It is very difficult to explain that a team like Philadelphia 76ers can throw all of a season’s work into the second games of the season’s two biggest games. They face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make history and come full circle in this growth process that has led them to be the worst sports team in US history. They have a solid project and it will be very difficult for them to continue and retain Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons if they are not able to continue to progress in these. NBA 2021 playoffs and enjoy being the leaders of the Eastern Conference. What happened in Game 5, losing a 22 point lead at halftime, more than blushes for a team that intends to qualify for the ring. It’s worth taking a look NBA Statistics collected by ESPN to understand the scale of the disaster.
The only team in the past 25 years in the NBA to lose more than 18-point advantages in back-to-back playoff games The 22-point deficit the Atlanta Hawks have managed to overcome was the third-highest in the history of the playoffs. 165-0 balance over the past 25 seasons in games in which they were leading at any given time by at least 25 points They got a 24-point advantage with 14 minutes and 10 seconds left, with a success rate of 99.7% percentage
Tobias Harris and Ben Simmons didn’t score a single field goal in the second half and the playmaker recorded a 32.8% free-kick, the second-worst number in playoff history, behind 27.3. Ben Wallace in 2006.
In front of this panorama, Doc Rivers he was outraged with his team. “We lost six balls in the first six possessions of the third quarter. We scored very little and we let them come back. It is impossible to claim to win a game by scoring 19 points in the fourth quarter and conceding 40. It all depends on us, you have to know what it is. what is happening ”, assured the technician of some Philadelphia 76ers who can spoil a unique opportunity on these NBA 2021 playoffs.
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