Daily News | Sixers vs. Sacramento Kings takeaways: Tyrese Maxey’s dominance, P.J. Tucker’s leadership, resilient team
Tyrese Maxey takes over games. And P.J. Tucker can make fourth-quarter contributions without scoring.The Sixers had no business winning this game.
He attacked the Kings’ defense from the start of the second half. He scored on jumpers, layups, and three-pointers. Maxey made 6 of 10 shots, including going 2-of-4 from beyond the three-point line. “I was telling them that I was going to come out aggressive in the third,” Maxey said. “I think in the first and the second, I was letting them dictate the shots I was taking. I wanted to be able to dictate the pace of the offense and get us into what we needed to be in and dictate the shots that we needed to take.”Tucker’s fourth quarterBut with Embiid out, the power forward saw action in the fourth quarter.
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