The Sixers continued their current road trip tonight in Portland with a matchup against the Trail Blazers. Coming in the 20-13 Blazers had won 4 in a row and the Sixers had lost 3 of 4, so the chances of a Sixer's victory did not seem high. However, Allen Iverson finally returned to the Sixer's lineup on this night as well and his return seemed to spark the Sixer's offense which put on an awesome display. They got off to a slow start as usual and trailed by 10 at the half. Then in the 2nd half the Sixer's offense just caught fire, erasing the deficit by the end of the 3rd quarter and pushing the Sixer's ahead by 4 heading into the 4th. The Sixer's never looked back from there and never cooled off as they went to roll to shocking 104-93 victory, just their 8th of the season, against 22 losses. All told the Sixer's shot 57% from the field, with Andre Iguodala, 14, 9 assists and 7 rebounds, AI, 19, Sammy Dalembert, 14 and 8 rebounds, Mo Speights, 14, and Elton Brand, game high 25, all in double figures on the night. Defensively, they were just okay allowing Portland to shoot 42% from the field and 33% from beyond the arc, but it was good enough. When you shoot and score like the Sixer's did tonight you don't need to D up that well to win. So Anyway with the win the Sixers remain 4.5 games out of 8th in the Eastern conference and who knows maybe AI can continue to spark on dare I say it? a winning streak. Hey it could happen.
2 comments:
A winning streak? Thats blasphamy! The Sixers cant go on a win streak but I guess if they play like they did last night its definately a possibility.
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yes it is possible
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