Why were the 76ers starters still in with 4 minutes left, up by 30 pts?

[Lockdown504090]

felt asleep afte 1st half ,brief summary please for raptors collapse.

embiid guarded barnes and sat in the paint making it hard to score, barnes went 2-7 from 3. harden was going to the basket aggresively, philly shot well and ran in transition a lot. Embiid was being a menace to the crowd that was chanting F*** embiid the whole night.

[HotelVitale]

felt asleep afte 1st half ,brief summary please for raptors collapse.

embiid guarded barnes and sat in the paint making it hard to score, barnes went 2-7 from 3. harden was going to the basket aggresively, philly shot well and ran in transition a lot. Embiid was being a menace to the crowd that was chanting F*** embiid the whole night.

I’d also say that the Sixers were quite good on offense the whole night, with dominant stretches in the first q for Harden, then the shooters in the 2nd, then Maxey the 3rd, then Embiid to close. The Raptors traded blows really well in the first half, Trent Jr, Siakam, and Boucher having pretty awesome stretches and making tough shots, and the whole team absolutely pummeled the Sixers on the offensive glass (I think the disparity was 10 Raps orebs to 1 Sixers one in the first half). In the second half all that just stopped happening, no one was hot and the team couldn’t create easy opportunities, so they had a meh 3rd while the Sixers kept scorching. By the time the 4th rolled around the Sixers we’re already up 20 and the Raptors were frustrated and couldn’t find their footing.

[ThatClockWork]

Damn a lot of teams absolved themselves against Miami and Cleveland after LeBron left.

Have you ever played any sport competitively?

Have you?

Are you involved in the conversation? Because you don't seem to have anything to add.

[ken6199]

Because they saw lot of realgm posters talking about a reverse sweep after 3-2.

[macNcheese3]

Doc didn't want to have another choke so he made absolutely sure

This is the first reason I thought of myself can’t be anything else

[shangrila]

Have you ever played any sport competitively?

Have you?

Are you involved in the conversation? Because you don't seem to have anything to add.

It's a public forum. If you want a private conversation, take it to PMs.

And you haven't answered my question, although a better one might have been "is that relevant?"

[johanliebert]

They just had 2 days off between games. They’ll be ok mother.

[youngcrev]

Why not? Fear of injury? Horror movie rules: even when you think they're dead, go back and put one more in the head just in case. The Sixers had a pretty big lead in game 2 that the Raptors were able to make uncomfortable because the team let up.

[Black Mage]

felt asleep afte 1st half ,brief summary please for raptors collapse.

Maxey went super saiyan on Toronto.

[ThatClockWork]

Have you?

Are you involved in the conversation? Because you don't seem to have anything to add.

It's a public forum. If you want a private conversation, take it to PMs.

And you haven't answered my question, although a better one might have been "is that relevant?"

Children need their fathers to teach them manners and engagement tactics. If you want to be engaged going forward, try again in a more respectful manner. Thank you.

[Isocleas2]

Are you involved in the conversation? Because you don't seem to have anything to add.

It's a public forum. If you want a private conversation, take it to PMs.

And you haven't answered my question, although a better one might have been "is that relevant?"

Children need their fathers to teach them manners and engagement tactics. If you want to be engaged going forward, try again in a more respectful manner. Thank you.

His question was as pointed and thought provoking as yours, as he said if you can't handle public discourse on a public forum perhaps that's on you.

[Ballerhogger]

Rivers being rivers, honselty he just wanted more PT at that point, he must not feel confindent on how long they've been together with harden

[liquidswords]

To take the soul out of the Raptors, lot’s of bad blood in that series lol.

THIS and I see nothing wrong with it. The Raptors were like pests on and off the court. This was Doc's way of desecrating the Raptors grave

[gorz]

No lead is safe with doc at the helm.

[slicedbread2]

Can't be surprised considering the Raps were an absolute pain in the butt. To quote the late Tommy Heinsohn "it ain't over till the other team looks you in the face and starts crying".

The 76ers needed to develop a rhythm and while they finally were able to put away the Raps, Harden needs to develop a sense of consistency where he's getting 20-25pts/10-15asts a game with few turnovers and get the rest of the team going in order to save Embiid from shouldering the load offensively.

They were able to get away due to the Raps being one of the worse FT shooting teams in the league not to mention they had few if any 3pt threats at all+the inexperience outside the dudes on the title team showed massively. They can't get away with that vs Miami due to them having legit 3pt bombers, a closer in Butler+a team that can penetrate the rim and an experienced leader in Lowry. The 76ers are like a Pandora's box: you don't know what team your gonna get.

Hopefully Doc realizes that he needs to make great use of Maxey and Harden+force Embiid to get in deep down the post because you ain't stopping him once he's within 10ft of the rim and to get Harris going. Embiid needs to keep his composure, stop getting frustrated at dumb non-calls and just focus on being the beast he can be on both sides of the ball.

[ThatClockWork]

It's a public forum. If you want a private conversation, take it to PMs.

And you haven't answered my question, although a better one might have been "is that relevant?"

Children need their fathers to teach them manners and engagement tactics. If you want to be engaged going forward, try again in a more respectful manner. Thank you.

His question was as pointed and thought provoking as yours, as he said if you can't handle public discourse on a public forum perhaps that's on you.

Who asked you? The question was directed at .... who exactly? Not you or him. If you can't understand that, that is on you.
I asked my question for a reason and as you are not him, you are not in any position to answer that question. Says a lot about you honestly.

Might want to consider your engagement strategy going forward.

[Isocleas2]

Children need their fathers to teach them manners and engagement tactics. If you want to be engaged going forward, try again in a more respectful manner. Thank you.

His question was as pointed and thought provoking as yours, as he said if you can't handle public discourse on a public forum perhaps that's on you.

Who asked you? The question was directed at .... who exactly? Not you or him. If you can't understand that, that is on you.
I asked my question for a reason and as you are not him, you are not in any position to answer that question. Says a lot about you honestly.

Might want to consider your engagement strategy going forward.

I think you're confused how a public forum works, you see anyone can quote or respond to you. If you don't like it don't post in public.

Making up imaginary rules of engagement that suits your own personal preferences has no bearing here. Where it does have a place is in "private" messaging, which may be more appealing to your sensibilities.

[shangrila]

Are you involved in the conversation? Because you don't seem to have anything to add.

It's a public forum. If you want a private conversation, take it to PMs.

And you haven't answered my question, although a better one might have been "is that relevant?"

Children need their fathers to teach them manners and engagement tactics. If you want to be engaged going forward, try again in a more respectful manner. Thank you.

And apparently you need to be taught how a public message board works.

But don't worry, I have no desire to engage with self righteous morons so there'll be no further engagement between us. Thank you.

[Ckay]

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[Dupp]

Wth was the reasoning for that? Embiid got cracked in the face with 4 minutes left. Luckily he was ok. I have no idea why these guys were still in. Could have been disastrous.

Maxey 44 mins, Harden 42 mins

Doc does it again!