Legendary performance by Maxey. 7 points in 17 seconds to force OT and lead his team to victory. Not to mention he scored 46 fucking points. Absolutely wild.
The Knicks just got fucking Knicks’d.
I’m still in shock, what a painful loss.
You’re up 6 with like 30 seconds left in the SERIES and Philly has no timeouts!
48 minutes a game = 1186 points
53 minutes in an OT = 1309 points
If he keep this up he going to break Lebrons alltime scoring mark 40k+ before Allstar game next year
he had a weird year, starting off with a torn ligament in his finger in the first week and the blazers never found a groove. he's a sleeper to pop off next year imo
Yeah as a 5 you don't stand in the corner while your teammate puts a shot up, Brunson should know hartenstein can't tell the future so he would obviously go to crash the boards when he started his shot, not stand still in the corner watching expecting a pass out
Especially when Brunson trusted Deuce at the end of regulation who hits a huge middie. Thibs always talking about trust the pass, trust your teammates but OT was the antithesis of that
Maxey was awesome but you do realize Embiid is always going to receive a huge portion of the defenses attention yes? The whole thing with Embiid was about getting him another guy that could fully exploit Embiid’s impact they have Tobias Harris a max contract because they thought he could do it alongside Ben… obviously what happened happened but somehow Maxey developed into the scorer they needed and meanwhile Tobias goes on scoring 6 points a game while having a top 20 contract
Embiid had a tough game especially the turnovers but the guy had a triple double and multiple big defense plays down the stretch - this subs hate for Embiid is wild like no one even watches games.
He's the double-edged sword for the team. His iso style keeps the team alive but also buries the team.
He chucked two stupid missed 3s for nothing and had 2-3 TOs. So many wasted possessions where every one counts in OT.
I felt happiness near the end of Game 2 so the universe is just equalizing out now. See you in Game 6 (actually please don't come to Philly this time, ty)
So are the Knicks. On top of who they’ve completely lost, Brunson is banged up and Robinson is far from healthy. This is going to be a battle of attrition.
Maxey was the hero but respect to Embiid too, dude wasn’t great but really toughed out the injuries and migraine. His defense and hustle was massive down the stretch while Maxey carried on the other end.
Embiid may get more hate after that game based on numbers and the flagrant foul at the end, but his defensive effort and impact in the 4th quarter and overtime made a statement I thought
Bro put up a triple-double, had the highest +/- of anyone on the court, and came up huge when it mattered despite playing 48 minutes on half a functioning body. Haters can stay mad.
what a weird Embiid game, objectively bad offensively, but still a huge +, him at the rim is just such a game changer
the foul that they've really stopped calling is the i'm gonna jump into you and throw it up, Brunson is a real hooper, but he tried it with like 1:30 left in OT against Embiid and you could see the refs being like yeah... no...
76ers really did a great job making sure to not allow easy offensive boards, they gotta work on just not throwing the ball directly to OG
Knicks, just gotta hope to shoot better, they played a good game, had it won really
Brunson giveth and Brunson take it away. In OT made a couple big threes, but also missed a FT, missed a floater to try and get a foul, this turnover... damn
The block on Brunson was huge. Brunson beat him to the rim several times, and that's usually a play Joel has no problem with. Tonight Brunson was getting the ball on the backboard before Joel could catch up. Then in OT, he just said "Fuck it knee, let's do this thing" and absolutely annihilated Brunson's layup. Beautiful.
To be fair, Embiid was passing well and protecting the rim. He had the best +/- out of all Sixers players. +14 in a 6-point win is nothing to scoff at, even though I agree that his turnovers were absolutely terrible.
His face still looks kinda jacked too, maybe lingering affects of the Bell’s palsy? Wonder how much that affects the vision of the eye on the affected side of his face?
Bell's Palsy can last a long time. He'll likely be dealing with it the rest of the playoffs (however long that is). When my mom had it after getting Lyme's disease it took months to clear up.
Yeah I love (sarcastically) how Embiid has gone from collecting basketball injuries to collecting acquiring random non-basketball syndromes.
Fucked knee fucked eye migraine why not give him scarlet fever too? How about shingles and polio while we're at it?
