Jan 31, 2002 10:42 AM EST
Wally Szczerbiak punched in 31 points for the Timberwolves last night, but the 76ers were able to break that code, battling to a 96-91 victory and again climbing over .500 (23-22).
The Sixers, with four victories in their last five games and eight in their last 10, also seemed to take another step toward relocating the code that helped drive them to 56 victories and the NBA Finals last season.
"We've got to see that fight guys had in their eyes last year,'' Allen Iverson said after generating 38 points of his own, the eighth time in 10 games he has reached 33 or more. "Last year, we could be 10 points down with 2 or 3 minutes left and we always felt we were going to win the game.
"We've got to get that same mentality back. We've got [opponents] we went through wars with last year that some of the [new] guys on the team know nothing about, don't know the severity of it. Once they get to know how real it is when certain teams try to play us, we'll be able to win those games.
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Jan 31, 2002 10:40 AM EST
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that Larry Brown made a comment on Tuesday. It wasn't a big announcement, but it was something the Sixers wanted to hear.
In a pre-game interview with a New York radio station, Brown said "If I'm back anywhere next season, it will be with the 76ers."
For whatever reason, the Sixers coach didn't say that during the grueling seven-game Western swing when rumors had him being a candidate to coach the Denver Nuggets or even resigning before the conclusion of the trip.
"Really, that's what I've said all along," Brown said last night, before the Sixers turned back the Minnesota Timberwolves, 96-91. "The guy asked me a question, I said I intended to coach only here.
"I might not coach any more, either. That's a possibility, too. But I want to coach as long as I'm physically able, and if that's what I do I want to do it here."
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The focus, Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett said, was to distribute. To get center Rasho Nesterovic some "feels." To get forward Joe Smith some "feels." And especially to get guard Wally Szczerbiak some "feels."
"I was really (upset) about the fact that I couldn't help one of my teammates get more productive shots," Garnett said Wednesday, referring to Szczerbiak's 1-for-6 performance 24 hours earlier. "It haunted me all of last night, and I couldn't really sleep."
That might partly explain the final minutes of Minnesota's 96-91 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night at First Union Center.
After battling back from a 12-point third-quarter deficit and helping Szczerbiak score a team-high 31 points by the end of the game Garnett passed up two key shots in the final three minutes, something that eventually might haunt him more.
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Sixers Jan 2002 Archive
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| Jan 31, 2002
To the uninitiated, all the silk-purse talk after the sow's ear of another Timberwolves defeat -- a 96-91 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday at First Union Center -- might have sounded suspiciously, even gallingly, like the stuff of moral victories.
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| Jan 25, 2002
Don Beideman of the Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Kobe Bryant, the Lakers superstar who already has two championship rings at age 23 years, is set to have his #33 high school jersey retired tomorrow night.
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| Jan 22, 2002
HIGHLIGHTS: An all-time franchise record shooting night, the Sonics hitting 41-for-62 (.
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| Jan 22, 2002
The Sonics backpedaled in a cocksure manner after each swish, an extra bop in the step on three-point jumpers.
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| Jan 21, 2002
The Sonics arrived last night to a city filled with melting snow and soaring hope.
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| Jan 21, 2002
When: Today, 11 a.
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| Jan 18, 2002
The .
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| Jan 17, 2002
Derrick Coleman is back in town, scheduled to make his first Charlotte Coliseum appearance today since the October trade that sent him to Philadelphia.
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| Jan 17, 2002
Marc Berman of the NY Post tells us that if Chaney doesn't win his next game, who just happen to be Philly, then he must be cut.
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| Jan 17, 2002
On a night he scored a career-high 58, Allen Iverson was more impressed by all the little things.
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| Jan 17, 2002
These were Eric Snow's 23.
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| Jan 16, 2002
What the hell was that?
Anyone?
If you saw this game, you were treated to a great game at times, but saw one of the worst pieces of "bad basketball" you'll ever see with 23.
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| Jan 16, 2002
This could turn out to be Eddie Griffin's only visit to his hometown in his rookie season in the NBA.
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| Jan 16, 2002
There have been just enough intriguing triumphs of late to think that the Sixers have figured out the peaks.
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| Jan 16, 2002
Iverson put up 58 points on 21-for-42 shooting from the floor, all career highs, taking command of the 76ers' 112-106 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets.
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| Jan 15, 2002
"This is real big.
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| Jan 15, 2002
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that Derrick McKey may have 14 years of NBA experience under his belt but he is just what the Sixers need right now.
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| Jan 14, 2002
But someone still wanted a better explanation.
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| Jan 14, 2002
Comcast SportsNet.
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| Jan 13, 2002
Several factors have contributed to the Sixers' major drop-off: injuries, a lack of perimeter defense, an offense too reliant on Allen Iverson, poor chemistry, not enough size off the bench.
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| Jan 12, 2002
When Rich DeVos and his family decided it was time to explore the option of selling part of the Orlando Magic, his first call this week went to NBA Commissioner David Stern.
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| Jan 11, 2002
The 76ers own a mere .
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| Jan 11, 2002
Ashley McGeechy of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Larry Brown spoke to the press about Allen Iverson's comments.
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| Jan 10, 2002
Tracy McGrady wasn't about to come out of this game.
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| Jan 10, 2002
Jabari Smith should thank Sacramento assistant Pete Carril, the former Princeton Tigers coach.
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| Jan 10, 2002
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that Allen Iverson isn't happy with his team.
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| Jan 10, 2002
Ask any member of the Orlando Magic, now winners of six of their last seven games, if they are finally putting it together, finally becoming a good team, and the response is the same.
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| Jan 9, 2002
Magic at 76ers
Who: Orlando Magic (18-18) vs.
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| Jan 9, 2002
TONIGHT: Philadelphia 76ers, 8
WHERE: First Union Center.
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| Jan 9, 2002
The 76ers see the opportunities in front of them.
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| Jan 5, 2002
Even before the Seattle SuperSonics played their last game of 2001, coach Nate McMillan lamented that the team had five days off between that contest and the one Friday night against the Philadelphia 76ers.
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| Jan 5, 2002
HIGHLIGHTS: In the first quarter, Gary Payton hit a three to cap a Sonics fast break started by Vladimir Radmanovic's rejection of Allen Iverson's shot from the lane.
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| Jan 5, 2002
Unfortunately for the Sonics, last year's Philadelphia 76ers reappeared last night, rolling to an 87-77 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 17,072 at KeyArena.
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| Jan 5, 2002
Player of the game: Allen Iverson led all scorers with 22 points.
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| Jan 5, 2002
A quirk in the schedule gave the Sonics five days without a game.
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| Jan 4, 2002
The team that went to the NBA Finals last year is 13-18.
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| Jan 4, 2002
When: 7, tonight.
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| Jan 3, 2002
There were only two dissenters last night: Dikembe Mutombo and Matt Harpring.
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| Jan 3, 2002
Ed Snider says that Larry Brown is the 76ers coach, that he expects him to continue to be the 76ers coach.
