Anatomy of a blown lead: Sixers explain what happened in loss to Clippers – Sixers Wire

Los Angeles was 6-for-11 from deep in the fourth quarter as they were able to complete the comeback with their shooting. Marcus Morris Sr. and Luke Kennard hit two triples each and the Clippers outscored Philadelphia 32-21 in the final quarter.

Doc Rivers: I really thought we really lost their shooters too many times just in transition, on pick-and-rolls, how many 3s did they get? It wasnt like they were running double drags and getting 3s so that hurt us, but we shouldnt have been in that position. That second group came in tonight and the turnovers over and over and casualness. You get a 20-point lead and against a team that can shoot the ball like that, a 20-point lead in a 3-point league, means nothing. Its five shots and its a game. Thats exactly what happened.

Tobias Harris: It started when they went small ball. They started to make shots. I thought offensively, we got a bit stagnant trying to find the mismatch when we couldve just kept running on them. They made a lot of shots there, tough shots in the pick-and-roll, and up until the fourth quarter, they got looks, made them, and we just couldnt convert offensively. We had some good looks that didnt fall for us as well.

Defensively, we just werent physical enough with them. Too many wide-open looks, give them credit, they made some tough shots, but on the ball, we couldve been better with our first stance of defense and containing and guarding our yard so they werent able to get downhill. Thats a tough one just because we were playing so hard and the good brand of basketball we were playing really well. Getting out and running and just creating mismatches all throughout the court so thats a tough one.

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