The Sixers welcomed the Utah Jazz to the Wachovia center tonight. Normally, this would have been mismatch in Utah's favor, but they came in without all-star point guard Deron Williams, meaning the Sixers perhaps had the advantage. In the end it was ultimately still a mismatch with Carlos Boozer scoring 24, to lead 7 Jazz in double figures. The Sixers on the other hand had just 5 scorers in double figures, led by Thad Young's 17. If they had been able to play even half decent defense that might have been enough to pull out a win over the Jazz, but they couldn't figure out how stop Utah all night long, and so instead they lost badly. Utah was just superb defensively, and far stronger underneath the basket with 44 rebounds to the Sixers 33, and that was the difference. The Sixers were able to keep it close for most of the 1st half thanks to some hot shooting to start the night, but eventually they started to cool off and by the end of 3rd quarter they were down by 20 as they went on to lose by 22, with the final score 112-90. The Sixers really need to toughen up and try harder, because the listless manner in which they played tonight's game isn't going to get it done. Elton Brand had his best night of the season thus far with 11 points, but that is still a far cry from the Sixers need out of him in order to be successful. If he can just pick it up, then I think the team will pick it up as well and then I think they'll still be fine. Anyway so the Sixers drop back under .500 again at 4-5 overall, and now have a lot of questions to answer and a lot of soul searching to do.
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Its funny how one day the Sixers defense is looking real nice and the next it looks like swiss cheese.
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