The Sixers traveled to Toronto tonight for a date with the Raptors as they looked to snap a 5 game losing streak against the current number 6 seed in the Eastern conference. Given how poorly the Sixers had played against the Eastern conference's best thus far this season, the prospects of snapping the losing streak on this night were not high. Still, as usual the Sixers put forth maximum effort and this time it payed off. While their defense struggled again allowing Toronto to shoot 51% from the field en route to a 101 points and their offense was red hot. They shot 55% from the field and a whopping 75% from beyond the arc with 9 treys. They matched Toronto shot for shot early on and in the end their firepower proved to be too much for the Raptors to handle. The two teams were tied after a quarter of play, but by the half they had pulled ahead by 8, then 14 heading into in the 4th quarter and finally finished off the night with a 13 point, 114-101, victory. You just wonder whether this comes just in time to save the Sixers from giving up on the season or just too late to make a difference.
The man of night for the Sixers was Thaddeus Young who posted a career high 32 points, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals to fuel the Sixers to the win. Jrue Holiday was also impressive with 21, 6 assists, and 7 rebounds and Andre Iguodala was solid as always with 16 and 10 assists. Meanwhile, Elton Brand added 12 and 9 rebounds and Lou Williams posted 12, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists. Even Samuel Dalember, who came off the bench for the 1st time this season, was a solid contributor with 8 and 3 rebounds. So it was another total team effort for the Sixers and one of their best in some time. They're really going to need a lot of more those if they still have designs on a playoff run and at this point, event if they do a lot more efforts like these, that's still a pretty big if. So with the win the Sixers move to 23-39 overall, which keeps them 10th in the East, now within 8 games of the 8th.
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