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I had money on philly +3.5 lmao.

Enjoyed the game. I think Embiid with Harden-or a good PG can win the East.

17 free throws is crazy

Had no expectations and was pleasantly surprised by the effort. A lot of little things to clean up, which is the doom of Sixers perpetual roster churn and Nurse getting his footing with the roster. Can't leave Oubre on Dame late with Melton sitting on the bench, despite how much Oubre was giving offensively. Should fouled Giannis on that last play.

Calls were weird, but every game will have them. Marginal Contact will come for all of you, just wait.

Just aesthetically, I had so much more fun watching the team without Harden. Not that Harden isn’t super talented, but he sets the pace so much. The two man game with he and Joel ground things down so much even when it was working. Nice to get some pace and chaos that gave so many more guys opportunities.

Sixers got bodied per usual. Bucks in the conversation of best team of all time.

The Sixers should NOT have worn matching Bryce Harper uniforms to the game

GG Bucks, really fun first game. Some bad reffing, but if we hit our FT's it wouldn't be an issue. Loved what I saw defensively from Embiid, Giannis couldn't do anything to him 1 on 1. Maxey is a future All-Star. Can't wait to see what this season brings.

The biggest shame in recent NBA is no Sixers/bucks playoff matchups. They always play intense close games

This was a fun game. I missed basketball.

How many times has Gianni’s been saved from a shooter going off?

Imagine a world where Kelly Oubre makes Harden expendable.

Thoughts on this game from an excited but slightly apprehensive Bucks fan:

• Dame is fucking amazing. Seriously, a complete legend, one of the best and most clutch offensive players of all time. I knew this already, of course, but it just hits differently seeing him do it for your team. especially when your team’s biggest weakness is FT shooting and be goes 17/17 in a one point win. Absolutely NO way we win this game with last year’s roster

• defense was fairly solid, they made a fuck ton of 3s but a lot of them were very deep and some of them were contested, I don’t expect a team to make those shots from deep at such a high clip on the regular

• Giannis was so bad.. so fucking bad. It’s very clear that it’s not Dame that needs to develop chemistry so much as it’s Giannis who needs to understand how to effectively function as the second option on offense and not bring the ball up the court every possession. His defense was solid tho

• thought we made some solid adjustments on defense and some good subs at pivotal moments, but I am starting to think think our previous 4th quarter stagnant offense is not necessarily a Bud problem as much as it is a Giannis-initiating-the-offense problem. That fits half of the 4th quarter looked eerily familiar until Giannis got subbed out for a bit. He really needs to figure out how to function off ball better

• Nick Nurse is a hell of a good coach and you can see how he coached the 76ers to outplaying their potential here, especially on the defensive end and against Giannis. There will be many nights against lesser teams, lesser defenses, and lesser coaches that Gianni’s will absolutely go off

• Giannis is rusty and needs to get back into the flow of things, he will absolutely do better

• Middleton barely played but looked very good while out there. Whole team will level up when he’s at full speed

• Brook was great

• Beasley and Beauchamo looked spry defensively

• Fuck Kelly Oubre that is all

18 minutes of game time but didn’t necessarily play those minutes. Either way he was not amazing in that time and it was definitely costly/disappointing but pretty typical form for early season embiid

HARDEN MVP

Posting the box score in the text box should be mandatory for these PGTs, think reducing that clicks helps push comments and being able to refer to it as you comment on the game

The official Boxscore doesn't even have Harden's name on it!

That end of the game felt like the playoffs. This will be my favorite team to watch this year. Philly didn't look too bad and I couldn't help but notice how much they could use Harden. Fit wise you'd think Harden would want to play with these guys.

Bucks record previous 50 games when Giannis is a -9 or worse before last night 0-50...

I thought it was hilarious watching Threesley be the point of attack defender in the closing minutes.

Brock + Dame + Giannis and two guys on vet minimums.