Final
Jazz continue trek at Philadelphia
Jan 22, 2011 - 4:10 PM (Sports Network) - The Utah Jazz resume a five-game road trip tonight in the City of Brotherly Love against a Sixers team that has struggled to close out tight games.The Jazz are winless so far on the trek, having lost in Washington, New Jersey and Boston. In Friday's 110-86 setback to the Celtics at TD Garden, Earl Watson scored 12 in a reserve role and Andrei Kirilenko and Paul Millsap each had 11 points for Utah, which is 12-9 away from home and a half-game behind Oklahoma City for the Northwest lead.
"They jumped on us tonight, there a good team, they put a lot of pressure on you defensively," Jazz forward Raja Bell said. "Consequently we never got into our stuff, and when we did we didn't screen well, we didn't pass well, and it's hard to score when that's happening. We got in a bit of foul trouble which hurt us, and offensively they're good."
Deron Williams provided only five points and six assists in defeat. The Jazz will close out the trek Tuesday against the LA Lakers.
The Sixers, meanwhile, had a chance to win two tough road encounters this week but faltered down the stretch in both. Most recently, D.J. Augustin poured in a career-high 31 points, including 25 in the first half, on Thursday as the Charlotte Bobcats snapped a two-game skid against Philadelphia, topping the 76ers 100-97 at Time Warner Cable Arena.
Thaddeus Young led the Sixers with 21 points and Andre Iguodala contributed 19 points, but missed a crucial jumper in the final seconds for Philadelphia, which was coming off a heartbreaking overtime loss in Orlando on Wednesday.
"We just gotta get the team to learn how to play the game in certain situations," Iguodala said of the Sixers late-game struggles. "Late in games we gotta continue to know how to close out a game."
Utah has won six straight and nine of 10 over Philadelphia, and has swept the home-and-home series between the two clubs over the previous three seasons.
The 76ers are winless in the last three as the host in this series.
- UTAH: 85
PHILADELPHIA: 96
Final
Jan 22 9:46 PM - UTAH: 63
PHILADELPHIA: 70
End of 3rd
Jan 22 9:12 PM - UTAH: 41
PHILADELPHIA: 47
Halftime
Jan 22 8:32 PM - UTAH: 22
PHILADELPHIA: 26
End of 1st
Jan 22 8:03 PM
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