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Speaker 1: lose a critical Game two of their opening round series
Speaker 1: of the Boston Celtics by the score of one twenty
Speaker 1: eight to one oh one. I'm Brian Seltzer. Boston now
Speaker 1: with a two games to an advantage in the series
Speaker 1: and they look like they are complete control. Hey, Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid had a great game tonight, certainly did his part,
Speaker 1: but a really disappointing defeat for the seventy Sixers, not
Speaker 1: only based on how things ended up. I mean, you
Speaker 1: look at that score of twenty seven point margin. That's
Speaker 1: wide enough to begin with, but to consider the fact
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers at one point the game, we're up
Speaker 1: by fourteen points. It's pretty amazing. A forty two point
Speaker 1: swing from start to finish. In this one, Sixers jumped
Speaker 1: out to a thirty three twenty seven lead. They were
Speaker 1: on fire in that first quarter, shot nearly six one percent.
Speaker 1: Joel had fifteen of the seventy six Ers thirty three points.
Speaker 1: In the first everything seemed good. Shake Milton Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: got off to great starts in the game as well,
Speaker 1: and then in the second quarter things seemed to change,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers when their shot wasn't falling, you know,
Speaker 1: the defense led up. Boston connected on sixty two percent
Speaker 1: of its shots in the second quarter, and the Celtics
Speaker 1: rebounding picked up, and at that point it just totally
Speaker 1: turned the game around. With Kemba Walker leading the way.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about Boston and one of the
Speaker 1: things we talked about coming into this game was Gordon
Speaker 1: Hayward and the injury and how would that affect the series.
Speaker 1: Someone on Boston needed to step up well. In the
Speaker 1: guts of this game, when Boston really needed to seize control,
Speaker 1: Kimba Walker was really big. He finished with twenty two points,
Speaker 1: only three more points than his nineteen point total in
Speaker 1: Game one. But I think that if you watch both games,
Speaker 1: listen to both games, you could tell Kimba Walker was
Speaker 1: really really important to Boston when they needed in the moment.
Speaker 1: Of course, Jason Tatum continues to be an unstoppable force
Speaker 1: Sixers start umatistible in this game with Boston going even
Speaker 1: smaller smart in the lineup for Hayward. But tonight, you
Speaker 1: know from the early going Tatum it's like he didn't
Speaker 1: snap out of that groove for Monday, and he just
Speaker 1: kept on going. He was plus twenty nine in less
Speaker 1: than thirty one minutes of action. Finished with thirty three points,
Speaker 1: twelve for twenty from the field, eight of twelve from
Speaker 1: outside the arc. The seventy Sixers shot five for twenty
Speaker 1: one as a team from the perimeter. So now the
Speaker 1: Sixers are in this own two hole and listen. I
Speaker 1: think that you could look at a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: You can look at roster, you can look at talent,
Speaker 1: but I think between the first two games it's this
Speaker 1: factor of edge. Tom and I talked about it after
Speaker 1: last game that he talked about it tonight a bit too.
Speaker 1: It's just like this edge thing that Boston seems to have,
Speaker 1: where you know, their bench tonight they got so much
Speaker 1: out of their bench, did the Celtics, and there was
Speaker 1: just great hustle from that group. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: going to sound a little bit silly, probably, but I
Speaker 1: thought Ennis Canner came in and in the second quarter
Speaker 1: with his rebounding and what he did to give Boston
Speaker 1: extra opportunities, he helped change the complexity of the game.
