The Sixers went for the L.A sweep tonight as Kobe Bryant and the Lakers visited the Wells Fargo center. Unfortunately the Lakers overwhelming size and stength proved to be too much for the Sixers to handle, particularly Lamar Odom who had a game high 28. Really neither team played that great and the Sixers actually had a late lead at one point, but they just couldn't matchup with the Lakers down the stretch. They also had a particularly poor shooting night, at just 37% from the field and 14% from beyond arc, and that obviously didn't help much. Still, there were some positives for the Sixers. Spencer Hawes continued his great play with 18 and 13 rebounds, and Andre Iguodala put up another stellar performance with 18, 6 assists, and 6 rebounds. The Sixers defense also played pretty well for the most part. They actually out rebounded L.A 48-47 and held them to just 41% shooting from the field and 20% from beyond, while racking up another 6 blocks and 9 steals and forcing 14 turnovers. Finally and most notably they held Bryant to just 9 points, but with Odom and Pau Gasol picking up slack it made little difference.
Neither team really played all that well from onset and the Sixers actually took a 3 point lead through 1 quarter of play. L.A turned things around just enough in the 2nd quarter to go up by 5 at the half. The Sixers then had another huge 3rd quarter outscoring the Lakers 23-14, to take a 4 point lead into the quarter. Unfortunately, that's where things got away from them. The Lakers finally started knocking down some baskets while the Sixers continued to misfire and by the time smoke had cleared L.A had scraped through with a 93-81 win. Better luck next time boys.
2 comments:
Well the Sixers were doing pretty well but not well enough for me to expect them to beat the Lakers and its ok because they're a young team and, hopefully, will be good in a couple of years.
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yeah I think they might be pretty good right now though
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