SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers kept on rolling this afternoon in Atlanta against the shorthanded Hawks, who were playing without star forward Al Horford. Largely due to his absence the Sixers were dominant underneath the basket with 39 rebounds to 24 for the Hawks. Also largely due to their dominance around the basket the Sixers shot a blisteringg 54% from the field, but they were also hot from beyond the arc shooting 60% while draining 9 threes. Andre Iguodala with 27 points and Thaddeus Young with 22 each hit 3 threes to lead the way offensively. Once again the defense was just okay but when you're shooting and scoring with ease like this, okay is all the defense needs to be. Essentially the Sixers were simply clicking on all cylinders in this one and never really trailed. The two teams were actually tied at 30 after a quarter of play, before the Sixers ran out to a 7 point halftime lead with the score 59-52. Atlanta tried to mount a comeback in the 3rd quarter but the Sixers stood tall and maintained a 5 point lead heading into the 4th quarter. There they turned it on again, eventually pulling away to win by 15 with the final score 109-94. So the Sixers improve to 17-20 overall and are now tied for the 8th spot in the Eastern conference, but Milwaukee still holds the spot by percentage points.