DENVER – The stunned silence in the locker room spoke louder than words ever could.
What do you say in response to blowing an 18-point lead en route to losing a game in which you self-destructed?
The events of the night were easy to pinpoint.
“We didn’t run our plays, didn’t get stop rebounds,” Sixers point guard Ben Simmons said. “It just came down to playing hard.”
That was late Thursday night, following the Sixers’ 114-110 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at the Moda Center. But it might as well have been Nov. 18 or Dec.