Coatesvillain

I figure it's big news, right? One of the most popular players in the game never hit a game winner (in a game that counted..) prior to tonight, and he did that after drawing two suspect fouls that took Jermaine O'Neal and Jamaal Tinsley out of the game. He struggled all night long, and then for the first time in the NBA got a clean look with barely any time left and he drained it right on Eddie Gill.

It was an amazing moment, and could be a building block for the 76ers even though it was against a Pacers team that had eight players available to play.

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Spriggan

Jermaine also got his career high in points tonight - 39.

Iverson though.... ew. 3-20 shooting and 7 turnovers. But he did hit the game-winner, and that's pretty much all that matters.

Box Man

The refs gave the game to Phili

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Wow his first game winner, dang I didnt know it took him this long and Jermaine's career high is 39, I thought he would have definitely done higher than that. Oh well you learn something new everyday

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Coatesvillain

Actually he went 5-23 (not much better, but ESPN is so damn slow in updating the score tracker). What was amazing about this game, was the fact that Iverson played bad and several people on the 76ers stepped up big.

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hobojoe

Kyle Korver, 23 points off the bench. 8-11 shooting, including 7-10 from behind the arc. 21 and 10 from Marc Jackson as well. Despite the relatively slow start to this season, I still think Philly's the team to beat in the Atlantic.

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It was just a matter of time, Iverson has to be one of the clutchest players in NBA history despite never hitting one [a gamewinner I mean].

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You can't even argue that those calls against O'neal and Tinsley were correct. I've seen one bad call in a situation like that, but I've never seen two. And let's not forget about the "flagrant" on Artest. Can't the league get over his 02-03 season already?

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Coatesvillain

Bigger than that was the return of John Salmons he filled the stat sheet with a statline of: 15 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 steals in 33 minutes. Hopefully they keep McKie on IR all season, because Salmons deserves minutes.

And there's no argument that the reffing was terrible, I really believe that those calls in OT were awful I even mentioned in my first post. They also had several other bad calls that went the other way in the fourth quarter. To be perfectly honest, I don't remember seeing those refs before in my life.

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Burn

He's hit game winners before, just never walk-off.

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Baron Davis

Kyle Korver's alley oop attempt was pretty damn funny.

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Iverson made a game winner over Kirk Hinrich last year. It wasn't a buzzer beater if thats what you mean, but it was with like 3 seconds left and it was the last shot of the game that put the 76ers up by 2.

SPMJ

Exactly. AI has hit plenty of GWs before. Just not a buzzer beater.

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Coatesvillain

Didn't expect people to make this big a deal of it, but yeah I meant game winner as in buzzer beater. I probably should've said buzzer beater, but I didn't.

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