After a tough loss to the Mavericks had a golden chance to get right back on track night as they played host to Kevin Love and the lowly T-Wolves. Despite not giving necessarily their best effort they were able to take advantage of the opportunity. They did just enough defensively, racking up 8 blocks and 6 steals, and holding Minnesota just under 50% from the field at 47%. After a slow start the Sixers were close to lights out offensively, shooting 52% from the field and 82% from the line as 6 Sixers scored in double figures. Andre Iguodala led the way with a triple double(22, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds) while Elton Brand had 21 big points despite getting in early foul trouble, Jodie Meeks sunk a pair of treys and wound up with 12, and off the bench Thad Young had 16 and 8 rebounds, Lou Williams had 12, and Evan Turner had 10.
The Sixers really did get off to a sluggish start, pretty much devoid of energy and found themselves down 9 after a 1st quarter full of bricks and spotty defense. They must have eaten their power bars after that as the 2nd quarter was a totally different story with Sixers out scoring the T-Wolves by 16 to take a 7 point lead into the half. They simply traded baskets with Minnesota with 3rd quarter as they maintained their 7 point lead heading into the 4th. The 4th quarter was more of the same with the Sixers picking it up at the end pull out to a more crowd pleasing 11 point victory, 111-100. The win coupled with a yet another Knicks loss to the Cavs moves the 31-30 Sixers to within a half of a game of 6th in the East.
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