The Sixers welcomed the struggling Milwaukee Bucks to the Wachovia center tonight. Without Thaddeus Young in the lineup they were going to need someone to pick up the scoring slack. Surprisingly, Reggie Evans who got the start in Young's place, did so with 13 points, as well as Maurice Speights and Lou Williams with 14 and 21 respectively off the bench. In fact as a team the Sixers shot 50% from the field and got to the free throw line 43 times. So they really picked things up as a team, to get on without Thad. Defensively, the Sixers had a decent night as well outrebounding Milwaukee 44-28 and holding them to 28% shooting from beyond the arc. Early on after playing to a tie in the first quarter, Milwaukee actually took a 9 point lead into the half with the score 59-50. In the 2nd half however, it was all Sixers. By the 4th quarter they had already rallied back ahead by 1 with the score 80-79. Then in the 4th quarter, thanks to the clutch scoring of sweet Lou the Sixers were able to comfortably pull away to a 10 point win,with the final score 105-95. So the Sixers improve to 39-35 overall and move at last to 5th in the Eastern conference by .5 games over the now 6th place Miami Heat.
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Woo...finally got that 5th place. I'll enjoy it no matter how long it lasts.
-to ph1llysports
yeah hopefully the rest of the season
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