The Sixers continued their road trip tonight in Sacramento with a matchup against the Kings. After a stirring victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in their last game the Sixers actually came in looking to string together back to back wins. With the King' s top 2 scorers, Tyreke Evans, and Kevin Martin missing for the game, the Sixers had a golden opportunity to take it too the the young Kings for the victory. Instead they almost let the opportunity get away from them. Early on just couldn't hit anything, as they fell behind the Kings by 11 after a quarter of play. Then they slowly started to get their rhythm in 2nd quarter and by the half they picked it up completely, rallying all the way back to tie it at 50. In the 2nd half they just kept it going at a blistering pace, shooting 52% from the field and 56% from beyond the arc with 9 threes, and before you knew it the Sixers had rolled to another win, 116-106. Lou Williams and AI led the way with 22 and 20 respectively, while Andre Iguodala added 19, Thad Young dropped 11 and Elton Brand and Rodney Carney each chipped in with 14 off the bench in a true team effort. This really was the best game the Sixer's have played this season. For the first time they actually looked like they were running Eddie Jordan's offense and succeeding. They also fairly good defense against a highscoring Kings team. If they can just keep this up the rest of the season they'll be tough beat it and then who knows what can happen. For now anyway they are 9-22 overall and just 3.5 games out of the 8th in the Eastern conference.
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It seems that all the Philly teams are coming together at the same time. Now thats what I call rare! The Sixers havent been as bad as their record shows and its good to see they are finally getting wins
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yes very rare, and yes the Sixers aren't as bad their record would indicate, as most of their losses have been by 4 points or less.
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