PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers were in a very tough situation on Friday as they returned home to host the Miami Heat down 0-2 in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. They played the first two games without superstar big man Joel Embiid as he was working through a concussion and an orbital fracture.
The big fella returned on Friday and he didn’t have a huge offensive game as he had 18 points on 5-for-12 shooting and 11 rebounds, but the impact on the floor was huge. The Heat weren’t able to get into the paint as easily as they did in Games 1 and 2 and that was a huge difference in this game.
Philadelphia held Miami to 35.1% shooting ad they were just 7-for-30 from deep as the Sixers were able to handle them relatively easy in this one.
After the 99-79 win, Embiid reacted to his game and how the Sixers were able to get this done.