Beijing time on April 21, 0-3 backward desperate situation? The Raptors returned home to refuse to lose another game, after all, there was never a precedent for a 0-3 turnover in NBA playoff history. However, although the Raptors once led by 17 points, they were dragged into overtime by Philadelphia's tenacious tie-up, and were defeated by Embiid's pressure whistle to kill three points, allowing the Raptors to lose another game and fall into a desperate situation of 0-3.
The Raptors certainly played a five-man double-double offensive, but the two cores performed poorly, Siakam only scored 12 points on 6-of-16 shooting, and VanVleet only had 12 points and 9 assists on 3-of-13 shooting, including 2-of-10 three-pointers. Instead, three role players blasted down 20+ points, including Trent 24 points, Anunoby 26 points, Achuva 20 points, the outbreak of the three major Wizards helped the Raptors and Philadelphia fight, but in the final quarter and the final stage of overtime, Achuva and Anunoby missed key free throws in succession.
Before the playoffs began, the Raptors' series against Philadelphia was considered the Most Likely Group Showdown in the East to complete the following gram. However, in the first two games of the first round, the Raptors lost 20 points in the first game, lost 15 points in the second game, and lost a total of 35 points in the two games, which seemed to confirm the strength gap between the two teams, and also made the Raptors' turnover probability become only 7.4%.
However, the Raptors who returned to the home court broke out into a tennis battle, and they beat Philadelphia by 10 points in the first quarter 29-19, and led Philadelphia by 17 points at the most of the game, which is undoubtedly a sense of déjà vu to beat Philadelphia to win back a city. In the case of the downturn in the two core shooting targets of Siakam and VanVleet, the Raptors are more dependent on the rest of the players to carry them up, and they can start a crazy battle with Philadelphia.
It was only Philadelphia's strong counterattack led by Embiid, especially the final stage of the final quarter, which once chased a 95-95 draw, which also put the Raptors back into crisis. With 26.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter, bench soldier Achuva made a strong attack to cause Harden to graduate from 6 crimes, even if Philadelphia City Manager Rivers applied for a challenge, but the challenge failed in the end, and Harden left the field after 6 crimes. However, Achuva's key two free throws were all missed, fortunately, Achuva then defended Embiid, and Embiid's three-point miss, Harris grabbed the offensive rebound and missed the second offense, which also dragged the game into overtime.
Entering overtime, with Maxi scoring consecutive points to take the lead, Trent's mid-range shot and Anunoby's three-pointer once helped the Raptors gain a one-point advantage. After Embiid's difficult back-up shot, the two teams hit the iron in succession, Anunoby caused Embiid to foul two free throws and one shot to continue to chase to 101-101 draw, but Embiid hit the quasi-kill whistle three points, but also let the Raptors' efforts fail, and another loss made the Raptors fall into a desperate situation of 0-3 behind, and was also on the verge of being swept out by Philadelphia.
(Text/Drunken Floating Life)