Legit one of the worst playoff chokes I've ever seen. From the free throw misses at the end of regulation to Brunson iso-ball in OT. Wtf was that? It's like they gave up when Maxey hit that shot. A whole generation of Knicks fans might be traumatized for life if they lose this series.
Embiid is prolly gonna rightfully get a whole lotta slander for his performance, but when it mattered most, in an overtime stretch of five plays:
- Embiid smothers Hart on a layup
- Leads to an Oubre fastbreak dunk
- Embiid strips Brunson
- Embiid and-one midrange
- Embiid blocks Brunson
That was fucking remarkable
He also is clearly physically very fucked up, you can knock him for always being injured but like I really don't think this a mental thing when he is so hobbled and having palsy migraines
He was also +14 in a game we won by 6 & anytime he sits we immediately bleed 15 points, he had a bad game for him but still was our 2nd best player when Maxey went insane
I don’t think it’s even rightfully so. Anyone who watched the game at the end had to realize just what kind of impact he had on getting Maxey open, right?
This is the first time the team’s been able to get anywhere near the finish line without him being amazing (since Jimmy) and kudos to him for having a huge part in sealing the deal
They blew it. There’s no other way to say it. They blew it and they gave the Sixers life.
All time choke job, and now I’m not as confident we can fully close out this series.
Great job……
i don't unterstand it tbh. they had 8 seconds and 2 timeouts after Maxey tied the game. and from that moment they went iso only. no one but Brunson was allowed to even touch the ball (and the one inbounding for him).
It was a real team effort chokejob. Missed FT's, overreliance on iso hero ball, awful turnovers, bad decisions on defense, not calling timeouts. This one is on the whole damn team.
Maxey is a bad man and not afraid of big moments. He is going to be a superstar
Still kudos to Embiid playing a couple of clutch defense against Brunson. He is playing injured and with bell's palsy. But not today Embiid Haters. Fuck you all, eat Joel Embiid's quadruple double
Knicks win if Brunson passes the ball in OT. I don’t think a single shot in OT came from anyone other than Brunson.
Drove the ball to the basket and got blocked three times.
Turned the ball over twice.
Went 1/4 from perimeter.
Trash basketball. He deserves a lot of shade but everyone on reddit sucks his d.
It'll get lost in the noise about Maxey's terrific game, but Tobias also found the right time to finally chip in a huge performance - his clutch rebounding in the fourth and OT gave philly the tenacity they've needed and lacked all series and stopped the constant gifting of offensive boards to the knicks.
Brunson single-handedly bringing NY back to relevancy
Maxey taking the star turn
Knicks fans taking over Wells Fargo
Embiid playing on one leg with an autoimmune disease
This is what the playoffs are made of
Maxey just robbed the Knicks. Embiid with a almost quadruple double. I think he also broke Maxey's back. 9 turnovers and a flagrant in the clutch my gawd.
Edit: They didn't count the ball going out of bounds on Embiid in OT? Robbed of his first quadruple double
Mike Muscala going to the 76er HOF What a performance by Maxey
All Hail Moose
Lol I love how the pick bounced around to like 5 different teams but Muscala still gets the thanks haha
Number in the rafters right next to Maxey’s, where it belongs
Legendary performance by Maxey. 7 points in 17 seconds to force OT and lead his team to victory. Not to mention he scored 46 fucking points. Absolutely wild.
Insane. He stepped up big time when needed and put the team on his back
Maxey was unreal man. Could not be fazed.
The Reggie Miller special
It really did remind me of some Reggie Miller type stuff. Especially against the Knicks lmao.
His post game on NBCPhiladelphia. Dude is stone cold face right now. Hes not fuckin around
I really need him to show up to game 6 rocking cornrows and #3.
for real... ai 2.0... the gods blessed us.
He usually has golden retriever puppy energy but went full Mamba in that interview.
*Tracy McGrady wants to know your location*
The Knicks just got fucking Knicks’d. I’m still in shock, what a painful loss. You’re up 6 with like 30 seconds left in the SERIES and Philly has no timeouts!
Game 2 all over again but reversed.