Speaker 1: You know, he had got guys like Brad Wanamaker and
Speaker 1: Grant Williams, Romeo Langford at times doing some things that
Speaker 1: like it just helped. And this Boston Celtics bench, while
Speaker 1: playing with Jason Tatum, extended the lead. Had not only
Speaker 1: got Boston back in the game of the second quarter,
Speaker 1: it extended the lead. And it's just that edge factor
Speaker 1: that Boston seems to have an advantage with. The Sixers
Speaker 1: were down by eight sixty five fifty seven after the
Speaker 1: second quarter. You get to the third quarter and the
Speaker 1: Sixers committed some early turnovers that led to some runouts
Speaker 1: for Boston. The three sixty dunk by Jalen Brown made
Speaker 1: it a fifteen point game, seventy four fifty nine timeout Sixers.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be over dramatic here, and
Speaker 1: maybe Tom can come on this one, and I bring
Speaker 1: him up after Brett. But it's like you're thinking the
Speaker 1: season's on the line, like right here, right now, you're
Speaker 1: down by fifteen points middle of the third quarter. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do, and Boston just kept the foot
Speaker 1: on the pedal of the gas. They widen their lead
Speaker 1: to twenty three points after the third ninety eight seventy five,
Speaker 1: and in the fourth quarter it was pretty much all
Speaker 1: four Malley's at that point. And mean, you see Canner
Speaker 1: get the put back to start the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: that kind of summed up the way that things have
Speaker 1: gone through the first two games of this series. Boston,
Speaker 1: with just a little bit more pay dirt on the hustle,
Speaker 1: plays those loose ball opportunities the fifty fifty plays and
Speaker 1: you know, Boston took Jason Tatum out with about seven
Speaker 1: minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Joel and Bead
Speaker 1: left midway through the fourth and that was that as
Speaker 1: Boston wins this one one twenty eight to one on
Speaker 1: one and Bead finishes with thirty four points, ten rebounds,
Speaker 1: eleven of twenty one from the field, twelve of thirteen
Speaker 1: from the free throw line, eighteen for Josh Richardson thought
Speaker 1: he played a pretty sharp game. He was six of
Speaker 1: twelve from the field, two for three from three point territory,
Speaker 1: fourteen for Shake Milton, two from a tea styble, and
Speaker 1: just thirteen for Tobias Harris four or fifteen from the field.
Speaker 1: He struggled on the offensive end. We have Brett Brown
Speaker 1: on zoom right now. I think that you have to
Speaker 1: hum be smart about it. Like the obvious answer is to,
Speaker 1: you know, bring seven foot two out of the paint
Speaker 1: and bring seven foot two up so that they there
Speaker 1: is some level of Prussia. The punishment behind it is real,
Speaker 1: you know, rollers and scrambles and so on. I think
Speaker 1: that if you if you look at how many baskets
Speaker 1: they scored out of the pick and roll as far
Speaker 1: as threes go, I think Tatum had three and I
Speaker 1: think Kemba had one, and they are dangerous in a
Speaker 1: mid range game. This is true, and I feel like
Speaker 1: in the second half mark we did do that with
Speaker 1: some success, but it wasn't enough. Thank you, Keith Pompey
Speaker 1: bred did you like the effort tonight? It seems like
Speaker 1: after the first quarter it just went down. Then I
Speaker 1: think it got deflating when the shot makers went bananas
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna scoll their effort.
Speaker 1: I think that you got to shake their hands to
Speaker 1: the Celtics on some of the shots. You know, they
Speaker 1: were half quot bang shots, can't to hit one, and
Speaker 1: they really ended up making a lot of shots. There
Speaker 1: were a few possessions I think in the second half
Speaker 1: that you'd want to have back that. I think the
Speaker 1: effort wasn't at a level um that it needed to
Speaker 1: be during the sort of meat part of the game,
Speaker 1: the crunch time part of the game, I thought the
Speaker 1: guys were doing the best that they could. Katum is
Speaker 1: a handful of kembag, got a going. Jalen I thought
Speaker 1: had a great game and they made shots and we
Speaker 1: had a hard time dealing with that. Seventy Sixers fall
Speaker 1: to the Boston Celtics in Game two one twenty eight
Speaker 1: to one on one. Boston, of course, now with the
Speaker 1: two games and the un lead in the first round
Speaker 1: best of seven series. Alec Burks had a different role tonight.
Speaker 1: He finished one for eight from the field, two points.
