Damn..pretty close comin to the end...a pretty good game once again for Allen Iverson... 38 Points, 11-24 fg, 15-17 ft, 2 rebs, 10 assist, 2 steals...BUT, 8 Turnovers...
What a win at the end by Jackson but man they gotta stop giving up those big leads in the 4th and have the game instantly come down to the wire. When I saw that AI had 31 at the end of the 1st half, I thought he was gonna go for 50 again. I guess not. Congrats to M-Jax on getting that layup from Iverson to win it. I was watching DNL before the game and they were interviewing Jackson, the dude was a such great guy and liked to have fun with all the media and was just really nice. You gotta love a player like that. Anywho, anybody see the 2 throwdowns from Iggy? (Just another reason he should be in the Dunk Contest!) Once again, great win and its good to know we`re back in 1st place.
Great game, but again, this was yet another fourth quarter collapse that almost cost us the game. We need to learn how to play with the lead in the fourth quarter. Overall, our guys played solid. Williamson, Jackson and Korver (3rd Quarter) came up big for us. As for Allen Iverson, he easily had another 50+ points night against the Knicks, but he's just didn't look to attack the paint with the same tenacity as he did in the first half. You could also give the Knicks some credit as well. They did just a tad better job at defending him. However, I believe it was more on Iverson part on why he has such a low key second half scoring wise. But what we won, and that's good enough. 38 Points and 10 Assists is pretty darn impressive, so why am I complaining? Next up, we face the Detroit Pistons. This is going to be a difficult game... And that's all that could be said about that. Iverson will need to have yet another big night for us to win. We may very well need a 40+ point night from him in order for us to win especially against the re-awaken Pistons squad. At least we have home court advantage. With the win last night against NY, we now move to 12-1 against Eastern Conference teams at home. Not too shabby.
Good win to get us back at 500. but, we can't afford to have these fourth quarter lapses especially if we plan on being successful in the playoffs (if we make it that is). Against the Pistons we just need to play hard the whole game. By that I mean playing basketball consistantly for four quarters with out any let downs or lopsided performances. If we can do that, we'll be alright against the Pistons.
