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Speaker 1: tough one obviously for the seventy Sixers tonight, falling behind
Speaker 1: three nothing in their first round best of seven series.
Speaker 1: They are on the brink after tonight's one O two
Speaker 1: at ninety four loss of the Boston Celtics. I'm Brian Seltzer.
Speaker 1: We expect to hear from Brett Brown in a few moments.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid goes for thirty and thirteen. He positioned the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers to take this game from Boston. He also
Speaker 1: tough break committed two costly turnovers in the final minute
Speaker 1: and a half that's set up Boston for its eventual win.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from Brett Brown right now, right after. You
Speaker 1: guys fight so hard in this game, and you know,
Speaker 1: going down three zero, you know the historical implications of that.
Speaker 1: Do you just feel defeat right now or like, where
Speaker 1: is your mind at? I feel I feel bad for
Speaker 1: the for the players, uh for the loss. I think
Speaker 1: that defensively we did what we needed to do to
Speaker 1: win a game. UM. I think offensively, you know, the
Speaker 1: the quantity of just missus uh is hard to overcome. UM.
Speaker 1: I feel that you know your your to your point,
Speaker 1: the historical reference of the daunting task at hand we
Speaker 1: all get. My mind is truly on trying to uh
Speaker 1: find to win. Um. I believe, uh sincerely that wins
Speaker 1: sometimes change everything and the mindset the circumstance, and so
Speaker 1: in this case, that's an obvious comment, but I thought
Speaker 1: it tonight from for as much spirit purposes as historical
Speaker 1: goal to your point purposes, and um, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: try to get a win, Keith Pompey, go ahead, Keith Bret.
Speaker 1: You're saying you're trying to get a win? Is it
Speaker 1: it more or less? Are you guys just playing for
Speaker 1: pride right about now? I mean I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: rolling over like you know, both you and Kyle and
Speaker 1: I understand like I get it, like everybody would assume
Speaker 1: that this series is over because we're out three and zero,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to be you know new Rockney
Speaker 1: with with my sincere opinion is We're going to come
Speaker 1: in and play, play the game and get a win
Speaker 1: and to to to dust it off like it's delivered
Speaker 1: for pride purposes of course, but it's to keep a
Speaker 1: series alive. And I truly mean that, and that's that's
Speaker 1: my uh, that's my message to to to them, it's
Speaker 1: my message to my staff, and that's what I keep
Speaker 1: a series alive and perhaps a season alive. The seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers losing to the Boston Celtics in a pivotal game
Speaker 1: three tonight, one O two ninety four. Boston has won
Speaker 1: the first three games of this series. Man, A lot
Speaker 1: about this stings you think about where the game was.
Speaker 1: With two and a half minutes to go. The seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers were full of rightful energy after they forced a
Speaker 1: shot clock violation on Boston. On the ensuing possession, Joel
Speaker 1: Embi knocks down two free throws to put the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers up ninety four ninety two, and those would be
Speaker 1: the final points the seventy Sixers would score. And honestly,
Speaker 1: as good as you felt at that point, it was
Speaker 1: on Boston's next possession where the Sixers got to stop
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown missed a three. The Sixers got the ball,
Speaker 1: they brought it back down the floor. You're like, if
Speaker 1: they can get some points here anyhow, anyway to finally
Speaker 1: make it a two possession game in their favor. You
Speaker 1: feel like there's some separation the team would need to
Speaker 1: take this game well. Joel bead tough turnover, Marcus Smart
Speaker 1: tremendous play that led to a really tough and one
Speaker 1: converted by Jalen Brown that flipped the lead back in
Speaker 1: Boston's favor ninety five to ninety four. Joe On the
Speaker 1: Sixers next trip down faced a wall of three defenders
Speaker 1: led by Ennis Canner, who filled in for Daniel Tye
Speaker 1: for the final three minutes. Joel gave the ball away
Speaker 1: that time, and then the big play was that Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson had to commit a clear path foul and Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: Tatum in his first free throw, missed his second, but
Speaker 1: Boston got the ball back leading by two ninety six
Speaker 1: ninety four by virtue of the stipulations of the clear
Speaker 1: path penalty. Kemba Walker, in what might be a defining
Speaker 1: moment of this series, nails a crossover pull up jumper
Speaker 1: over Al Horford to make it ninety eight ninety four.
