The Philadelphia 76ers had a hard night in Tampa on Sunday, when they fell to the Toronto Raptors 110-103 on a night when they simply couldn’t buy a bucket. They shot only 38.3% of the floor and then 11-for-37 from the depths of the loss.
The big man of the superstar, Joel Embiid, felt the pressure of the Raptors all night, as he finished with 25 points, but only shot 6 for 20 in the night. It was a night that looked great, but they just didn’t fall.
“I just missed the photos I usually take,” said a grim Embiid. “As soon as I cross the field, they send two or three guys to me and I played the right game all night. I split the ball, I gave it to my teammates. We could have taken more photos, many photos were inside and out. There are a lot of photos I took all season, which I just missed. So we need to do a better job. ”
After scoring 50 points in his Chicago Bulls career on Friday on Friday, the big guy couldn’t buy a bucket. It was really one of those nights and he even expressed that to train Doc Rivers.
“I thought in the third quarter, as he said he was leaving, ‘Man, I looked good tonight, the ball just won’t come in,’ and there are nights like that,” Rivers said. “I thought many of our boys looked great tonight. The problem is that they didn’t come in and I thought that the rates started to increase in terms of how we managed them, so we managed to do a better job of managing the failures, because that will happen again. .
It wasn’t even Embiid. Sixers got a lot of good looks from guys who normally take down shots, like Tobias Harris, for example. He shot only 6-for-17 at night and was only 1-for-9 from deep. The ball moved on the offensive end and Embiid made the right games in the double teams, only the shots did not fall.
“Yes, unfortunately it was,” Harris said. “For us, we looked very good and we have to give them credit, they managed to make a lot of looks that made us enter the middle of the field instead of going out and running. We had good photos that we could take, they just didn’t fall on us tonight. ”
Ben Simmons returned to the line and was offensively successful, scoring 28 points on 9-for-11, but he himself acknowledged that things could have been better in the offensive end.
“I think we’ve all received a lot of wonderful views on the offensive that just didn’t fall,” he explained. “If they fall, it would have been a completely different game, but that’s how the game works.”
Basketball is a make or miss game and on Sunday, they just missed shots. Now he has to get to Tuesday’s rematch with the Raptors.
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