Jailblazers7 wrote:Overall, we showed a ton of fight & resilience which hasn’t been a Sixers hallmark for years. Hopefully that was a cathartic win for the team & they can play with a little more confidence in big games the rest of this run.
I credit the fight and resilience to a couple of things - one, the veteran presence of guys who have been in and won big games, and guys like Oubre and Hield, who haven't seen the playoffs a lot but also don't have the scars from the playoff letdowns that many of our vets certainly still have, and want to show out.
Two, and maybe most importantly, having a coach who understands how to win playoff games, that it quite often includes adjusting and re-adjusting your scheme in the course of a single game, as well as having flexibility with rotations to take advantage of matchups or hot hands .
The difference in watching that game as compared to any playoff game that was a dogfight the last three years was enormous. I went into halftime fully expecting adjustments and a different team in the second half, where I might have shut the game off early before. Win or lose down the stretch, it was an entirely new feeling.
"No mound of parchment can be formed so as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other" - George Washington