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Sixers-Pacers Game 6 preview
Posted: Friday May 19, 2000 03:38 PM
The schedule says this is Game 6 in the best of seven. The players see it differently. Says Reggie Miller, who returns from a one game suspension tonight: "We have to approach it like it's Game 7, because nothing is ever assured if there is a Game 7 in our building." Says the Sixers' Toni Kukoc: "We can't think of it as Game 6. It's Game 7 for the fourth time in a row." Who would have thought that there would be any need for such comments after the first three games of this series. Indiana dominated. Their 3 point shooting (28 of 62) was outstanding, but over the last two, with Miller kicked out of one, and sitting in the other it has suffered. In the last two games they have hit 10 of 41. Meantime Philadelphia has played its best ball....getting playoff caliber stuff out of guys besides Allen Iverson. How about Aaron McKie's near triple-double in Game 5....and Theo Ratliff's overpowering presence in the most recent game with 26 points, 9 rebounds and 4 blocks. The Pacers have been one of the toughest teams in the playoff field to figure out through the first two rounds. If Travis Best doesn't hit a key three pointer, Indiana's watching Milwaukee take on Philadelphia. If he could have hit a jumper in Game 4, the Pacers might be sitting around and waiting for the Knicks/Heat winner. How will they respond to the hostile Philly atmosphere tonight in their third potential clincher? Will Reggie Miller feed off the frenzy? Will he be Superman, as he was in Game 5 vs the Bucks, and Game 1 of this series, or will Clark Kent make an apperance at 1st Union Center? Will these teams have a Sunday meeting at Conseco to settle this thing once and for all? The Pacers know full well the danger if the answer to that last one is yes.
Provided courtesy of TNT, copyright 2003
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