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson misses a three from the corner, partially blocked
Speaker 1: by Jason Tatum. Marcus Smart, tough as nails, drives right
Speaker 1: in on Joe, He's fouled, goes the line, hits two
Speaker 1: free throws. Tobias Harris misses the three with twenty seconds left,
Speaker 1: and that was that as the seventy Sixers lose to
Speaker 1: Boston one O two ninety four. If you listen to
Speaker 1: this game, if you watch this game, the Sixers did
Speaker 1: so much worthy of a win. Their spirit, competitiveness, toughness, edge,
Speaker 1: and physicality, all things that were lacking at various points
Speaker 1: of the first two games in the series, were as
Speaker 1: consistent as they've been at any point in this opening
Speaker 1: round matchup with the Boston Celtics. They played hard enough
Speaker 1: and compete enough to win. They rebounded the heck out
Speaker 1: of it. The Sixers now is tied into the next
Speaker 1: big storyline to talk about. They got twenty offensive rebounds,
Speaker 1: They were plus twelve on the glass. They just didn't
Speaker 1: hit their shots to night. They got to the free
Speaker 1: throw line ten more times than Boston. They went twenty
Speaker 1: nine to thirty four from the line behind Joe who
Speaker 1: went fourteen to sixteen. But the Sixers shot under thirty
Speaker 1: percent from the field. As Brett Brown said, that quantity
Speaker 1: and that volume of missus it's so hard, impossible nearly
Speaker 1: to overcome. The Sixers shoot twenty nine a half percent
Speaker 1: for the game, nine for thirty nine from outside the arc,
Speaker 1: and Boston it didn't shoot great. The Celtics didn't play
Speaker 1: a perfect game, but they did enough and a little
Speaker 1: bit more to get past the Sixers. The other thing
Speaker 1: that stings tonight, certainly, compared to the first two games
Speaker 1: of this series, the most human effort by Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: who was handicapped with foul trouble in the first half
Speaker 1: only played eight minutes, was six of nineteen from the field,
Speaker 1: did hit some big shots in the closing moments in
Speaker 1: the second half. He only finished with fifteen points, But
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown was great when it mattered with twenty one
Speaker 1: and Kemba Walker. I think he's gotten better every game.
Speaker 1: He was really good in game one, he was very
Speaker 1: very good in Game two, and he was excellent tonight
Speaker 1: twenty four points, eight rebounds, four assists. For the first
Speaker 1: year Boston Celtic helping them to a win tonight one
Speaker 1: O two to ninety four. And perhaps the most consistent
Speaker 1: stat line from this entire series when you look at
Speaker 1: the way the teams have played, is that the Celtics
Speaker 1: have just torn the Sixers apart in transition. They outscored
Speaker 1: the Sixers twenty two to eight on the break tonight,
Speaker 1: and that was after they came into tonight's game having
Speaker 1: outscored the Sixers thirty five to nine in transition the
Speaker 1: first two games. I'm not smart enough to do that
Speaker 1: quick computation for what it means for the whole series,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you that's a disparity that sways
Speaker 1: heavily in Boston's favor, and they've taken advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid was really really good. Thirty points, thirteen rebounds.
Speaker 1: He had to manage foul trouble of his own Josh Richardson.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at his numbers, you'll see five
Speaker 1: or seventeen from the field, three of eleven from three.
Speaker 1: He did commit that clear path foul. That was a mistake,
Speaker 1: but all in all, I thought he played pretty good
Speaker 1: defense on Jason Tatum Tonight had some timely baskets for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Shake Milton seventeen point six of eighteen from
Speaker 1: the field, six rebounds, three assists. I think that he
Speaker 1: has not at all looked like a playoff for Timer
Speaker 1: in this series, and especially in the fourth quarter when
Speaker 1: the Sixers were fighting their way to a lead. You know,
Speaker 1: had a really nice pick and roll driving layup in
Speaker 1: a two man game with Joel to put the Sixers
Speaker 1: in front by one. He also had at one point
Speaker 1: earlier a big three, So I think Shaker has played well.
Speaker 1: Alec Burke's nine points off the bench three at ten.
Speaker 1: He's been off the last two games for Concorkmas has
Speaker 1: really struggled in Tobias Harris oh for five from three.
Speaker 1: I thought Tobias came out with great purpose. He was
Speaker 1: very aggressive, he was opportunistic in terms of putbacks. Eight
Speaker 1: of his fifteen rebounds were on the offensive glass. But
Speaker 1: his lack of three point production in the series has
Speaker 1: not helped the Sixers one two ninety four Celtics up
Speaker 1: three zip in this first round best of seven. Tom
Speaker 1: McGinnis had the call of this one tonight. Tom, this
Speaker 1: was a game where from an intangible standpoint, you feel
Speaker 1: good about what the Sixers did, but the last two
Speaker 1: minutes tough to watch, and now the Sixers are in
Speaker 1: a very tough spot, no doubt. And Brian, if you
Speaker 1: reflect back on what we talked about before the game,
Speaker 1: give or take six to twenty eight Eastern, we talked
Speaker 1: about this being the NBA game being a game of
Speaker 1: offensive runs and the ball club that makes the latest
Speaker 1: and final run is the one that typically wins. And
Speaker 1: you just said it. They scored ten in a row.
