11-13-2006, 02:30 PM
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Webber struggling with new role
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All the hope and optimism that Chris Webber expressed during the preseason, when he felt confident he would play more like the player he was before major knee surgery in 2003, has been replaced with gloom and dejection.
It's a strange and confusing time for Webber. The 14-year veteran and five-time all-star, once one of the top two or three power forwards in the game, is struggling with a reduced role that has seen him as likely to be on the 76ers' bench in the fourth quarter as on the court.
After yesterday's practice at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Webber said solemnly that he has been asked to change his role but that it was "something that I don't think a player like me should adjust to."
"It's not being in in the fourth quarter," he said. "It's things I've never had to deal with before... not being a main part of what's going on. So that's what I have to get used to."
Webber, 33, has ridden the bench for the entire fourth quarter in two of the Sixers' six games so far. In fact, he has averaged 5 minutes, 30 seconds of playing time in the fourth period this season, less than half of the 12-minute quarter.
He's not happy talking about it, but he insists he is not down.
"I think I've been through too much for me to be down," he said. "But I know the situation that's in front of me. I'm not going to adjust, but I just have to keep going forward. I think to adjust would [make me] become complacent and accept a role that I don't want to accept."
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