Game Day: 76ers (29-22) @ Suns (31-21), Sat 2/7/26

[iLLmatic]

Yeah we came out with even less energy. Let’s hope that Booker and 1 gets them going.

[Wally_West]

Get the lead under 10 points going to the 4th

[Wally_West]

Suns make a tiny comeback and these Sixers announcers are going crazy, man it would be great if we can win here. I want to hear them crash out so bad.

[iLLmatic]

If we aren’t missing shots we’re shooitng ourselves in the foot with turnovers. The last two games have been rough.

[iLLmatic]

I can sense that if we get a couple stops and hit some 3s Philly it’ll take the out of their game.

[Wally_West]

If we don’t show some life soon, I think I’m just gonna turn this one off. Frustrating game. Feels like we are beating ourselves here.

[Mori Chu]

Ugh. Wild to be losing this badly despite both Book and Jalen being back. It turns out that Embiid is good.

[Wally_West]

Knew this game was gonna suck once I saw headband Book.

[iLLmatic]

Suns coming down to earth.

[Wally_West]

And 1 for watford is game. Disgusting lol

[Wally_West]

And 1 for watford is game. Disgusting lol

And it gets overturned. Gotta do something with it tho. Gotta make the Sixers pay.

[iLLmatic]

9 of 43 from 3. Ouch.

[Wally_West]

Yeah this over. Don’t know why I’m still watching. *sigh*

[iLLmatic]

First game back for book but not a good one.

[Wally_West]

Book’s 3pt shot is so fucking disgusting lol

[Wally_West]

Book’s 3pt shot is so fucking disgusting lol

Immediately hits one after this lol

Too little too late tho

[Mori Chu]

This is a nice little comeback, but I think they dug themselves too deep a hole. Wish they had played this hard the whole game.

[iLLmatic]

Book’s 3pt shot is so fucking disgusting lol

Not a good disgusting lol

[iLLmatic]

Our max contract dude air balling 3s.

[Mori Chu]

Tough game. We just felt off most of the game; Embiid was way too big and strong for us. The league seems to have mostly given up on him, but when healthy he's still an absolute menace. 33 and 9, not bad. Maxey also put up 29 on us. He shot only 8-21 but somehow he felt dangerous every time he put a shot up. Kelly Oubre also somehow resurrected himself from the dead and scored 18 points on us.

It was really nice to see Book and Green playing. But neither of them had a great outing. Book gave us 21 points but shot only 1-7 from 3; I don't know why his 3-point shot has deserted him so badly. Book did give us 9 assists, though, and made 10-11 FTs. Dillon Brooks gave us 28 but he shot just 2-10 from 3. Gillespie struggled and gave us only 6 points on 2-11 shooting. Our bench was mostly a non-factor including Green who gave us 8 points but looked like he's still feeling things out. Overall it felt to me like the team was sluggish and didn't give the effort needed to beat a good team like Philly.

This recent losing patch has dropped us pretty solidly into 7th place in the West. Luckily we are still 3 games up on the 8th place Warriors, but we could have leapfrogged some of the other teams above us like the Lakers or Wolves if we had been able to win these games.