Game Preview: Toronto Raptors @ Philadelphia 76ers(Game 1/2)

Mark it.


17,000 career points for Allen Iverson.

 

76ers have a 10 point lead at the half and its been the AI show so far. The 76ers need to keep it up in the second half and get everybody involved and it will be an easy win..for six straight.

 

Here comes Toronto...

 

What a surprise! After the 76ers start off brilliant they let the team back in the game, If this team lets this game go I'm going to be very dissapointed. Right now it seems as if the Raptors want it more.

 

^ Bend but dont break I could careless how much we win by as long as we win.

 

dang. only up by two buckets now. this team seriously needs to learn how to keep a lead. all this bad D and missed shots are starting to hurt us big. i thought that this is a game that i can finally sit back and watch them dominate, but it seems like it's going to be a nail biter at the end......

 

Holy crap, 5 threes for Iggy! Man his shot is smokin tonight.

 

damn it! philly timeout. the raptors are coming back again and we're up by 2 points! i thought we finally had them again when we were up by eight, but mike james is turning into AI and is scorching us! someone play some god damn D on him! as i said in my other post, this team has to learn to keep a lead! i really hope the sixers come out with a win or i wont be too happy. especially since this is another game where we basically wrapped it up in the first half.

 

good win... i'll give it to you guys now... you guys are indeed 3rd ranked...

 

Sixers win 121-115. Good win, but again I don't like how we let them back into the game, but atleast we didn't fold and give the game away. Tonight's game was going to be tougher coming in since the Raptors were playing in front of their home crowd.

AI was AI with 42 points on 16 of 26 shooting, and dished out 7 assists. He also scored his 17,000 career point in the first quarter (19) as well as his 800 career three-pointer.

Webber had a solid game, even though he shot 8-22, but he came up with crucial buckets and didn't get down on himself when he shot two airballs late in the game. He also dished out 7 assists and grabbed 8 rebounds. I thought it was interesting, and also was a good sign, that he was content with letting the rest of the guys dominate the offense in the first quarter, and didn't force shots in the first quarter. He just dished the ball in the quarter and realized everybody else was hot and didn't want to disrupt that.

MVP of the game is Andre Iguodala! This is more like it man, 26 points on 8-11 shooting, including a career high SIX three-pointers. This guy looked like Kyle Korver out there. Dang, I didn't know he had it in him... good game Iggy, as he also grabbed 10 rebounds.

Bench was virtually non-existant except for 9 points from Lee Nailon.

Well, we're 6-3, sitting atop the division, and have a tough game @ Miami on Friday night even though Shaq is out.

 

The 76ers did a good job, they won the game but I'm still concerned about them givign up such sizable leads to well, weak opponents. Are the 76ers falling a sleep after they build a lead or what? I hope Mo Cheeks mentions this to, because if the 76ers want to be a better team they have to learn how to establish their lead, and maintain it with a good pace, or keep adding to it. The 76ers have got a big game Friday, and they have got to show the basketball world they are for real.

 

^Exactly. This like the third time and second time against the Raps when he had a very strong lead, but the other team makes a run, and we just slow down. We really need to slow down and play the best defense to save the game.

 

Agreed. The Sixers have to stop having those lapses where they give up 20pt leads and "hold on" to a W, they gotta take it with force. I know teams are gonna make runs, can't avoid that, but to be up 20 only to win by 2 is horrible. But hey, a W is a W.

 

Maybe the Raptors could have beat the 76ers if they had drafted Iguodala instead of Arajauo or whatever his name is, 0 rebounds 0 points in 3 minutes. Nice pick guys, and thank you for letting the Sixers draft Andre Iguodala.

 

I hate watching Iguodala simply because I could imagine him helping us so much more than Araujo. His nickname should be the Anti-Hoffa.