Much of the NBA community had set the alarm clock tonight for this huge Eastern Conference shock, a huge shock in many ways. The Wells Fargo Center had heated up to give Ben Simmons a hell of a time back in town with his newthe team? In civilian clothes and on the bench, the former Sixer will have spent the evening laughing at the demo of his new teammates.
The house stats of this match that stank of the Playoffs are right here
Sporty guerrilla atmosphere tonight in Pennsylvania. Sixers – Nets is a classic, but Sixers – Nets is above all a meeting between two franchises that currently can’t really get along, and two franchises, too, that exchanged their respective gems a few weeks ago. Ben Simmons who leaves for Brooklyn, James Harden who joins Joel Embiid in Philadelphia, and last night a smell of Playoffs which hovered in the room at the time of the tip-off. Philly fans are screaming their disenchantment with their ex-leader with a bang but all in shorts, we love Benny’s Louis Vuitton sweaters but there’s a game to be played. Very quickly ? Two observations stand out. 1) Joel Embiid is unplayable and announces a new 40/18 of the families by passing his first quarter between the brain of Andre Drummond and the throwing line and 2) the Nets in Playoffs mode that absolutely does not make the seagulls laugh. From the outset Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are elusive, Seth Curry pretends to be his brother and despite the domination in the paint of Joel Embiid the gap widens quickly, logical when one of the two teams sticks 40 in twelve minutes . Here, James Harden is on the grill, James Harden overtakes Reggie Miller in the ranking of the biggest all-time 3-point shooters, but besides that James Harden does not fit in, always fleshing out a little more the thesis that says that Ramesse would be smashed to the ground as soon as a game matters a bit. 40-23 after a quarter, 72-51 at the break, it’s falling everywhere and Ben Simmons died laughing, all the Nets bring their share, Kevin Durant is an adult among children and offered himself a little trashtalking session with his friend Joel and Doc Rivers looks for solutions, even if we are not sure of the end of the sentence.
Embiid in the locker room pic.twitter.com/fe6xS5Vfjw
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The second half? It will only be continuity. Steve Nash’s players press the champipi as soon as they return from the locker room, quickly we understand that the match will end much earlier than expected. The twenty points turn into thirty, Seth Curry plants in the corner and looks down on the bench of the Sixers, the Sixers without reaction and who see their yet so virulent fans start to boo… their own team before leaving the room for some, because traffic jams at the end of a match very little for them. A huge message from the Nets, message to their Australian rookie, message to the competition in the East too, because – even if we talk hot – we do not see today who can be able to stop a such a strike force on a series in seven, despite the obstacle course which promises to be in the Playoffs for Brooklyn. Nets who will end their evening massacre with a score of 129-100, substitutes Goran Dragic, James Johnson, Nic Claxton and Patty Mills will be rewarded for their efforts while opposite James Harden or Tyrese Maxey are to be credited with the one of their worst game of the season, while opposite Doc Rivers will never have found any other solution than to spin the ball to Joel Embiid and tell him to get over it.
A mountain that gave birth to a mouse, or rather a white mountain that crushed a blue mouse. 25/14/7/2 to 10/17 shooting for Kevin Durant, 22 points at 5/11 from the parking lot for Kyrie Irving and 24 pawns for whose brother you know, 27 points and 12 rebounds for the Process but 11 points at 3/17 for James Harden, that’s for the numbers. In the feeling? It was even stronger than that, the message got through.
