The Philadelphia 76ers finished their Monday night win elated and eclipsed 120 points. Wednesday, the team couldn’t sustain the point barrage, losing 115-93 to the scalding Dallas Mavericks on the road. With a depleted roster, sans Joel Embiid and Robert Covington, there was a silver lining that was illustrated before the game started. (Brett Brown, postgame, said that Covington’s injury is “fluid.”)
It was the first start for Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot as a Sixer, albeit he didn’t make a profound impact. The former first-round pick encountered errors on both ends the floor, passes intercepted and rawness on the defensive end, but it was a necessary challenge for the 21-year-old SF.