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Saturday, November 13, 2010

SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers continued their west coast trip in San Antonio tonight. Coming in the Sixers had never won in San Antonio before. Thanks an incredible night by Tony Parker who had 24 and 7 assists, they still haven't. The Sixers for the part, played a solid game. 5 Sixers scored in double figures with Jrue Holiday's 16 and 5 assists, and Lou Williams 13 off the bench leading the way. Mo Speights also chipped in with 11 and 7 rebounds, and Andre Iguodala and Thad Young had 10 each. While they're shooting from the field as just okay at 41%, they were actually pretty good from beyond at 44% with 4 treys, and they were great at the line for once, at 87%. Defensively, the Sixers were badly outrebounded 47-38, but had 6 blocks and 5 steals and managed to hold the Spurs to just under 50% shooting on the day. So on the whole it wasn't terrible. The problem for the Sixers in this one was that the Spurs were just that much better.

In the 1st quarter alone the Sixers were outscored 39-28 and looked out of sorts. Somehow they managed to close to within 9 by the half, but that would be their last positive moment of the night. The 3rd quarter was all Spurs, 35-12, as the Sixers went cold from the field and the Spur defense totally locked them down. By the start of the 4th the Sixers were embarrassingly down by 32, their largest deficit all season. As they have all season the Sixers did turn things around in the 4th, outscoring the Spurs 29-20, but it was truly too little too late, as San Antonio cruised to a 23 point victory, 116-93. This is really the first time all the season the Sixers have been really roughed up like this all season. It's hard to say what went wrong. You really just have to give the Spurs credit. They were just in a different class than the Sixers tonight.

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