These were Eric Snow's 23.9 seconds.

Tie game in the final moments of regulation Tuesday night. The ball in the hands of Houston guard Moochie Norris, whose late-game heroics for the Rockets this season had been mushrooming to legendary proportions.

But as much as the game had belonged to the Sixers' Allen Iverson, who finished with a career-high 58 points in what eventually became a 112-106 overtime victory, these 23.9 seconds belonged to Snow, their best on-the-ball defender.