The Sixers traveled to Charlotte tonight for a matchup with Larry Brown's Bobcats, currently the #7 seed in the East. I want to tell you the Sixers came out and at least put up another decent,y respectable performance in this one, but I would be lying. The truth is it was a total embarrassment. They turned the ball over 24 times, and threw up 21 shots from beyond the arc, hitting just 5 of them, everything you don't want to do against a defensive minded team like the Bobcats. Charlotte jumped out to a 6 point lead after the 1st quarter and never looked back. They were up 10 at the half, and 18 ending into the 4th quarter, before winning easily by 19, 103-84. The Sixers played again without Lou Williams and Thad Young, as well as Rodney Carney, but that's really no excuse. They simply stop caring about winning and losing tonight and they'll probably stay like that the rest of the season.
Even Jrue Holiday, who's been the teams lone bright spot as of late, had a horrible night with 7 turnovers. Andre Iguodala was the leading scorer as usual with 14, and Jason Kapono drilled 3 treys for 13. The rest of the scoring for came from the bench where Willie Green added 12, and Mo Speights scored 13. As they have in most of their losses this season the Sixers failed to regularly attack the basket in this one. They drew just 11 fouls to 35 for the Bobcats, and gathered just 10 points at line to 54 for the Bobcats. You are not going to win too many times with that kind of discrepancy. Incredibly despite the loss, the Sixer's are still 12th in the East, and well who cares now how far out of 8th they are. I mean how can that many other teams in the East be that much worse than the Sixers.
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