Unlike Saturday in their win over the Knicks<\/a>\u201a the Sixers did not have a great start to the second quarter with Embiid and Maxey on the bench.\u00a0<\/p>\nMuch of that stemmed from a steep drop-off scoring-wise for VJ Edgecombe\u201a who began 0 for 5 from the floor and was scoreless until he knocked down a jumper with 6:52 left in the third quarter. Edgecombe missed a couple of driving layups through contact and was off on open three-point tries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the other end\u201a the Nuggets\u2019 offense was three-point-centric. Pickett sunk four in the first half (seven in the game) on his way to a career-high 29 points. Denver continued to pose real problems for the Sixers despite its major manpower disadvantage. Quentin Grimes’ corner jumper with 0.9 seconds left in the second quarter tied the game at 58-all.<\/p>\n
Talent not everything<\/p>\n
Even with his scoreless first half\u201a Edgecombe still contributed in a bunch of areas\u201a as he typically does. The rookie ended up with 17 points\u201a nine assists, eight rebounds, two steals and two blocks. <\/p>\n
He helped the Sixers take a lead as large as nine points late in the third quarter. Maxey also had his foot on the gas and the talent disparity between the teams grew clearer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However\u201a talent isn\u2019t everything.<\/p>\n
The Sixers had a poor start to the fourth quarter with Embiid out. Grimes fouled Hunter Tyson on a four-point play that put the Nuggets up 104-100.<\/p>\n
The Sixers\u2019 situation looked bleak when Adem Bona fouled Brown on a corner three attempt and Brown made it 120-115 at the foul line. They weren’t out of it yet\u201a though. Edgecombe canned a clutch three and Maxey hit a game-tying layup.<\/p>\n
OT was chaotic. Ultimately\u201a the Sixers\u00a0couldn\u2019t execute quite well enough and paid for their rough start.<\/p>\n
The Nuggets shot very well (53.1 percent from the field, 48.6 percent from three-point range) and earned an improbable victory, but the Sixers squandered an excellent chance to win four in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers fell back to earth Monday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena. They had their three-game winning streak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,936,6,678,207,3817,5902,4186,29161,1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-520137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-joel-embiid","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-philadelphia76ers","15":"tag-sixers-analysis","16":"tag-sixers-news","17":"tag-sixers-observations","18":"tag-tyrese-maxey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115848138332086322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}