Initially you’d think that Philly pushing the pace is actually beneficial to the Hawks, who NEED to be playing up-tempo. It looks favorable-you’d think the Hawks could eventually run Philly into the ground, since they’ve got an aging PG in Miller, and two frontline bigs who both have bad knees (And both knees are bad, in Dalembert’s case).

But early, the 76ers are beating the Hawks up and down the floor. I’m starting to wonder how this is going to play out-especially if the Hawks keeping taking and missing jump shots.

Flip on the floor with JJ and Acie in the second quarter and it’s like a bad joke. Not only is Flip taking every conceivable shot, he can’t really guard anybody. Willie Evans bailed him out by missing a free throw for a and-1 opportunity.

Don’t know about that line-up on the floor either. Law, Murray, Johnson, Smith, Pachulia. Murray doesn’t add anything at all to that backcourt, but is trying his hardest to undermine it.

I can’t begin to find words for how ineffective Josh Smith was during the first half.

0-7 FG, 0 PTs, 4 rebounds, -11 in about 19 minutes.

Flip Murray and Acie Law both went -8 in 6 minutes, which is hard to do. Acie was hurt by playing most of those minutes alongside Ronald, and the whole line-up was playing mostly against Brand, Y oung, Miller, and Iguodala. Basically the Sixers starting 5 minus Dalembert.

Someone needs to remind Woody that this isn’t preseason any more.

I’m going to stop commenting while I watch the rest of this game.

great win for the hawks.

I actually like the way we are using Flip Murry despite the ire he draws from statheads. he might take bad shots, and he might have a bad field goal %, but if you sleep on him, he will kill you. there was one play in particular where philly overplayed J.J. and Bibby, and murry got an easy layup off of it.

He can help this team as long as he is used judiciously.

Philly is a bad long-range team. However, tonight they got many long shots to fall. I thought this was the main reason for their early lead. Once, those shots stopped falling for them, things got considerably easier for the hawks.

Kudos to Josh Smith for staying poised despite a bad first half, and being the force in the second half that we are used to seeing. He has shot the long-ball well early in the season, Considering how many people have called for him to stop shooting 3-point shots altogether, it might have been lost that if he can actually become a decent 3-point shooter, he could truly become a great player (and close to ungaurdable). This is unlikely of course, but its still worth throwing out there.