On April 21, 2022, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, in a focus battle, Philadelphia away with Embiid's kill to defeat the opponent, won this game, the big score was also rewritten to 3:0, the possibility of Philadelphia to advance is infinitely increasing!
The reason why embiid's killer goal appeared in this game is largely because of Rivers's extreme suspension in the final moments of the game, in the case of Philadelphia's imminent 24-second violation, Rivers rushed into the court to call this timeout, and left himself 0.9 seconds of offensive time, and then under his arrangement, the team shot this key three-point shot by Embiid, it can be said that at least half of Embiid's death is credited to the old Rivers!
In fact, this is not the first time Rivers has called out such a limit suspension, as early as the second game of the 2010 Finals, Rivers, who was still coaching the Celtics at the time, had done such a thing! At that time, they were 0:1 behind in the finals, and when there was still 1 minute and 30 seconds left in the second game, the Green Army had the ball! The Lakers defended the whole game, the Greenshirts almost violated the eight seconds, and in the last second before the eight-second violation, Rivers called out a timeout, after which he used a clever tactic to score 2 points by Perkins and lock in the victory!
Whether it was at the Celtics at the time or in Philadelphia now, Rivers has taken the lead to the extreme, and his judgment of the game is really too accurate!
It can be said that these two extreme suspensions really reflect Rivers's concentration on the court and stable on-the-spot coaching ability, for Philadelphia, to have embiid and Harden, two stars, there is an experienced coach like Rivers on the coaching bench, I believe that this season is really possible to achieve a legend!