The Sixers finished their west coast road trip tonight in Denver with a matchup against Nuggets in AI's first return to Denver as a Sixer again. Early on the Sixers started slow, falling behind by 9 after a quarter of play. By the half they had used hot shooting to rally within 1. By the 4th quarter they were up by 8 and in hang on for the win mode, which they did despite a furious Denver rally, for a 108-105 win. Overall the Sixers shot 50% from the field, and only 26% from beyond the arc, but hit 5 threes, which you makes you wonder why they can't shoot like that every night. At any rate, in his return to Denver, AI led the way with 17, Elton Brand had 16, Thad Young and Lou Williams each scored 12, and Rodney Carney chipped in with 11 off the bench, while hitting 3 of the Sixer's 5 threes. Defensively, the Sixer's were not very good. In fact, they were lucky Denver decided not to give their best effort for whatever reason. I guess they thought they could coast and still beat the Sixers, but the reality is that Sixer's are far more talented then they're record would suggest. They just have to shoot lights out every night to win. So anyway at 10-23 overall now the Sixers remain 4.5 games out of 8th in the Eastern conference and who knows maybe this strong road trip will be the start of something for them.
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Thats a good win for the Sixers over a pretty good team but still they lack consistency, however I have faith in the Sixers to pull out an 8th place playoff position when the time comes.
-to ph1llysports
I wish I had your confidence
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