Philadelphia 76ers (4) vs. Toronto Raptors (5)

[Syd]

• Game 1: Toronto vs. Philadelphia | Saturday, April 16 | 6 ET | ESPN
• Game 2: Toronto vs. Philadelphia | Monday, April 18 | 7:30 ET | TNT
• Game 3: Philadelphia vs. Toronto | Wednesday, April 20 | 8 ET | NBA TV
• Game 4: Philadelphia vs. Toronto | Saturday, April 23 | 2 ET | TNT
• Game 5*: Toronto vs. Philadelphia | Monday, April 25 | TBD | TBD
• Game 6*: Philadelphia vs. Toronto | Thursday, April 28 | TBD | TBD
• Game 7*: Toronto vs. Philadelphia | Saturday, April 30 | TBD | TNT

[AirJordan]

Vedo una serie molto meno equilibrata rispetto a quanto recitino i due seed.
Phila alla lunga potrà pagare il fatto di avere una panchina quasi inesistente ma questo non succederà sicuramente al primo turno. Embiid giganteggia.

4-1

[boole]

Toronto senza niente da perdere, grossi e interessanti. Phila senza Thybulle e con Harden non difende. Ovviamente decisivo Embiid ma sarà lunga e difficile

[lazyboy]

Phila implode. Upset 2-4 ( non succede ... Però... )

[zibib]

Toronto avesse beccato un altra squdra avrebbe potuto fare di più ma contro Embiid non ha abbastanza tonnellaggio da opporgli...inoltre Maxei sta giocando benissimo facendo fare il sesto uomo ad Harden...vediamo se cambia qualcosa in Canada ma vede se va bene un 4-2

[zibib]

Ocio che si va a gara 7 e Embid non sta per nulla bene....

Panchina di Phila veramente troppo corta

[lazyboy]

mha vedremo. di sicuro troppo brutti per essere veri.
Certo se Embid è anche all' 80/85% allora Toronto può batterli.

[small baller 99]

toronto è senza van vleet...

[lazyboy]

ma hanno un coach

[small baller 99]

"Well, it's easy to use me as an example," Rivers said after the team finished practice. "But I wish y'all would tell the whole story with me...

"My Orlando team [in 2003] was the eighth seed. No one gives me credit for getting up against the [Detroit] Pistons, who won the title. That was an eighth seed. I want you to go back and look at that roster. I dare you to go back and look at that roster. And you would say, 'What a hell of a coaching job.' Really.

"I mean, the Clipper team [in 2015] that we lost 3-1, Chris Paul didn't play the first two games, and was playing on one leg, and we didn't have home court. And then the last one [when the Clippers lost to the Denver Nuggets in 2020], to me, is the one we blew. That's the one I took. We blew that. And that was in the bubble. And anything can happen in the bubble. There's no home court. Game 7 would have been in LA.

"But, it just happens. So I would say with me, some of them is ... I gotta do better always. I always take my own responsibility. And then some of it is, circumstances happen. This one, let's win it, and we don't have to talk about it."

In 2003, Rivers and the Orlando Magic -- led by future Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady, who won the scoring title that season -- took that 3-1 lead on the top-seeded Pistons...

piuttosto piccato il doc...

[lazyboy]

Rivers è un buon player coach, magari anche buono a creare un certo tipo di difesa/gioco, ma poi i mancati aggiustamenti in campo e le cazzate tipo il quarto giocato dalla sola panca l'anno scorso lo condannano ad un certo livello.