WEBVTT - Rewind | Game 1 Takeaways 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.960 Search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods, you're 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.639 listening to Rewind. They'll listen back on press conferences, highlights 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:17.280 and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Seventy Sixers 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.120 gotten turnover trouble early and we're playing catch up the 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.720 rest of the way. They gave themselves a shot behind 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.560 a really strong third quarter, but in the end, Jalen 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.240 Brown and Kemba Walker finished the job that Jason Tatums 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.519 started and the Celtics take Game one of the Eastern 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:36.000 Conference Quarterfinals best of seven series in Orlando one O 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.960 nine to one on one, I'm Brian Seltzer. Tough one 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.239 for the seventy Sixers. Joel Embiide leads the way with 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.159 twenty six points and sixteen rebounds, but he and the 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.960 Sixers battled some early issues with turnovers, and that is 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.559 the first area you can go to when trying to 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.320 dissect where this game got away from the Sixers. The 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.000 Sixers committing eighteen turnovers in the game to Boston seven, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.320 and the Celtics relatedly outscored the Sixers twenty one to seven. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.360 And points off turnovers and eighteen to eight on the 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.679 break the sixers. We know the scene setting storylines without 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.640 Ben Simmons coming into this series, making their margin for 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.080 er against a very good, potent Boston Celtics team even 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.480 that much more thin, and it just put them in 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.240 a really tough bind in the early going where they 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.640 were playing well enough to have control the game. In fact, 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.400 you could make the case they did at the outset 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.400 have control the game, but just too many turnovers gave 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.000 the Boston Celtics too much life, too many opportunities to 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.720 hang close, get into a rhythm, and ultimately when their 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.520 best player, Jason Tatum, caught fire, he was really tough 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.319 to slow down in rethinking the game. There was, you know, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.240 I guess sometimes trying to have to be a pessimist. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.760 When I look at things, I have what I call 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.320 like an oh moment's column, And one moment for me 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.880 tonight was when Jason Tatum, after a sluggish start in 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.960 the first quarter, knocked down a contested three in the 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.920 second quarter to give Auston the thirty two thirty one lead. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.440 It was a tough shot, it was a pure make 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.760 and you're like, h, you hope if you're rooting for 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.720 the Sixers, that's not the basket that gets Tatum going. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:15.280 And it was, it really was. He was unstoppable in 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.480 that second quarter. He scored fifteen points, brought down sixteen rebounds. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.400 He was really sharp in the third quarter. He was 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.840 the youngest Boston Celtic player ever to have a thirty 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.600 and ten game, finishing with thirty two points and thirteen 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.600 rebounds twenty nine from Jayalen Brown. He was huge in 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.720 the fourth quarter, kemba Walker with some finishing baskets late. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.480 He finished with nineteen and the seventy sixers lose to 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.120 Boston one nine to one oh one. Via zoom. Here's 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.800 Brett Brown too to execute. The story of the game 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:50.000 to me still isn't difficult to speak of. You start 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.840 looking at their offensive rebounds. We did a better job 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.400 in the second half with turnovers. But if you just 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.519 go straight to you know, the volume of points twenty 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:06.720 one points off I would turn overs, uh sixteen off 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.840 the rebounds and and really you know, al makes Alec 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.320 Burks makes a free throw, it's a three point game 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.239 with thirty seconds left, and I think Joe missed a 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.760 tippin which would have made it a two point game, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.920 you know, given us a two from one opportunity, and 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:28.200 so you can't minimize the fact that losing stinks. But 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:35.360 I feel like there are answers to the questions of why, Hey, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:43.360 thanks Brett, you welcome. We'll go to Mark Narducci um Brett. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.760 In the first quarter, Joel was posting and sco scoring 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.560 at will, and they seemed to go away from that. Uh, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.120 is that something you would like to see more of 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.880 because you had a lot of success in that first quarter. Yeah, No, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.840 I don't agree with you. I think that part of 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.360 turnovers came from, you know, getting stood up and trying 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.640 to post, and part of our turnovers came when we 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.400 did post. You know, we weren't crisp passing out of 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.760 the post. This is the double edged sword that you 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.960 have to figure out what line do you want to walk? 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.800 Because you know the examples that I just gave a 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.039 true and I think that there's no doubt that we 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.080 want to get Joe the ball in different fluor spots. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.720 It doesn't always have to be bullyball at the nail, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.239 where it's just a fist fight and everything gets stuck 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.520 in mud. It can be at a nail. It can 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.440 be pick and roll, It can be putting Alec Burke 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.800 and Joel in a two man game and getting them 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:45.159 out of a role. And so I think this overplaying. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.960 You know, the volume of just smash mouth, bullyball post 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.160 up to do it all the time is comes with 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.400 some level of punishment if you're not careful. And so 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.400 I look forward to going back and seeing a post 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.000 passing a post, passing out of the post, delivering the 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.160 ball to the post, and I think that we can 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:16.320 improve a lot in that area. Thank you. Paul Hudrick. Hey, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.800 right when we're talking about Tata and how good he 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.560 was tonight, Um, it seemed like Matisse, you know, in 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.480 his first playoff game, did a pretty strong job. What 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.560 did you see from him? And is that something you know? 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.240 I know last year you once you saw how good 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.880 Ben was on Kauhi, you kind of stuff with that matchup. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.039 Is that something you might do going forward? I mean, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.039 for the most part short of the starting group, you know, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.000 that's how it plays out. When you look at jay 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.839 Riches minutes and Matisse's minutes, they're they're completely mirrored to 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.200 Kemba and Jason's and so I think that that to 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.800 blow up the starting five in exchange for doing that, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.560 I'm not prepared to say that's what's going to happen. Um. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.000 I look forward to going back and watching the table 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.039 in considering that option, But at the moment, you know, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.120 I feel like it's just something I want to think 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.480 more about based on what I see on the tape. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.040 Seventy six Ers loosing the Boston Celtics one O nine, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.160 one on one in Game one of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.239 Sixers led by as much as six. They had a great, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.279 inspired fifteen nothing run, the second half of which came 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.039 with Joel Embiide on the bench bridging the third and 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.599 fourth quarters. That gave them a chance, but then the 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.800 Boston Celtics, behind Jalen Brown, came right back into it. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.240 The Boston Celtics went on eighteen to five run themselves. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.599 Brown hit a big three pointer to tie up the 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.479 score at eighty six, and then the key sequence, maybe 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.359 not key, there were a couple of key moments, but 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.560 certainly a game changing sequence that put Boston in position 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.760 was the technical foul called on Al Horford, drawn by 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.960 Jalon Brown. He went to the line, had two free 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.039 throws to put Boston up by four. Boston got the 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.760 ball back and then Jalen Brown drew a foul on 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.320 a drive for the basket, hit those two free throws, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.720 making it ninety two to eighty six. You know, I thought, yeah, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.320 the turnovers, of course, they were an issue, the Sixers 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.480 committing eighteen of them that led to twenty one points 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.600 for the Celtics. I also thought, I mean, it was 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.600 a hard fought game. It was a spirited game, you 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.600 could tell, But in some key moments, I just felt 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.400 like there were some extra opportunities that Boston earned for itself. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.200 You might not look at the stat sheet and see 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.800 that Boston was plus one on the offensive glass. That's 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.360 not a huge disparity. The Sixers outscored Boston on second 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.240 chance points sixteen to nine. But I'm even thinking like 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.800 moments where you know, Grant Williams got back to back 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.720 offensive rebounds. The Sixers got lucky because Marcus Smart missed 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.640 two threes. But there were just some key moments when 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.560 Boston might have won the hustle battle or outworked the 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.760 Sixers just a little bit to gain a key possession 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.280 or another opportunity to keep the Sixers on their heels 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.320 just enough. Boston went up by ten with under four 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.480 minutes to go on what felt like a backbreak Kemba 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.040 Walker transition layup, but the seventy six ers got a 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.240 little bit more life in the closing moments. Alec Burke's 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.080 awesome game for him, I thought. He finished with eighteen points, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.000 had to put back to make it a four point 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.040 game one on one ninety seven. Josh Richardson played pretty 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.040 well on the offensive end. He had a three to 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.840 make it one oh three, one hundred, but Jason Tatum 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.400 was able to draw the foul, get to the free 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.160 throw line, and in the end Boston ice this game 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.520 one oh nine to one oh one, twenty six points, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.280 sixteen rebounds for Joel and bad. He committed five of 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.720 the seventy six ers eighteen turnovers. Boston, as we expected, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.760 really aggressive, bringing double teams when Joe got the ball 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.160 and made it difficult for him. Shake Milton I thought 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.400 played well enough three for five from outside the arc, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.920 thirteen points, three assists. He did commit three turnovers. Tobias 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.800 Harris might need a little bit more from him on 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.880 the offensive end. He was six or fifteen from the 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.960 floor Oh for three from outside the arc, fifteen points, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.800 eight rebounds, eight assists, Al Horford a couple of costly turnovers, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:01.000 six points, seven rebounds, six assists. As I mentioned Burke's 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.439 eighteen points off the bench, Mike Scott furkon corkcuse and 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.280 they were scoreless off the bench, and neither of them 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.240 were able to get up a three point shot. Cork 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.160 Mose did not get a single shot up in seven minutes. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.280 Boston didn't get much from its bench either. Jason Tatum 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.760 Jalen Brown combined for sixty one Kemba Walker added nineteen, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.520 so that's eighty out of Boston's one O nine from 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.400 their key three. And this news just in before we 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.559 go to break, coming from Adrian Wodronski from ESPN, Gordon 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.679 Hayward is going to undergo an MRI on a sprain 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.319 right ankle tonight. According to sources, he left Game one 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.480 limping in the fourth quarter. So with that report that 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.440 Gordon Hayward is going to be looked at. Jalen Brown 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.160 was banged up a bit during the game, but he 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.200 proved to be key in closing this one. After the Celtics, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.640 Tom McGinnis had the call of this one down at 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.040 the center tonight. Tom It was an uphill battle from 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.559 the seventy six Ers from the start because of the turnovers. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.160 They strung together that fifteen nothing run going into the 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.199 fourth quarter to give themselves a shot. But Boston, their firepower, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.480 led by Jalen Brandon kemba walker down the stretch, turned 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.040 thing in the Celtics favor. Yeah, the second and the 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.320 fourth quarters hurt the Sixers. Boston outscored the Sixers in 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.920 those two frames by nineteen seven in the second, thirty 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.400 to twenty three and a dozen in the fourth. And 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.040 that's skewed a little bit by the foul stream. But 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.439 I agree with coach Brown. I mean there are correctable errors. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.280 I mean the turnovers, you've got to be better. Any 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.760 number of those turnovers in the first half, thirteen of 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.120 which they were way better in the second half, came 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.240 off deflections. And that is trying to pass the ball 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.679 into the post, not using a ball fake, just to 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.760 kind of straight line pass where the you know, the 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.679 initial defenders getting a hand on the ball or the 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.600 help defender deflex and then somebody else came over and 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.440 stole it. And that's just not playing with patients and 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.599 not playing with a pragmatic purpose kind of if you 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.880 will for the Sixers, and that cost him big time 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.280 again twenty one turnovers to coach Brown's point, you know, 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.160 they got to the offensive glass. I thought that was 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.360 a huge putback by Cantor. And this is going to 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.760 sound a little bit like no daw but that is 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:05.120 their team played better. They they around. They had a 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.200 thirty two and twenty nine would Tatum and Brown and 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.000 then Kemba stepped up big and Hayward had a nice, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.560 nice ball game, but not you know, huge numbers. But 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.240 again smart even though I don't even think smart score. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.319 He might have had two free throws, the Brown free throws, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.480 the plays by Tye and Cantor, and you know what 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.199 I mean. They even Robert Williams came in there and 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.280 at least he gave their big guys some rest and 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.800 gave them some you know, okay minutes. And the Sixers 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.600 got nice performance off the bench by Burkes. But those 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.360 little things, that's what games come down to. These games. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.000 You can game plan, you can scheme, you can you're 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.720 gonna tweak things, you can make adjustments, but in the 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.800 end you got to make the little plays, and they 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.680 made a lot of hustle plays, and I thought that 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.080 was a difference in the game. I agree with you, Tom, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.640 I mean, when I was looking through the stat sheet, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:52.920 like I was saying, I'm not sure if I could 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.960 point to one particular stat that truly captured that sentiment, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.720 but it was just to me it was the edge 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.400 factor and Boston had a little bit more of a tonight. Yeah. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.600 I mean the Sixers outrebounding, the assists are almost identical. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.600 The fouls until the very end were very similar. Tatum 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.599 got on a roll in the second fifteen points, unstoppable. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.280 He kept getting by the Sixers, he got a lot 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.280 of calls, and then Jalen Brown was huge. I mean 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.280 Brown with the threes, and this was after he went 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.920 out with that knee to the thigh. You know where 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.120 Joel ended up getting fouled by by Jalen Brown, even 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.319 though it was like I said, him incurring a knee 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.679 to the side of his quadra step there. But no, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.960 And that's that's frustrating because you know, now they've got 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.600 one in the books, and now you come back and 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.360 we'll see Heyward, I'd be shocked if he played and 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.240 again you're not supposed to speculate on injuries, but I 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.080 saw that injury. I know they took an MRI and 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.040 and you know they they announced he had a sprained 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.440 right ankle. But yeah, he came down pretty hard on 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.280 that twist in terms of landing on on Tyson, Brown's 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.960 gonna be a little bit sore. So And now getting 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.680 into what coach Brown said, like the question was posed 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.120 about getting away from inbad and that is the turnovers. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.840 Like I thought he was quick, he was decisive. He 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.600 had five for five from the field, but Joel was 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.319 turnover prone. So that's where the Sixers didn't want to 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.240 keep going back there and coming away with live ball 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.240 turnovers going the other way for the Celtics and that 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.240 and now you lift him out and yes he can 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.400 be a factor, but again after the first quarter, you 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.320 only had nine attempts the entire game, So you got 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.839 to figure out a way to you know, to get 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.959 him the ball down there at times, move him around it. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.800 Just again, that's where everybody feels like the Sixers have 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.440 the biggest advantage within beat. But you know, to me, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.680 this is going to be a long series. That's what 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.439 I take away. This is what it could have should 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.640 a game for the Sixers, but again they got to 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.160 come back on Wednesday and split this thing up and 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.520 get to get even and headed into the weekend. In 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.760 terms of Friday and Sunday, sixers come up eight points short, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.199 one O nine one on one. Agree with you, Tom 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.840 doesn't feel like the gap is too far, but just 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.959 how much ground with the seventy sixers be able to 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.679 make up remain to be seen. It seems like Alec 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.480 Burks can help them though eighteen points and he just 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.480 he got buckets. I mean, it's kind of surprising, at 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.400 least to me, where if you watched the game the 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.200 eye test, it didn't really feel like a six or 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.360 fifteen game for him. He seemed like he had answers 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.679 for the Sixers when they were needed. And I just 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:21.000 like his presence and his attack that he brings out there. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.920 And Brian, this has been told to me, so it's 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.320 not a novel thought by me. But the playoffs are 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.840 about making plays. You can X and oh, and you 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.760 can strategize and do this that in the end, it 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.760 comes to exceedingly talented players making plays. You know. Tonight, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.120 like I said, it was brown and Tatum and Walker 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.800 for them. As expected, Joel had a big game to 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.880 bias Head nice numbers and Burks is one of those 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.400 guys and what he does as he takes you off 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.000 the dribble and he is able to create and get 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.800 get baskets, you know what I'm saying. So, and he's 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.520 proven to be a capable score particularly in the restart, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.640 like with the way he played in the eight seeding games. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.760 I know he only played seven of those eight games, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.200 and so he's become a primary ballhandler for Coach Brown, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.960 particularly off the bench. And yeah, you need that scoring. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.200 So and I thought Shake came in and made some 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.760 nice field goals and you ended up being a player 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.920 in the game. Same same with Josh. But you got 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.480 to curtail those turnovers. And this is an issue for 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.200 the Sixers, not just in this game, but has been 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.320 in postseasons of years past. They've got to shore that 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.920 up and not I mean it's a double edged sword 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.200 and that Boston is scoring and oh, by the way, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.160 it's an empty possession for your team, the Sixers, in 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 terms of not being able to score. And again you're 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.560 giving them the ball in a situation where they have 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.560 an odd man runout or at least they have your 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.720 defense scrambling, so it's really problematic and you got to 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.640 clean that up in the next game. Well put by 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.720 Tom again. It's Tom. We will talk to you pregame 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.640 on Wednesday. Good night, Brian think for the twenty first 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.160 time in history, the seventy Sixers meeting the Boston Celtics 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.760 in the postseason, and the Sixers got off to a 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.480 promising start. Joel Embiid was outside right. He goes to 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.120 Horford right by Brad Stevens. He drives it along underneath 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.800 the basket, puts it back out, goes to a B 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.840 to B with a running start ten a slam. He 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.160 didn't even put it down. He carms it with a 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.120 right hand jam crushes the slam. Joel Embiad opening the 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.360 game five for five from the field. That one gave 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.680 the Sixers a six or two lead. This one was 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.360 a pretty improbable score as well. To and beat at 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.520 the top of the arc. Hands off the Josh Richardson 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.760 is going to create. He's cut off three to shoot 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.200 back to a bead and be beyond the arc. Fires 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.000 for three. It's up and good at the shot puck buzzer, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.360 a desperation trade and it beat with a step back. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.280 Joel embiad with eleven points by the time he went 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.760 to the bench for the first time, with two and 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.920 a half minutes to go on the first quarter, seventy 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.920 six ers like twenty six twenty five after one in 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.240 the second, Tobias Harris keeping the seventy sixers in front, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.640 and now the sixers tied at twenty nine to the 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.320 corner to Bias, he fakes, he drives, he slams baseline, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.160 moved back to Bias Harris and a two hands stuff. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.240 Great job, patience, the ball fake, drawing the Celtic defender out, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.680 he dribble and he dunked him. Sixers back in front, 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.240 thirty one, twenty nine. But after that a basket I 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.120 thought was keen this game. Jason Tatum hit a triple. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:09.879 It looked good, It seemed like it could have been 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.600 a confidence booster, and in retrospect it probably was. He 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.680 put the Celtics up by the score of thirty two 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.720 thirty one, and he was the man in quarter number two, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.000 Boston by three. Halfway through the second Tatum will bring 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.760 it down the near sideline with the right hand dribble, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.920 gets a screen bike tights, tell them buying three balls, 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.280 shot dear and good forty percent from three on the year. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.560 Jason Tatum has a arrived. Indeed he had at that point. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.440 I made it forty one thirty five Celtics, Boston left 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.800 fifty nine. I beg your part fifty forty nine. Going 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.080 into intermission third quarter, let's zoom. Towards the end of 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.000 the period, seventy sixers got going. Joel and Beat helped them. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.080 But then with him Beat on the bench, the seventy 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.880 sixers enjoying one of their best stretches of the night. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.520 Richardson feeding Harford against Tatum. He turns, he faces right hand, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.320 dribble into the lane, powers up of the right hand, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.600 shot you no, no, He gets his old message, scores 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.399 the ball. Any bellows big out yeah, let me hear you. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.679 It was a great moment al Horford and letting it 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.440 out right there, making it a seventy nine seventy five 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.359 game in favor of the Sixers. That was the score 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.520 going into the fourth. Joe hit a long two to 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.360 put the Sixers up eighty one seventy five. Not too 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.160 long after that, Boston hit the Sixers with a run 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.879 of eighteen to five, then put them in the driver's seat. 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.720 Jalon Brown was a big part of it. Josh Richardson 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.640 with the ball into the lane, a round Tatum block 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.000 bike Tatum from behind. Boston with the ball walk around 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.240 a drive out to the left side. Brown open three 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.159 on a transition. It's good a dagger Jaalen Brown knocks 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.159 it down and kemba walker On Boston's next possession scored 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.080 a transition lay up to make it a ten point 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.760 game with under four minutes to go. Alec Burks had 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.840 to keep put back to bring the Sixers within four. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.960 Josh Richardson, with the game winding down, brought the Sixers 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.920 a little bit closer. Richardson out front guard a bike 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.159 Tatum and be with a high screen and smart is 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.320 there smart switchers out on John's left quarterer Tobias Harris 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.199 looking for it. Beat Harris with the drill ball back 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.560 out the Richards He shoot the three left perimeter. It's good, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.320 richards said, poors it in and the lead now down 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.720 to three. But the Boston Celtics were able to get 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.480 to the line after that, and they put the game 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.000 away from there. Jason Tatum to the stripe, Kemba Walker 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.760 to the stripe, Jason Tatum back to the line, and 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.000 the seventy Sixers did not have enough to close the 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.360 gap farther. Boston wins this one one O nine, one 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.239 O one. Seventy six Ers shot forty six percent from 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.120 the field, Boston just forty two percent. Six Ers nine 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.119 of twenty seven from the ark, the Celtics were ten 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.680 of thirty one Boston and edge from the free throw 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.480 line twenty three of twenty six. Six Ers were eighteen 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.399 of twenty three Sixers plus seven on the glass. But 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.440 going back to a point that Tom and I discussed, 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.360 it just felt like Boston got some really key hustle rebounds, 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.840 loose balls, those sorts of things that helped give them 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.639 an edge. Six ers eighteen turnovers like to twenty one 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.680 Boston points. Can't have that. The Celtics with just seven 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.840 turnovers and the Sixers only scored seven points of those turnovers, 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.480 and Boston out scoring the Sixers on the break eighteen 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.280 to eight. Joe finished with twenty six and sixteen. He 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:10.399 had five turnovers, eighteen points for Josh Richardson and Alec 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.240