Game 60: Heat vs 76ers.

[NYSixersFan]

Fire Daryl and Doc!

[Jay555]

My reverse psych failed me. What’s my take? Butler made a circus shot. Harden was fouled. Harden missed the potential winner. Maxey came alive too late. Oh yeah. He was fouled too with no landing space. The good news is we didn’t have any major injuries after the scares. We look like the third seed.

That Harden foul was some BS. On the other hand, Jimmy Butler gets a call no matter what he does.

[Ferry Avenue]

I don’t know why this team draws up late-game plays for Embiid instead of Harden. Embiid wastes almost all of the remaining clock and forces Harden to do nothing but shoot a three instead of penetrating and creating.

[Sixercise]

uhhhhhh looks like our bad habit of crawling out of deficits is finally catching up. thankful that tyrese is ok....but tobias' inconsistency is really infuriating, as is our overall effort. why does it seem like this team either 1) sleepwalks through the 1st half to crawl/scratch back up to level or 2) gains a big lead than sleepwalk there?

I hate to do this to our 2 best players, but they set the tone, good or bad. And it seems (at least to me) that hustling/scrapping is not their forte, which kinda bogs down the rest of the team's overall drive. Forget that we signed all these "tough guys" and traded for McD (who kinda helps in that department)....the 1-2 combo needs to show some more hunger.

[Ferry Avenue]

uhhhhhh looks like our bad habit of crawling out of deficits is finally catching up. thankful that tyrese is ok....but tobias' inconsistency is really infuriating, as is our overall effort. why does it seem like this team either 1) sleepwalks through the 1st half to crawl/scratch back up to level or 2) gains a big lead than sleepwalk there?

I hate to do this to our 2 best players, but they set the tone, good or bad. And it seems (at least to me) that hustling/scrapping is not their forte, which kinda bogs down the rest of the team's overall drive. Forget that we signed all these "tough guys" and traded for McD (who kinda helps in that department)....the 1-2 combo needs to show some more hunger.

Like I’ve said for over a year now, if your “spearhead” players aren’t dogs, it’ll put exactly the ceiling on the team you’re talking about. Adding to the periphery of the roster won’t be sufficient to change that.

[brannigan73]

Heat are 33% on 3p as a team and they could not miss tonight.

Defending the 3pt line has been a major issue as it shows the last few games and we need to fix it fast.

I hear you but at the same time the heat scored 101 points. All we had to do was score a whopping 102 points. The fourth quarter offense the two teams played set basketball back 50 years. Part of it is defense but watching it the sixers missed some easy shots and played tight. It's not like it's not something we haven't seen many times before!

[Embiid P]

I don’t know why this team draws up late-game plays for Embiid instead of Harden. Embiid wastes almost all of the remaining clock and forces Harden to do nothing but shoot a three instead of penetrating and creating.

Blame it on the Doc.

[NYSixersFan]

We have a much better chance of losing in the 1st round than getting to the conference finals.

[Embiid P]

Hopefully these last two losses motivate Morey to sign someone before March 1. Not gonna hold my breath though.

[76ciology]

I don’t know why this team draws up late-game plays for Embiid instead of Harden. Embiid wastes almost all of the remaining clock and forces Harden to do nothing but shoot a three instead of penetrating and creating.

Because he’s more clutch. He generated a good look for Harden

[76ciology]

Embiid has to look at these two possessions

Against the Celts:
That hurried turnaround jumper at left baseline

Againsy Heat:
That hurried fadeaway jumper that was blocked at right baseline

Those were bad shots IMO

[76ciology]

Jimmy was great on the last defensive possession. He was supposed to be at the right corner. But that was a really good gamble that paid off because he was able to challenge that shot by James.

[brannigan73]

uhhhhhh looks like our bad habit of crawling out of deficits is finally catching up. thankful that tyrese is ok....but tobias' inconsistency is really infuriating, as is our overall effort. why does it seem like this team either 1) sleepwalks through the 1st half to crawl/scratch back up to level or 2) gains a big lead than sleepwalk there?

I hate to do this to our 2 best players, but they set the tone, good or bad. And it seems (at least to me) that hustling/scrapping is not their forte, which kinda bogs down the rest of the team's overall drive. Forget that we signed all these "tough guys" and traded for McD (who kinda helps in that department)....the 1-2 combo needs to show some more hunger.

Harden and Embiid are 2 all time greats but I wouldn't want to be in a situation where my life depended on either of those two guys. I'd take a tougher but less talented guy like butler although butler is better then harden these days.

[Ferry Avenue]

I don’t know why this team draws up late-game plays for Embiid instead of Harden. Embiid wastes almost all of the remaining clock and forces Harden to do nothing but shoot a three instead of penetrating and creating.

Because he’s more clutch. He generated a good look for Harden

But that was a play with no flexibility — it was that three-point shot or nothing. I would rather have Harden penetrating and creating and having the flexibility to shoot, get fouled, or pass. They needed only two points, not three.

[76ciology]

I don’t know why this team draws up late-game plays for Embiid instead of Harden. Embiid wastes almost all of the remaining clock and forces Harden to do nothing but shoot a three instead of penetrating and creating.

Because he’s more clutch. He generated a good look for Harden

But that was a play with no flexibility — it was that three-point shot or nothing. I would rather have Harden penetrating and creating and having the flexibility to shoot, get fouled, or pass. They needed only two points, not three.

The fact that Heat has to send help shows it was a high ppp offensive action. Thats all you get.

You taking open shots on offense and live with opponents taking highly contested shots. then you live with those results. Nobody is giving up layups.

If it gone the opposite way, people will ask why not let Biid take that shot since he is the league’s top scorer, is money on that left baseline and is on a mismatch.

[76ciology]

Honestly, I havent watched the entire game. But looks like Maxey bounced back. Thats all i care. As long as he can keep playing like that we have a good chance.

For this game, we need to look at the tape and find out why we played sooo sloppy with 20 TOs.

Seems like if Jimmy is a helper, Embiid TO rate just increases by 2 fold or something.

[Skates]

Time to put Maxey back in the starting lineup, but we need to take a run at Will Barton to add some additional bench scoring mentality.

Nice minutes by Reed tonight, he has really been playing well.

Too many guys afraid to or unsure of when to pull the trigger and we end up overpassing into TO’s.

[cej11]

One thing I realize is Mcdaniels is not the offensive scorer I hope he would be. He doesn't have a scoring mindset at all. This team desperately needs Will Barton or even a Carmelo Anthony scorer off the bench in a major way. That 2nd quarter and beginning of the 4th qt lineup is terrible ad Doc keeps going to it.

[Wilfried]

What a disgrace of a game from Tobias. Really cannot accept such performances. I can live with a 2-18 performance, but not a game where he takes 4 shots.

[Embiid P]

What a disgrace of a game from Tobias. Really cannot accept such performances. I can live with a 2-18 performance, but not a game where he takes 4 shots.

I keep counting down the number of regular season games when he and his albatross are hopefully "OUTTA HERE" (to quote the late great Harry Kalas). 21 RS games to go until he is officially traded.