The Sixers welcomed the Toronto Raptors to the Wachovia center tonight. With Raptors currently 6th in the Eastern conference this was a big game for the Sixers to win if they wanted to make any kind of run for the remainder of the 1st half of the season to get back into a viable position for a playoff push. Unfortunately the results were all too familiar. The Sixers came out firing and led by 11 at halftime. Then everything went Toronto's way in the 3rd quarter as they outscored the Sixers 34-25 to pull back within 2. This time the Sixers didn't Toronto get ahead and get away from them. Instead they managed to stick with them in a tight 4th quarter. With 20 seconds remaining Sammy Dalembert slammed back a layup to put the Sixers up 105-104. Then he was tasked to guard Chris Bosh on the other end of the floor to preserve the win. He got Bosh to move to his off hand, but didn't quite have enough left in the tank to keep him from banking in a hook shot and a foul with 8 seconds left for a 108-106 Raptor lead. The Sixers then got the final possession but AI got stuck in a double team, and was forced pass off to Lou Williams who could only get off a wobbly 3 pointer which missed badly. So there you have it 108-106 Raptors and milestone 25th loss for the Sixers. I can't decide what the problem is with this team but after tonight there's only two things that come behind. Either they have some kind of mental block with holding leads in the 2nd half, or its just bad coaching by Eddie Jordan. I don't know what do you think?
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Well I'm thinking this problem with the Sixers not being able to hold off wins is a combo between the mental block and the coaching and regardless of what it is they need to fix it.
-to ph1llysports
I don't know I think it just Eddie Jordan not doing enough at the end of games.
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