76ers Daily News

Yahoo NBA Thu, 03/26/2009 1:25 AM

76ers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Thaddeus Young is playing the best basketball of his two-year NBA career. In the last five games, the first four of which came on the Sixers' West Coast trip, Young scored at least 20 points, averaging 24.4 points and shooting .547 from the field along the way. He'd never hit for 20 in more than three straight prior to this stretch. Young has scored 20-plus in eight of 10 games, including 31 in a March 13 win over the Bulls. Perhaps most impressive is that the Sixers don't run many plays for the left-handed Young. He gets the majority of his points in the normal flow of the game. He tends to be able to get to the rim and also finishes well on the break. "Thaddeus has been great," said Sixers head coach Tony DiLeo. Read more...