Daily News | After stretch-run collapse, Sixers know offensive execution must be on point in Game 7
Doc Rivers began Saturday’s film session with a 45-second soundless montage. It was a collection of missed shots during Thursday’s Game 6 of the 76ers’ second-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics, including the nine in a row during an excruciating final six minutes of a“I didn’t say a word,” Rivers said. “I just showed it, and then I turned it off and I turned around. … ‘We’re good,’ that was the first thing that someone said.
“It’s a really sensitive balance, because we did play right overall [in Game 6],” Rivers said following practice Saturday. “The numbers say that. Everything says that. … We’ve been great down the stretch in execution all year. We just were not the other night.” Perhaps the most puzzling piece: Only two of those shots came from Embiid, the NBA’s leading scorer. After he stepped into a free-throw jumper that rattled out with 3:56 to play, he neverthe ball again in the remaining meaningful minutes, even as part of the offense’s natural flow. Following the game, Embiid lamented that the ball did not find him.
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