Down 3-1, on the road, and without your All-Star guard, the Toronto Raptors should be despondent heading into tonight’s Game 5 — even after a rousing victory over the weekend to extend their first round series.
These are different circumstances, though, and everyone knows it. We’re all aware of the issues that Doc Rivers-led teams have in elimination games, with the stats really starting to look sour for the veteran coach.
Doc Rivers has won 6 of his last 20 series closeout games
— Fastbreak Breakfast (@fastbreakbreak) April 23, 2022
On top of cranking up the volume on Rivers slander, this Sixers team, however capable they are of hitting their stride — and they certainly did that in the first two games of this series — seem like a team incapable of dealing with adversity without dramatics.