A hectic end of 2007
Posted by Ricky - Sixers4guidos on January 2, 2008
You can’t take some days off for a little vacation around New year’s day, because that’s what happens… In chronological order:
1) taking advantage of Ricky’s absence, Sixers traded Kyle Korver (in the picture) for Gordan Giricek and a first round pick
2) Sixers lost at Portland 72-97 (13-17, .433) “thanks” to a memorable fourth quarter collapse
3) Sixers won at Seattle 98-90 (14-17, .452) after a far-from-memorable game
After having spent the whole New Year’s evening reading all the news and watching the two games, I have to say the level of interest of those three facts is just reverse:
3) The Seattle game was simply bad. To me it showed few things, that I want to mention very quickly.
* we have to work on our killer instict. We let a Sonics team without Durant, Wilcox and Ridnour (!!! and they weren’t good even with them…) stay in the game too long. Seattle cut the deficit to three twice in the fourth, (86-83 and 89-86) both on jumpers by Delonte West, and the same West misfired on an open three that could have made it a two point game with 2.16 to play… we should have closed it earlier and with a larger margin… to sum it up, there were all the conditions for a blow out, basically. Read the rest of this entry »
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