Sixers Choke. Season Over. Life May Not Go On.
Live by the Double Doink, die by the Double Quadruple Doink. Unreal. Look, Kawhi is a basketball God. I don’t think there’s really any denying that at this point. But the Raptors outplayed the Sixers and wanted it more. Simple as that. Oh, it’s not? How about Toronto taking 24 more FG’s than the Sixers and out-rebounding Philly 16 to 5 on the offensive glass. THAT’S FUCKING WANTING IT MORE. Oh, and check out those 3 (basically 4) shot clock violations in the 4th quarter, with 2 of them (3 straight) occurring with less than 2 min in the 4th. It’s unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it because I’m not sure anything like it has ever happened. They were tied at 85-85 with about 2 min left, and what happens?
Shot clock violation
Shot clock violation (Butler 3 airballed)
Tobais Harris turnnover (shot clock closing into 0)
In crunchtime of a Game 7, the most important individual contest since the 2001 NBA Finals, the Sixers went about a min and a half without even touching the Goddamn rim. I hope Brett Brown’s entire tenure with the Sixers doesn’t come down to 3 possessions…but it might. It very well might.
Or maybe if the Sixers didn’t only score 13 points in the first quarter (13!!!!!). Maybe if Greg Monroe wasn’t -9 in the two minutes he played. Maybe if Embiid didn’t chuck 3’s for most of the game and Jimmy didn’t wait until the 4th quarter to turn into James.
Maybe. We’ll see you next year to possibly Complete The Process. Or in hell. Might be the same thing at this point.