Let’s face it—the Sixers are not a very good team. That’s no secret. And it’s not just their 18-29 record that shows that. It’s the team’s inconsistency. The past two games have shown an incredible wave of inconsistency.
Wednesday night Philly achieved its greatest margin of victory – 43 points – in its 12 seasons at the Core States/First Union/Wachovia Center. The Sixers beat the Bucks 112-69. Granted the Bucks are bad, plain and simple, and every team has nights when it struggles to score. But to win by 43 points feels good no matter what. The scoring distribution was incredible, with seven players in double figures but no one with more than 20.
Stat Line:
- Andre Iguodala: 18 points, 6 boards, 5 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks
- Andre Miller: 14 points, 7 assists
- Thaddeus Young: 14 points, 8 rebounds
- Sammy Dalembert: 12 points
- Rodney Carney: 12 points
- Reggie Evans: 13 points, 9 rebounds
- Willie Green: 10 points
POST – KORVER RECORD: 5-12
That brings me to the Sixers next game against the Magic—a 108-106 loss. I watched parts of the game on League Pass… the feed was terrible, so I only ended up seeing about half the game. But I watched most of the fourth quarter. Philly stuck with Orlando the whole game. It was close and for a minute there I thought Mo and Company would pull out the victory. That was partly because I couldn’t see the score properly on the tiny screen and thought the Sixers were up two when the game was actually tied.
Why was Lou Williams shooting the ball with 30 seconds left? He should know better.
Why the silly foul on Hedo Turkoglu with 2.4 seconds left? Frustrating way to lose.
Thaddeus Young is adjusting to his new starting role. I don’t really have anything else to say about the flow of that game. But the closeness of the contest made me believe for a couple hours that the Sixers were still a contender.
Stat Line:
- Andre Miller: 23 points, 11 rebounds, SIX turnovers
- Lou Williams: 20 points, 2 steals
- Thaddeus Young: 15 points
- Willie Green: 12 points
- Andre Iguodala: quiet, 11 points, six assists
- Sammy Dalembert: 10 points, 9 boards
- Reggie Evans: 9 points, 7 rebounds
It was eerily reminiscent of a similar night seven years ago. Friday February 2, 2001. The division-leading Sixers hosted the lowly Magic. The game went into double overtime, with Philly eventually prevailing. Friday February 1, 2008. The lowly Sixers host the division-leading Magic. The game should’ve gone into overtime.
NOTE TO ANNOUNCERS: LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE “IGUODALA.” IT’S EE-GOO-DOLLA, NOT IG-WA-DOLLA OR IG-WA-DALLA. It’s been driving me crazy for forever. Give yourselves some credibility and pronounce his name right PLEASE!!!
POST – KORVER RECORD: 5-13
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The Sixers Confuse Me
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2 comments:
I thought is was an good game besides our inability to guard the three. Louis Williams had one of his better games since the David Lee hack and Reggie went 5-6 from the line!
I'm an optimist and playoffs are still a possibility in my eyes. We are only 2.5 behind N.J who may lose their starting PG soon. Inconsistency is expected with a young team but hanging tough with one of the East's better teams should give us some confidence
I think the game was good and it showed this team in a single game can compete with almost anybody
The foul on Hedo was well, like "part of the game", it was an attempt to strip him that simply went wrong, I would not make big deal of it
To me it's worse that we couln't inbound the ball on the final play twice (on the first one they called the final time out), we should have done better than that
but anyway a solid game overall and the best thing is that our two youngsters played very good, I am talking about Thad and Lou Will of course
they are giving us somehope !
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