The miracle has happened, the Sixers have 4 win a row with a comeback victory over the Houston Rockets tonight in Houston. They really didn't do anything special either, just the same solid basketball that had got them through last 3 games. They rebounded well, distributed the ball as well as they would have liked, shot reasonable well, at 48% from the field, and 41 % from beyond the arc with 10 threes, and played some sold defense most of the night, in holding Houston to just 41% shooting from the field, and finally solid bench play. Overall you just can't ask for much more from the Sixers than they gave tonight. Okay maybe you can ask for a better 2nd quarter, where they got outscored 35-21 to fall behind by 10 at the half, but other than it was all good. The 2nd half was all Sixers as they rallied ahead in the 4th quarter and hung on to win 101-95.
Offensively, Thad Young led the way again with 17 off the bench. Meanwhile, Andre Iguodala added 14 and 10 rebounds, Elton Brand put up 13 points, Willie Green, again subbing in for AI, chipped in with 15 and even Jrue Holiday got in on the act with 10. So again just a solid scoring night for the Sixers. Defensively, Sammy D led the way with a block and 10 more rebounds, to extend his double digit rebound streak. Andre Iguodala was also huge defensively, as he kept Shane Battier, who is often lethal from beyond the arc, under wraps with just 1 trey and only 5 points. So it was really a sold night all around for the Sixers and that's what you want to see from them tonight, because more often then not solid basketball across the board will win you the game.
Aaron Brooks scored 34 points in a losing cause for the Rockets. I don't know about you but I can't ever remember seeing a guy scoring that many points in a loss. With his 10 rebounds tonight Sammy D now has 10 + rebounds in 14 consecutive games. Not bad huh. As of now the Sixers, at 19-31 overall, are up to 10th in the Eastern conferencee, but remain 5.5 games out of 8th in the Eastern conference, with the 8th place Bulls having snapped their 3 game losing streak tonight. We'll see how long this streak lasts, but right now I don't about you but I am loving what I am seeing.
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Woot woot. The Sixers streak goes on and with it so does my disbelief. The Sixers are going to win out the rest of the season and then to the NBA Finals.
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