The old saying goes that it’s a make or miss league, something that’s such an overworn cliche that The Jump has a running segment named after it. When ESPN starts using something, you know it has jumped the shark. Yet, things become cliches for a reason, and Philadelphia’s Game 2 loss to the Heat was a textbook example of the make or miss league personified.
While the Sixers dominated Miami in second chance points and on the fast break, and basically played the Heat to a draw in the turnover department, there was no overcoming the fact that they were ice cold shooting from the perimeter.