They always had some sort of control over this game. Not sure how much of a factor fatigue was, given it was six games in nine nights and on the back of a five game trip with a shortened rotation, but full credit to Philly, who always seem to have our measure of late. The usual from Rashard and Ray (except for 15 boards from Shard, he usually takes three games to get that many) and Luke followed up his big game with another solid one, while Weezy was strong on the boards. Still, some promising signs early in the season - we could easily be 6-3 or 7-2. We're not getting blown out. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=...?gid=2006111525
We must have missed like 5-6 lay ups that just rolled out. That and we didn't shoot the ball well from the free throw line. We hit those and we come out with a W. Solid effort on the boards though. We really miss Swifts length though. He could have been in there contesting some of those drives Philly had. Luke was very agressive overall. He was in Iversons grill the whole time, but AI just hits those tough shots.
We needed more from Collison and Wilcox. The Sixers are beating every team that leans on its guards for the bulk of their scoring. Rashard was fantastic but offensively Wilcox and Collison choked. The turnovers and missed "gimmes" undid the Sonics excellent work on the boards.
<div class="quote_poster">psheehy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">We needed more from Collison and Wilcox. The Sixers are beating every team that leans on its guards for the bulk of their scoring. Rashard was fantastic but offensively Wilcox and Collison choked. </div> If we can get 9-15 out of Wilcox on a nightly basis with a block a steal and only 1 turnover, it would be hard for anybody to hang a loss on him. Try going after the fact that we don't have an even remotely servicable center (once again) as the reason we are losing these games.
