For the 76ers, the best thing about Wednesday’s 113-93 victory over the Pistons was resting their starters. PompeyOnSixers shares his takeaways.
The Detroit Pistons might be worse than their league-worst 8-26 record would indicate. And Montrezl Harrell is settling into his backup center role.Joel Embiid had game highs of 22 points and four blocks to go with a co-game-high 10 rebounds and six assists. It was the Sixers All-Star center’s eighth game with at least 20 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists.
But Wednesday had a routine feel for the Sixers . One good thing was the fifth-place team remained a game behind the fourth-place Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference standings. The second good was they didn’t have to play their starters a lot of minutes.’ 21:08 were his season low. Meanwhile, Embiid and Tucker played fewer than their season averages.
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