Nick Nurse is prepared for a 'slug fest.'
Nick Nurse is prepared for a "slug fest."
The Raptors have faced Philly twice before in the post-season. They lost in seven games in the second round in 2001 when Vince Carter's shot at the buzzer clanged off the rim. And in 2019, Kawhi Leonard's famous four-bounce buzzer-beater put Toronto into the conference final. The Raptors won their season series 3-1 against Philly, including a 119-114 win in Toronto last week.
Siakam heads into the post-season on a roll, having averaged 27.4 points, 9.3 rebounds and 6.4 assists over his last 10 games. Siakam will battle fellow Cameroonian Joel Embiid for much of the series, although the Raptors will surely throw their kitchen sink of a defence at the seven-foot-one big man once again. Nurse pointed out that after much trial and error during the 2019 series, it was a lineup he'd never used before that finally proved most effective against Embiid."Toronto is the only team that really just doesn't allow me to have the ball in my hands," Embiid said.
While Toronto's roster is long on youthful energy this season, it's short on playoff experience outside Siakam, Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby."It's a completely different game," Young said. "My advice to is just, through all the madness and crazy stuff going on throughout the course of the game, all the adversity that you're going to fight, just stay level-headed and stay poised, never get too high or too low, always try to be at even keel.
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