SIXERS NEWS

After a hard fought win over the Pistons yesterday afternoon, the Sixers traveled to New Jersey tonight for a matchup with the Nets. Coming in the Sixers had won 3 in a row, and appeared to be rolling toward locking up the 5th seed in Eastern conference. Unfortunately the party came to an abrupt end on this night. With Thad Young on the shelf the rest of the season the Andre's, Miller and Iguodala , have become the go to guys for the Sixers. As they go so go the Sixers. They simply didn't have it in this one, as Iguodala went 1 for 8 from the field and Miller went just 3 for 9 from the field and had nearly as many assists, 4, as he had turnovers, 3. As a result the Sixers struggled on whole, shooting just 35% from the field and 39% from the free throw line. In fact just one Sixer, Lou Williams, managed to score in double figures one the night. The Nets didn't necessarily play all that well either, but the Sixers play was just so poor, that they didn't need to play that well. While seven Nets did score in double figures, none had more than Vince Carter's 15, a performance that would be more than beatable for the Sixers on most nights. Tonight was not one of those nights. After a decent run to end the first quarter with a 20-18 lead, everything went bad for the Sixers and fast. The Nets were up by 11 at the half, by 17 at the start of the 4th quarter, and mercifully by the end they had themselves a 29 point win with the final score an embarrassing 96-67. That's right the Sixers posted just 67 points. Frankly it is hard to imagine the Sixers performing any worse than they did tonight, and one can only hope this is not a portend of the things to come. They'll be lucky to get better than the 8th seed, if they play anymore games like this and as it stands now at 40-36 overall, they find themselves back down to the 6th seed, .5 games behind the 5th place Miami Heat.