SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers welcomed the Milwaukee Bucks to the Wachovia center tonight as they looked to snap a 5 game losing streak. Playoff bound Milwaukee came in on a 3 game winning streak, but without top big man Andrew Bogut, so the Sixers at least had a chance in this one. They played fairly yet again with 9 treys, and managed to hang in there with Milwaukee for most of the night, but as always came up in short in the end. They just couldn't stop the Bucks on the other side of the floor. They hit 10 treys, and 21 of 23 free throws, a near perfect performance from the line. Carlos Delfino alone, had 5 treys and really lit them up with a game high 23. Brandon Jennings also shredded the Sixer's defense with 18 and 7 assists. Still with 20 seconds left the Sixers found themselves within 2 after Jrue Holiday drilled a three, to cut it to 89-87 Milwaukee. After a couple Milwaukee free throws, Andre Iguodala drilled another three with 13 seconds to cut it to 91-90. That would be as the close as the Sixers would get though. With 9 seconds left Holiday missed a three that would have tied it at 93 and then Sammy Dalembert lost the rebound out of rebounds.

Two more free throws and a missed Iggy three and Bucks had held on to win 95-90. Iggy ended as the Sixer's leading scorer on the night with 21, while Holiday chipped in with a solid 13 and 8 assists. Lou Williams,Willie Green, and Jodie Meeks also came off the bench to score in double figures. Other than that it was pretty much status quo for the Sixers in this one. There was plenty of O but not much D and that usually doesn't get you anywhere. Maybe the only other interesting tid bit from this game was that Francisco Elson was actually activated for the night and got a chance to play, probably just so that other teams can get a look at him, because he won't be back here next season. He actually scored a couple points and pulled down rebound in only 4 minutes, showing that maybe the Sixers should have put him out there sooner. Anyway so the Sixers drop their 6th in a row and at 26-53 now, they finally drop to 13th in the Eastern conference, only 1 game ahead of the 14th place Wizards.