The Sixers allow 112 points per game on average. In home games the number is unsurprisingly lower, just 109.6. On Thursday they held the Miami Heat to just 102 points. All of this would suggest that defense was not a problem for the team, who was without the services of it’s Defensive Player of the Year Candidate, Joel Embiid. The team learned yesterday that he’d be out at least a week with knee soreness.
But despite the overall effort, and some clutch steals by T.J. McConnell, there were some times when the Sixers seemed to have communication errors.