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"We tried to get some things accomplished today that we didn't get accomplished last night," Mo Cheeks said afterwards. "Just get in the habit of no light days and doing things hard."
They watched film beforehand and perhaps learned a thing or two from what Barcelona did, and not just what they didn't. No one said that American teams can't borrow ideas from European teams.
"I liked the way they corralled screen-and-rolls," Cheeks said. "We're getting better at the way we do it, and they do it pretty effectively. We'll look at some of the things they did and you never know, you always take something away from a game whether you win or lose."
So while the result was a pretty big deal here in Barcelona, it wasn't the deciding factor in how the Sixers practiced today, or how they'll move forward.
"We had a real good practice," Chris Webber said. "We didn't like the fact that we lost, so we came in and played hard, but we really weren't thinking about the game. We should have won, no excuses, but with five games of practice, we did pretty well scoring the amount of points that we did. Today, we just concentrated on getting better without really getting caught up in losing the game."
So, they're not letting a preseason loss get them. They're concentrating on forming good habits. Day in and day out.
"Today was an example of which way we're gonna do it whether we won or lost," Cheeks said.
Kyle Korver started 43 games last year, while Kevin Ollie started much of the last two months of the season. Willie Green was the "fifth starter" Thursday night, but that doesn't carry much significance at this point.
"I'm just experimenting and seeing which way I'm gonna go," Cheeks said.
Stay tuned ...