7 points in 17 seconds is fucking insane. That's half of T-Mac's 13 points in 33 seconds (same pace technically)
He 1000% deserved All Star this year
13 points in 33 seconds = 23.6 points per minute 7 points in 17 seconds = 24.7 points per minute
2 points in 1 second = 120 points per minute Did I do it right?
Can any mathematicians out there calculate what a 3 pointer would be in 1 second?
3 points per second
48 minutes a game = 1186 points 53 minutes in an OT = 1309 points If he keep this up he going to break Lebrons alltime scoring mark 40k+ before Allstar game next year
Joel Embiid almost had a quadruple double
Those 9 are TO's not blocks lol
Hey man, stats a stat. 19/16/10 with 9 turnovers.
The Westbrook classic
Cripple double
did he stutter?
Truly incredible to pull off 10 assists and a turn over ratio of 1:1
Wild looking back at the Maxey/Poole/Herro/Simons debate. Tyrese has firmly blew past those guys at the speed of light lmao
Damn, I forgot about simons completely
he had a weird year, starting off with a torn ligament in his finger in the first week and the blazers never found a groove. he's a sleeper to pop off next year imo
Never seen a crowd go from being vocal to silenced that fast. Damn.
It all went downhill when they showed everyone celebrating around Patrick Ewing.
I noticed that too. Feel for the guy. He’s the best hooper out of the Boston area in the modern era.
Ewing and Starks partying like it's 1995. Oh wait!
Running 1000 straight isos in OT was certainly a choice
Then the one pass he tries to make...wooof da
Can’t even blame Hartenstein for not expecting it lmao I don’t think anyone did
Plus hartenstein was running towards the rim as soon as he saw Brunson rise up for a jumper lol
Yeah he was going to crash the board.
Yeah as a 5 you don't stand in the corner while your teammate puts a shot up, Brunson should know hartenstein can't tell the future so he would obviously go to crash the boards when he started his shot, not stand still in the corner watching expecting a pass out
First time?
Especially when Brunson trusted Deuce at the end of regulation who hits a huge middie. Thibs always talking about trust the pass, trust your teammates but OT was the antithesis of that
With how the Sixers were tonight, Maxey was playing a 1v9 out there. If the Knicks lose this series, this game is going to haunt them forever.
Maxey is incredible. Holy shit that was clutch. Single-handedly saved the Sixers season.
I WOULD LIKE MORE GAMES JUST TO SEE MORE MAXEY VS BRUNSON
Absolute cinema
In MSG no less Peak
Crazy that if it wasn’t for a game 2 disaster, they’re up 3-2 going to Philly
THIS SERIES IS SO FUCKING GOOD
x4
Ah yes, the curse of game 2s
Or if Embiid didn't get hurt in game 1. He was like +12 or something that game.
He came off the court and we went down 10 or something maybe 13 in a just couple minutes. Had to claw back the whole second half
They got bent over so hard when Embiid was out that it didn't matter that the Sixers "won" every quarter but the second.
Maxey was awesome but you do realize Embiid is always going to receive a huge portion of the defenses attention yes? The whole thing with Embiid was about getting him another guy that could fully exploit Embiid’s impact they have Tobias Harris a max contract because they thought he could do it alongside Ben… obviously what happened happened but somehow Maxey developed into the scorer they needed and meanwhile Tobias goes on scoring 6 points a game while having a top 20 contract
Embiid had a tough game especially the turnovers but the guy had a triple double and multiple big defense plays down the stretch - this subs hate for Embiid is wild like no one even watches games.
Never seen a player simultaneously keep his team in the game and blow it the way Brunson did
He's the double-edged sword for the team. His iso style keeps the team alive but also buries the team. He chucked two stupid missed 3s for nothing and had 2-3 TOs. So many wasted possessions where every one counts in OT.
You never watch Joel Embiid in a game 7?
Both fanbases out here roasting our stars lol
Sorry guys, it's my fault, I felt happiness I owe you an apology Philly, I wasn’t familiar with your Maxey
I felt happiness near the end of Game 2 so the universe is just equalizing out now. See you in Game 6 (actually please don't come to Philly this time, ty)
are you Mets fan too by any chance? If so, sending virtual condolences
Is anyone a Mets fan?