Speaker 1: How Old Nato was the first guard the Sixers brought
Speaker 1: in off the bench. He finished with five points, two
Speaker 1: to five from the field, four points. For Al Horford,
Speaker 1: he was a reserve in this game as well. He
Speaker 1: finished with two rebounds in twenty three minutes of play.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis had the call this one from the center
Speaker 1: time for the second straight game. The seventy Sixers, led
Speaker 1: by Joel Ebad got off to a really good start
Speaker 1: and unraveled after that. And at this point Boston certainly
Speaker 1: in control of this series, oh without doubt. And Tatum
Speaker 1: got really hot. The only thing I would say is
Speaker 1: and it's small, but like again, as I stated early
Speaker 1: in the game, he got two quick vowels and he
Speaker 1: stayed in the game, which I understand. And yet the
Speaker 1: Sixers went two or three possessions without once and I
Speaker 1: believe Tait him at the time was guarding Jason Josh Richardson,
Speaker 1: but going right at him and at least see if
Speaker 1: you couldn't get a third foul on him to maybe
Speaker 1: he gets out and gets him out disrupted, and now
Speaker 1: he's got to sit for the end of the first quarter.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen. And then he just starts catching fire
Speaker 1: and again he like it's one thing you can see
Speaker 1: his practice and how it pays a huff, like you know,
Speaker 1: those are shots that he's making. Like I said, there
Speaker 1: was a time where I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: Thieble or whatever, but it was in the third over
Speaker 1: by their bench and he's back in the clock's winding down.
Speaker 1: He knows exactly what it's gonna do. He's gonna do
Speaker 1: a turnaround fade away from the corner and that's and
Speaker 1: he's creating the airspace with the fade, and you know,
Speaker 1: he nails the shot. That's like when you're a scorer,
Speaker 1: think like we're how Kobe Bryant used to pick his
Speaker 1: spots and know his spots on the court and exactly
Speaker 1: where he was going. And same thing with Tatum with
Speaker 1: the step backs off the three. You know, he's creating
Speaker 1: the separation with a big crossover and then the step
Speaker 1: back dribble and that's like six or so feet and oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, he's six eight and he's got the
Speaker 1: airspace to knock down those three. So very impressive with
Speaker 1: the eight. I thought Kemba was really, you know, getting
Speaker 1: back to like the dominant player we've seen where he
Speaker 1: was good in the first game, but tonight he was
Speaker 1: at times unstoppable. He gets so low and he gets
Speaker 1: a shoulder and he gets a step on the defender
Speaker 1: and he's gone. He's get to the glass. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing with Boston is they run their screen
Speaker 1: so far out top that when a player like Tatum
Speaker 1: or like Walker or Brown, they come off that action
Speaker 1: and then they're still behind the arc, so their first
Speaker 1: thought is three, and oftentime there's enough they get enough
Speaker 1: of a screen to shoot the three. So you know,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is the six is played really well
Speaker 1: early on and then in the whole football parlance and
Speaker 1: getting smacked in the mouth, they got hit by a
Speaker 1: huge wave and didn't respond and did not respond and
Speaker 1: that was it. I mean, it was an eight point
Speaker 1: game at halftime, it's still a game. But then to
Speaker 1: come back and yield thirty two points in the third
Speaker 1: and now it's a deep hole. Not only is it
Speaker 1: a deep hole, but you incurred a very frustrating and
Speaker 1: tough loss where Boston is now swimming with confidence and
Speaker 1: going into Game three and you gotta, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta win Friday. You gotta do something to extend this
Speaker 1: series and see if you can't swing a little momentum,
Speaker 1: a little confidence back to the side of the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy sixers, No question about at Joel Embiid with thirty
Speaker 1: four points ten rebounds in the seventy six Ers one
Speaker 1: twenty eight one on one loss, and I think Tom Shake, Milton,
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson playing really well, well enough for the Sixers
Speaker 1: to win. And we talked about the importance of this
Speaker 1: series for Tobias Harrison. He hasn't been able to get
Speaker 1: it quite going so far in the offensive end. And listen,
Speaker 1: in a series like this, when you're down an all
Speaker 1: star like Ben Simmons, you need everyone to be at
Speaker 1: their best, especially when you consider the talent on the
Speaker 1: other end, and right now, Tobias has had a tough
Speaker 1: time finding it, no doubt about it. And then you know,
Speaker 1: so he didn't shoot an overall great percentage from the field,
Speaker 1: but where you're sitting, you know they're making threes and
Speaker 1: I think he went over two tonight and from three
Speaker 1: and ended up with thirteen points. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: the ability to hit the long shot too, and no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You know your count you were
Speaker 1: counting on him, particularly with the absence of Simmons. And
Speaker 1: then you know, because of the starting the shift in
Speaker 1: the lineup for Boston. You put Thibal in there, great
Speaker 1: because he's a good defender, but you definitely lose some offense.
