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**Sliccat** · 11-13-2006, 02:30 PM

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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."

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/15998018.htm

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Melo's Answer · 11-13-2006, 06:54 PM

Yah thats just great outright refusal to adjust. My respect for Webber just keeps going down. Everyone got on Allen bc they thought he refused to get his teamates involved which imo has proven to totally not be the case so far this year. Now Webber just comes out and says Im not going to make the adjustments made for me. Thanks A lot

DieSlow69 · 11-13-2006, 07:07 PM

Webber sounds like one of our posters GIDDY....Damn that I dont want to adjust zhit....He is slow and I am glad Cheeks sees that he messes up the defense. That is why he is on the bench in the 4th because it is all about stops then. FACE IT, Giddy WEBBERS HAS A LAME LEG. I love the guy for what he can do. But damn Webber shouldn't get mad and say he won't adjust because people know what you cant do. That show's he's a selfish mofo. GIDDY HE JUST CANT DEFEND AND HE CAUSES TO MANY DEFENSIVE PROBLEMS, MAKING EVERYONE ELSE DO STUPID STUFF ON DEFENSE. and to say that he won't adjust just makes me wanna pull more rockets out on his azz

WEBBER

ballistixxx · 11-13-2006, 08:33 PM

I do feel sorry for Mr. Webber because of the situation he's facing now, but it's really hard to symphatize with him because of his horrible game...

off-topic:
Sliccat: that girl in your avy is your girlfriend right?

**Sliccat** · 11-13-2006, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ballistixxx

off-topic:
Sliccat: that girl in your avy is your girlfriend right?

No, that's Jean Grae, the rapper in my sig.

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