The 76ers couldn’t handle Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat, dropping their third straight in the road.
Simmons addresed the media after the loss to Miami (106-137) calling his team “soft”. “We were soft,” said Simmons, who was a game-low minus-31, scoring just 16 points against the “stingy” defense of the Miami Heat.
“The physicality side of things, we gotta step that up. That comes with experience, also just comes with personality. Don’t get bullied. Fight over screens, get through screens. If you gotta knock somebody over, knock ’em over. If you gotta hit somebody in the face and knock ’em down so they don’t score, hit ’em in the face.”
