How this game will be remembered now hinges on Sunday. If the Sixers win Game 7, it will be the footnote. But if they do lose the game and the series, it will go down as one of the greatest missed opportunities in franchise history. This is high-stakes basketball, and on a night that even a slightly below-average offense could have vaulted the Sixers into the conference finals, it was their worst performance of the season.

One of these teams has to win. Who does the serious observer believe in in G7? Who is there to have belief between these two dystopic, uncoached teams? The "Celtics" and "Sixers" are where belief goes to die.