WEBVTT - Rewind | Season Ends With Game 4 Loss 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 --> 0:00:16.239 and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. A tough 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.160 end to a historic season for the seventy Sixers the 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.240 one ten, one oh six loss to the Boston Celtics 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.160 in the opening round of the Eastern Conference quarter Finals. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.160 Seventy six Ers swept in the series. I'm Brian Seltzer. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.680 It was a season that featured a near five month 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.640 long hiatus. We got basketball back, but it was a 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:35.760 premature end. I think a lot of seventy six Ers 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.280 fans would certainly feel that way, as with the players 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.680 and the team and the head coach here is Brett Brown. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.600 I guess with everything with the team up in the 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.200 air right now, what do you look back on from 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.640 the last seven years and you know, look fondly on 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:57.840 and feel proud of. I mean, really, cal I have 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.920 thought a lot about really the series. I hear your 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:08.560 question right now. My thoughts are really with the game, 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.880 you know, in the series that's just gone by, and 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.160 that's really where my head is up. Okay, So do 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.080 you feel at least like this game, the effort, the 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.319 spirit that you guys had. Do you feel good about that, considering, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.679 you know, the three oz deficit and what you guys 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.680 are facing. That you guys came out and competed today. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.240 I think for the most part we did. I feel 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.360 like the game flipped went to Bias went out. You know, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.880 I think it was a two point game, three point 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.520 game at that stage. I think that they went on 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.400 what sixteen two run during that period, and at that moment, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.920 you know, the game changed. Up until that moment, I 0:01:55.320 --> 0:02:00.000 felt pretty good about what we were doing. Thank you, Brat, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:05.960 you welcome him. Serena is next. Hey, coach, you mentioned 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.359 Tobias and obviously that was really tough to see him 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.120 go down. But you know what does it says to 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:17.680 have him come back into this game and fight through that, 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.080 to be with this team at the end. I mean, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.400 it's what it's what we all have known him to be. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:32.040 He is. He has emerged to be a very consistent leader, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.560 Like all over the place. I feel like I've shared 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.200 this and apologies if it's repetitive, but it's true. He's 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.359 just high character. You know, he has got way out 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:48.000 in front of all of the racial injustice platforms that 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:52.280 we have discussed amongst ourselves as a team. His voice 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.639 in a locker room, his voice on a bus, team meetings, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:00.200 team dinners, whatever him coming back, I would after he 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.919 took a he took an incredibly hard fall. Uh did 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:08.080 not surprise me when you look back on this series, coach, 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.560 what is going to stick with you the most? I 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.280 mean missing, missing Ben will resonate for a long time, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.560 especially given what he did to prepare himself to play 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:26.880 in the series. Uh. The difficulty of guarding the Celtics wings. Uh, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.000 you know, you live every time you play them. They 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.960 get so much firepower and you really need to have 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:37.680 a stable of able you know, senior veteran type mentality, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.840 defend defensive players on a bunch of really good scorers 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.320 and and you know I will think of that obviously. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:51.960 The way our season ended, uh uh is disappointing. Um, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.480 you can't obviously phrase it any other way, but really 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:01.760 trying to guard those those uh those wings, hum was difficult. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.240 Keith Pompey will have the next question, and Al Horford 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.040 is available on the locker Room screen right now for 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.560 those who don't already know, But go ahead, Keith. You 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.320 talked about today's game, But what really sticks out to 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.160 you the most about this season, this whole entire season 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.000 and and overall the whole seven years. I mean, you 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.640 took the team from the process. I mean, I prefer 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.880 just to talk about me from a historical perspective. We 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.280 could talk for hours. Um. This season, to me, was 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:46.000 riddled with with an amazing um abundance of injuries. I 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:51.120 think this season was was a challenge trying to put people, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.479 you know, where they should have been placed. I liked 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.359 where we ended up getting Ben off ball and the 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.160 things that he did, you know, as a as a 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.800 sort of four men like we all get, as an 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.680 NBA All Star as a point guard. It shows his versatility. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.440 But in general, you know, ending with Ben's injury this year, 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.640 you just really never felt like you jumped into a 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.880 routine in a rhythm. And that's probably the thought that 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.440 will linger the most. Seventy six coach Brett Brown the 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.840 team with a tough finish to the season, a one ten, 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.839 one oh six loss to the Boston Celtics, getting swept 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.600 out of the first round of the playoffs. Listen, win, lose, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.200 rebuild taking a team of the playoffs. I personally think 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.920 that Brett Brown speaks truths whenever he's in front of 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.960 the media, speaking to reporters, talking to broadcasters. And that 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.720 final statement to that last answer we heard, you feel 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.159 like the team never was able to jump into a 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.279 routine or rhythm before you get him into the reasons why. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.200 I think that sums up two nineteen two twenty pretty accurately. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.040 It just never felt that despite the individual talents of 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.200 this team, what the Sixers showed at various stretches of 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.240 the season, whether it was good or bad, it was 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.360 always difficult and tough to figure out what exactly this 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.760 team was supposed to be because there was a large 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.520 amount of injuries, there were players who were taking on 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.440 new positions. There was the constant challenge, as Brett Brown, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.680 I think accurately pointed out, of trying to get players 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.159 to fit in certain spots and having a deal with 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.800 all of that. It didn't come together in the end, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.560 it didn't. I think it was great to have some 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.280 basketball back after what happened over the past five months 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.320 in the world, everything to pandemic to social unrest. It 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.400 was great to have the diversion of basketball. But for 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.520 the seventy Sixers, as Brett Brown said, this season ends 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.520 in disappointment with a four game sweep at the hands 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.960 of the Boston Celtics. In the first round of the playoffs, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.960 Sixers lose one ten to one oh six. Boston went 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.599 on a sixteen to two run after Tobias Harris went 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.320 out with a really scary injury with two minutes forty 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.360 seconds to go in the third quarter. Incredibly, Tobias came 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.440 back to finish the game, but Boston was out for 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.360 the kill strike at that point. Apologies if that doesn't 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:23.200 come off the tongue all that politically correct or appropriately, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.360 but they were out for blood and they went for 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.320 it and they hit the Sixers with a sixteen to 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.320 two run at that point, the Sixers rolling down three, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.840 and they seized control of that game from there. The 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.600 Sixers led by five at the end of the first quarter. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.640 They had their first halftime lead of the series at 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.480 fifty eight fifty seven, but Boston, behind Kemba Walker, kept 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.400 on coming and the seventy Sixers did not have enough 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.920 in the end to fend off the Celtics and live 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.200 to fight for another game. Walker led all scores with 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.280 thirty two points. He got better and better each game 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.920 in this series. He was eight to fifteen from the field, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.559 hit four three pointers, twelve thirteen from the free throw line. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.840 Joel Embiid paced the seventy six Ers with thirty points 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.920 and ten rebounds. Tobias Harris had his best game, certainly 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.920 showed an insane amount of toughness coming back into the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.800 game after a hard fall, and he hit his head 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.920 on the court and suffered a cut on his eye, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.360 but he ended up with twenty points, five rebounds, hit 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.160 two three pointers, thirteen points off the bench for Alec Burks. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.440 He was a great lightning in a bottle presence that 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.080 I thought gave the seventy six ers some life. But 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.960 all in all, Boston just too much talent, too much 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.480 offensive potency in this game, as Jason Tatum ended up 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.559 with twenty eight points and fifteen rebounds, Jayalen Brown with sixteen, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.680 and Boston ends up sweeping the seventy six Ers one 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.000 ten to one oh six. We'll bring on Tom McGinnis now. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.320 Tom had the pleasure of calling this season once again. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.640 Twenty fifth season. So I think that in and of itself, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.440 Tom is an accomplishment to note. But this year the 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.360 thing that I'm going to continue to think about, Like 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.559 we heard Brett Brown say, there was just never an opportunity, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.640 it felt for the Sixers to get into a routine 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.679 or rhythm for a bunch of different reasons. No, you're 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.640 right when you consider like Josh Richardson in and out 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.280 with two different hamstring injuries, and you know, Joel missed 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.000 a bunch of games on and off, so and Tobias 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.160 was steady as a rock, like he played in every game. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.120 I think he might arrested one at the very end, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.000 you know, for the purposes of resting at the end 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.240 of the seating games. And then you know Ben missed 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.440 some games obviously around that All Star break with the 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.960 nerve impingement, so it's true. And then the whole lineup thing, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.400 it just never really got solved in terms of the 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.280 spacing and how they were going to utilize Horford at 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.360 the best of his abilities. So yeah, in the end, 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.600 a tough season for the Sixers. You know, when you 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.400 considered after getting the two years, this is the third 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.160 year in a row they made the playoffs, and you 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.520 know how it works in the NBA, where you you know, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.360 you get in, you get knocked out, you make an advancement, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.160 you get knocked out, and that that type of seasoning. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.840 Hopefully and in years pat history shows that then a 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.720 team makes a run and you were hoping this year 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.920 would be it, and then obviously this has been a 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.080 wholly different year. But once he got down in the bubble, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.760 all things were fair and equal other than Ben Simmons 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.120 got hurt, you know, so in terms of it wasn't 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.120 the home versus the road or anything like that. So 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.280 in the end, you know, it's it's a knockout for 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.680 the Sixers and a very difficult deal just because now 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.200 you're you know, as I say, like in terms of 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.319 this playoff hierarchy and getting back now you're you're kind 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:27.920 of back at square one. You get back into the 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.960 playoffs and you got to build it. And that's the 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.480 whole thing. Like this group is one two playoff series, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.360 but they haven't like by NBA standard, they've had fifty 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.559 win seasons and they were probably headed this way again. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.240 But by NBA standards, you know, like you haven't accomplished 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.960 anything until you win the championship, and even when you 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.640 win the championship, when you come back, you're back at 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.359 square one. You've got something to build on, but everybody's 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.520 coming at you. So that's my point, like this group 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.800 has got to has got to come in with a 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.400 chip on its shoulder and hopefully this will will be 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.640 the stimulus or momentum in that regard. And just it's 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.960 it's not an easy league. This is a very tough league. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.000 And in the Sixers felt the brunt of that Boston 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.040 ball club and they were really good. I mean, when 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.680 you watch the first game, I felt like there was 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.600 a pathway to victory for the Sixers, but then you know, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.000 the turnovers hurt them in that game. The second game, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.200 the middle two quarters were the you know, the spelling 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.040 or ended up being the difference. Obviously, Game three the 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.720 ten o run, and then today, as you say, a 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.000 sixteen to two run. Even when it was seventy seven 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:37.120 seventy seven, you weren't feeling completely confident that the Sixers 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.400 could pull it off, and in the end they didn't 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:43.040 and they got swept, Sixers losing Game four one ten 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.440 to one oh six. Specific to this series, Tim the 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.000 Celtics What were some of your takeaways about what they 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:50.320 were able to do. I know that you talked about 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.760 the three points, shooting a lot. We understand the individual 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.199 talent they have because this is a team in Boston 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.120 that you know, this is not a pleasant truth, but 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.160 they probably aren't going away for a while. No, And 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.520 you know so, as coach Brown noted, it's their wings, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.880 Brown and Tatum and Tatum ended up, you know, after 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.079 a bit of a slugger start with twenty eight points 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.680 and then Walker and Walker got back to the All 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.280 Star the the incredible player that he is. He dominated 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.640 and again this league is predicated the most dominant play. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.120 You know, what I'm gonna say is middle pick and 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.440 roll one five and the Sixers don't have that. They 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.079 don't have that at the level that some of these 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.479 other teams have that with a duo, they can consistently 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.480 do that and pound people with that. In Boston with 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.880 Walker coming off those high screens, he's very good at that. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.520 I mean, he puts so much pressure on your defense. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.040 They space shout and they got those wing players that 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.480 can also slash and drive and shoot. Two in Brown 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.160 and Tatum, and you know, you got to give Danny 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.120 Ainge credit like he's got he picked those guys. Nobody 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.200 was thinking Jalen Brown would be the third pick. And Tatum, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.880 you know, like is obviously turning into a superstar. And 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.360 now they got Walkers, so you're right, they're they're gonna 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.439 be present, you know. And it's obviously the biggest rival 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.360 alone with New York for the Sixers, and it's it's 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.800 gonna be difficult. Boston is there, but um and oh 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.720 in Toronto, I forgot about the Raptors at least, and 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.200 in this division all those teams, So yeah, it's gonna 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.480 be it's gonna be tough, a very hard series for 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.880 the Sixers. And I don't think anybody expected a four 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.560 oh sweep, that's for sure. Series that came to an 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.280 end with a one ten, one h six defeat. Tommy 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.480 usually keep you on this segment for three questions, slash prompts, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.520 slash thoughts, any final thoughts as we wrap things up 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.760 now finally informally for twenty nineteen twenty. Now, I mean, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.280 like you say it was great to have basketball back, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.160 I mean you go back into March and April and 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.520 and look, you know, our country's not through this thing. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.640 Yet I mean, this is still ongoing. So it was 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.800 incredible that the Sixers were able to play and that 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.280 the NBA pulled this off into how they're doing it. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.800 The basketball has been terrific and so in a small way, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.280 it kind of puts in perspective the fact that this 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.000 six or season has ended, and it was very frustrating, 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.040 but it is, after all, basketball. I mean, this is uh, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.199 we all put a lot into this, but it's entertainment. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.840 It's sports entertainment, and it's professional and there's a lot 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.800 of money involved and a lot of vested interests. But 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.160 everything will be okay, and the six Ers are going 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.680 to come back and get ready and Lord willing, at 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.560 some point, you know down the road, there'll be people 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.360 here in this building and it'll be it'll be exciting 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.520 as ever and you you know, you get back and 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.960 there's there's some there's a lot of talent on hand here, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.800 a lot extremely gifted basketball players, and everything will you know, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.720 will begin anew when it starts, whether that is at 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.480 the end of this calendar year or beyond, who's to say, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.400 but Brian, I appreciate your time, and everything's going to 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.240 work out, okay. Amen, to that. Thank you, Tom McGinnis, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.880 twenty five seasons, incredible milestone. Can't wait to hear from 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.880 you next in the faller winner or whenever that may 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.400 be right, all right, Brian, thank you good. Have to 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.000 let us now get to some of the highlights from it. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.320 Today's game. Seventy Sixers needed a determined effort from the jump. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.880 You would have thought to try and stave off elimination. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.600 It was a tight, physical game in the early going. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.240 Philadelphia down by two. Harris well left hand lamp up 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.040 and Good got by the initial defender and went over 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.600 Cantor and the field goal. That is good and Boston 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.800 will take time. Harris now with five in the game, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.600 twenty two all the score, and the Sixers did a 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.520 lot by getting to the free throw line in the 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.520 first quarter. They were fourteen of nineteen from the stripe 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.200 in the first while Josh Richardson himself was eight for 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.280 nine for the free throw line. That health. The seventy 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.000 Sixers established a thirty two twenty seven lead after twelve 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.360 minutes of play. In the second quarter, the seventy Sixers 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.560 and Celtics kept going back and forth, back and forth. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.240 Alec Burks was a bit off in games two and three, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.000 but in Game four he was locked in out top. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.640 It's Alec Burks against Tye trying to get him to 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.200 back up Buyers for three, and that's good. Burks an 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.720 offensive machine. He's like the microwave out there. Oh flashes 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.920 a Bittie Johnson. He's got eleven rising for three, four 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.360 threes now for the Sixers, and it's a fifty one 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.600 forty nine Sixers lead. Burks is a bucket getner, and 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.880 it was really nice to see Tobias Harris to get 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.840 some three pointers to fall in this game as well. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.520 Cross courts, skip the Richardson, they go to Harris for 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.160 three and that's good. So effective pass out of the trap, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.920 the extra pass, and then the three. That's how it's done. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.520 Harris with his second three in the game, get Richardson 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.040 credit as well. Philadelphia now five threes. They lead by five, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.240 and the Sixers would lead by one fifty eight fifty 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.640 seven going into the halftime break. It was the first 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.840 time they lent an intermission in this series. In the 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.040 third quarter of the Boston Celtics Wings continued to put 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.280 the pressure on and the Celtics were able to go 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.520 on a bit of a spurt to seize control on 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.480 the scoreboard. Part of helping the seventy sixers stay close. 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.240 Joel embiid Boston by four sixers. Gotta be careful here, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.600 they gotta heat close it be with it trying to 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.720 grow at the foul no whistle, but he continues on 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.800 to make an off balance shot started to the right 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.640 of little lane and get to ten footer. It beat 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.199 with thirteen six who was back on the board, but 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.920 down two sixty sixty four was the score that man. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.439 Alec Burks came up big again down the stretch of 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.240 the third. Now Alec Burks against Brown, Burks making the 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.879 move quick off the dribble, off off the glass and 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.040 in he shoots that ball on the way up. Sometimes 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:31.320 he catches the defender a little bit to off balance 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.080 and Burkes now six up eleven thirteen points and we're 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.479 gonna get a time out taken by Boston, tied at 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.520 seventy seven. Moments later, following that time out, Tobias Harris 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.360 goes down and heap hit his head really hard on 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.719 the floor. It was pretty scary if you listen to 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.520 it or you saw it. Ultimately, Tobias Harris would come 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.600 back in the game, but the Celtics completed a twelve 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.000 nothing run to end the third quarter. They led eighty 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.359 nine seventy seven after three. They went on a sixteen 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.240 to two run overall following the Tobias Harris injury, and 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.399 while they were able to gain separation from the seventy 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.040 Sixers and put the Sixers right on the brink of elimination, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.280 it was really nice to see Tobias Harris at least 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.200 get back out on the court and help the seventy 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.680 Sixers try and stay in it. In the final quarter, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.159 here comes Tobias Harris. Incredible that he's back in the game. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.919 Steph backshot from fifteen is good. He's got his eighteenth 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.840 point in the game and he makes it one oh 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:33.040 four ninety two with three thirty five to go. But 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.720 not enough time left for Tobias Harris or the seventy 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.320 Sixers on this season. As Boston completes the sweep with 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.680 the one ten, one oh six victory. Seventy Sixers had 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.399 offensive struggles throughout the series. They shot forty two and 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.160 a half percent from the field in this one. Today 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.200 Boston forty six and a half percent Sixers nine of 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.240 thirty four from outside the arc. That equates to twenty 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.760 six and a half percent. Another game of struggles from 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.520 the perimeter for the Sixers, while Boston knocked down a 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.960 dozen three pointers. The Sixers were okay from the free 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.720 throw line. They got there a lot, especially early. They 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.240 were twenty seven to thirty four for seventy nine and 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.120 a half percent. Boston was at seventy six percent, where 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.080 they were twenty two of twenty nine from the line. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.399 Sixers minus three on the glass, minus two on the 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.159 offensive glass. Offensive rebound was a big theme in this series, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.480 an area that the Celtics were able to control. Sixers 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:27.600 committed eight turnovers to Boston's fifteen. The seventy Sixers outscored 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.160 Boston twenty one to ten in points off turnovers, though 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.960 Boston had the edge ten to two on the break 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.600 Transition scoring on offense was a key area for the 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.840 Celtics and sweeping the Sixers in this first round series. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.480 Kemba Walker led all scores with thirty two points. He 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.719 was eight to fifteen from the field, twelve of thirteen 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.680 from the line. Jason Tatum another magnificent performance twenty eight 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.680 points fifteen rebounds, ten of eighteen from the field, two 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.600 of five from three point territory, six of ten from 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.840 the line Joel Embiid He was the first seventy Sixer 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.080 ever in the postseason, Albeit this was a short run 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.680 for the Sixers to post an average of thirty and ten. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.040 He finished with thirty and ten on the nose and 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.720 both points and rebounds today twenty points five rebounds for 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.320 Tobias Harris, fourteen apiece for Josh Richardson, and shake Milton 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.159 alec Burks with thirteen points off the bench and a 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:21.200 dozen points and ten rebounds for Al Horford. Seventy Sixers 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.679 now head into an offseason where they're going to try 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.840 and figure things out and try and figure out answers 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.359 to how they can get back in the conversation in 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.000 the Eastern Conference picture. The last two years they made 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.560 it to the second round, and this season obviously did 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:39.280 not go their way. I think everyone can agree injuries, inconsistencies, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.080 personnel trying to figure it all out. That was part 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.400 of what the seventy Sixers had to battle this year. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.359 Through it all, they weathered a hiatus that lasted roughly 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.280 four months before they could get back together went down 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.440 to a bubble situation for six weeks. I'm not sure 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.080 if anyone can underestimate what type of circumstances that brings on, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.520 and they still were able to play some basketball, And 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.560 for me personally, I'm not asking this if anyone else. 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:04.480 I thought, in the big picture of things, it was 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.000 awesome to see seventy six ers basketball being played again 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.560 this year after what happened in the middle of March 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.480 and the NBA season having to go into suspension following 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.520 the coronavirus outbreak here in the United States. So it 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.879 is disappointing for sure, no one's not saying that, but 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:22.680 it was nice to have a little bit of a 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:24.639 diversion from everything that was going on in the world 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.040 with some basketball. In terms of the big picture, some 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.880 people to thank on the technical side of things at 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.280 our flagship ninety seven five to the fanatic, I hope 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:37.520 I don't miss anyone from this list. Dylan McKinnon, Josh Rabeck, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.199 nat Marlowe, Pat Egan awesome helping out throughout this season. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.920