LeBrons 97 Sixers 91

by Jordan Sams on Nov 21, 2009 7:10 PM PST Comment 10 comments

The good news: the Sixers played their best game of the season. The bad news: it came in a losing effort. King James was simply too much to handle in the fourth quarter, and led his team to a victory with his home crowd cheering him on. His matchup with Andre Iguodala was the major difference in tonight's game. LeBron dominated crunch time and Iguodala tried to play hero, forcing awful, awful shots and just flat out sucked. This has been a developing story all year long. Iguodala worked on his jumper over the summer and all of a sudden thinks he's Kobe Bryant. He settled for jumper after jumper and eventually killed his team in the end.

Big shout out to Lou Williams, Thaddeus Young, Elton Brand, Rodney Carney and Jason Smith who gave a terrific effort tonight. Even Eddie Jordan coached a good game. His only mishap was playing Royal Ivey to start the fourth quarter, but I understand his reasoning. It was either Royal or Green because his guards were gassed and needed to be ready for the final 8 minutes. Jrue was not an option. This wasn't the game to "get his feet wet".

Andre Iguodala gave a terrific effort as well. I was just displeased with his shot selection. Other than that, great game.

The were a ton of positives to take from tonight's loss and I'll go more in-depth tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, use this post to discuss the game or why you're sitting on a Sixers blog on a Saturday night.

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we definetly could hve won the game, the fourth quarter play killed us

eff you we winning anyway

by eagleswin on Nov 21, 2009 7:19 PM PST reply actions

Settled for too many jumpers in the 4th.

Product of:

fatigue
small ball
good Cav’s defense

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by tk76 on Nov 21, 2009 8:17 PM PST up reply actions

And too many of those jumpers were from Iguodala.

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by Jordan Sams on Nov 21, 2009 8:55 PM PST up reply actions

It doesn’t matter if Jrue’s feet are wet, moist, or stinky, he’s a better player than Royal Ivey and Willie Green, so he should be playing in front of them. This is a game we could have won. End of game situations require coaching as well. Eddie Jordan continues to leave me unimpressed.

by Michael Levin on Nov 21, 2009 9:54 PM PST reply actions

I WAS THERE!!!!

My observations (previously jotted down in real-time):

1) I would say our perimeter D sucks, but that implies we have perimeter D in the first place.
2) Lou Williams is incredible; if only we had 10 Lou Williams’s.
3) I noticed Brand had another solid game.
4) When the game was close late, why didnt Iggy step up and take control for us? In the playoffs last year, he was the leader (alongside Miller), now it’s seems like no one is leading. Lou seems to guide the offense, but overall we lack sufficient leadership.
5) Why is Royal Ivey not working at Denny’s? He shouldn’t be in the NBA, that’s for damn sure!
6) I felt like we played well, especially for a team that just lost to the Grizz! But…LeBron sat for a good 10 minutes during the game, presumably because Cleveland played last night too. If he had played 42-45 minutes (and not 38), I think we’d have lost by 15 or 20.

by chillicothe20 on Nov 21, 2009 11:30 PM PST reply actions

The starters looked really gassed, but back to back 40-plus nights will do that. Thanks EJ

by MojoPharoah on Nov 22, 2009 5:33 PM PST up reply actions

I’d like to say – as i’ve been saying for multiple years now

When the game was close late, why didnt Iggy step up and take control for us?

It’s not his game, it’s not his nature, and people demanding him to go against his game and his nature is just silly plus demonstrates a complete lack of appreciation of all that he does do…

by jemagee on Nov 24, 2009 7:35 PM PST up reply actions

we definetly could hve won the game, the fourth quarter play killed us

Being outscored by 13 in the first quarter didn’t help.

by jemagee on Nov 22, 2009 8:24 AM PST reply actions

but in the third quarter they played good enough for the lead too so i dont understand what u are saying

eff you we winning anyway

by eagleswin on Nov 23, 2009 5:09 PM PST up reply actions

Well there’s 4 quarters to the game, they are all equally important, points in the first quarter count just as much as points in the fourth quarter, so focusing on the fourth quarter ignores the piss poor start that had them climbing out of a deep hole against one of the stronger teams after 12 minutes.

They played ‘well enough’ (not good, well) in the 3rd quarter, when starters are back in, so why couldn’t they do it in the first quarter.

by jemagee on Nov 24, 2009 7:34 PM PST up reply actions

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