SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers welcomed the Chicago Bulls to the Wachovia center tonight as they looked get back on track after blowing a sure victory in New York Knick. Unfortunately they decided not to try once again and Chicago crushed them for the 2nd time in as many meetings between these two teams. Lou Williams played just 11 minutes before leaving with back spasms and Elton Brand, although healthy, played just 17 minutes and benched in 4th quarter, after going 1 for 4 from the field for 2 points. Andre Iguodala played a litttle more normal 25 minutes, but he was an awful 3 of 11 from the field for just 11 points. Incredibly among the Sixer's starters on the night, Samuel Dalembert was leading scorer with 16. Considering Sammy is usually the 5th and final option on offense, it is generally a bad sign when he's the leading scorer. You're just not going to win too often relying on Sammy to lead the way. Aside from relying on Sammy the Sixers also failed to again to attack basket, instead settling for jumpers on one possession after another, not good considering they went just 1 of 17 from beyond and shot only 40% from the field overall.

By the comparison the Bulls didn't play all that great either, but they were actually trying to win and they did by 14, 98-84, after a holding off a late and pretty much meaningless Sixer run. It was too late to suddenly make a run, and there was no way they were going to catch Chicago at that point anyway. Other than Sammy, the other bright spots for the Sixers Jrue Holiday who was impressive again with 10 and 10 rebounds, and Mo Speights who had his best game in some time with a Sixers high 17 and 11 rebounds. Other than that there was little to cheer about for the Sixers tonight and at this point it doesn't appear there were will be much to cheer about for the remainder of the season. With the loss the Sixers drop to 24-46 overall, but remain 11th in the East, 11 games out of 8th.