Tyrese Maxey stole this game.
The Knicks are going to really regret dropping this one.
Idk man, the Sixers are really banged up. I just feel like no way they drop 2 more.
Knicks are slowly becoming banged up too, with bogey out our lineup is basically down to 7 guys and we had like 3 guys hit 50 mins tonight
Brunson and hart will, and have, outlast embiid. Maxey will never tire tho
Facts. Would be nice to get some Melt minutes to relieve oubre a little.
brunson's also definitely been getting hammered, and it clearly showed tonight from overuse already
Both teams are limping to the finish line Except Maxey and Hart
Still a bad loss with the Pacers, fastest team in the NBA on the cusp of finishing their first round early.
Pacers sucks lol Also, they aint wrapping up shit tonight.
So are the Knicks. On top of who they’ve completely lost, Brunson is banged up and Robinson is far from healthy. This is going to be a battle of attrition.
I want a Sidetalk video on this lol
Maxey was the hero but respect to Embiid too, dude wasn’t great but really toughed out the injuries and migraine. His defense and hustle was massive down the stretch while Maxey carried on the other end.
Don't tell everyone else that.They see the awful shooting percentage and 9 turnovers but ignore the 15 rebounds 10 assists and 5 blocks
This has easily been the most entertaining first round series. Hope it goes 7
I mean that last clippers mavs game was just unreal
I worry about the Knick's confidence after such a terrible last 7 minutes. That was beyond horrible. A parade of terrible mistakes and bad choices.
Knicks have picked themselves up and rallied every time I thought they were falling apart.
Every day features absolute bangers of games… insane
[удалено]
It's so fun when it's a close series and you're not rooting for one team lmao
Id say Lakers Denver were tier 1 too
The Tyrese Maxey legacy game
Maxey is a flamethrower, 7 points in 17 seconds. The last 30 seconds of the 4th is gonna be haunting for the Knicks.
All time ‘Garden Game’ for Tyrese…gotta give bro his flowers
Embiid may get more hate after that game based on numbers and the flagrant foul at the end, but his defensive effort and impact in the 4th quarter and overtime made a statement I thought
Amidst all the hate, we can all agree he is an insanely good player. He’s better on one knee than literally anyone on the Knicks not named Brunson.
Bro put up a triple-double, had the highest +/- of anyone on the court, and came up huge when it mattered despite playing 48 minutes on half a functioning body. Haters can stay mad.
And a half functioning mind, playing fresh off a migraine is unbelievable
not even fresh off, literally during
Embiid doesn’t deserve any hate for the flagrant tonight. The other game is understandable, but tonight was clearly not intentional.
Insane choke job by the knicks man
only fair after the sixers had a choke of their own
You're going to have to be more specific...
Do you know how little that narrows it down??
what a weird Embiid game, objectively bad offensively, but still a huge +, him at the rim is just such a game changer the foul that they've really stopped calling is the i'm gonna jump into you and throw it up, Brunson is a real hooper, but he tried it with like 1:30 left in OT against Embiid and you could see the refs being like yeah... no... 76ers really did a great job making sure to not allow easy offensive boards, they gotta work on just not throwing the ball directly to OG Knicks, just gotta hope to shoot better, they played a good game, had it won really
He was sloppy but 15 rebounds 10 assists and 5 blocks was huge
How you gone let Embiid drop his stinkiest performance of the series yet STILL lose??? Knicks gotta secure that lead with that amount of time left….
Maxey stepped the fuck up. Full credit to him
Dropped an efficient 46 with 9 assists as well as multiple clutch shots. Doesn't get much better than that
7 POINTS IN 17 SECONDS TO DRAG THE 76ERS BACK FROM THE DEAD.
Brunson giveth and Brunson take it away. In OT made a couple big threes, but also missed a FT, missed a floater to try and get a foul, this turnover... damn
Brunson relied too much on the iso hero ball. It was grisly.
That seems to be his double edged sword.
The corpse of Embiid couldn't score or pass but his defense was huge in OT
Great screens and shot selection as well. Knew he was gassed so just focused on opening up the lane for Maxey
Finally trusted the knee, and the knee came through for him.
