team. Like I said before, if Turner missed these last four games the Sixers would likely be in the same spot, especially with this front-court, bench and pick-roll defense.