The Flyers welcomed the New York Knicks to the wachovia center tonight, as they looked to snap a 3 game losing streak. For a while it looked like they would do just that. They came out firing and took an 11 point lead into the half with Jrue Holiday lighting up the scoreboard. Unfortunately someone turned off the switch after that. I mean everything just came to an abrupt hault for the Sixers in the 2nd half, as they went cold from the floor and were outscored by New York 50-29, to to turn an 11 point lead into a 10 point deficit and eventually a 10 point, 94-84 loss. In the end their awful second half, dropped their shooting percentage to just 38 % from the field, and 24 % from beyond, while chucking up 25 treys. By the end they couldn't even hit free throws shooting just 57% from the line as a team. Perhaps most damning is that they endured all this offensive futility despite out rebounding New York but nearly 20, and not having a single shot blocked all night long.
Thus they could have and should have won this one easily. The effort was there from them as usual but their will wasn't and so it seems almost official at this point that they have given up on this season. Speaking of effort, Holiday provided the best for the Sixers tonight with 18, 8 rebounds, and 6 assists. Andre Iguodala with 14 and 17 rebounds, and Samuel Dalembert with 11 and 18 rebounds weren't too shabby either. Willie Green also dropped in 17 off bench for a nice effort, but Elton Brand was awful with just 7 point and 3 rebounds, Thad Young was worse with just 6 and 2 rebounds and Lou Williams sat the night out with lower back pain(yeah right). That kind of play from those two and Lou sitting on the bench is not going to get the Sixers back in the win column anytime soon. In fact it may not be long before a few other guys join Lou on the bench, which is a shame really, but what else can the Sixers really do at this point. Anyway with the loss the Sixers drop to 23-44 overall, still enough for 12th in the East, but now 10 games out of 8th.
2 comments:
Oh Sixers how you continue to not suprise me...The great thing about Philly is they have all kinds of teams so at least I have Flyers and later the Phils to look forward to.
-to ph1llysports
yeah at least
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