The Sixers painted the Raptors black and blue

The Sixers pounded yhr paint like there was no tomorrow as they went into the time after time for easy and it was easiest in the fourth quarter where they shot well over 50% in great parts to getting 20 of their 58 points in the paint in the fourth quarter and they used the easy baskets to drive up their shooting% to 53.2% after shooting% like 47% going into the fourth quarter. The Sixers had 41 made buckets from the floor and 29 of them were in the paint so it looks like when a team decides to inside on the Raptors it is like easy pickings and the Raptors need to get tougher inside and the Sixers were sharing the rock sd they had 27 assists on those 31 buckets which is 67% of the time as they painted the Raptors black and blue to the tune of 73-75 and pulled away in the fourth with a 30-20 advantage. The Sixers did not dominate the boards (as both teams had 42 in the game) or even on the offensive glass (as the Raptors had a 8-4 advantage). They were lead by Thaddeus Young who had 17 points (8 of 12 from the floor and a made free throw) and 5 boards along with Nikola Vucevic who had 12 points, 5 boards, 3 assists. Elton Brand had 11 points and 6 boards while Jrue Holiday had 8 points, 7 boards, 7 assists and the Sixers had 9 of their 10 players they used were at or over 20 minutes so it was a great group effort from a team that diffidently needed a whole team effort as they had lost 10 of 14 before beating the Nets and have now won two in a row. Talking about being black and blue that was Jose Calderon who took another hit and had to get more stitches and had 7 points and 4 assists in 22 minutes while Kleiza went down hard with an injury. DeRozan had his second straight game under 15 points and only took 9 shots and went to the line one times and had only 11 points but it was Ed Davis who had another big game on the glass with 13 boards and tied Alan Anderson for most points with 13 and it would be nice if he was more consistent on a game to game basis. Four loses in a row and the Celtics on Friday with Bargnani insight Tom Mehegan