Isaiah Canaan begins his 76er's career tonight, earning a starting spot against the Orlando Magic. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" lang="en"><p>Isaiah Canaan to start for PHI tonight. Last 2 starts for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rockets?src=hash">#Rockets</a>: 13-24 FG, 9-16 on 3's. In 11 gms since as reserve: 6-24 FG, 4-19 on 3's.</p>— Adam Wexler (@awexler) <a href="https://twitter.com/awexler/status/569549824690749440">February 22, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I really hope he does well in Philly. Always liked him and he is so fun to watch when he is playing well.
If Bob Covington can put up buckets with the Sixers Canaan will surely put up numbers, and actually might help them alot more than MCW steal a game or two. I like MCW on the right team as a Sean Livingston or Jalen Rose type of long/tall PG but after two years its obvious to me that he's not moving the needle for that team as their sole perimeter scorer (because that's really not who he needs to be), and his value would plummet in a year or two. Canaan will at least make a name for himself as a scoring PG. I think the numbers will be misleading a bit (good stats/bad team), but there will definitely be fans on here in a couple months saying "Morey is an idiot for trading him/Damn McHale for not playing him", etc. etc.
