7/6/2023 0 Comments Coffee Boy by Austin ChantHe picked up where he left off, scoring Boston’s first basket and 11 points in the first quarter, 14 more in the second and outscoring the Sixers on his own, 17-10, in the third. Tatum started 0 for 6 in a Game 5 loss and missed 14 of his first 15 shots overall from the floor in Game 6 before making four 3-pointers in the final 4:14 to force the decisive seventh game. And then tonight I think we took a step backward. I thought we took another step this season. “We played great all year and this loss absolutely diminishes what we did this year in some way. I really did,” said Sixers coach Doc Rivers, who was on the Boston bench when the Celtics won it all in 2008. The Sixers lost in the conference semifinals for the third straight year, and the fifth time in six seasons they have not gotten any farther since reaching the NBA Finals in 2001 despite “The Process” - tanking their way to four top-three draft picks in a row, including Embiid. Newly crowned NBA MVP Joel Embiid scored 15 points on 5-for-18 shooting, and Tobias Harris scored 19 for Philadelphia.
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