Difficult to find a stranger series than the one the Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks have put on stage. The Sixers gave the impression of being the strongest team, but both in race-1 and in race-5 they threw away some very particular matches, in the first going close to recovering and in the second making him recover 14 points ahead in the last 7 minutes of the game. Joel Embiid and associates, however, put things back in order by winning in Georgia in race-6 and now they can play the passage to the conference finals in front of the Wells Fargo Center audience. Likewise the Hawks have already proven twice that they can win in Pennsylvania and have nothing to lose, given that the pressure is all on the shoulders of the opponents and already having reached this point goes far beyond what was expected of them. It will still be a game to be experienced as only the NBA playoffs-7 can be: the appointment is set for tonight starting at 2.00 on Sky Sport NBA with live commentary by Alessandro Mamoli and Mauro Bevacqua.
Gallinari and the taboo game-7: two defeats and 7 points in all
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Danilo Gallinari is on his side first experience in the second round of the playoffs and is back from two games in a row of 16 points, regaining the precision from the arc (5/9 in the last two) that had abandoned him in the two central matches in Atlanta (1/7). Also tackles tonight a race-7 story that doesn’t see him particularly shine: the blue faced one in 2012 with the Denver Nuggets jersey, losing in Los Angeles against the Lakers scoring only 3 points with 1/9 shooting; last year in the Orlando bubble, however, he came out defeated in the decisive match between his Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets, signing only 4 with 2/6 shooting, while capturing 9 rebounds in just under 27 minutes. Tonight we will also need his contribution from the bench to punish the short rotation of the Sixers, especially if Bogdan Bogdanovic (struggling with knee injury) will not be able to take the field for the Hawks, missing a key gunfire for coach McMillan.
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