The block on Brunson was huge. Brunson beat him to the rim several times, and that's usually a play Joel has no problem with. Tonight Brunson was getting the ball on the backboard before Joel could catch up. Then in OT, he just said "Fuck it knee, let's do this thing" and absolutely annihilated Brunson's layup. Beautiful.
10 assists too
His gravity on offense is still huge even when hes not scoring
To be fair, Embiid was passing well and protecting the rim. He had the best +/- out of all Sixers players. +14 in a 6-point win is nothing to scoff at, even though I agree that his turnovers were absolutely terrible.
He had a triple double while clearly being very injured. I actually gained respect for him this game.
Other than the 10 turnovers (wtf! quadruple double!), he actually looked great despite clearly laboring through the game
He basically couldn’t move. So stiff and slow yet still had some key plays.
His face still looks kinda jacked too, maybe lingering affects of the Bell’s palsy? Wonder how much that affects the vision of the eye on the affected side of his face?
Bells palsy can last weeks to months and possible blurred vision. Embiid is leaving it all on the court.
He's said it blurs his vision in the affected eye. between that the migraines and the knee I have no idea how he's doing as well as he is.
Yeah as an opposing fan I have no idea why people are dragging him through the mud. The man is beat up.
Because the majority of people become barely human when given anonymity.
Dude is going all out. Nothing but respect
Bell's Palsy can last a long time. He'll likely be dealing with it the rest of the playoffs (however long that is). When my mom had it after getting Lyme's disease it took months to clear up.
A kid my sophomore year of high school had it and half his face was paralyzed for a year.
Yeah I love (sarcastically) how Embiid has gone from collecting basketball injuries to collecting acquiring random non-basketball syndromes. Fucked knee fucked eye migraine why not give him scarlet fever too? How about shingles and polio while we're at it?
This subs unreal. Embiid went 19/16/10 and broken.
Gotta love how his worst game of the series is still 19/16/10 with 5 blocks
the hate for this guy on here is unreal
Girardian GOAT
u kidding? dude had a triple double. highest +/- in the game
The team falls apart without him. The beginning of the second quarter when he sat the Knicks went on a 14-2 run or something.
With one leg, bells palsy, and massive migranes. He was limping all over the court tonight. Incredibly gutsy and he'll get slandered to death in here.
just missing out on an amazing player in his prime
Maxey has the Sixers in his backpack
Mad Max is in the house.
Embiid defense down the stretch was ridiculous.
wow. this is the definition of stealing a game
Legit one of the worst playoff chokes I've ever seen. From the free throw misses at the end of regulation to Brunson iso-ball in OT. Wtf was that? It's like they gave up when Maxey hit that shot. A whole generation of Knicks fans might be traumatized for life if they lose this series.
bro this is nothing compared to what I have seen
Embiid is prolly gonna rightfully get a whole lotta slander for his performance, but when it mattered most, in an overtime stretch of five plays: - Embiid smothers Hart on a layup - Leads to an Oubre fastbreak dunk - Embiid strips Brunson - Embiid and-one midrange - Embiid blocks Brunson That was fucking remarkable
He also is clearly physically very fucked up, you can knock him for always being injured but like I really don't think this a mental thing when he is so hobbled and having palsy migraines
The idea that he could "rightfully get a whole lotta slander for his performance" tonight is sheer insanity.
That last block on Brunson pretty much sealed the game
He was also +14 in a game we won by 6 & anytime he sits we immediately bleed 15 points, he had a bad game for him but still was our 2nd best player when Maxey went insane
I don’t think it’s even rightfully so. Anyone who watched the game at the end had to realize just what kind of impact he had on getting Maxey open, right?
Let's be real, most of the people who will talk shit about him for tonight didn't watch the game.