Speaker 1: And then Horford came off and didn't do anything very
Speaker 1: much off the bench. So they're fours you consider even
Speaker 1: if you want to put Thible in there. So let's
Speaker 1: say Harris Horford and Thible for the Sixers and Brown
Speaker 1: and Tatumer are just crushing that matchup right there. And
Speaker 1: that's been the difference in the series so far. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers beaten by Boston one twenty eight one oh one. Tom,
Speaker 1: What is next when this series shifts to quote unquote
Speaker 1: home territory? Right? Yeah. I heard an interesting thing last
Speaker 1: night by Chris Weber when in that Laker Portland game,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about and you know, I really
Speaker 1: never really occurred to me, but it's true. But like
Speaker 1: when a run occurs, the Lakers are making a huge run,
Speaker 1: and you know, like if that was in a building like,
Speaker 1: for example, in this case, the Staples Center, that would
Speaker 1: be so much harder to withstand because obviously the crowd,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things in the bubble. It's still
Speaker 1: the same old bubble. It's still quiet out there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, other than the team that's having
Speaker 1: the big run. So that that's one of them. We've
Speaker 1: talked about so many of these elements that are different,
Speaker 1: including to your point, how this would be in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and you know, but that's a huge thing obviously, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sitting here looking at empty seats in
Speaker 1: this building as we speak, and so but that's the facts,
Speaker 1: and everybody's the bubble has been tremendous. It's been great basketball.
Speaker 1: So that's not an excuse. You know, you gotta everybody
Speaker 1: knew this coming in. They've been down there for five
Speaker 1: six weeks right now, and you know, this is gut
Speaker 1: check time. This is something for the Sixers. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you got to hang your hat on something, some pride,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Sixers have made such an emphasis
Speaker 1: of playing in the spirit and the toughness of philadelph
Speaker 1: Philly hard as the coaches and the players say. And
Speaker 1: here it comes. Okay, You've got a Boston team playing
Speaker 1: with a lot of confidence, and they have one of
Speaker 1: their players is playing as well as any player in
Speaker 1: the NBA right now, and Tatum, you got to stop him.
Speaker 1: You got to show some pride and some fight and
Speaker 1: some grit and get it done and find a way
Speaker 1: to get on the board and see if you can't
Speaker 1: swing this thing. Over the course of the weekend and
Speaker 1: even the series. But first things first, you gotta come
Speaker 1: out and play Friday, and when they make the run
Speaker 1: withstand it and come back and fight to give yourselves
Speaker 1: an opportunity in the game. Down the stretch, well put
Speaker 1: pretty usual by Tom McGinnis. Tom and will speak on Friday.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, thank you, and good night. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: in a critical Game two against the Boston Celtics, entering
Speaker 1: tonight looking to level things at one game and piece,
Speaker 1: and early on, I mean really early on, very quickly,
Speaker 1: it was auspicious. It was looking pretty good behind the
Speaker 1: big fellow Joel Embiid Tobias Harris with a ball, Harris
Speaker 1: out top the Richardson fireside. Now Milton, they go to
Speaker 1: and beat Joel Dribbles goes in on Tice, puts it
Speaker 1: up good and a foul. Then he lowered the shoulder
Speaker 1: very aggressive and bead was locked in fifteen points in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Tobias Harris gave the seventy Sixers their
Speaker 1: biggest lead of the night early on ball tap, but
Speaker 1: it's picked up by Richardson Milton with Harris, Horford Netto
Speaker 1: and Josh. Here's Tobias all the way to the rack. Anyways,
Speaker 1: it up and good ose you they know the line
Speaker 1: of defense there and the Sixers lead twenty five to eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they started the game ten for twelve. At that point
Speaker 1: they were on a twelve to two run. They led
Speaker 1: thirty three to twenty seven after a quarter of play
Speaker 1: and quarter number two. Boston, however, they answered again. They
Speaker 1: started getting bounds. Kemba Walker began to pick up his
Speaker 1: play and all of a sudden the seventy sixers found
Speaker 1: themselves in a hole after Boston went in a thirteen
Speaker 1: to one run. Joe Ellenbad had a historic for him
Speaker 1: at first half. The Sixers hab it eight to shoot
Speaker 1: forty in the first half. Here's a beat into La
Speaker 1: Naine scoop lamp ribby good slice Street three Celtics off
Speaker 1: a nice pass by Richardson and beat great mobility in
Speaker 1: a right hand layup that made it sixty three to
Speaker 1: fifty five. Boston with lead sixty five fifty seven by
Speaker 1: a similar eight point margin going into the break and
Speaker 1: the second quarter of the Sixers shot just thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent from the field, while Boston outrebounded the Sixers by five.
