WEBVTT - Rewind | A Hard-Fought Game 3 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 --> 0:00:16.520 and analysis from the seventy sixers previous games. Such a 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.760 tough one obviously for the seventy Sixers tonight, falling behind 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.959 three nothing in their first round best of seven series. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.680 They are on the brink after tonight's one O two 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.240 at ninety four loss of the Boston Celtics. I'm Brian Seltzer. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.400 We expect to hear from Brett Brown in a few moments. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.920 Joel Embiid goes for thirty and thirteen. He positioned the 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.240 seventy Sixers to take this game from Boston. He also 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.240 tough break committed two costly turnovers in the final minute 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.800 and a half that's set up Boston for its eventual win. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.760 Let's hear from Brett Brown right now, right after. You 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.720 guys fight so hard in this game, and you know, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.320 going down three zero, you know the historical implications of that. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.440 Do you just feel defeat right now or like, where 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.480 is your mind at? I feel I feel bad for 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.399 the for the players, uh for the loss. I think 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.080 that defensively we did what we needed to do to 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:18.320 win a game. UM. I think offensively, you know, the 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:24.760 the quantity of just missus uh is hard to overcome. UM. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.400 I feel that you know your your to your point, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.240 the historical reference of the daunting task at hand we 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:38.400 all get. My mind is truly on trying to uh 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:44.920 find to win. Um. I believe, uh sincerely that wins 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:51.440 sometimes change everything and the mindset the circumstance, and so 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.720 in this case, that's an obvious comment, but I thought 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.960 it tonight from for as much spirit purposes as historical 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.560 goal to your point purposes, and um, we're gonna go 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:11.520 try to get a win, Keith Pompey, go ahead, Keith Bret. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.079 You're saying you're trying to get a win? Is it 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.320 it more or less? Are you guys just playing for 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.920 pride right about now? I mean I'm not. I'm not 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.400 rolling over like you know, both you and Kyle and 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.480 I understand like I get it, like everybody would assume 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.800 that this series is over because we're out three and zero, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.880 and I'm not trying to be you know new Rockney 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.880 with with my sincere opinion is We're going to come 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.960 in and play, play the game and get a win 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.919 and to to to dust it off like it's delivered 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.280 for pride purposes of course, but it's to keep a 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.880 series alive. And I truly mean that, and that's that's 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.000 my uh, that's my message to to to them, it's 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.959 my message to my staff, and that's what I keep 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.120 a series alive and perhaps a season alive. The seventy 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.120 Sixers losing to the Boston Celtics in a pivotal game 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.959 three tonight, one O two ninety four. Boston has won 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.960 the first three games of this series. Man, A lot 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.720 about this stings you think about where the game was. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.400 With two and a half minutes to go. The seventy 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.480 Sixers were full of rightful energy after they forced a 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:28.040 shot clock violation on Boston. On the ensuing possession, Joel 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.680 Embi knocks down two free throws to put the seventy 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.639 Sixers up ninety four ninety two, and those would be 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.440 the final points the seventy Sixers would score. And honestly, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.120 as good as you felt at that point, it was 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.640 on Boston's next possession where the Sixers got to stop 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.240 Jalen Brown missed a three. The Sixers got the ball, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:48.840 they brought it back down the floor. You're like, if 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.280 they can get some points here anyhow, anyway to finally 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.920 make it a two possession game in their favor. You 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.880 feel like there's some separation the team would need to 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:02.960 take this game well. Joel bead tough turnover, Marcus Smart 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.760 tremendous play that led to a really tough and one 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.400 converted by Jalen Brown that flipped the lead back in 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.640 Boston's favor ninety five to ninety four. Joe On the 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.680 Sixers next trip down faced a wall of three defenders 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.360 led by Ennis Canner, who filled in for Daniel Tye 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.760 for the final three minutes. Joel gave the ball away 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.839 that time, and then the big play was that Josh 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.320 Richardson had to commit a clear path foul and Jason Tatum. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.520 Tatum in his first free throw, missed his second, but 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.600 Boston got the ball back leading by two ninety six 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.239 ninety four by virtue of the stipulations of the clear 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.520 path penalty. Kemba Walker, in what might be a defining 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.080 moment of this series, nails a crossover pull up jumper 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.320 over Al Horford to make it ninety eight ninety four. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.560 Josh Richardson misses a three from the corner, partially blocked 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.440 by Jason Tatum. Marcus Smart, tough as nails, drives right 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.719 in on Joe, He's fouled, goes the line, hits two 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.599 free throws. Tobias Harris misses the three with twenty seconds left, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.479 and that was that as the seventy Sixers lose to 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.320 Boston one O two ninety four. If you listen to 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.279 this game, if you watch this game, the Sixers did 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:18.000 so much worthy of a win. Their spirit, competitiveness, toughness, edge, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.720 and physicality, all things that were lacking at various points 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.320 of the first two games in the series, were as 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.839 consistent as they've been at any point in this opening 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.880 round matchup with the Boston Celtics. They played hard enough 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.680 and compete enough to win. They rebounded the heck out 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.920 of it. The Sixers now is tied into the next 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.839 big storyline to talk about. They got twenty offensive rebounds, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.880 They were plus twelve on the glass. They just didn't 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.640 hit their shots to night. They got to the free 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.119 throw line ten more times than Boston. They went twenty 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.080 nine to thirty four from the line behind Joe who 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.600 went fourteen to sixteen. But the Sixers shot under thirty 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.839 percent from the field. As Brett Brown said, that quantity 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:03.000 and that volume of missus it's so hard, impossible nearly 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.560 to overcome. The Sixers shoot twenty nine a half percent 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.960 for the game, nine for thirty nine from outside the arc, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.279 and Boston it didn't shoot great. The Celtics didn't play 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.200 a perfect game, but they did enough and a little 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.680 bit more to get past the Sixers. The other thing 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.919 that stings tonight, certainly, compared to the first two games 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.120 of this series, the most human effort by Jason Tatum, 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.480 who was handicapped with foul trouble in the first half 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.359 only played eight minutes, was six of nineteen from the field, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.240 did hit some big shots in the closing moments in 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.960 the second half. He only finished with fifteen points, But 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.159 Jalen Brown was great when it mattered with twenty one 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.720 and Kemba Walker. I think he's gotten better every game. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.240 He was really good in game one, he was very 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.479 very good in Game two, and he was excellent tonight 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.960 twenty four points, eight rebounds, four assists. For the first 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.800 year Boston Celtic helping them to a win tonight one 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.920 O two to ninety four. And perhaps the most consistent 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.560 stat line from this entire series when you look at 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.240 the way the teams have played, is that the Celtics 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.520 have just torn the Sixers apart in transition. They outscored 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.240 the Sixers twenty two to eight on the break tonight, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.320 and that was after they came into tonight's game having 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.560 outscored the Sixers thirty five to nine in transition the 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.840 first two games. I'm not smart enough to do that 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.280 quick computation for what it means for the whole series, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.320 but I can tell you that's a disparity that sways 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.320 heavily in Boston's favor, and they've taken advantage of it. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.080 Joel Embiid was really really good. Thirty points, thirteen rebounds. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.400 He had to manage foul trouble of his own Josh Richardson. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.280 You know, you look at his numbers, you'll see five 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.200 or seventeen from the field, three of eleven from three. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.200 He did commit that clear path foul. That was a mistake, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.840 but all in all, I thought he played pretty good 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.200 defense on Jason Tatum Tonight had some timely baskets for 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.760 the Sixers. Shake Milton seventeen point six of eighteen from 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.000 the field, six rebounds, three assists. I think that he 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.520 has not at all looked like a playoff for Timer 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.880 in this series, and especially in the fourth quarter when 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.480 the Sixers were fighting their way to a lead. You know, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.600 had a really nice pick and roll driving layup in 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.000 a two man game with Joel to put the Sixers 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.559 in front by one. He also had at one point 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.760 earlier a big three, So I think Shaker has played well. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.920 Alec Burke's nine points off the bench three at ten. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.920 He's been off the last two games for Concorkmas has 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.960 really struggled in Tobias Harris oh for five from three. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.480 I thought Tobias came out with great purpose. He was 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.320 very aggressive, he was opportunistic in terms of putbacks. Eight 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.120 of his fifteen rebounds were on the offensive glass. But 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.360 his lack of three point production in the series has 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.640 not helped the Sixers one two ninety four Celtics up 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.600 three zip in this first round best of seven. Tom 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.319 McGinnis had the call of this one tonight. Tom, this 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.240 was a game where from an intangible standpoint, you feel 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.360 good about what the Sixers did, but the last two 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.920 minutes tough to watch, and now the Sixers are in 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.840 a very tough spot, no doubt. And Brian, if you 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.520 reflect back on what we talked about before the game, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.160 give or take six to twenty eight Eastern, we talked 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.840 about this being the NBA game being a game of 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.600 offensive runs and the ball club that makes the latest 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.680 and final run is the one that typically wins. And 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.400 you just said it. They scored ten in a row. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.640 Sixers turnovers, block shots, runouts, inefficient down the stretch and 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.679 couldn't get it done. This game was theirs for the taking. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.040 They led ninety four ninety two and didn't score. You 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.160 know they got in the end, Boston wins the game 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.280 and you got a credit smart and Kema Walker had 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.800 a huge shot. As you mentioned with Tatum struggle, this 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.040 was the game to beat them. The Sixers had this 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.640 game and couldn't close it out. It's extremely frustrating. They 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.360 would have given themselves a chance in the series and 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.199 now desperate straits down three. Yeah, and I'm not sure 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.760 if this next thing that I'm gonna say is even 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:56.880 it's not. I don't think there's a question. It's just 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.880 me saying it. It's like, you're right, there were so 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.040 many things that played in this six Ers favor into 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.079 this one. Tatum's foul trouble, he clearly you could tell 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.880 almost from the beginning. For as hot as you could 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.360 tell he was through games one and two early on, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.920 you could tell tonight he just I don't know, watching 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.280 it and listening to it, you just felt like he 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.640 didn't quite have what he did in the first two games. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.360 And then to see Joe commit those two turnovers. I mean, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.120 you can't take anything away from how well Joe has 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.240 played in this series. It's just, you know, for for 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.280 watching this team over the last couple of years and 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.640 then seeing Joe, you know in those situations giving the 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.880 balls away. You know you have to credit Boston for sure, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.680 But it is, like you said, it's just it's tough, 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.719 unfortunate for this team. And as Brett said, he you know, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.320 it feels bad for the players the way it played 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.240 out right, and you got to execute down the stretch. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.319 You know, he tried to cross court skip from the 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.480 left block and they picked it off. That's where you know, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.920 you have to almost coming out of the time out, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.720 you got to remind yourself to stick to the basics. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.040 Make the easy play, make it, make a pass out 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.840 to the wing and let them swing it over there. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.440 And Smart just roaming over there he makes When you 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.920 watch the play Smart, it's like an incredible grab. Like 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.560 I said before, Smart he plays like a gritty, tough 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.000 football player, right. He comes from what we know as 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.160 a football school in Oklahoma State, and that's like a 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.640 tight end roaming back there and picking that ball off. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.199 That was a great interception, but a bad decision by 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.040 the Sixers to try to do that. And then you 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.240 know the fade away by Embiid. You know he had 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.480 just gone down closer to the basket, download gott into 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.520 the line and this is you know, from the elbow, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.520 and it's a fade away on Canter. He's falling back 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.480 and Tatum is Tatum's kind of you could almost see 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.000 him measuring, yeah, I'm gonna block this point. It's an 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.440 easy blocked for him. And again, like to Tatum, what 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.040 you're saying, like he wasn't in a rhythm because he 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.880 was in fill difficulty and this time he had to 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.040 come out. He didn't even play in the second quarter. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.719 He played eleven minutes, I believe in the first or 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.840 eight minutes in the first half, and you know, and 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.040 then like and Brown wasn't a huge factor. So their 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.200 bench was really good here and they just made the 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.640 plays down the stretch. And so the Sixers were right there. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.680 But again, like when you look back and you figure 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.000 they shot under thirty percent for the game and was 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:15.600 a final stat I believe only one Sixer reserve scored. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.920 the tough things for the Sixers and he's just not enough, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.920 not enough. And now a huge uphill battle in terms 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.840 of that day, that game on Sunday and disapparded. I mean, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.320 there's no doubt you have to be dejected to let 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.520 this thing slip away the way it did tonight seventy 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.040 Sixers fall to the Boston Celtics one oh two ninety four. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.920 And we've seen plenty of Kemba Walker time in the past. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.440 But each game you watch him and you're like, that 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.960 guy is he is pretty darn good. He's awful good, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.440 you know, I mean again, hampered by the left nagginy 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.120 and knee injury prior to the hiatus, even after was 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.040 on a minute's restriction when they came back and then 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.640 you know again when he's a great player and when 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.880 you get into a rhythm and you know he's so 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.000 good off the dribble and he's driving it to the 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.959 cop or he's stopping and pop it and getting the 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.920 three huge shot, and how he made that field goal 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.360 on Horford. Again, you know, these guys they're so fast 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.160 in their in their calculations in terms of oh, he's like, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.080 I got Horford. I mean, but he dials it up. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.040 I'm going to push him off the dribble, back up, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.480 get a wing jump shot. That's exactly did one of 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.120 the most pivotal plays in the game. And then I 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.760 go back to like what he said after Game two, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.720 and that is I this is kemma Walkers saying I 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:35.680 have not had this much space in a really long time. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.960 So he's telling you right there that the Sixers are 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.800 not doing a good job defending him, and tonight he 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.480 was brilliant for them and he helped them win the game. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.320 Alredy Tom mc ginnis will speak again on Sunday afternoon. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.920 Sixers in the Celtics Game four Thanks Brian good Night, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.960 seventy six Ers drop a one oh two ninety four 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.400 decision to the Boston Celtics in Game three. They've now 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.480 dropped behind three games to none in this opening round 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:07.000 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals matchup. 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Seventy Sixers Boston Celtics Game three, the Eastern 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.000 Conference Quarterfinals, must win for the seventy Sixers could not 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.120 afford to fall behind by a deficit of three nothing 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.880 in this series, but they were playing catchup from the 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.840 start against the Celtics. Joel and Beat has been on 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.360 top and on point with things at the outset of 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.440 every game in this series so far, and tonight was 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.360 no difference. Shake back three ball by a beat and 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.640 that's good. Rad Stevens is hot. He thought the screen 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.680 by the Sixers shake built after the as out doing 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.920 Bead was he illegal. He takes time. After the Boston 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.120 Celtics start of the night eight for twelve in the field, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.720 the Sixers clamped down on d made them go one 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.600 for eight. After that, it was just a two point 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.960 game in favor of Boston twenty six, twenty four. After 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.000 a quarter of play, Josh Richardson was called upon defensively 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.800 tonight to the Lions share the work on Jason Tatum. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.680 Tatum got into foul trouble. Josh Richardson also made his 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.960 presence felt when the ball was in the seventy Sixers 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.440 hands to Bias hasn't looking into the name, but they 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.520 double Horford over to Richardson for three and that's good 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.600 cross court skip and Josh Richardson has his second three 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.480 to the last two minutes. Man. With that, the Sixers 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.040 cut it to three. Their deficit was forty nine forty 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.880 six the Sixers. It took them a while to get 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.960 on the board with a three point where they got 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.400 a few more to fall. The Sixers really opportunistic throughout 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.560 the first half, putbacks things like that. Their physicality and 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.400 spirit was there even though they were down fifty one 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.600 forty nine in the break. I was feeling kind of 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.080 good about the direction things where head at Joel and 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.640 bead was playing really well. He's getting some help in 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.400 different areas. And the spirit was where the Sixers needed 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.760 to be there, playing good defense and very physical. In 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:14.600 the third quarter, the Sixers refusing to let Boston runaway 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.320 with any type of comfortable lead, Shake Milton inserting himself 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.200 in the action. They swing it to Shake three from 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.040 the top. Yes, a triple by Shake Milton is good. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.600 His second trade, he's got ten. Richardson makes the extra pass, 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.760 credit Horford out of the post and now it's seventy 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.400 two sixty eight. Sixers were trailed by four at the 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.640 end of the third quarter, seventy six to seventy two. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.760 More good things from Shake Milton in crunch time. In 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.120 the fourth quarter back and forth game, the Celtics went 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.120 up by six with seven minutes to go, but Al 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.120 Horford then stepped up on the defensive end. Richardson to 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.760 Milt six minutes, ten seconds to go and bead Is 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.080 doubled back out to Shake three ball. It's good. Shake 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.240 Milt puts it in his third three timeout. Celtics one 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.640 point game, and the Sixers were putting the pressure on Boston. