2023-2024 Sixers' GDT #21: 12/08/23 Hawks(9-11) @ 76ers(13-7) - 7pm

[BelmontShore]

Hawks(9-11) @ 76ers(13-7) Preview

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76ers' Starting Five:
Harris F
Batum F
Embiid C
Melton G
Maxey G

Hawks' Starting Five:
Bey F
Hunter F
Capela C
Bogdanovic G
Murray G

Officials:
Marc Davis #8 Crew Chief
Nick Buchert #3 Referee
Nate Green #41 Umpire

TV: NBC Sports Philadelphia

[BelmontShore]

Pretty nice 1st Q, up 12 after 1.

35-23.

Scoring spread around nicely. Embiid gets off early, Batum bangs down some 3s. Maxey yet to make a mark.

[BelmontShore]

Sixers completely shit the bed in the 2nd Q.

Just fucking ugly. Ridiculously bad defense.

Outscored 47-26 and trail at halftime.

[Gennosuke]

Not sure why Morris gets 15 mins of playing time and Cov gets zero. Cov is way more defensively disruptive than Morris, who isn't enough of a scoring threat to justify his bad D.

[Gennosuke]

Nice pass by Batum to hit the streaking Melton in stride for the easy breakaway layup.

[Gennosuke]

Maxey with the 3pt dagger to give the Sixers a nine-point lead late in the 4th.

[Gennosuke]

Sixers pull away late in a game that was closer than the final score indicates.

Some questionable decisions by Nurse:

Morris over Cov?
Bamba over Reed?
Springer now completely out of the rotation and glued to the bench?
Maxey playing too many minutes?

[BelmontShore]

I'm of the belief that their thinking is to build Morris' trade value by playing him actual backup minutes. I think they know what they have in Covington and they want him around. If they give Morris nothing but DNP-CDs, then he has zero trade value. His 3pt shot mechanics look really good.