“I told you I’m special” Tyrese Maxey shoves James Harden in the back after destroying Raptors with 38 points
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Thanks to their unexpected leader Tyrese Maxey, the Philadelphia 76ers took a comfortable win in the game 1 of their playoffs series against Toronto Raptors at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Maxey led the way for his team with 38 points, while the usual leaders, Harden and Embiid backed it up with 22 and 19 points respectively. The 76ers managed to cruise past their rivals thanks to Maxey’s performance, despite of which he said, “I think the only thing I’m going to remember is us winning”, behaving like the selfless person that he is.
The game and the impact of by Tyrese was such that the crowd couldn’t stop with the “Maxey! Maxey!” chants as their favourite player of the game dismantled the rivals.
The Philadelphia 76ers took a comfortable 20-point victory against their rival Toronto Raptors in the first game of their playoffs series, and unlike the previous instances, this game wasn’t a one or two man show, but an entire team effort, and even in that team effort, the one that came on top in order to take them to victory was their guard, number 0, Tyrese Maxey, with 38 points, 2 assists and 4 rebounds making it his playoff career high, an effort in which he scored 21 points in the third quarter.
The Toronto Raptors who must’ve been prepared for other players in the team were surprised to see Maxey show up with the performance, to which they had no answer, therefore they ended up being obliterated by one man. Tyrese Maxey did everything in an impressive fashion, which is something that was expected form him after the playoffs break, post which he had been very efficient.
Let us now take a closer look at this interaction between James Harden and Tyrese Maxey as the latter was hyped up in the 76ers’ game against the Raptors.
James Harden gets shoved in the back by Tyrese Maxey as crowd hyped up by the 38-point performance
Tyrese Maxey showed up in full swing against the Philadelphia 76ers’ game against the Toronto Raptors where the player scored a total of 38 points in the 38 minutes that he played, accompanied by 2 assists and 4 rebounds. In this effort to take his team to the win, Maxey was supported by Tobias Harris with 26 points and James Harden with 22 points who also had 14 assists and 5 rebounds to his name.
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The chemistry between Harden and Maxey in the game was such that the Raptors didn’t have any answer to what they were facing. They were facing a duo which came in with one and only one intention of winning and taking no Ls, which hyped up the crowd every single time they scored, and all that the rivals could do was watch themselves getting dismantled.
Tyrese Maxey hit his playoff career high thanks to his performance against the Toronto Raptors in their game 1 of the playoffs series. He scored a total of 38 points out of which 21 came in the 3rd quarter where he turned up the heat while rest of the squad took a backseat in order to watch him shower the arena with his magic. Maxey went crazy in the 3rd quarter where he also shot a 32-foot three-pointer. In reaction to Maxey’s performance, Harden said, “I saw growth, man, I saw him from being up-and-down and not really having consistent minutes last year in the postseason to starting and having a huge role on a championship-contending team.”
Post the crazy performance and a brilliant finish after a pass from Harden, Maxey shoved him in the back showing how hyped he was and telling the entire arena that he was the boss in that game against the Raptors. It will now be interesting to see how Maxey performs in the rest of the games against Raptors, and if he does take any motivation from Game 1.
Let us now take a closer look at the reactions people on twitter had to Maxey’s performance against Toronto Raptors.
Twitter Reacts to Tyrese Maxey’s performance against Toronto Raptors
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