Game Thread 2020-21 Season | Game #34 | Cavs @ Sixers | February 27, 2021

[KilgoreTrout]

How do the Sixers have such a good record when they have 1.5 good players?

 

[Ohio]

Good win!

 

[2 For The Brew]

How’d we win that game?

We outfought them. We balled out and they didn’t. Embiid played great and Simmons was good but the rest of their team sucked.

 

[Comeback kid]

Good floater. Finally making some shots.

Stevens over Windler? Lawd why?

Defense

 

[redscoon]

What’s the explanation behind us suddenly competing at the defensive end again? Saw consistent strong helps and recoveries which basically didn’t happen for a month. We went through an extended stretch where one person getting compromised was essentially an automatic lay up or a wide open 3 to actually playing for each other.

Such a weird team. Oscillating between lookin like on the brink of being a piece away from being borderline good to looking like clearly the worst team in the league to now randomly winning 3 in a row.

 

[Rich]

How do the Sixers have such a good record when they have 1.5 good players?

Tobias Harris is pretty good.


They play good defense.


Seth Curry has been good for them in his role. He was just way off tonight. That happens.

 

[benchplayer]

Sixers and Nets two top teams in the Conference and we take the season series from both of them.

IMO philly can't win with ben simmons, upgrade from him or get a third star

 

[2 For The Brew]

How do the Sixers have such a good record when they have 1.5 good players?

Their are missing Tobias Harris. We also caught Seth Curry on a cold shooting night.

 

[Rich]

What’s the explanation behind us suddenly competing at the defensive end again? Saw consistent strong helps and recoveries which basically didn’t happen for a month. We went through an extended stretch where one person getting compromised was essentially an automatic lay up or a wide open 3 to actually playing for each other.

Such a weird team. Oscillating between lookin like on the brink of being a piece away from being borderline good to looking like clearly the worst team in the league to now randomly winning 3 in a row.

I...don't know.

They started looking better defensively against Denver imo. They were closing out better and not giving up so many easy looks. Murray couldn't be stopped. But it wasn't for lack of effort or cohesion. IT was lack of height.

 

[2 For The Brew]

IMO philly can't win with ben simmons, upgrade from him or get a third star

We match up well with Philly. Sexton haunts them.

 

[Comeback kid]

How’d we win that game?

Defense

 

[N7RobBob]

What’s the explanation behind us suddenly competing at the defensive end again? Saw consistent strong helps and recoveries which basically didn’t happen for a month. We went through an extended stretch where one person getting compromised was essentially an automatic lay up or a wide open 3 to actually playing for each other.

Such a weird team. Oscillating between lookin like on the brink of being a piece away from being borderline good to looking like clearly the worst team in the league to now randomly winning 3 in a row.

Dean Wade into the starting lineup!

 

[MirORich]

What’s the explanation behind us suddenly competing at the defensive end again? Saw consistent strong helps and recoveries which basically didn’t happen for a month. We went through an extended stretch where one person getting compromised was essentially an automatic lay up or a wide open 3 to actually playing for each other.

Such a weird team. Oscillating between lookin like on the brink of being a piece away from being borderline good to looking like clearly the worst team in the league to now randomly winning 3 in a row.

The tailspin we were in happened in a killer stretch of games againstt only teams in the top10 of the NBA record wise and almost all the games were either with just one day off in between or back to back. In other words, killer schedule, Nance goes down, no practice time, and we got slaughtered. With the SAS game that was cancelled and and some natural breaks in the schedule that gave us time to practice, we were able to at least get some practice time in and refocus.

 

[Nphan]

What’s the explanation behind us suddenly competing at the defensive end again? Saw consistent strong helps and recoveries which basically didn’t happen for a month. We went through an extended stretch where one person getting compromised was essentially an automatic lay up or a wide open 3 to actually playing for each other.

Such a weird team. Oscillating between lookin like on the brink of being a piece away from being borderline good to looking like clearly the worst team in the league to now randomly winning 3 in a row.

I think we match up well against the 76ers. Those big shooting SFs gives us trouble when everyone knows Simmons is not going to stretch the floor.

 

[JJ_PR]

The excuse for us beating the 76ers last time was that they didn't have Embiid. What's the excuse now? This Cavs team has the ceiling of a 6th seed this season, and that'll only go up next year.