Sixers have a lot of work to do to beat the Heat | David Murphy

You’re about to read the most on-brand take in the history of Philly playoff clinchers. Whine all you want about the joy of victory and the agony of reading about it, but two dominant quarters don’t come close to restoring enough faith in the Sixers to pick them in a series against the top seed in the East. To beat the Heat, they’re going to need more: from Joel Embiid on the defensive end, from James Harden in the paint, from Doc Rivers in between the whistles.

Toronto certainly wasn’t good. The Sixers showed that while taking a 3-0 series lead, and they showed it while outscoring the Raptors 70-36 in the second half of Game 6. The problem is the 10 quarters of basketball that happened in between, starting with back-to-back losses in Games 4 and 5 and running all the way up until halftime of Game 6.

But let’s not kid ourselves. To give the Heat a series, the Sixers will need every night to look like their best moments against the Raptors. More than that, they will need the edge that they showed in the second half of Game 6 and throughout Games 1, 2, and 3. In Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry, the Heat have one of the toughest, most in-your-face backcourts in the NBA.

“The guys they have on the floor, the way they execute offensively, shooting the three-ball, all the movement they do, we know that it’s going to be challenge for us,” Sixers forward Tobias Harris said after Game 6, “but we’ll gameplan for it and be ready for it.”Sixers need all the help they can get vs. the Heat. Sweeping Raptors in Game 4 is a start

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