The Sixers had one of their worst losses of the season in Miami, losing to the Heat 106-94 in a game that wasn’t as close as the score indicated.
“I think every team we play against is trying to send a message to us. We’re the No. 1 team in the East,” Tobias Harris told FortyEightMinutes and other reporters in response to a question of whether he thought the Heat were trying to send a message.
Miami currently holds the No. 5 seed in the conference with two games to go. They can only climb as high as No. 4 and if they settle into that 4-5 matchup in the first round, there’s a decent chance that we could see a Heat-Sixers second-round series. That is, of course, assuming the Sixers clinch the No. 1 seed; they need just one win over their next two games (both at home vs. Magic).
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- Going cold from the three-point line didn’t help matters in Miami. The team shot just 7-of-25 from behind the arc.
- Joel Embiid‘s play was another major factor for the defeat. Doc Rivers said before the contest that Embiid had the flu and was pretty sick. The big man was a late addition to the lineup tonight, scoring just six points in 25 minutes of play.
- How do the Sixers bounce back? “Just do what we done all year long,” Harris said. “Collect the win and go into the postseason with confidence in what we could do as a group.