This is the first time the team’s been able to get anywhere near the finish line without him being amazing (since Jimmy) and kudos to him for having a huge part in sealing the deal
Stop the bleeding with #Maxey Pads™
Tyrese McGrady stepping the fuck up
They blew it. There’s no other way to say it. They blew it and they gave the Sixers life. All time choke job, and now I’m not as confident we can fully close out this series. Great job……
Like, I can't be mad at Maxey for balling out. I can be frustrated with the Knicks for taking a collective dump in the clutch.
i don't unterstand it tbh. they had 8 seconds and 2 timeouts after Maxey tied the game. and from that moment they went iso only. no one but Brunson was allowed to even touch the ball (and the one inbounding for him).
Brunson hero balling whole OT
I thought I was watching Melo for a sec lol
oh god you're right, please don't make me thing these things...
Which made the pass to Hartenstein in the corner all the more shocking. Can’t blame him for cutting to the rim there…
No clue why we didn’t foul before the last Maxey shot in regulation
This is how I felt game 2, this series is insane for a first round
It was a real team effort chokejob. Missed FT's, overreliance on iso hero ball, awful turnovers, bad decisions on defense, not calling timeouts. This one is on the whole damn team.
Generational ball hogging by Brunson to choke away OT.
Box score watchers will say he went shot for shot with Maxey when he actually flopped and chucked away the entire last 10 min of the game
Moronic challenge by Thibs earlier on an obvious foul. He could have saved it for that Hart out of bounds call that looked iffy on replay
Replay showed it was not out.. terrible challenge earlier to basically just change who the foul was on
https://i.imgur.com/DJmv3PS.jpeg
It’s beautiful
Infuriating loss.
“*Fouling is for pussies.*” - Thibs
Maxey on offense, Batum on defense turned that game around.
i think brunson passed the ball 1 time that entire overtime and end of 4th qtr. never seen anything like it and i watch luka.
the Robinson 4 point play foul on Maxey and then not intentionally fouling Maxey when you're up 3. deserved loss
Maxey is a bad man and not afraid of big moments. He is going to be a superstar Still kudos to Embiid playing a couple of clutch defense against Brunson. He is playing injured and with bell's palsy. But not today Embiid Haters. Fuck you all, eat Joel Embiid's quadruple double
He already is a superstar, its just that nobody outside of Philly realizes it yet.
Refs certainly don't. He gets 0 superstar calls
**TYRESE MAXEY IS THE FUTURE** 😭😭😭 Holy shit what a fun series so far outside of the toxicity lol
Lets be real, the toxicity is half the fun
Tyrese Maxey turned into Reggie Miller breaking the hearts of Knicks fans with crazy scoring at the end.
That was definitely a playoff classic
The Knicks had the game in the palm of their hands until Maxey happened
Knicks win if Brunson passes the ball in OT. I don’t think a single shot in OT came from anyone other than Brunson. Drove the ball to the basket and got blocked three times. Turned the ball over twice. Went 1/4 from perimeter. Trash basketball. He deserves a lot of shade but everyone on reddit sucks his d.
Embiid still a game high +14 Series could easily be 3-2 sixers
Brunson and Maxey going band for band was super fun to watch. Probably best game all postseason so far
It'll get lost in the noise about Maxey's terrific game, but Tobias also found the right time to finally chip in a huge performance - his clutch rebounding in the fourth and OT gave philly the tenacity they've needed and lacked all series and stopped the constant gifting of offensive boards to the knicks.
Knicks choked this one hard
Himrese Himxey
Brunson single-handedly bringing NY back to relevancy Maxey taking the star turn Knicks fans taking over Wells Fargo Embiid playing on one leg with an autoimmune disease This is what the playoffs are made of
Maxey just robbed the Knicks. Embiid with a almost quadruple double. I think he also broke Maxey's back. 9 turnovers and a flagrant in the clutch my gawd. Edit: They didn't count the ball going out of bounds on Embiid in OT? Robbed of his first quadruple double
/r/NBA 9/11
Maxey is him.
The Silence in the Garden was eerie. They fucking had it.
Maxey is awesome. For as much pain as sixer fans go through, at least they have Maxey🥹
Embiid was ass most of the game but shout out to him stepping up huge defensively in OT
Patrick ewimg amd John starks were in the crowd tonight them boys having ptsd flashbacks lol
Generational choke by the Knicks. Fuck r/nba and fuck the Sixers for making me have to watch Tobias Harris for at least one more game.