Sixers completed One of the biggest crashes In the fifth game in the history of the NBA playoffs, only a few days have been deleted Melt in a similar way Lost in their fourth game in Atlanta. Most of the past 48 hours have been spent on their core parts, fabricating fake trades to spend this offseason, and insisting on telling anyone who is willing to listen that you will not bother to participate in the sixth game.

So, in this context, we ask a simple question-how does the 76ers rebound and bring this series back to Philadelphia?

Psychological component

Philadelphia’s willingness to fight is the first story to enter the sixth game. If they have it, they are still a more talented team and capable of winning this series. If they don’t, you can huddle in front of the TV with your loved ones on Friday and yell “1,2,3, Cancun!” If the 76ers can’t recover from the heartbreaking loss on Wednesday night , Everything else is irrelevant.

Broadly speaking, the 76ers have been a tough team throughout the season. Like many teams in the league, they had to deal with several injuries and health crises throughout the season, but they eventually topped the list as the number one seed. Their head coach undeniably couldn’t say anything else publicly. They said after losing in Game 5 that they would return to Philadelphia on Sunday night for a dramatic seventh game.

“We will be back,” Rivers said Wednesday night. “We will be back here for the seventh game. I believe…this is part of the sport. You have some terrible moments. There is no guaranteed path to the goal. We have made it difficult for ourselves to do this. We must Acknowledge this, all of us. Then we have to get up and get ready for the next game. It will be a crazy atmosphere — good. We will be prepared for this.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, this is not the first time Rivers has participated in a rodeo. The moment Rivers raised on Thursday was a positive example: the Clippers defeated the Spurs in the first round of 2015. Los Angeles went on to win the 6th game and won in a dramatic way late in the 7th game. Chris Paul won the game while effectively playing with one leg.

(Do yourself a favor and try not to read anything about what happened in the series that happened immediately after the Clippers defeated the Spurs.)

Predicting what will happen in Game 6 depends on a lot of guesswork. How is Joel Embiid? It’s hard to say after he skipped the media interview on Wednesday. Which Tobias Harris will the 76ers get? Hope it’s not the one who appeared in the 5th game. The most important thing is, how will Simmons deal with the two worst games in a row in the playoffs, and his free throw problem is getting out of control?

This is where X and O have to somehow intersect with where the coach knows/believes his players. Simmons’ lack of involvement in the offense late in the game is well documented. Considering that the offense in recent games has stagnated, is it more risky to stay away from him, or is it more dangerous to force him to score when he is in a state of panic? If you ask me, if Simmons is just a passenger on the offense, the 76ers can’t do that. They need to find some way to make sure he gets involved and stays involved. If this is some early late contact or emphasis on running and shooting, you do.

The person in the middle is the one who really deserves attention. When Philadelphia entered the fourth game of the bubble playoffs last season, Embiid’s defense had been completely eliminated and accepted the team’s fate at the end of the nightmare season. He was purposeful in Wednesday’s loss, but his defensive errors were as noteworthy as his shooting errors in the second half of Game 5. If Philadelphia falls behind early, will Embiid dig deeper and lead, or will they be tired and injured, look around him and pack? These people will speak with their actions in one way or another.

Change rotation

This is a hot topic: I think in the past few seasons, review rotation is the most overrated subplot in the 76ers world. In these playoffs, Rivers has actually changed the situation relatively quickly, switching between Milton and Maxi in the backcourt, starting a small group in the fifth game against Washington, and Abandoned the full bench lineup to let Tobias Harris play on the floor and the second unit. There are some bad personal choices, such as having Seth Curry and Fulcan Corkmaz stabbed by Lou Williams, but this is a different story.

However, to some extent, the rotation needs to be re-adjusted in the sixth game. Harris and the substitutes didn’t work. Simmons and Howard may be the most toxic combination of the two on the team. Does the 76ers need to make huge changes, or do simple adjustments in a life-and-death game?

There is still an option Rivers can choose-getting smaller and abandoning Dwight Howard as a rotation player. In the playoffs with Howard on the field, the 76ers scored more than 10 points per 100 possessions, which was the worst result in the rotation. Atlanta spent most of the series on a small scale, but the 76ers did not try to counterattack with their own offensive team on the bench. The lineup with Simmons as the center is a bleeding point on the defensive end, but the question is whether they can perform better than the current bench lineup. It is difficult for the 76ers to form a good two-way group without Danny Green, he gives you something at both ends, but uses Simmons as a passer/short pass without another big man Golfers have to get a little easier on the ground.

We saw how this might work in our fifth game against Washington, even if the opportunity is not always fulfilled:

This is a very easy offense. The Hawks are a better and more disciplined defensive team than the Wizards, but Philadelphia can definitely create an advantage in this situation.

Perhaps a more dramatic change can be made, whether it is combined with the appearance of the ball or used alone. Under Brett Brown (Brett Brown), Embiid is usually the first Philadelphia player to come off the bench, which allows Embiid to enjoy a second lineup when he returns for the first time. Abandoning this strategy throughout the season has been fruitful for both Philadelphia and Embiid, and as Embiid enters the rhythm for a longer period of time, his performance is very good. And this is not to say that Embiid is trying to fight Capella, he sometimes throws around like a rag doll.

But if you are looking for a way to help the second team, then it is one way to keep Embiid on the court when Atlanta is at its most vulnerable (when the 76ers have the most substitutes on the court). When you just build a late-stage ecosystem around Embiid, the creative issues of people like Shake Milton are not important. Reach your location, stay there, and be prepared.

(Another point is worth mentioning here-if the 76ers go that way, you can prove either to fix Seth Curry in Embiid’s playing time so they can add the dynamic duo of this series to the hips, or Keep Curry in another group with an elite shooter to help a lineup that needs his talent more.)

Frankly speaking, I doubt that we will see almost no lineup change in Game 6, and of course don’t expect them to repair the MVP runner-up playing time in the most important game of the year. Given that two crazy crashes ended here, the 76ers may feel they can win this series without making any adjustments. They may be right there. But if they want, they can certainly take action.

Give some help to the boss

Embiid’s responsibility for their losses in games 4 and 5 is something we have discussed in detail. If the 76ers lose again, no one will feel sorry for him, and he couldn’t find a way to make it happen at the critical moment of the second half. So it goes.

But for the apparent captain’s apology, the 76ers needed more than two people to shoot in the second half of Game 6. Heck, they need a starter combination other than Embiid and Curry for more than four seconds-half a minute. If the Simmons Harris Kokmaz trio can reach double figures in the second half, the 76ers will have a chance to reach the conference finals on Friday night.

The Sixers need more movement, faster speed, and everything against Atlanta. Although this sounds good, “we should be able to know early if they are ready!” The truth is that this team broke a lot of trust this week. I doubt anyone can relax until the clock goes to zero.

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