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How Tyrese Maxey’s 76ers role changes in Game 2 vs. Knicks without Joel Embiid
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The Philadelphia 76ers are currently gearing up for Game 2 of their second round playoff series against the New York Knicks on Wednesday evening. The 76ers are looking to tie things up at 1-1 after dropping Game 1 in blowout fashion, but they will have to do so without Joel Embiid , who has been ruled out due to injury.
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With this tough update, the pressure will be on Tyrese Maxey to step up and deliver after a rough Game 1 performance, and recently, ESPN NBA insider Tim Bontemps made a prediction for Maxey’s mindset on the floor in Game 2.
“I would expect them to have Tyrese Maxey be far more aggressive than he was in Game 1,” said Bontemps, per NBA on ESPN on X, formerly Twitter. “He took only one shot in the first quarter, only three in the first half. He was really not involved in the game. I would certainly expect him to be far more aggressive.”
Maxey will likely have to put up 25 or more shots in Game 2 in order to give the 76ers a puncher’s chance to win without Embiid in the lineup against a Knicks team that decimated them in the first game of the series.
Philadelphia certainly isn’t panicking despite the rough performance, as they were blown out in similar fashion in Game 1 of the Boston series, and ended up taking Game 2 convincingly to tie things back up. In order to replicate that performance, Philadelphia will likely lean heavily on the three-point shot and hope for some positive variance in their direction.
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In any case, Game 2 of the 76ers and Knicks series is slated to tip off at 7:00 pm ET from Madison Square Garden in New York.
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