INJURY WATCH: Joe Embiid continues to play with a sprained right knee that might have kept him out of these games during the regular season. “We have the MVP on our team, and everybody else is just kind of figuring it out,” Harden said. Against Boston in Games 1 and 4, Harden became only the third player in the last 25 postseasons with multiple go-ahead 3-pointers in the final 20 seconds of a game in a single playoff series. Harden has orchestrated playoff masterpieces, and the 76ers have been at their worst when he has off nights. Philadelphia has won nine straight playoff games when scoring 115 points.
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They are 3-0 this postseason - and 2-0 this series - when reaching the 115-point mark. The Sixers are 3-1 at home in the playoffs. NEED TO KNOW: The 76ers are trying to win it all on the 40th anniversary season of their last championship in 1983. “As the series goes on, as everything goes on, I’ll hopefully start to feel better and better and better.”ħ6ers lead 3-2. “I think I can be way better,” Embiid said. The block snuffed a late Boston rally and coach Doc Rivers called it the “biggest play of the game.”Įmbiid, however, said he wasn’t “very good tonight.” If he starts playing as well as he thinks he can, the Celtics could be in for a long Game 6. Embiid flashed his MVP form in Game 5 when he ran down Jaylen Brown and blocked his shot from behind. I think we played really aggressive and really smart.”Įmbiid has scored 30 points in three straight games after sitting out Game 1 with a sprained right knee. Because I think we didn’t play desperate today. We don’t need to think about it as desperation - we need to think about it as playing aggressive, playing exactly how we played (in Game 5). “We don’t want to come here and get to Game 7 and everything that happens. We need to have the mentality it’s a must-win for us,” he said.
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