[Chron.com] Rockets' 96-91 win ends losing streak against 76ers

nice....TITLE!

 

If Carl adds a lit more muscle, i think he can be the old Elton Brand or an even more explosive one

 

exactly. the chicken with the head cut off play.
we all know it well.

glad to see as a group they learning to make that play work.
we are better with a little chaos.

best quote of the article.

 

I was watching the Philly front five and was wondering how they lost 11 straight. They're pretty good and they hustle,then you see that bench and understand how they're on that losing streak. Glad we have our second unit guys, the second unit can make a big difference between winning and losing and is often under rated.

I love AB but this about 4 times that I've seen him take it to the hole to take a high % shot and get rejected in the final minute of the game. I wish the Rox would call another play besides AB on a dribble penetration in the final minute to win the game.

 

I thought Sixers were going to get out of the slump when they proved to be a hard rock in the playoffs few years back but this season nothing goes their way.

It's shame because Philly has a great roster.

 

The Rockets just have to pay for the arms extension procedure for Brooks then it will all be fine :grin: :grin:

Well.. I am sorry to say but I only trust AB (not that i really want to) with the ball down to clutch time because he's the only one on the current team that can get a good shot off by penetrating. AB is much more comfortable beating the guy 1 v 1 than having a pick coz he said "I don't like the pick because it makes me feel like being guard by 2 ppl". Yeah, that's the only play we got with the current roster and why break the tool when it works.

 

Honestly i think they will def make the playoff. Their starter can only score so much and they have too many lack busters subs since their better subs are all injured. Once Lou/Speights come back to spark off the bench/AI integrate and gets comfortable, we are looking at a 6th seed/better team on the east.

 

plus EB's looking better now. His numbers might not be consistent yet, but it's still early and i am sure he will be a close to 20/10 guy toward the end of the season.

 

Here a Philly article on the game:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/20091212_Sixers_make_it_a_dirty_dozen.html

Posted on Sat, Dec. 12, 2009


Sixers make it a dirty dozen

By Kate Fagan

Inquirer Staff Writer

No moment in the 76ers' game last night better exemplified the result than the final seconds of the first half, when rookie Jrue Holiday took his eyes off a pass.

The ball went through Holiday's hands, costing the Sixers a bucket at the buzzer.

The ball wasn't all that slipped through the Sixers' fingers. So did the game.

The Sixers fell to the Houston Rockets, 96-91, at the Wachovia Center. They have lost 12 straight games, their longest losing streak since Nov. 25 to Dec. 20, 2006. At the end of that streak, the Sixers traded Allen Iverson. During this one, they re-signed him.

The streak has reached 23 days. The Sixers have not won since beating Charlotte on Nov. 18.

Carl Landry scored 20 points to lead the Rockets.

Houston point guard Aaron Brooks, who finished with 19 points, made a spinning, stumbling 18-footer to extend both a lead and the Sixers' misery, giving his team a 96-91 advantage with 8.8 seconds remaining.

Although the final score was not necessarily indicative of a game that should have been won, anyone watching knew the Sixers were one small push from breaking the Rockets in the beginning and a few better choices from winning at the end.

With 2 minutes, 44 seconds remaining in the first quarter, the Sixers were ahead, 27-10. Houston looked inside out, its shots spinning off the rim, its defense with more holes than a golf course.

"You get a 17-point lead, that's when you start playing harder," said Iverson, who scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and finished with 20.

"As a young team," he said, "guys have to realize when you get a team down like that and not really ready to play - I always tell them, 'If they're not ready to play, then blow them out of the gym.'

"We let them back into the game, and once they got back into the game, it went uphill for them and downhill for us."

From that first-quarter moment, the Rockets outscored the Sixers by 66-37. Houston took a 76-64 lead into the fourth quarter.

"We're not going to play a perfect game," Sixers coach Eddie Jordan said. "But we did play hard and we did play smart, for the most part."

The smartness might have come into question in the game's final 2:15.

Although Andre Iguodala had 24 points and Iverson his 20, while the game was being decided, only one of five shots went to those guys: a made pull-up jumper by Iverson with 1:06 remaining.

In that time, reserve Willie Green missed 22-foot and 19-foot jumpers. He finished 1 for 7.

Another shot went to Elton Brand, who finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds. The remaining shot went to Samuel Dalembert, who grabbed 14 rebounds and scored seven points.

"I didn't have it from outside," said Green, whose bucket accounted for a third of the team's bench contribution.

Down the stretch, Jordan kept Green on the floor instead of Thaddeus Young, who scored 15 points on 7-for-11 shooting. "Willie was playing well," Jordan said.

"Willie is a jump shooter and Elton is on the elbow; I was OK with those shots," Jordan said. "Do I want a better shot? I always want a better, cleaner, in-rhythm shot."

After the loss, Iverson said it best:

"That was a game we gave away."

 

How many times did Holiday fumble a routine pass yesterday? At least 3 times, by my count.

 

They need a winner, a pg like rafer Alston is perfect to them

 

I forgot they had miller and let him go. bad decision.

 

Your joking? Did you read that Airballston thread, I'm kind of in the middle ground re: Alston, he was a solid defender and team player but he is not a player that will turn around a losing franchise.

 

I didnt watch the game, but hold up.I got it saved on my dvr. Same story happened? Rockets losing and c-bud replaces battier and they get a lead.


Shane plays hard defensively but non existant offensively(50-50 = 0). He only plays offense on national tv games.

 

I am happy that we won but I feel bad for AI and the sixers.