Few teams outside the upper echelon have given the Philadelphia 76ers more trouble this season than the Brooklyn Nets. A lineup with two dynamic point guards and a dynamic pick-and-roll game seems tailor-made to give Brett Brown’s squad fits. It didn’t matter Thursday night.
The Sixers went to work early against the Nets, riding the hot hands of Joel Embiid and J.J. Redick in the first half. Embiid drilled three first-quarter triples, with Boban Marjanovic hitting one of his own later in the frame. When the Sixers’ 7-foot-plus centers combine for four triples in a quarter, it’s a good day.