Celtics (2-3) at 76ers (3-2) Round 2 Game #6 5/11/23

[Neurotic Guy]

Sorry if mentioned before, but any idea what time the game is on Sunday?  Terrible day for a game imo.

[satch]

anyone backing off the notion that joe should have benched tatum is drunk on the emotion of the “win.” if hauser or pp or grant replace jt during the game and hit just a few pedestrian buckets, the c’s win going away and they don’t need his last minute “heroics.”

this was bad coaching and if the sixers don’t completely melt down in epic doc fashion, the c’s lose handily. 

our future super max finally hit a few shots, after disappearing for most of the playoffs, including last year’s finals, and suddenly he’s the man? go sell crazy some place else.

i’m glad the c’s won and everyone can revel in the moment, but this isn’t sustainable, winning basketball.

This is a bad time for an 'I told you so' moment. Perhaps not starting Tatum would have yielded different results, but by the time we knew Tatum was bad (end of the 1st), it was already official. It had happened.

Give the man his dues. He was a punching bag all night and came up big when we needed him the most. That is the definition of a superstar.

Good point-Plus 7-man rotation tonight. Gas?

[jambr380]

Embiid wow


“I don’t think I touched the ball in the last 4 minutes… we stopped moving the ball…. I didn’t touch the ball down the stretch”

Not happy with Harden

Is it me or does he blame his teammates after every loss?

He pretty much ended Simmons' career when he blamed him a couple of years ago for the non-shot.

[Mahk E Mahk]

anyone backing off the notion that joe should have benched tatum is drunk on the emotion of the “win.” if hauser or pp or grant replace jt during the game and hit just a few pedestrian buckets, the c’s win going away and they don’t need his last minute “heroics.”

this was bad coaching and if the sixers don’t completely melt down in epic doc fashion, the c’s lose handily. 

our future super max finally hit a few shots, after disappearing for most of the playoffs, including last year’s finals, and suddenly he’s the man? go sell crazy some place else.

i’m glad the c’s won and everyone can revel in the moment, but this isn’t sustainable, winning basketball.

Yes I’m sure Preston Pritchard or Grant Williams are more meaningfully impactful to winning basketball games than Jayson Tatum.

Players miss shots. It happens.

You are missing the point.

All three of those guys are shooters, though Joe has done everything he can to tear down their confidence.
All three play 10 minutes each, Tatum and Brown get some rest. those three surely hit a few shots between them, plus Grant and Peyton bring energy and effort. Not sure what Mazzulla's problem is with Grant.

A 7 man rotation feels extreme for me from a minutes played perspective, but those guys are nothing more than warm bodies. Our much-vaunted depth is, basically, 1-7. Grant Williams in a pinch is replacement level.

Before tipoff who is predicting Tatum goes 1-13? Who is honestly going to advocate for pulling him for journeymen? He’s not my favourite player or my favourite Celtic but you ride and die with your best players.

“warm bodies” is exactly what tatum has been for most of the playoffs, including the finals last year.

maybe you’ve selectively forgotten grant’s game 7 vs. the bucks. these guys can contribute. again, if pp/grant/hauser play a pedestrian game and score at their typical efficiency, the c’s don’t need 4Q heroics. if they stink up the joint, you put tatum back in in the fourth and see if the benching cleared his head.

philly played horribly all game and were begging to be put away early. tatum single-handedly kept them in the game.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Had to step out for dinner halfway thru the game I guess from the jovial atmosphere we managed to pull it out? yay!! Late TPs for everyone

BACK AT YA 

[Kernewek]

Embiid wow


“I don’t think I touched the ball in the last 4 minutes… we stopped moving the ball…. I didn’t touch the ball down the stretch”

Not happy with Harden

Is it me or does he blame his teammates after every loss?

He pretty much ended Simmons' career when he blamed him a couple of years ago for the non-shot.

In his defence, he was right then and he’s not wrong now. But comparatively quiet game from the MVP down the stretch.

[Vermont Green]

 Tatum had a bad game for 3.5 quarters. But if he isn’t out there, they don’t sag off Smart to double him and Smart wouldn’t have been able to do what he did.

My concern for Sunday is Harden going off one more time. We have contained him the last couple of games. We need to do it one more time.

[satch]

I know I keep saying this but I can't imagine JT will play bad this much. At some point he'll be due for an all-around great game (including 1st half). Hopefully it's Sunday.

