After scoring 41 points in a dramatic loss Saturday to the Celtics, Joel Embiid was displeased with the Sixers' mentality once they built a 15-point lead in the third quarter.
, which ended a five-game winning streak and put the team at 39-20 overall.
“I think we’re right there,” Embiid said. “Being up 15, I thought we were not all ready to play basketball and we’ve just got to be better — all of us. I thought for the most part, before they made that run in the third quarter, we took away their threes. We relaxed a little bit and we’ve just got to be better.”, Al Horford went 5 for 8 from three-point range.
The Sixers’ bench wasn’t their lone problem Saturday. Still, it seems clear which team would have won if second units were out of the picture. White posted 18 points off Boston’s bench, while Tyrese Maxey was the Sixers’ top second-unit scorer with eight points in his 25 minutes.
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