Speaker 1: Sixers turnovers, block shots, runouts, inefficient down the stretch and
Speaker 1: couldn't get it done. This game was theirs for the taking.
Speaker 1: They led ninety four ninety two and didn't score. You
Speaker 1: know they got in the end, Boston wins the game
Speaker 1: and you got a credit smart and Kema Walker had
Speaker 1: a huge shot. As you mentioned with Tatum struggle, this
Speaker 1: was the game to beat them. The Sixers had this
Speaker 1: game and couldn't close it out. It's extremely frustrating. They
Speaker 1: would have given themselves a chance in the series and
Speaker 1: now desperate straits down three. Yeah, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if this next thing that I'm gonna say is even
Speaker 1: it's not. I don't think there's a question. It's just
Speaker 1: me saying it. It's like, you're right, there were so
Speaker 1: many things that played in this six Ers favor into
Speaker 1: this one. Tatum's foul trouble, he clearly you could tell
Speaker 1: almost from the beginning. For as hot as you could
Speaker 1: tell he was through games one and two early on,
Speaker 1: you could tell tonight he just I don't know, watching
Speaker 1: it and listening to it, you just felt like he
Speaker 1: didn't quite have what he did in the first two games.
Speaker 1: And then to see Joe commit those two turnovers. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't take anything away from how well Joe has
Speaker 1: played in this series. It's just, you know, for for
Speaker 1: watching this team over the last couple of years and
Speaker 1: then seeing Joe, you know in those situations giving the
Speaker 1: balls away. You know you have to credit Boston for sure,
Speaker 1: But it is, like you said, it's just it's tough,
Speaker 1: unfortunate for this team. And as Brett said, he you know,
Speaker 1: it feels bad for the players the way it played
Speaker 1: out right, and you got to execute down the stretch.
Speaker 1: You know, he tried to cross court skip from the
Speaker 1: left block and they picked it off. That's where you know,
Speaker 1: you have to almost coming out of the time out,
Speaker 1: you got to remind yourself to stick to the basics.
Speaker 1: Make the easy play, make it, make a pass out
Speaker 1: to the wing and let them swing it over there.
Speaker 1: And Smart just roaming over there he makes When you
Speaker 1: watch the play Smart, it's like an incredible grab. Like
Speaker 1: I said before, Smart he plays like a gritty, tough
Speaker 1: football player, right. He comes from what we know as
Speaker 1: a football school in Oklahoma State, and that's like a
Speaker 1: tight end roaming back there and picking that ball off.
Speaker 1: That was a great interception, but a bad decision by
Speaker 1: the Sixers to try to do that. And then you
Speaker 1: know the fade away by Embiid. You know he had
Speaker 1: just gone down closer to the basket, download gott into
Speaker 1: the line and this is you know, from the elbow,
Speaker 1: and it's a fade away on Canter. He's falling back
Speaker 1: and Tatum is Tatum's kind of you could almost see
Speaker 1: him measuring, yeah, I'm gonna block this point. It's an
Speaker 1: easy blocked for him. And again, like to Tatum, what
Speaker 1: you're saying, like he wasn't in a rhythm because he
Speaker 1: was in fill difficulty and this time he had to
Speaker 1: come out. He didn't even play in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: He played eleven minutes, I believe in the first or
Speaker 1: eight minutes in the first half, and you know, and
Speaker 1: then like and Brown wasn't a huge factor. So their
Speaker 1: bench was really good here and they just made the
Speaker 1: plays down the stretch. And so the Sixers were right there.
Speaker 1: But again, like when you look back and you figure
Speaker 1: they shot under thirty percent for the game and was
Speaker 1: a final stat I believe only one Sixer reserve scored. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the tough things for the Sixers and he's just not enough,
Speaker 1: not enough. And now a huge uphill battle in terms
Speaker 1: of that day, that game on Sunday and disapparded. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt you have to be dejected to let
Speaker 1: this thing slip away the way it did tonight seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers fall to the Boston Celtics one oh two ninety four.
Speaker 1: And we've seen plenty of Kemba Walker time in the past.