It's been said ad nauseam at this point, but it's literally as simple as running some sets early in the game to get Tatum some good looks. It was the obvious thing to do today and we didn't, but hopefully it's so painfully obvious after tonight that Tatum only needs to see one ball go through the net that even Joe can't screw that up on Sunday.

i think Hoford is due.

[tenn_smoothie]

Crazy thing is - this collapse could spell the end for this version of the Sixers. If we win on Sunday, can anyone really imagine Doc or Harden back in Philly, and at that point, is Embiid even willing to stay there?

I think if they lose this series in this fashion, they fire Doc, Harden walks to Houston, and Embiid asks out.

Celts should then package Brown+ for Embiid.
We would never lose.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

Sorry if mentioned before, but any idea what time the game is on Sunday?  Terrible day for a game imo.

HOPE IT IS A NIGHT GAME IF NOT ILL MISS IT I WILL BE AT BALLFIELD FOR A TOURNEY

[Phantom255x]

Sorry if mentioned before, but any idea what time the game is on Sunday?  Terrible day for a game imo.

No idea, because there's 3 potential Game 7s that day depending on how the other Game 6s go (DEN-PHO now, LAL-GSW tomorrow). Miami vs. New York IF they play a Game 7 is Monday.

I hope it's not late night though (8 PM). That'll be such a long wait lol

[cman88]

Gotta say, the Sixers players looked devastated at the end, like they know the series is over.

It's not quite as stunning for them as game 4 was for us, but we basically lost two games just from that one loss because of how shell shocked we were. Let's hope they don't come to play in game 7. What a turn of events that would be.

Sixers have never been here. Celtics have. 4-1 with Tatum/brown in game 7. closing Celtics out in Philly vs a game 7 in Boston is a big difference.

Could still go either way but sixers should be much tighter.

Actually they have been here, plenty of times. They never win though lol

Well that's what I mean lol. That doubt kicks in your mind. There is more pressure on the 76ers than the Celtics.

[celticinorlando]

That was philly’s shot. Celtics won’t lose 3 home playoff games out of 4.

[Boston Garden Leprechaun]

jb COMING UP TO PODIUM

EMBIID JUST LEFT

BIG FAT CRYBABY HE IS WAAAH

[Kernewek]

anyone backing off the notion that joe should have benched tatum is drunk on the emotion of the “win.” if hauser or pp or grant replace jt during the game and hit just a few pedestrian buckets, the c’s win going away and they don’t need his last minute “heroics.”

this was bad coaching and if the sixers don’t completely melt down in epic doc fashion, the c’s lose handily. 

our future super max finally hit a few shots, after disappearing for most of the playoffs, including last year’s finals, and suddenly he’s the man? go sell crazy some place else.

i’m glad the c’s won and everyone can revel in the moment, but this isn’t sustainable, winning basketball.

Yes I’m sure Preston Pritchard or Grant Williams are more meaningfully impactful to winning basketball games than Jayson Tatum.

Players miss shots. It happens.

You are missing the point.

All three of those guys are shooters, though Joe has done everything he can to tear down their confidence.
All three play 10 minutes each, Tatum and Brown get some rest. those three surely hit a few shots between them, plus Grant and Peyton bring energy and effort. Not sure what Mazzulla's problem is with Grant.

A 7 man rotation feels extreme for me from a minutes played perspective, but those guys are nothing more than warm bodies. Our much-vaunted depth is, basically, 1-7. Grant Williams in a pinch is replacement level.

Before tipoff who is predicting Tatum goes 1-13? Who is honestly going to advocate for pulling him for journeymen? He’s not my favourite player or my favourite Celtic but you ride and die with your best players.

“warm bodies” is exactly what tatum has been for most of the playoffs, including the finals last year.

maybe you’ve selectively forgotten grant’s game 7 vs. the bucks. these guys can contribute. again, if pp/grant/hauser play a pedestrian game and score at their typical efficiency, the c’s don’t need 4Q heroics. if they stink up the joint, you put tatum back in in the fourth and see if the benching cleared his head.

philly played horribly all game and were begging to be put away early. tatum single-handedly kept them in the game.

It’s nearly four AM here, so forgive me for being brief, but while you’re not wrong in broad stokes the kind of warm body that Tatum provides has a significantly higher floor than Grant/Hauser/PP. one particulaely memorable game from grant last season or three awful shooting quarters from Tatum doesn’t change that.

Like I said, a 7 man rotation feels extreme for me. But I’m not a coach. I’ll let them do the coaching and focus on the cheering.