Joel Embiid and the Sixers fell just short of a miraculous finish Saturday night and dropped a 110-107 game to the Celtics at Wells Fargo Center. NoahLevick of NBCSPhilly has the recap:
Dewayne Dedmon missed a second straight contest with left hip soreness. Sixers head coach Doc Rivers said pregame that Dedmon will likely sit out the next “couple of games” but that the team doesn’t believe his injury is “serious.”
Tucker rebounded very well in his opening stint and the 37-year-old’s scrappiness on the glass was valuable. He grabbed six first-quarter rebounds and set Harden up for a three immediately after one of his offensive boards. Tucker won’t win most straight-up rebounding duels against bigger players, but he’s shown he can still snag tone-setting rebounds and pull down important, “who wants it more” sort of boards.
He subbed Reed out and played Tucker at the five for the next 82 seconds. That brief stint was positive offensively. Tyrese Maxey converted a driving hoop, Harden assisted a Jalen McDaniels layup and drew two free throws, and the Sixers were in slightly better shape when Embiid checked back in. The box score Saturday night included a few extreme plus-minus lines; the Sixers were outscored by 23 points in McDaniels' 15 minutes, by 22 in Georges Niang's 13. Those numbers never tell the whole story, but the Sixers' bench was indeed quite a bit worse than the Celtics'.The Sixers were sharp to start the second half. Harris scored the third quarter’s first five points and threes by De’Anthony Melton and Harden extended the Sixers’ lead to 67-52.
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