PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers are back in this series with the Miami Heat. With the return of Joel Embiid from injury, the Sixers were able to knock off the Heat on Friday 99-79 as they are officially back in this series in order to climb back into this series.
The return of Embiid made the Sixers look like a much different team. The Heat had trouble on the offensive end in terms of getting into any type of groove and they weren’t able to just walk into the paint for layups like they were in the first two games.
After the game was over, Embiid tweeted out a picture of actor Idris Elba from the show “The Wire” of the scene of him saying: “I want you to put the word out that we back up”.
With that being said, Embiid understands they have a long way to go.
Embiid on the importance of winning Game 4
“We’re down 2-1. We got a long way to go. Twitter has nothing to do with basketball. It’s just me, my personality, having fun. It doesn’t matter the circumstances. Good or bad, I’m always gonna try and have fun. We’re not back up. Not even close. We’re down 2-1. We can’t go down 3-1 so we really need this game on Sunday.”
Tyrese Maxey chimes in
“That game’s over. Now, it’s a new day. Sunday will be a new day and we just gotta bring the fight to them again. I said it after Game 2, just go straight at them. Go straight at them and don’t play with him and attack them. Attack them and try to put them on their heels instead of being the counterpunching team.”
Maxey understands the Sixers got a big one at home
“We dropped two that we didn’t wanna drop. We weren’t able to get one in Miami and to come home and protect home court is huge and we haven’t really done anything yet. It’s one game, it’s down the drain, and we play again on Sunday. We’re gonna go out there and try to win another…
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