SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers were back on the road again tonight in New Orleans to face the Hornets. With this being there 3rd game in 4 nights, they were understandably weary and it showed in the 2nd half as the Hornets pulled away and prevailed. Offensively, Willie Green led the way for the Sixers with 20 points, Andre Miller added 17 and Samuel Dalembert quietly dropped 13. Defensively, the Sixers simply had no answer for Morris Peterson, who pumped in a game high 27 points, while shooting 58.3 % from the field and 66 % from the three point line. The only real positive for the Sixers on this side of the ball is that they outrebounded the Hornets 41-35 as Dalembert pulled down 13 rebounds. Early on the Sixers looked spent, falling behind by 12 twice, and trailing by 6 after the 1st quarter. Somehow they mustered up enough steam to rally back to a 43-43 tie at halftime. Then the Hornets took over, as the exhausted Sixers ran out of gas. New Orleans led by 8 after 3 quarters, and then turned it on in 4th quarter to roll to a 19 point win, by a final score of 95-76. So the Sixers drop to 2-6 and remain in last place in the Atlantic division. They'll probably be down there for a while.