The Philadelphia 76ers are going against the current NBA trend of speed and shooting and on Tuesday night, it showed off their style in a big way. They shot the ball a putrid 8-for-38 from deep and were still able to somehow pull away with a 98-97 win over the pesky Cleveland Cavaliers.
Tobias Harris shot a ghastly 0-for-11 from deep and Josh Richardson shot 1-for-8 from deep. That’s two guys in the starting lineup expected to make shots from the perimeter shooting a combined 1-for-19. Yet, they were able to come out with a win and that’s all that matters at the end of the day.
Richardson stated:
I mean, we play hard. That’s all you can really say about it. Guys were showing a lot of toughness down the stretch even when things weren’t falling for us. It’s going to be plenty of nights like that. Like this is not going to be the last night where we have a tough night shooting, so you’ve just got to learn how to fight through it.
.@J_Rich1 on the team’s off shooting night pic.twitter.com/rowwZAQsQI
— Ky Carlin (@Ky_Carlin) November 13, 2019
Fight through it they did. They were missing star power forward Al Horford and they had to dig deep to battle through that plus the woeful shooting. Joel Embiid was the team’s leading three-point shooter as he knocked down three from distance, yet they still won. It’s a positive sign for them.
Our team has resilience. I think that we fought through a lot of adversity with our offense not going the way we wanted it to, but we pulled it out at the end. We got stops down the stretch when we neeed it.
The Sixers will now hit the road in Orlando to face Markelle Fultz and the Magic. [lawrence-related id=19164,19154,19143]