Speaker 1: But each game you watch him and you're like, that
Speaker 1: guy is he is pretty darn good. He's awful good,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean again, hampered by the left nagginy
Speaker 1: and knee injury prior to the hiatus, even after was
Speaker 1: on a minute's restriction when they came back and then
Speaker 1: you know again when he's a great player and when
Speaker 1: you get into a rhythm and you know he's so
Speaker 1: good off the dribble and he's driving it to the
Speaker 1: cop or he's stopping and pop it and getting the
Speaker 1: three huge shot, and how he made that field goal
Speaker 1: on Horford. Again, you know, these guys they're so fast
Speaker 1: in their in their calculations in terms of oh, he's like,
Speaker 1: I got Horford. I mean, but he dials it up.
Speaker 1: I'm going to push him off the dribble, back up,
Speaker 1: get a wing jump shot. That's exactly did one of
Speaker 1: the most pivotal plays in the game. And then I
Speaker 1: go back to like what he said after Game two,
Speaker 1: and that is I this is kemma Walkers saying I
Speaker 1: have not had this much space in a really long time.
Speaker 1: So he's telling you right there that the Sixers are
Speaker 1: not doing a good job defending him, and tonight he
Speaker 1: was brilliant for them and he helped them win the game.
Speaker 1: Alredy Tom mc ginnis will speak again on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Sixers in the Celtics Game four Thanks Brian good Night,
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers drop a one oh two ninety four
Speaker 1: decision to the Boston Celtics in Game three. They've now
Speaker 1: dropped behind three games to none in this opening round
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Quarterfinals matchup. Hey, this is Lauren Rosen from
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Speaker 1: Slash Live. Seventy Sixers Boston Celtics Game three, the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference Quarterfinals, must win for the seventy Sixers could not
Speaker 1: afford to fall behind by a deficit of three nothing
Speaker 1: in this series, but they were playing catchup from the
Speaker 1: start against the Celtics. Joel and Beat has been on
Speaker 1: top and on point with things at the outset of
Speaker 1: every game in this series so far, and tonight was
Speaker 1: no difference. Shake back three ball by a beat and
Speaker 1: that's good. Rad Stevens is hot. He thought the screen
Speaker 1: by the Sixers shake built after the as out doing
Speaker 1: Bead was he illegal. He takes time. After the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics start of the night eight for twelve in the field,
Speaker 1: the Sixers clamped down on d made them go one
Speaker 1: for eight. After that, it was just a two point
Speaker 1: game in favor of Boston twenty six, twenty four. After
Speaker 1: a quarter of play, Josh Richardson was called upon defensively
Speaker 1: tonight to the Lions share the work on Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: Tatum got into foul trouble. Josh Richardson also made his
Speaker 1: presence felt when the ball was in the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: hands to Bias hasn't looking into the name, but they
Speaker 1: double Horford over to Richardson for three and that's good
Speaker 1: cross court skip and Josh Richardson has his second three
Speaker 1: to the last two minutes. Man. With that, the Sixers
Speaker 1: cut it to three. Their deficit was forty nine forty
Speaker 1: six the Sixers. It took them a while to get
Speaker 1: on the board with a three point where they got
Speaker 1: a few more to fall. The Sixers really opportunistic throughout
Speaker 1: the first half, putbacks things like that. Their physicality and
Speaker 1: spirit was there even though they were down fifty one
Speaker 1: forty nine in the break. I was feeling kind of
Speaker 1: good about the direction things where head at Joel and
Speaker 1: bead was playing really well. He's getting some help in
Speaker 1: different areas. And the spirit was where the Sixers needed
Speaker 1: to be there, playing good defense and very physical. In
Speaker 1: the third quarter, the Sixers refusing to let Boston runaway
Speaker 1: with any type of comfortable lead, Shake Milton inserting himself
Speaker 1: in the action. They swing it to Shake three from
Speaker 1: the top. Yes, a triple by Shake Milton is good.
Speaker 1: His second trade, he's got ten. Richardson makes the extra pass,
Speaker 1: credit Horford out of the post and now it's seventy
Speaker 1: two sixty eight. Sixers were trailed by four at the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter, seventy six to seventy two.
Speaker 1: More good things from Shake Milton in crunch time. In
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter back and forth game, the Celtics went
Speaker 1: up by six with seven minutes to go, but Al
Speaker 1: Horford then stepped up on the defensive end. Richardson to
Speaker 1: Milt six minutes, ten seconds to go and bead Is
Speaker 1: doubled back out to Shake three ball. It's good. Shake
Speaker 1: Milt puts it in his third three timeout. Celtics one
Speaker 1: point game, and the Sixers were putting the pressure on Boston.
Speaker 1: They cut the Celtics lead to one eighty seven eighty six.
