Just now, Khani1 said:

He seems really tired. That double OT game might have drained him. 

possible. It feel like it’s just an emotional letdown game after that finish by pretty much every starter besides Harris. 

It seems Embid is scared to rebound because of his thumb.

Every ball seems to be bouncing Toronto's way....2 banks by Siakim, every long rebound bouncing right to Toronto.....

1 minute ago, NYEagle said:

It seems Embid is scared to rebound because of his thumb.

Every ball seems to be bouncing Toronto's way....2 banks by Siakim, every long rebound bouncing right to Toronto.....

I give us credit if we pull this out. Played a C/D grade type of game and still potentially winning it.  

Killing us in points off turnovers 

Terrible foul by Harris and get banged knees on it

This one is done. Embiid is playing like crap and nobody else seems to care.

I don’t get why Maxey isn’t even attempting to drive to the rim?

2 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

I don’t get why Maxey isn’t even attempting to drive to the rim?

He’s been terrible this game. He was bound to throw in a clunker at some point. 

5 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

I don’t get why Maxey isn’t even attempting to drive to the rim?

Because he hasn’t come close at all today

Refs are atrocious

They took Harden away as the playmaker and letting him try to beat him 1v1. That will be the defensive gameplan moving forward I bet. 

Raptors in 7

These refs are garbage

game over

Bench for embiid

2 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Bench for embiid

He’s done.  Take offers for him he’s always hurt at the worst times.  Done 

2 minutes ago, GoEagles5921 said:

He’s done.  Take offers for him he’s always hurt at the worst times.  Done 

You're a moron

Kept cutting it close in the 3rd but couldn’t get over the hump. One of those days. End it Monday. 

Getting Thybulle back helps. Niang played great the last 2 games 

7 minutes ago, GroundAttack said:

Kept cutting it close in the 3rd but couldn’t get over the hump. One of those days. End it Monday. 

Three things killed the sixers today

1. lack of energy and urgency to close this series out. felt like the first half of last game but for 4 quarters. 

2. 15 turnovers and gave up 13 offensive boards. That’s an extra 28 possessions for the raptors and they didn’t even have VanVleet in the second half. Meanwhile the sixers 6 offensive boards and created 11 turnovers. Meaning 17 extra possessions. They were a -11 today. That’s really the major difference in winning and losing 

3. Nurse forced Harden to be more of a scorer and maxey, green and embiid for large stretches were really not good in this game. Likely the gameplan you’ll see the rest of this series and going forward because at this stage harden isn’t healthy enough or good enough to beat you as a scorer. 

7 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Three things killed the sixers today

1. lack of energy and urgency to close this series out. felt like the first half of last game but for 4 quarters. 

2. 15 turnovers and gave up 13 offensive boards. That’s an extra 28 possessions for the raptors and they didn’t even have VanVleet in the second half. Meanwhile the sixers 6 offensive boards and created 11 turnovers. Meaning 17 extra possessions. They were a -11 today. That’s really the major difference in winning and losing 

3. Nurse forced Harden to be more of a scorer and maxey, green and embiid for large stretches were really not good in this game. Likely the gameplan you’ll see the rest of this series and going forward because at this stage harden isn’t healthy enough or good enough to beat you as a scorer. 

1. Not that big of a deal if close out in Game 5 but Doc needs to keep adjusting. Kork for more spacing? 

2. How many of those offensive boards were in the zone. I get Raptors can't shoot the 3, but need to better at finding bodies. 

3. Agree. Said it earlier that teams will make Harden purely a scorer and won't affect them as much this series or vs Hawks if they win. Heat and then Celtics/Bucks it could be a different story. 

11 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

1. Not that big of a deal if close out in Game 5 but Doc needs to keep adjusting. Kork for more spacing? 

2. How many of those offensive boards were in the zone. I get Raptors can't shoot the 3, but need to better at finding bodies. 

3. Agree. Said it earlier that teams will make Harden purely a scorer and won't affect them as much this series or vs Hawks if they win. Heat and then Celtics/Bucks it could be a different story. 

I’d say kork but they haven’t played him in meaningful minutes in what seems like forever. I’m actually surprised doc decided to play Paul reed more this series and the last couple regular season game. I do think thybulle’s defense will help on someone like Trent who killed us in Toronto and not make us have to overplay Danny Green. 

We didn’t do a good job boxing guys out. The raptors are only going to win games is if they win the glass and force us into a high amount of turnovers. Which i thought both games in Toronto forced us into a ton of turnovers. This game they did both 

yeah if they face Miami m/bucks/Celtics will employ this strategy with him. I’m not sure the sixers can win those series if embiid is going to play like he did today and game 1 for half those series. If we are being honest i thought Toronto was the better team in this game start to finish and half of game 3. This series might be 3-1 but the last two games it easily could be 2-2 if not for a timeout by doc. felt like today we also played with a lack of energy similar to when we lost to the pistons 

Oh well. Close it out Monday. Worst game Maxey has played in awhile. That won’t happen again in game 5. 

They will win by 12-15 Monday. Everyone calm down. 

I 100% agree with rich on this 

 

no effort today...complete the gentleman's sweep in philly.