SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers finished off their road trip tonight in San Antonio against the Spurs. Not surprisingly this one looked like a runaway early but the Sixers showed some heart and managed to rally all the way back with some guile and hot shooting. All told the Sixers shot 54% from the field on the night, turned the ball over just 8 times to 19 assists and received spectacular efforts out of Andre Miller with 28 points and Andre Iguodala with 25. Unfortunately, other than out rebounding the Spurs 40-32, the Sixer's defense was not quite as good, as the Spurs shot over 50% from the field and from the beyond the arc, draining 15 three pointers. In the end the mountain the Sixers left themselves to climb proved just a bit too steep as they dropped a heart breaker. The Spurs led by 21 after a quarter of play with the score 40-19. In the 2nd quarter the Sixers began their climb, and by the half the lead was down to 16 with the score 66-50. In the 3rd quarter it was the Sixers who appeared overpowering outscoring the Spurs by 13 and cutting the lead to 3 heading into the 4th quarter. They managed to tie it up several times in the 4th quarter but could not wrestle the lead away from the mighty spurs and eventually Tony Parker drilled a 15 footer at the buzzer to break the Sixer's hearts and close out a 108-106 win. So the Sixers lose their 20th game of the season as they drop to 13-20 overall, but fortunately that is still only 2 games out of 8th in the Eastern conference.