Alvin Williams sat in the visitors' locker room icing his aching knees and feet, but there wasn't an ice pack big enough to dispel the steam still rising from Allen Iverson's nuclear 54-point performance against the Toronto Raptors last night.

Putting single coverage on Iverson is the NBA equivalent of risky business and, unfortunately for Williams, he was the man alone on that sinking island during most of the 76ers' 97-92 win in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at the First Union Center.

"If I held him to 44, we would have won. That's why I'm so upset," said Williams, a Germantown Academy and Villanova product who first matched up against Iverson in college. "It's just frustrating on my part to look at the stat sheet. When I look at the game again tomorrow, it will be real frustrating. But there's not going to be another night like this."