Inside Job

 Hahaha, the Sixers fans around here don’t play!

 Miami are desperate already and it’s just game 2. They can still only manage a single digit lead with 8 to go in the 4th and Embiid isn’t playing. If they get away with the game – if – they’ll not win another once JoJo is back

these were my thoguhts exactly. 

Miami came out aggressive, and those were very legit calls against Miami.

Then they to make it even, start calling touch fouls on Philly, which slows the pace down and prevents Philly from getting their offesne in rhythm.

I blamed Ben for taking that physical challenge too personally, but the refs were the main culprit.  Simmons has to learn to still run his offense and trust his shooters and move the ball, his dunking over Tyler Johnson ins’t going to change anything.  Philly had to do what it was good at..but anyway I said Sixers in 5 and the only reason they lose is because their shooters go completely cold which is what happened today, with the aid of the refs they coudln’t get anything going.  It may have been a blowout by the first half if the refs ddn’t slow the pace down, and they didn’t take extra tv timeouts before Belinelli’s 3 shots etc…I thought there were a lot of random TV timeouts today.

Anyway, blame the refs, and the lack of shooting.  Also, where was JJ.  Why dind’t JJ shoot more in that second half.  He was open and Ben turned away from him and passed to Belinelli. but I know Ben saw JJ who was wide open so I dnd’t understand that.

Anyway, still not worried about this series.  Joel isn’t happy, could be good or bad but hopefully he comes out and dominates.  Would’ve preferred he come back 2-0 instead of 1-1 for his own psyche and the psyche of the team just incase he doesn’t play well and they lose…but you need your best player out there.

But yeha, I agree completely the refs got in the way of this game.  Miami went off everyone was hot and that won’t happen again, and Philly will hit its shots.  The games might be close, DWade may still do incredible things, but I do remember saying Philly needed a DWade exactly for what he just did today, which is tear up Philly’s defense single handedly.  I’m still not worried I think Miami gave their best shot today and barely won when Philly didn’t play well at all.

The refs stopped the flow that prevented Philly’s shooters from being able to shoot in rhythm.  

 9/11? Is this an Alex Jones post posting on nbadraft.net?

The Sixers rely on hot shooting and a "rookie" — both may be inconsistent away from their homecourt. They may be in trouble.