Joel Embiid after win vs Heat: There was no chance we were going down losing four in a row
Joel Embiid wills short-handed Philadelphia 76ers to ‘needed’ win
Joel Embiid posted a 45-point and 16-rebound game in win against the Miami Heat.
The big man of the 76ers said that it was impossible for the Sixers to lose the fourth game in a row.
Per ESPN, “It was needed,” Embiid said of his performance, which included a stretch of 11 straight points for the Sixers, from the game-tying basket with 3.3 seconds to go in regulation until he hit a midrange jumper with 2:03 to go in overtime. “We needed it tonight.”
“We lost three games in a row. Our mentality should always be we should never lose two games in a row, and we lost three in a row,” he explained, “so there was no chance we were going down losing four in a row. So whatever I had to do and whatever my teammates had to do, we did it and we got the win.”