The Sixers went small again in the absence of Joel Embiid, and once again, Tyrese Maxey came up big in the team's 118-111 win over the Wizards.
WASHINGTON — The ball slipped out of De’Antony Melton’s hands while he was free under the basket, but it flew right into 76ers teammate P.J. Tucker’s grasp for the open layup.
“We just have resolve and we’re the team that we don’t panic,” coach Doc Rivers said. “We understand we’re going to be good. We still understand we’ve got work to do. We’re nowhere near where we’re going to be — not close. Tyrese Maxey’s dunk through contact — which he celebrated by skipping out of bounds — capped a 24-4 run to flip a 71-68 Sixers deficit into a 92-75 advantage. Rivers said his team kept running a variation of the same play, knowing the Wizards’ defense would key on Maxey while All-Star James Harden was off the floor.
It was the second time in the past three games that Sixers All-NBA center Joel Embiid did not play, this time due to a non-COVID illness. Rivers again went with a small-ball lineup featuring the 6-foot-5 Tucker, who scored a season-high 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting primarily by finding space near the basket and outside the three-point arc early in the game.
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