Surprising thing about this series so far is that it's been Detroit's big guys off the bench, mainly McDyess, that have provided the lift for the Pistons in the first half, then Rasheed has come out strong in the second half, at least in the first two games.
Looks like the Sixers got the contributions from the bench bigs tonight...RRogers hit a couple of threes to give the Sixers a lead heading into the 4th, and he'd been predictably worthless in the first two games. If there's one thing Billy King did wrong in making the CWebb trade, it was completely sacrificing their bench depth at PF/C by giving up KT, Corliss and Skinner. In fact, it's really just Skinner that was the guy I wouldn't have let go --- his athleticism could have been quite key for the Philly bench instead of having two ground bound bulky guys like Jackson and Rogers off the bench.
Good win for the Sixers in game 3. In game 4 they'll need another performance out of AI like the one he had tonight, and it'd be helpful if CWebb could have a performance akin to his game 1 performance. Good thing for the Sixers about being at home is that Korver seems to shoot much, much better at home vs. the road. I've always held to thought that role players generally play better at home...only time it didn't really work out to be true was the Kings' game 7 loss against the Lakers a few years back when DC laid a complete egg in that game.
Edit: also, re: the Sixers and their deadline trades, it would've been nice had the team been able to convince Glenn Robinson to play for them...GRob can't be much more of a defensive liability than Korver, and he's certainly a more effective scorer. But GRob had it in his head that he should've started for the Sixers, so I guess he was fine with not playing at all instead of coming off the bench behind a guy like Korver. It will be interesting to see if he has any impact for the Spurs in these playoffs.