Saturday, April 05, 2008
SIXERS NEWS
After clinching a playoff spot last night in Atlanta the Sixers returned home tonight and brought the Hawks with them, to finish off a home and home with them. It's hard enough to win one half of a home and home, but even harder to win both sides of a home and home and the Sixers learned that tonight. Offensively, four Sixers scored in double figures(Andre Iguodala, Andre Miller, Louis Williams, and Rodney Carney) with Iggy's 25 leading the way. Defensively, Sammy D led the way again with 10 rebounds and 2 blocks, but he and the rest of the Sixer's defense were out executed by the Hawks when it counted the most, as Atlanta out rebounding the Sixers 42-33. Ironically though, it was defense that helped the Sixers get back in the game, the few times that they were able to go on scoring runs. There just weren't enough of them. In the first quarter of play, the Hawks jumped out to an early 9 point lead with the score 24-15. In the second quarter of play, the Hawks stood their ground and took an 11 point lead into the half, with the score 55-44. In the 3rd quarter of play, the Hawks continued to front run and extended their lead to 13 with the score, 70-57. Finally in the 4th quarter of play the Sixers made some inroads, but the Hawks had an answer each time the Sixers got close, and eventually held on to win by 7, with the final score 92-85. So the Sixers drop to 39-38 overall, and back into 6th in the Eastern conference, just a game out of 5th.
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2 comments:
Its alright because they're in the playoffs, and still just one game out of 5th
- to ph1llysports
yeah it's still okay I guess
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