Embiid told reporters that he got some extra motivation from some comments that Payton Pritchard made ahead of Game 3.
Obviously I was 0-3 in Game 7s, so I just wanted to bring the energy, Embiid said. But it does also help when I saw [Pritchard], he said they didn?t care if I was playing or not and they hadn?t even adjusted or had sort of game-plan around me.
So, I think it helps when the other team doesn?t worry about you it helps you have better games, so I thank [Pritchard] for that.