DALEMBEEEEERRRRRRT!!!!!

February 22, 2012, 5:52 pm

Let's not focus on how the Sixers have lost four in a row. Let's not focus about how they got out-scored 30-10 in the first quarter last night against Memphis and never let again. Let's not talk about how they only shot eight foul shots all game. Let's not get all bent out of shape about how our vaunted bench scored a combined 21 points on 7-32 shooting, and how Coach Collins finally gave Evan Turner extended minutes for the first time in a few weeks and ET rewarded him with three points on 1-5 shooting, with three turnovers. Let's not worry about any of that.

Instead, let's focus on one thing and one thing only: This man.

No matter what the revisionist historians may tell you, Samuel Dalembert was peerlessly infuriating during his nine-season tenure as a Philadelphia 76er. He had no sense of his offensive limitations. He got called for two goaltends a game. He got schooled by quick point guards and abused by dominant post players. He had no clue how to pass. He would be too busy celebrating his blocked shots to notice that his block had gone straight to another opposing player, and that that player was putting another, better shot up.

Now if you believe what the experts are saying, Sammy D is having a career year in Houston, with some even claiming that Philly may have made an error in judgment in jettisoning him so those years back. I have not watched enough of the Rockets in 2012 to properly assess the season Dalembert is having, but make no mistake: We are better off without this guy. I would rather have Andres Nocioni start at center for the rest of the season than have to see Samuel Dalembert take a single tip at half-court for us this year. Even if Spencer Hawes never plays another game in a Sixers uni, and we really kinda hope he does, the ten-plus games he's played for us this season were worth trading Sammy ten times over.

Anyway, we gotta beat this guy, and the rest of his H-Town buds. Forget the losing streak, forget momentum going into the All-Star Break, forgetting staying in front of the Knicks and Celtics and whoever—we need to send this guy a message, and that message is You're Probably a Very Nice Guy and You Do A Lot For Charity and Everything But You Suck and We Don't Like You. Boom.

8:00 tip from the Toyota Center. Bring the motherf---in' ruckus, Lavoy Allen.

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