PHILADELPHIA–The Philadelphia 76ers looked dead in the water. They tracked a extremely excellent and deep Los Angeles Clippers group by 20 and LA stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George were in an outright groove out on the flooring.
Leonard had 13 points on 6-for-8 shooting and George had 17 at the half as the Sixers looked like they had no concept how to stop the 2 of them. On top of that, Philadelphia looked slow on the offensive end as they were shooting simply 45.8% compared to LA’s 61%. The Clippers likewise were 10-for-19 from deep at the half and Philadelphia was 4-for-14.
It was a total turn-around in the 2nd half as the Sixers outscored LA 68-51, they shot 62.5% from the flooring and the Clippers were held to 40% shooting. It ended with the Sixers winning the videogame 119-114 and they discussed how they got it done.
The Clippers were much more physical and they troubled the Sixers all throughout the veryfirst half. That altered after halftime as Philadelphia, clearly, took control in this one.
“We simply really began playing,” stated Tobias Harris. “We were dreadful. Our defense was dreadful. Offensively, we were sluggish, slow. Once we were really able to get some stops, get out and run, get some momentum, get the crowd into the videogame, and develop some energy. That was our will right there.”
The Sixers looked like a much various group after halftime.
“We were able to get going,” Harris included. “We simply had some life to the videogame. We got great shots early one. We didn’t make lotsof of them and we weren’t playing fantastic defense. Once we were able to kind of fight that and flip that script, we were able to go with it.”
The 3rd quarter is when this videogame truly started to shift. After a substantial veryfirst half, Los Angeles shot simply 38.1% from the flooring and scored 22 points. The Sixers wer