The Sixers perimeter defense fell apart tonight with Andre Iguodala sitting out with his achilles acting up again. The Golden State Warriors shot 65% from beyond the arc and drilled 15 treys. You're just not going to win very often when you give up numbers like that. The Sixers also turned the ball over 17 times which didn't help matters. So essentially the team's biggest flaws crept to the surface on this night and came back to bite them. There were some bright spots for the Sixers though. Elton Brand was great again with 16 and 16 rebounds, Jrue Holiday had probably his best game of the season with 23 and 11 assists, Jodie Meeks continued to rediscover his stroke with 19, and Thad Young continued his 6th man of the year campaign, with 15 and 8 rebounds off the bench.
The Sixer's defense actually held up nicely early on as they took a 30-25 lead after a quarter of play. In the 2nd quarter it started raining threes, and that was really the theme the rest of the night, as Golden State went up by 6 at the half. In the 3rd quarter the Sixers managed to turn things around a little but still trailed by 5 heading into the 4th quarter. For a while in the 4th it looked, the Sixers, despite playing on back to back nights, might have just enough left to pull off another comeback but it wasn't to be. Golden State began raining threes again and before you knew it they had pulled away to win 110-95. With the loss, the Sixers drop to 2-3 on their road trip and now 12-19 overall.
2 comments:
Well the Sixers seem to be bacck into their old form but at least we still have the Eagles and Flyers.
-to ph1llysports
hey don't give up on them just yet
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