Tyrese Maxey Has His Superstar Moment To Lift Sixers To Game 5 Win
The Sixers were on the brink of elimination. Joel Embiid was struggling. Everything looked bleak. That was when Tyrese Maxey took over. 46 total points. Including 7 points in the last 30 seconds to send the game to overtime. But he was not done there. He added 5 more in OT, to save the season and lift them to a 112-106 victory.
It was his Superstar moment. He almost had it in game 2. Maxey scored 15 points in that 4th quarter and almost got them the win. But a few questionable calls made that game go the other way. And that performance went unremembered. But we won’t forget what he did tonight.
We didn’t even mention the 9 assists, or that he shot 17 of 30 from the field and 7 of 12 from 3. But it was this game-tying 3, from well beyond the arc, that will go down as the moment Tyrese Maxey became a true star.
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Tyrese Maxey has had games with more points. But he has never had a game this important. Everything was on the line. We were 30 seconds away from a whole day of fans and media alike ripping Embiid apart for his 9 turnovers. But Maxey changed all of that. He saved the team and bailed out his teammate.
Embiid, in his defense, played a big part in the OT win too. His offense was never there tonight. But his defense saved the day on multiple occasions. In the last 2 minutes of OT he had a block and a steal. But without Maxey, we would be looking at Embiid very differently tonight.
That is what Superstars do. Before now, I don’t know if the Sixers ever had someone lifting up Embiid like that. There was never a playoff game where Embiid struggled, and Ben Simmons went off for 40. And James Harden disappeared as much as Embiid did in the elimination game last season. Not Maxey.
Tyrese Maxey played like the Super Star we all know he can be tonight. He is the reason this Sixers team still has life. He carried this team across the finish line, to keep their season, and our hopes, alive.
They will now have a chance to even the series up on Thursday night at home. If they can do that, it would all come down to a decisive game 7 on Saturday. We will see if Maxey has another game like this in him.
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6 Things Sixers President Daryl Morey Said When He Joined Our Show
Tyrese Maxey Passed All Tests With Flying Colors
“One big question coming in was Tyrese Maxey. We knew he was an amazing player, but we thought we’d get a better sense of where he’s at with, some of the other roster changes. And we got an even better sense of how he can play as as one of the primary guys when Joel was out. He passed everything with flying colors.”
Boston Is The Best Team He Has Seen Since The Warriors
“Boston’s a juggernaut. I mean, they’re the best team I’ve seen since the Golden State teams we went against when I was in the West. I think the other teams all have question marks. We are one of those teams. We need we need health. We need we need a few things to go our way. The Celtics don’t need a lot to go their way.
We feel very good about matching up with everybody where, you know, in terms of the Celtics that we do match up with them. More than most teams we think we match up pretty well. But they’re playing at a at a really high level. We’ve got to play them eventually if we’re going to reach our goal of winning the championship. So yeah, it’ll be it’ll be a challenge whenever we face them.”
Sees His Team As One of The Favorites
“I think we’re in this weird position of having some significant challenges during the regular season. But we feel like we’re one of the favorites. I don’t see three or 4 or 5 teams better than us. When when we have everyone, which, unfortunately, we don’t have everyone. But we have the horses. We feel like we go in as one of the favorites, but we’ve got the added challenge. It’s pretty rare you have to win one more one-and-done, to maintain being the favorite right up front.”
His Team Is On An Upswing
“In the past few years there was some negative news right before the playoffs. Now we’re on an upswing.
We’ve got Maxey on his ascendency. We have Joel still at this peak. When he’s when he’s been out there this year he’s been better than even his MVP year. We’ve got a mix of veterans that have won tons and tons of playoff games, some of them against me like Batum and Lowry. We’ve got guys who are, showing the league what they can do like the Oubres of the world.
We’ve got an upward trend. We’ve given ourselves an extra battle with Miami. But I feel like going into the playoffs, we have everyone playing on a really nice upward trend.”
His Ideas For the NBA Playoffs Format
“I think they should add more things to make the regular season meaningful. I think the top two teams should get byes. I think there should be even more of a Play-In tournament from seed 5 on. Home court should only go to the top few teams.
Obviously, it hurt us this season. But I do think it’s the right direction for the league. We generally have the least interesting playoffs of any of the major professional teams in terms of the better teams beating the worst teams. So adding drama like this is a positive for the league, even if it’s not positive for the Sixers this year.”
It Was Torture For Him Score Board Watching on Sunday
“Generally just torture. I like the planning part of the job that’s, you know, let’s figure out how to best way to win the championship. Because during the game, especially when it’s, you know, waiting for results from other teams, there’s really a lack of control there. It’s really mostly torture.
Especially when a game going your way is like 8-to 10-point lead and then it flips on you. That’s the part of the job I probably would take out if I could. I wish it could be just the methodical planning without a bunch of randomness if we could avoid it.”
