While it’s true that the Sixers have played a lot of competitive basketball at home in the season’s second half, the wheels are starting to fall off that train as it’s about to pull into the station. They’ve submitted some stinkers over the last few weeks, and this one would go right at the top of the list. As Robert Covington stressed after the game, “That wasn’t us out there.” On balance since the 0-17 start, I would wholeheartedly agree. In recent times, though? Ehhhh. Without John Wall and Nene, Washington scored 35 points in each of the game’s first two quarters, and while they made some tough shots at times, those numbers are representative of how poor the Sixers were defensively. Gordie Jones (who I sit next to during the games) always says, “That’s too easy” when a team commits a defensive breakdown. Gordie said that far too many times tonight, and never about the Wizards.
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