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- The Philadelphia 76ers suffered a 4th quarter collapse against the Detroit Pistons on Thursday night.
- Sixers head coach Doc Rivers appeared to blame star James Harden for the loss after the game.
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Things aren’t looking good for the Philadelphia 76ers a week before the playoffs.
On Thursday night, the Sixers collapsed in the fourth quarter and lost to the lowly Pistons team.
The Sixers are COLLAPSING against the Pistons!
Detroit has outscored Philly 29-10 in the 4th quarter 🤯 pic.twitter.com/fATyvn9Vbd
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) April 1, 2022
After the game, Rivers refused to blame his bench for the loss and then appeared to name James Harden, who shot 4-15 from the field for the night, as the main culprit for the team’s second unit struggles.
The Sixers' bench was outscored 39-8 on Thursday night, which Doc Rivers doesn't think showed that they struggled. More importantly, he thought it said more about James Harden, in a quote that will soon be analyzed to death: https://t.co/3lHrQaPpfw
— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) April 1, 2022
Doc Rivers says James Harden is the problem on the #Sixers #NBATwitter pic.twitter.com/bJVI2lw9bV
— Optimistic Mets Fan 🏝 (@LFGKnicks) April 1, 2022
“They didn’t struggle,”.”They didn’t get a lot of shots, in their defense. I think during that stretch it was more James [Harden] than them. Yeah, it’s just a tough night.”
Doc Rivers: "I thought offensively, we really just stood around"
Attributed lack of bench scoring more to Harden and how he played/the offense ran during bench minutes. Some full quotes pic.twitter.com/VdIBrg4f9M
— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) April 1, 2022
NBA fans quickly reacted to Rivers taking shots at his star player.
Uh oh now Harden is gonna take the next 8 months off https://t.co/T6tIJh2rAx
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) April 1, 2022
https://twitter.com/TedBuddy8/status/1509721244165320710
Harden at practice tomorrow https://t.co/7F76dyWLDi pic.twitter.com/JCdde0vgLr
— theDBan (@theDBan1) April 1, 2022
Doc already throwing his players under the bus. It’s still March lmao https://t.co/eU36Hhffma
— Perc Nowitzki (@BurtWonders) April 1, 2022
D’Antoni is going to love coaching Harden and Embiid again. https://t.co/pGtWniEoj8
— Salman Ali (@SalmanAliNBA) April 1, 2022
Aye man Doc just be throwing his players under the bus LMAOOOOO https://t.co/d1Tna3ksbG
— dame 🗿 (@DameDeadAF) April 1, 2022
Sixers downfall https://t.co/actpO27Q8S pic.twitter.com/X5qPvkF2Wh
— c.jm (@CamdenJm) April 1, 2022