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Cooney: Sixers undoubtedly will be more than a plain-vanilla team

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. - There is an affinity for ice-cream flavors for a couple of sports bigwigs in this town. Eagles vice president of football operations Howie Roseman, talking before the NFL draft about which of the top two quarterbacks the Eagles would land with the No. 2 pick, said he liked vanilla and chocolate, meaning either Jared Goff or Carson Wentz would be fine.

In his three years overseeing the 76ers, you can feel coach Brett Brown's frustration with being unable to dive into defensive schemes and multiple offensive sets, simply because he didn't have the talent to execute properly.