In what was truly a game of two halves, the Sixers found a way to escape to a 26-point lead and then slowly but surely choke it in what will go down as one of the most infuriating choke-jobs in recent memory In fact, it’s the third biggest collapse in a 25-year run of NBA playoff games.
For anyone who has followed the Sixers through the process era, the whole ‘bursting out to a huge lead and choking it’ is an old Achilles Heel insistent on rearing its ugly head. However, the appointment of Doc Rivers magically swept those old memories away.