On February 12th, Beijing time, Philadelphia lost to the Trail Blazers 114-118 in the NBA regular season. In this campaign, the two sides played very close together. Philadelphia hit a three-pointer at the last minute to a 114 tie. However, at critical moments, Anthony made two critical fouls. Simmons made a critical serve error, which directly ruined the game Philadelphia's final loss. It is worth mentioning that this defeat is the first time that Philadelphia's five major starters have played together this season. The undefeated golden figure of 14 wins and 0 losses has been broken. At the same time, this is also the first time that Philadelphia led the second half of the season but eventually lost. Previously it was 11 wins and 0 losses.
If the Blazers can win this game, it can be considered an upset. In their starting lineup, Nurkic and CJ McCollum are missing two absolute main players. The Philadelphia campaign is full of players, strong soldiers and horses. However, the Blazers began to gradually take advantage of the court in the second half of the third quarter. At the last minute, although Embiid and Curry led the team to tie. But Anthony made two free throws. Simmons then made a direct error from the sideline, and Lillard sealed the victory with two free throws. In the game, Lillard had 30 points and 7 assists and Anthony had 24 points. While Embiid scored 35 points and 9 rebounds, Simmons made a fatal error at 23+11+9.
Prior to this game, Philadelphia's top five starters Embiid, Simmons, Harris, Seth Curry and Danny Green played together. Philadelphia scored 14 wins and 0 losses. Records, including the Lakers, Celtics, Nets and other strong teams. However, in this game, Philadelphia made a fatal error at a critical moment, resulting in the team's final loss.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that this is the second time this season that Philadelphia has finally lost a game at a critical moment (the last 5 minutes is within 5 points). Prior to this, they had a total of 12 games with critical moments, and Philadelphia had won 11 games. It has to be said that the trailblazers with key gentlemen such as Lillard and Anthony are trustworthy enough for their performance at critical moments.
After the game, Trail Blazers coaches Stotts and Lillard praised the team's performance. Lillard said that this kind of game and victory can help the team shape a better team and make the team better.Such a game can also make the team more confident, the victory of the game depends on everyone's hard work rather than luck. Stotts praised the team, everyone played very resilient.
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