Speaker 1: That three came after an Al Horford steel out of
Speaker 1: the time out. Jalen Brown got a driving lamp seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers not backing down. There's a great pick and roll
Speaker 1: play involving Shake Milton, two man game with Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: Milton with it again. The Sixers with a chance to
Speaker 1: take the lead. Shake goes in on Tice, puts it up.
Speaker 1: Rub ain't good. He got it step back shot by
Speaker 1: Shake Milton. He's had the last well five of the
Speaker 1: last seven, and the Sixers lead by a point. With
Speaker 1: four and a half to go, ninety to eighty nine,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown drew a foul from three point territory Boston's
Speaker 1: neck trip down. He made all three free throws to
Speaker 1: put the Celtics back up. The Sixers committed to turnover,
Speaker 1: but the Sixers were able to ride Joel Embiid. They
Speaker 1: were able to put some more pressure on Boston. Joe
Speaker 1: got the line from the line. He put the Sixers
Speaker 1: up ninety four ninety two with just over two minutes
Speaker 1: to go. But then things started to turn. The six
Speaker 1: has got a stop and being committed a turnover and
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown scored on an and one to make it
Speaker 1: ninety five ninety four. Another Joel and beat turnover, clear
Speaker 1: path Falcolt against Josh Richardson on Jason Tatum. Tatum one
Speaker 1: for two from the line, Boston gets the ball back
Speaker 1: and then this Walker between the leggs. Walker with a
Speaker 1: step back left wing twenty footer. He's got it. It's
Speaker 1: up and good by Kimba Walker an escape dribble and
Speaker 1: a jump shot, giving him twenty four at Boston with
Speaker 1: a minute to go in the game, leading by four
Speaker 1: ninety eight ninety four, Josh Richinson missed a three the
Speaker 1: next trip down, Marcus Smart hit some free throws and
Speaker 1: Boston was able to end the game on a ten
Speaker 1: nothing run and put the seventy six ers on the
Speaker 1: brink with the Celtics now leading three ZIP. In this
Speaker 1: opening round series, Sixers shot under thirty percent from the
Speaker 1: field twenty nine and a half percent to pee precise
Speaker 1: Boston forty one and a half percent from the field.
Speaker 1: Six Ers nine of thirty nine from outside the arc
Speaker 1: for twenty three percent, Boston eight of thirty one for
Speaker 1: twenty six percent. Six Ers twenty nine of thirty four
Speaker 1: from the line, Boston twenty two of twenty four Sixers
Speaker 1: plus twelve on the glass plus seventeen on the offensive glass.
Speaker 1: But again you have to take into account the Sixers
Speaker 1: did miss sixty seven of their ninety five shots. Thirteen
Speaker 1: turnovers in the game for the Sixers, that's equal to
Speaker 1: the total of Boston. But those two turnovers committed by
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid not to take anything away from his otherwise
Speaker 1: pretty solid performance tonight, but those two turnovers certainly looming
Speaker 1: large and how this game played out down the stretch,
Speaker 1: in crunch time and haunting the seventy Sixers. Tonight, Sixers
Speaker 1: were outscored on the break twenty two to eight by Boston.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid lit all scores with thirty points. He also
Speaker 1: had a game high thirteen rebounds. He was fourteen of
Speaker 1: sixteen from the line, seventeen points apiece from Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: and Shake Milton, fifteen for Tobias Harris. He also had
Speaker 1: fifteen rebounds and four assists. Only nine points from the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers bench Alec Burke's with all nine of those
Speaker 1: points on three for ten shooting Kemba Walker twenty forty
Speaker 1: lee the Celtics. He also had eight rebounds four assists.
Speaker 1: He was ten of twenty from the field, three of
Speaker 1: eight from outside the arc twenty one for Jalen Brown,
Speaker 1: big plays in the fourth quarter. He was eight for
Speaker 1: nine from the free throw line, six of sixteen overall,
Speaker 1: fifteen points for Jason Tatum, who dealt with foul trouble
Speaker 1: in the first half. He played only eight minutes in
Speaker 1: the first half, finished six of nineteen from the field,
Speaker 1: two of nine from three. That made you think the
Speaker 1: Sixers have got to get this one, steal it from
Speaker 1: Boston tonight with Jason Tatum off this game. It was
Speaker 1: not to be, as Boston ends the game on a
Speaker 1: ten nothing run twin at one O two ninety four.
Speaker 1: So the Sixers and Boston they have at least one
Speaker 1: more game remaining. Game four, the Sixers try to avoid
Speaker 1: a sweep. Sunday afternoon at one thirty. You've been listening
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