Daily News | Sixers rebound for Game 6 win, won’t be first team to lose a series after leading 3-0
to the undermanned Raptors on March 20. Toronto won without All-Star point guard Fred VanVleet and starting wing OG Anunoby .The Sixers scored 37 first-quarter points. They took their 16-point cushion when Embiid found Maxey for a transition dunk to make it a 28-12 game. The Sixers shot 11-for-16 from the field and didn’t commit a turnover in the opening quarter.They went on to score only 51 points the rest of the way: 17 in the second quarter, 20 in the third and 14 in the fourth.
So expectations were low the following night when minus Embiid and Harden, the Sixers hosted the Heat, the top team in the Eastern Conference.The Sixers rested both Embiid and Harden on the tail end of the back-to-back, leaving Tobias Harris and Tyrese Maxey with little help. So we thought. But Maxey was the man of the night and the sellout crowd of 21,386 let him know it, chanting “Maxey! Maxey! Maxey!” in the final minute. Thirteen of his points came on the fourth quarter on 5-for-5 shooting, including two threes, and then for good measure, he added a crowd-pleasing block with only 21 seconds left.Prior to the series, the expectation was the Sixers would struggle against the Raptors. Instead, they jumped to a commanding 3-0 lead.
Were their losses in Games 4 and 5 a result of overconfidence? Or was it simply what we’ve heard year after year in interviews with players and coaches, that the “closeout game is the hardest win to get?”
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