[Coatesvillain]

Originally posted by Max Payne!
Have I gone blind or has Dalembert only played 3 minutes ?

That had a lot to do with his three fouls, I think he should've gotten more time, but the team has played well most of the time while he was off the court.

Man, Korver is out there getting torched. I like his improved defense, but if a guy can put the ball on the floor Korver doesn't have a chance defending him, since he's too slow of foot to stay with just about anyone.

The Sixers keep going down low to Jackson and right now it's definitely not working, he had a couple misses, and just got a charge. Iverson needs to get Willie and Kyle more involved in this.

[Coatesvillain]

Willie Green is doing one helluva job on Francis, he matches up size wise pretty well, and he's not going to be outmuscled by Francis. Stevie is really trying to force something to happen on offense..

Just as I typed that Francis drained a three and was fouled by Willie. That three point defense is still a problem.

Magic lead 89 - 84.

[Coatesvillain]

Korver nails a much needed three after a Francis two pointer.

Magic lead is down to 92-89.

The game isn't over, especially considering all the time left, and the fact that we know the Sixers have come back from defecits like this.. but the Magic are hot right now after we let them get into the game. Considering they're on this run right now with Grant Hill and Dwight Howard on the bench is scary, those two are due to come back into the game soon.

I think the key play in this game so far is Kenny Thomas passing the ball right into the the hands of Grant Hill, after Hill fought and fronted Iguodala. What's bad about that is, Hill was in front of Iggy for at least five seconds before KT passed the ball.

[Sliccat]

Iverson: 22 pts, 8 ast, 5-20 FG


I can never tell if he's having a good game or a bad game

[Sliccat]

Magic are scoring all of their points from inside the three point line- Dalembert should be playing now

[Coatesvillain]

Originally posted by sliccat!
Iverson: 22 pts, 8 ast, 5-20 FG


I can never tell if he's having a good game or a bad game

I'd call it an in-between game, maybe I'm spoiled after the game against the Wizards but today he's not distributing the ball as well as he could.

Just now he nailed a three! So maybe it's closer to being a good game.

Magic lead is down to 94 - 92.

[Coatesvillain]

This is hurting badly, Jackson missed a key layup which would've put us up four, now we're down 2 at 99-97. This is a pretty exciting game.

Iverson had a great hook pass to Korver for a three, but followed that up with a terrible pass into traffic.

[Coatesvillain]

Game over. Steve Francis came up huge in the end. This is a game that just slipped through our grasp, as we had control of it in the third quarter.

There's no moral victories, so I feel pretty bad about this game. And looking at the San Antonio matchup, I'm not sure how we'll approach that.

[Rayza]

man just after i praised iverson ..

just seems like we can never string 2 in a row .. just like last season !!! frustrating !!!

[Coatesvillain]

Magic win 105 - 99.

I think the play of the game might be where Willie Green fouled Steve Francis, which allowed Francis to get the four point play. That really set the Magic in a different direction in this game. What's dissapointing is we actually won the rebound battle, and still lost the game, that just shows that despite the disparity in the rebound total the Magic came up with the rebounds when it counted.

My goal for the game was 20 rebounds between the Sixers rotation at C and PF, and Williamson and Jackson alone got 20 rebounds.

The defense was really good all game, but it broke down in the third quarter. Kenny Thomas played well on the defensive side of the ball, but didn't see anytime after that pass that was intercepted by Hill. Williamson rebounded well, but isn't a defender.

What puzzles me is that after Willie Green had an excellent first half, he sat for too long into the second half, and he wasn't the same offensively, and then got into foul trouble guarding Francis. Green showed me something in this one, but we have to let him stay aggressive, because he's at his best when he's able to do that.

It looked like Grant Hill was hurt in the fourth, but he came with two hughe jumpers to fuel the Magic's win. They have a good team there and I think they're basically a lock for the playoffs, it'd be fun if we got to see them in the postseason.

[Coatesvillain]

Originally posted by Rayza!
man just after i praised iverson ..

just seems like we can never string 2 in a row .. just like last season !!! frustrating !!!

Really we've only had one game this season where it wasn't part of the streak and that was the opening win over the Celts. Hopefully we can stop that trend and win against the Spurs.

[Captain Obvious]

The Sixers have really impressed me both times we've played them. They have a great shot at winning the Atlantic.

[hobojoe]

The Sixers have really impressed me both times we've played them. They have a great shot at winning the Atlantic.

I think so too, I still have Philly winning the Atlantic. Jim O'Brien sure does have some weird substitution patterns though. Marc Jackson was a terror inside tonight, he played really hard all night long banging down low with Cato, Battie and Howard. In the end, Francis and Hill made clutch play after clutch play and the Sixers couldn't answer.