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April 25, 2020 Playoff: JUST EMBARRASSING! Sixers lose Game 5 to the Raptors
Sixers Postgame Live (10:32 Video)
Amy Fadool, Jim Lynam Kate Scott, Alaa Abdelnaby and Marc Jackson recap the Sixers' ugly Game 5 loss to the Raptors. Now the series heads back to Toronto for Game 6 on Thursday.
Sixers react to ugly loss to the Raptors in Game 5 | More Sixers Postgame Live (15:39 Video )
0:00 - Joel Embiid 2:47 - Tobias Maxey & Tyrese Maxey 6:03 - James Harden 8:48 - Doc Rivers
Raptors at 76ers Full Game Highlights (9:35 Video)
Led by Pascal Siakam’s 23 PTS, 10 REB and 7 AST, the No. 5 seed Raptors defeated the No. 4 seed 76ers in Game 5, 103-88. Scottie Barnes added 12 PTS, 8 REB, 4 AST and 3 STL for the Raptors in the victory, while Joel Embiid tallied 20 PTS, 11 REB and 4 AST for the 76ers. The 76ers lead this best-of-seven First Round series 3-2.
>> The Sixers are in trouble, and it’s on Doc Rivers and James Harden to avoid a historic collapse
David Murphy The Philadelphia Inquirer April 26, 2020
Somebody needs to wake up and smell the history, because it’s a hell of a lot closer than anybody with the 76ers seemed to realize after their embarrassing 103-88 no-show of a loss to the Raptors in Game 5.
[ ] .. Maybe the onus is on Doc Rivers. Maybe it is on James Harden himself. Most likely, it’s on both. The Sixers are suddenly two losses away from becoming the first NBA team to ever blow a 3-0 lead in a series, and the two guys who should best recognize imminent postseason failure don’t seem to see it coming.
[ ] ... The problem with that notion is that what worked in the first three games of this series was an offense that relied on Joel Embiid to score points and create space. Right now, that is not an option. That should be obvious to anybody who has watched Embiid’s first two attempts to play through a torn thumb ligament. There’s a reason he sounded so dejected after Game 4 when he bemoaned the fact that basketball is a sport that demands a lot out of a player’s dominant hand. Embiid is well aware what he can’t do, and a lot of them are things whose importance people clearly still don’t grasp. ... <snip rest ... read ull article at link above>
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