Speaker 1: Kema had thirteen points and the Celtics shot sixty two
Speaker 1: percent in the second quarter. In the third, the Sixers,
Speaker 1: they were faced pretty much with a crossroads type moment
Speaker 1: after this play by the Boston Celtics. Kick got Richardson,
Speaker 1: which trailing it bead and Walker nikes it away turnover
Speaker 1: on the Sixers. Tatum the Brown two hand red first
Speaker 1: slab timeout Sixers, Shalen Brown whirls and jams a fifteen
Speaker 1: point game. Fifteen points doesn't sound like a lot. It
Speaker 1: felt like a lot after that play. The Sixers were
Speaker 1: down twenty three after the third. They would trail by
Speaker 1: in this game as much as twenty eight points on
Speaker 1: the way to a one twenty eight one O one defeat.
Speaker 1: Sixers ended up shooting forty one percent, Boston fifty one percent.
Speaker 1: Sixers just five for twenty one from outside the arc
Speaker 1: two threes apiece from Josh Richardson and Shake Milton, who
Speaker 1: I thought played really well. Who will Nato with the
Speaker 1: other three pointer? Boston nineteen to forty three from outside
Speaker 1: the arc community She's nineteen three pointers is a ton,
Speaker 1: but they still shot forty four percent. That was lad
Speaker 1: in part mostly by Jason Tatum, who was eight for
Speaker 1: twelve from outside the arc. Boston plus four on the
Speaker 1: glass plus three on the offensive boards outscored the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers fifteen to four on second chance points. Sixers
Speaker 1: did a better job with turn overs, only nine in
Speaker 1: this game, half their total from Monday, but Boston still
Speaker 1: ripped the Sixers apart on the break outscoring them seventeen
Speaker 1: to one. Joel and Beats thirty four points led all scores.
Speaker 1: He also had ten rebounds, eighteen points for Josh richardson
Speaker 1: six of twelve from the field, Shake Milton with fourteen
Speaker 1: five of eight from the floor to Bias Has with
Speaker 1: thirteen on just four to fifteen shooting. He also had
Speaker 1: eleven rebounds and two assists two points for a matise
Speaker 1: Thibel in the game, who did not, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: have quite the effect as he did in Game one.
Speaker 1: He did get the start in place of Al Horford.
Speaker 1: Horford with four points off the bench, five for hu
Speaker 1: will Nato just two for Alec Burks, was one for
Speaker 1: eight from the field, three points four fur con Quark Miles,
Speaker 1: all from the line, and Mike Scott would finish with
Speaker 1: six points in some fourth quarter action, thirty three for
Speaker 1: Tatum twelve of twenty eight to twelve from three five rebounds,
Speaker 1: five assists twenty two points for Kemba Walker eight of
Speaker 1: sixteen overall, he had one porton, three pointer, four rebounds
Speaker 1: and two assists twenty points for jeal And Baarn to
Speaker 1: go along with five rebounds ten points for Ennis Cantner.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, he also had nine boards. I thought
Speaker 1: he was really big for Boston tonight in a reserve role.
Speaker 1: One final time. The final score Boston won twenty eight
Speaker 1: seventy six ers one oh one the Celtics with a
Speaker 1: two nothing lead in this first round series. You've been
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