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Spurs vie to continue home dominance of 76ers

Nov 13, 2010 - 3:52 PM (Sports Network) - The San Antonio Spurs will try to maintain their home mastery of the Philadelphia 76ers when the two teams clash this evening at the AT&T Center.

The Spurs have won six straight and 22 of the past 23 matchups at home versus the 76ers, whose last win in the Alamo City was an 83-77 victory on January 3, 2004. San Antonio has won eight of the last 12 overall games in this series.

Richard Jefferson and Manu Ginobili helped the Spurs record their fifth straight victory by scoring 22 points apiece in Wednesday's 107-95 triumph over the visiting Los Angeles Clippers. Tony Parker had 21 points and nine assists, while Tim Duncan battled flu-like symptoms for a season-low six points. George Hill had 10 points off the bench for the Spurs, who shot 49.3 percent from the floor and posted their 18th straight win over the Clippers.

"I don't think we played that well. We shot well so that really helped us, but I think we could have played much better," Ginobili said.

San Antonio is 3-1 as the host this season and will not have rookie James Anderson for some time after he was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right foot. Anderson was selected in the first round in June's draft out of Oklahoma State and is averaging 7.0 points per game.

Sixers first-year head coach Doug Collins saw his team fall to 2-7 on the season following Friday's 99-90 loss at Dallas. Philadelphia, which has been in every game until the end in their seven defeats, got 17 points from Thaddeus Young in a reserve role.

Spencer Hawes and Andres Nocioni each added 14 points for Philadelphia, which has lost two straight contests since opening its five-game road trip with a win at New York. The 76ers will close out the trek in Cleveland on Tuesday.

"Their size killed us," Collins said of the Mavs. "At the end of the day [it was] their size. Tyson Chandler and Brendan [Haywood] had 29 rebounds, 12 on the offensive backboards. So, that's a very, very good shooting team, and a very, very good offensive team, and they shoot 44 percent tonight and it was the second chance, the second shots, that just wore us down."

Jrue Holiday finished with 11 points and 13 assists and Andre Iguodala added 13 points and seven rebounds in his first game back from a strained right Achilles tendon. Iguodala had missed back-to-back games.