What Steve Clifford Said Following the Loss to Philadelphia

Takeaways from tonight's loss

“I think there’s things, like I told the guys, there’ll be things that we can learn from the film that will help – little things, execution things. The overall story of the game would be more about the guys that didn’t play than did, I would say. There’s always things you can learn from a game.

Message to the team

“One thing about the NBA, you tell them the truth. Look, we’ve got to get our guys back. It’s a brutal stretch, this stretch here this week and the next two weeks. I mean, there’s no easy weeks in this league, but if you look at the upcoming schedule, it’s going to be hard. We’re not sure when those guys will come back. We’ve got to find a way to win enough so that when we get everybody in full strength and then a little time to kind of get a game together, that we’re not too far out. And right now, we’re not. So much of your record, and this is every year, depends on how good the East is, and right now this year, the East is brutal. If you can get close to .500, I bet you that’ll be good enough to get in.”

Joel Embiid's performance

“He’s just such a dominant presence at both ends of the floor. The dribble up ones, everything else we tried to double team, but when he just brings the ball up the court and plays one-on-one, there’s really not much you can do. He does it out of the flow, centers are having to do something they normally don’t have to do. I feel like the only guy like that at all would be (Nikola) Jokic. He’s different and he’s great at it. Like I said, all the other stuff we tried to double team – some of it worked, some of it did not. He crushed us, and I don’t know what you can do, to be honest.”

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