The Sixers find themselves in a tricky spot. They possessed a 3-0 series lead on the Toronto Raptors, but after it was revealed that Joel Embiid is dealing with a torn ligament that will need offseason surgery in his right thumb, the team simply hasn’t been the same and they’ve dropped two consecutive games.
The James Harden-Joel Embiid pick-and-roll, which has been unstoppable at times this year, simply wasn’t much of a weapon in Game 5 at The Center. For whatever reason, they didn’t go to it much in the last one.
By laying an egg in a monster ballgame, where they could have KO’d Pascal Siakam and co.