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NBA Playoffs 2023

why do you like the celtics?

  • sixers

    Votes: 16 20.3%

  • celtics

    Votes: 65 82.3%
  • Total voters
    79
I wonder if Rivers benches Harden. Harden had a good game 1, but he is a total liability right now.
 
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Hmm aging star looks ageless on 9 days rest and then awful in the following quick turnaround. Slightly different but same ish with CP3. You know he is going to break down around 2. We are at the point where the 76ers would be better off sitting Harden every other game, as absurd as that is.
 
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runner11 said:
Hmm aging star looks ageless on 9 days rest and then awful in the following quick turnaround. Slightly different but same ish with CP3. You know he is going to break down around 2. We are at the point where the 76ers would be better off sitting Harden every other game, as absurd as that is.
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I mean, he won game 1 himself pretty much.
 
superjohn said:
Yes and singlehandedly lost them the next 2.
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Not really. Maxey shot 25% last night, and wasn’t good the prior game. The Celtics are just the better team and a tough matchup for Philly. Boston won 3 of 4 in the regular season and the loss was by 2, without Brown or Williams.
 
Celtics absolutely hunted Embiid to open the third:



Raptors did the same to him last year, so I don't think we can say it's injury related:

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Celtics are generating a ton of wide open catch-and-shoot threes whenever Embiid is out there. His defensive rating over these two games is about 125, and his off-ball rim protection is not making up for his inability to contain guys on switches or get out to the three-point line when Al or Grant are out there.

Great regular-season player, but he's building a list of postseason failures that could match Harden's. The narrative next year will be ugly (deservedly so) if they win Game 1 without him then get beat in 5 or 6 once he returns.
 
Eight-point game, 5 minutes to go, and the Celtics leave Smart in 1v1 coverage vs. Embiid. He gets the stop:



Zero other PGs in the league can body him up right here.

Also, that's another great thread on the Celtics' adjustments. Mazzulla -- who I haven't rated -- has done very well the past two games.
 
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Lakers such a different team with a healthy Anthony Davis their not even a play in team without him as last year was proof of that and replacing Westbrook with Derozan.
 
Scoe said:
Lakers such a different team with a healthy Anthony Davis their not even a play in team without him as last year was proof of that and replacing Westbrook with Derozan.
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Well, yeah. A potentially top 7 player in the league changes things. Also, other than LeBron, the roster is full of complimentary pieces. Outside of AD of course.
 
Inyatkin said:
Missing the point. He made dumb mistakes, sure, but he wasn't magically smarter two years ago. You have guys who coach for decades, with star players, who never win a title, but this guy did it.
I think there are outliers who get every ounce of winning out of a team, but probably only for the short term. In general, at this level, most coaches are pretty interchangeable.
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Ok agree. So if they are interchangeable and it’s around time for a change in voice plus he made some mistake then it’s time for a change.

This particular guy is above average regular season and system coach, but below average in playoffs. Whether we agree or not, he was fired for that reason.
 
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I hate when a jump shooter like Tatum tries to win a game with anything but a jump shot.
 
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superjohn said:
Just turned it on, 76ers got jobbed on their homecourt. Glad they won.

Tatum lolz.
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You missed a lot if you are basing it on that play. Philly had a very friendly whistle most of the game. And Harden commits about a dozen offensive fouls every game and never gets called. Never seen anybody get away with the push offs he does.
 
Philadelphia got "jobbed." This place is awesome.

Boston is so much better than Philadelphia but they have been absolutely terrible in key moments and we have a 2-2 series. Mazzulla has been . . . not great in end of game situations. Nothing like putting up the game winning three with 0.00 on the clock.
 
HuskyHawk said:
You missed a lot if you are basing it on that play. Philly had a very friendly whistle most of the game. And Harden commits about a dozen offensive fouls every game and never gets called. Never seen anybody get away with the push offs he does.
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I missed the entire game until the last 2 or 3 minutes of OT.

I used to like the Celtics but I really don't like this group. Smart and Grant Williams spend half the game on their backs for years now and always seem to get rewarded for it. Media has been hyping Tatum as the man for a while and he really never wants the moment. They certainly have the talent to win it all and probably should win it all but I don't like watching them. I don't like watching Philly either.
 
Tatum should have taken a mid range jumper or at least put something up in traffic and hoped for a foul. He made his move late enough in the clock to know better than to do what he did. I expected the buzzer to go off right as he passed the ball to Smart. He’s gotta want the shot.
 
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