Tyrese Maxey addresses his turnover issues after Sixers fall to Knicks

NEW YORK -- The Philadelphia 76ers had their chances in Game 2 against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. They battled all night long despite not having Joel Embiid due to hip and ankle issues and held a lead in the fourth, but they went cold as they shot 4-for-19 in the fourth as the Knicks earned a 108-102 win to send Philadelphia to an 0-2 hole in the series. The Sixers received a solid game from Tyrese Maxey who poured in 26 points, but he shot just 9-for-23 and turned the ball over six times.

Obviously, without Embiid on the floor, the Knicks are going to pay a ton of defensive attention to Maxey and try to make him give up the basketball. New York sent a ton of blitzes and traps his way in an effort to speed him up a bit. Maxey did the best he could, but he was unable to really figure it out.

It also didn't help that he jammed his finger, which he confirmed was the same one that caused him to miss three weeks in March. "I jammed my finger in the second quarter," Maxey explained. "I didn't feel confident dribbling around a lot of the traps like I normally do, or splitting them, so I was trying to get off the ball and, like, trying to create actions, but that's fine.

They can put two on the ball. I’m fine with that, but I just gotta get more comfortable making the reads. I turned the ball over way, way, way too much tonight, especially out of the traps, and I gotta do a better job of just staying poised in those traps and make the right play out of it.