3 biggest takeaways for Sixers following season-ending loss to Knicks

PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia 76ers were eliminated from the NBA Playoffs following Sunday's 144-114 loss to the New York Knicks . The Sixers were swept out of Round 2 of the playoffs as their season ended with a thud following the highs of their Game 7 win over the Boston Celtics in Round 1 and rallying from a 3-1 deficit to do it. The Sixers were led by Joel Embiid with 24 points on 8-for-8 shooting, five rebounds, and four assists, Tyrese Maxey had 17points and four assists, and Kelly Oubre Jr.

had 10 and four rebounds. Paul George had seven points, VJ Edgecombe had eight points, seven assists, and six rebounds, and Quentin Grimes added six points. Here are the biggest takeaways from the Game 4 loss: A barrage of 3-pointers The Knicks drilled 11 of their 13 attempts from 3-point range in the first quarter, which essentially put this game away.

New York was going for the knockout punch in the first and succeeded as Philadelphia was unable to come up with any type of answer for them. The Sixers will be kicking themselves all summer looking back at this Game 4 loss and all of the wide-open 3s the Knicks were able to get whether it was off the dribble or off the swing pass. New York made 25 3-pointers on 44 attempts.

Coach Nick Nurse stated: "Well, they obviously came out playing super fast, and we had another scenario. I thought in the first five possessions, I think four of them were wide open 3s. We didn't make any of them, I think, and they were running off those rebounds and obviously scoring in transition.