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.160 They cut the Celtics lead to one eighty seven eighty six. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.320 That three came after an Al Horford steel out of 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.360 the time out. Jalen Brown got a driving lamp seventy 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.840 Sixers not backing down. There's a great pick and roll 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.960 play involving Shake Milton, two man game with Joel Embiid. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.040 Milton with it again. The Sixers with a chance to 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.600 take the lead. Shake goes in on Tice, puts it up. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.600 Rub ain't good. He got it step back shot by 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.199 Shake Milton. He's had the last well five of the 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.879 last seven, and the Sixers lead by a point. With 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.680 four and a half to go, ninety to eighty nine, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.640 Jalen Brown drew a foul from three point territory Boston's 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.560 neck trip down. He made all three free throws to 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.680 put the Celtics back up. The Sixers committed to turnover, 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.639 but the Sixers were able to ride Joel Embiid. They 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.160 were able to put some more pressure on Boston. Joe 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.639 got the line from the line. He put the Sixers 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.120 up ninety four ninety two with just over two minutes 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.880 to go. But then things started to turn. The six 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.639 has got a stop and being committed a turnover and 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.760 Jalen Brown scored on an and one to make it 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.960 ninety five ninety four. Another Joel and beat turnover, clear 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.720 path Falcolt against Josh Richardson on Jason Tatum. Tatum one 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.080 for two from the line, Boston gets the ball back 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.879 and then this Walker between the leggs. Walker with a 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.840 step back left wing twenty footer. He's got it. It's 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.159 up and good by Kimba Walker an escape dribble and 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.320 a jump shot, giving him twenty four at Boston with 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.360 a minute to go in the game, leading by four 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.879 ninety eight ninety four, Josh Richinson missed a three the 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.800 next trip down, Marcus Smart hit some free throws and 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.400 Boston was able to end the game on a ten 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.600 nothing run and put the seventy six ers on the 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.760 brink with the Celtics now leading three ZIP. In this 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.439 opening round series, Sixers shot under thirty percent from the 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.200 field twenty nine and a half percent to pee precise 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.720 Boston forty one and a half percent from the field. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.119 Six Ers nine of thirty nine from outside the arc 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.119 for twenty three percent, Boston eight of thirty one for 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.840 twenty six percent. Six Ers twenty nine of thirty four 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.040 from the line, Boston twenty two of twenty four Sixers 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.919 plus twelve on the glass plus seventeen on the offensive glass. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.400 But again you have to take into account the Sixers 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.760 did miss sixty seven of their ninety five shots. Thirteen 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.159 turnovers in the game for the Sixers, that's equal to 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.719 the total of Boston. But those two turnovers committed by 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.840 Joel Embiid not to take anything away from his otherwise 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.720 pretty solid performance tonight, but those two turnovers certainly looming 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.960 large and how this game played out down the stretch, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:37.400 in crunch time and haunting the seventy Sixers. Tonight, Sixers 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.120 were outscored on the break twenty two to eight by Boston. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.000 Joel Embiid lit all scores with thirty points. He also 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.720 had a game high thirteen rebounds. He was fourteen of 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.680 sixteen from the line, seventeen points apiece from Josh Richardson 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.720 and Shake Milton, fifteen for Tobias Harris. He also had 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.119 fifteen rebounds and four assists. Only nine points from the 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.560 seventy Sixers bench Alec Burke's with all nine of those 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.800 points on three for ten shooting Kemba Walker twenty forty 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.760 lee the Celtics. He also had eight rebounds four assists. 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.480 He was ten of twenty from the field, three of 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.320 eight from outside the arc twenty one for Jalen Brown, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.320 big plays in the fourth quarter. He was eight for 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.880 nine from the free throw line, six of sixteen overall, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.919 fifteen points for Jason Tatum, who dealt with foul trouble 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.240 in the first half. He played only eight minutes in 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.560 the first half, finished six of nineteen from the field, 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.720 two of nine from three. That made you think the 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:28.959 Sixers have got to get this one, steal it from 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.800 Boston tonight with Jason Tatum off this game. It was 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.600 not to be, as Boston ends the game on a 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.000 ten nothing run twin at one O two ninety four. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.000 So the Sixers and Boston they have at least one 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.800 more game remaining. Game four, the Sixers try to avoid 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.959 a sweep. Sunday afternoon at one thirty. You've been listening 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.479 to Rewind. Look out for fresh episodes of the Day 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.760 after every seventy Sixers game this season.