On March 21, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Philadelphia hosted the Raptors, Philadelphia once led by 16 points in the first quarter, and the Raptors completed the counterattack in the half. In the second half, Philadelphia rebounded again, and the Raptors seized the opportunity in the final quarter, and finally beat Philadelphia 93-88 to get a key victory, Philadelphia missed three consecutive wins, and the ranking fell to the third place in the East.
Philadelphia has just won two straight and is no.2 in the East, but the advantage is not large, and the Bucks and Celtics are closely behind them, and the slightest carelessness may fall out of the top 3. The Raptors are no. 7 in the East and still have hope of impacting direct playoff spots, but there is no room for error. The first two encounters between the two teams were won by one each.
Philadelphia made a brilliant start and soon widened the point differential to double digits, leading by as many as 16 points in the first quarter, with Sable and Maxi becoming the Wizards and Philadelphia taking a 10-point lead in the first quarter. In the first half of the second quarter, Philadelphia could still maintain its advantage, but at the end of the quarter, the Raptors began to break out to chase points, quickly narrowed the point gap, and overtook 3 points before the end of the half, Embiid's hand was average, only 4 of 12 shots, Philadelphia fell behind in rebounds significantly.
Easy side to fight again, the two teams tightly bite the score, but the shooting rate of both teams is very low, especially the outside, the Raptors have always maintained the lead, but the difference has been within 5 points, in the middle of the quarter, Maxi scored 5 consecutive points, and Philadelphia finally completed the rebound. The Raptors' offense in this quarter was completely muted, scoring only 12 points in a single quarter, but philadelphia also frequently played iron, and the Raptors only lost 8 points in this quarter, and only trailed by 5 points at the end of the third quarter.
In the final quarter, the Raptors came up with a wave of 9-3 to reverse the score. Philadelphia nibbled on the score, the point difference was almost always within 3 points, and with 4 minutes left in the game, the Raptors led by only one point 85-84. The two teams bit the score, when Philadelphia was behind 86-87, Harden missed two free throws at key moments, missed the opportunity to reverse the rebound, Siakam shot a key two points, the Raptors won a three-point advantage, and there were only 37.3 seconds left in the game. The Raptors also made consecutive free throws in the last minute, only 1 of 4 free throws, leaving Philadelphia with 7.2 seconds, but Philadelphia failed to seize the opportunity, Harden's last attack choice to break through was blown a malicious foul, Philadelphia was powerless to return to heaven, and finally lost to the Raptors 88-93 at home.
Embiid had a general feel in this campaign, only 6 of 20 shots to get 21 points and 13 rebounds, Harden did not shoot much, 5 of 12 had 17 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, but lost two crucial free throws, the last attack was also blown offensive fouls, must be backed, Maxi, Sable, Nyon also scored in double figures, Philadelphia's interior line was exploded, rebounds lost 16 40-56, and the interior score was also 40-50 behind. The Raptors had four players in double figures, Siakam had 26 points and 10 rebounds, and Achuva had 21 points and 9 rebounds.