In the oddity of the week, I played the 76ers twice. Both games on the road. Both games won. By the exact same score (97-94).
Ricky Davis doesn't want to see Pettit anymore. After dropping 41 pts on 16-27 shooting, 2 days later pettit drops 31 pts on 12-21 shooting. That's 58.3% and 1.5 points per shot.
4-0 on the road. Very encouraging. I'm now 20-10 but I've played more road games (16) than home games (14). Very good sign as the season progresses. I still think I can catch Miami.
Offense was still nothing great (95 ppg on 43.6% shooting, 31.8% from downtown and 62.2% from the line). Okafor and Pettit can keep me from being a bad offensive team, but can't prevent me from being much more than mediocre offensively.
Turned the ball over more than I'd like.
Teams did score the ball on me this sim. Where I got lucky was I forced a ton of turnovers (over 18 a game).
I now lead the league in both blocks and steals
Pettit was a man among boys. 30.4 ppg on 50% shooting, 42.9% from downtown and 89% from the stripe. as well as 6.4 boards, 4.4 assists, and 3 steals. Didn't have one game where he scored less than 25 points. Amazing.
Okafor had a very nice sim. 20.6 pts, 12.8 boards, and 4 blocks.
Dalembert had some games where he got in foul trouble but still chipped in 10.6 boards and 3 blocks in limited minutes.
Daniels was incredible. 19 pts, 8.6 assists, 53.9% shooting, 38.1% from downtown. All at nearly a 5/1 assist to turnover ratio. GoldenStateGM questioned whether he could do that when he was asked to do more and this is proof.
Barbosa's stepped up and been a nice 6th man.
I better beat the raptors this sim
