SIXERS NEWS

The Miracle finally happened tonight. The Sixers actually won a game, against a good Eastern conference team, in the Milwaukee Bucks, who came in as the 5th seed in the Eastern conference. Given the Sixer's track record against the top Eastern conference teams this season, there wasn't much hope for them to win tonight. Instead for a change they actually played for it and showed what they're capable of doing when they actually care. They shot 54% from the field with 6 Sixers scoring in double figrues, on a superb night for the Sixer scorers, led by Wille Green and his 16. Thanks to the hot shooting the Sixers were able jump out to a 5 point lead after the 1st quarter, a 13 point lead at half, and an 18 point lead, heading into the 4th quarter. There the Bucks were able to make a final push but the Sixers held them off for a surprising 101-86 win.

for their part the Bucks didn't play that poorly, but they shot just 40% from the field compared to the Sixers 50%, hit just 5 treys, the Sixers actually had more with 6, and were outrebounded by the Sixers 43-37. Basically they played down to the Sixers like the most of top teams in the NBA have against the Sixers this season, but simply weren't good enough to pull it off. Losing games like this that you should win is just one of those things that happens to young teams like Milwaukee, and the Sixers know that all too well by now. While Willie Green was there leading scorer tonight, the Sixers top performer on the night was Sammy Dalembert who tallied another 12 and 10 rebounds on the night. Jrue Holliday was pretty impressive too with 15 and 7 assists, but all in all it was a total team effort for the Sixers tonight and the best they've put forth in some time. So now the Sixers move to 25-47 overall, still good enough for 12th in the East, currently 11 games out of 8th.