Boston in the 2nd round. How do the 76ers win the series?

[Eyeamok]

Also need to win Schrödinger’s Embiid minutes when he is theoretically both on and off the court

All the minutes belong to the 76ers.....all of them.

[Ferry Avenue]

In this series, Al Horford when matched up with Joel Embiid is holding him to 38 total points on 37 shots and 6 free throw attempts.

Embiid has a 43.2 FG% against Horford, and has a putrid 47.9 TS% when matched up with Horford these playoffs

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Quite the antithesis of how you need your best player to function in the clutch in the playoffs. Basically made a game of it in itself.

[Ferry Avenue]

This entire article focuses on what I've been talking about here lately:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37568897/how-philadelphia-76ers-rebuilt-their-resolve-more-pj-tucker

[spikeslovechild]

Its all about Boston 3PT shooting. If they can keep Boston human then they have a chance in the series and this game

[shlo]

Last two possessions were gross.

[76ciology]

G1: Harden super saiyan
G2: joel warm up
G3: joel warm up
G4: Sixers should had 20pt lead there and not made it close
G5: Sixers had 20pt lead

Sixers always had control

[76ciology]

Sixers has the highest odds to win the title now by Vegas (+290) and 538 (33-36%).

[Magicman125]

G1: Harden super saiyan
G2: joel warm up
G3: joel warm up
G4: Sixers should had 20pt lead there and not made it close
G5: Sixers had 20pt lead

Sixers always had control

I like this hypothesis that G2 and G3 were the Embiid warmup/get his conditioning back games. Game 4 he got more burn than we bargained for with the 4th quarter collapse requiring the OT, but he looked as close to 100% as he has since the injury tonight. Hope that remains the case for Thursday. Spam the Harden/Embiid PnR from 30ft out and trust harden to either spill it out to shooters, make the floater, pull up for a midrange, or find embiid at the nail.

Let's go.

[76ciology]

Nicely said by this guy at Celts board

This is in my mind a lot

This Cs team is built like GSW, a small ball team.

Because of the rule changes since Adam Silver took over, the NBA is back to being a league dominated by big men.

So I don't know if the Cs can win a chip without a quality big man.

Right now, all the Cs can do is shoot 3s and hope JT and JB can make tough shots.

But the game is not really trending toward favoring to a big. Its just trending away from swing man, which greatest trait is man to man defense.

Another thing is, its not Silver. But teams just got used to playing against advanced switching defense. So they structured their roster and scheme around that

Its very hard to defend anyone in man to man nowadays. I read at celts board and they also complain not being able to stop our guys. Same thing here.

And since you’re not decreasing the ppp on defense from that man to man that much, in general, guards would then have more advantage because they’re OP on offense while you can structure swarm or zone defense to scheme out of it and bigs because they can generate higher ppp on 1v1 while generating higher impact on defense than wings.

[76ciology]

Celts 3PT shooting vs ATL

Grant: 83.3%
Brown: 51.5%
White: 45.7%
Hauser: 45.5%
Smart: 38.5%
Horford: 36%
Tatum: 35%
Brogdon: 28%

Celts 3PT shooting vs PHI

Grant: 30%
Brown: 42.9%
White: 33%
Hauser: 20%
Smart: 33%
Horford: 27%
Tatum: 30%
Brogdon: 53%

[76ciology]

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7 minute mark. Embiid talked about how scoring is key for our defense because it prevents celts to play offense with pace

[Philly2good]

I'm so aroused

[76ciology]

Celts say this series could be like Bucks last season where they trailed 2-3 to win it.

It could be.

But looking at how the games went, Mil was leading early on with a 2-1 lead. Then Celts had the extra gear and won the next 2 games. Then Mil eventually collapse at g7.

If you’re gonna compare the flow, we’re more like the Celts on that series. I thought we should have blown them out last game. We already were showing signs of breakout but it was minimized by the refs. Then this game was just a pure breakout.

personally, i think its not comparable and the next 2 games is up in the air.

[76ciology]

Celts say this series could be like Bucks last season where they trailed 2-3 to win it.

It could be.

But looking at how the games went, Mil was leading early on with a 2-1 lead. Then Celts had the extra gear and won the next 2 games. Then Mil eventually collapse at g7.

If you’re gonna compare the flow, we’re more like the Celts on that series. I thought we should have blown them out last game. We already were showing signs of breakout but it was minimized by the refs. Then this game was just a pure breakout.

personally, i think its not comparable and the next 2 games is up in the air.

Another angle

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[76ciology]

Mazzulla also gave a douchebag answer for like the last two games also “arent u going to ask me about adjustments?” “Im the worst coach ever” that just puts a lot of pressure at him

[HardenToSixers]

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7 minute mark. Embiid talked about how scoring is key for our defense because it prevents celts to play offense with pace

more selfless in his answers talking about the team rather than himself. love that.

[76ciology]

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7 minute mark. Embiid talked about how scoring is key for our defense because it prevents celts to play offense with pace

more selfless in his answers talking about the team rather than himself. love that.

Impossible to win a championship being lead by non prime to post prime players who does not have the right balance of me vs we.

I hope Biid has scratched that itch, like how Harden did.

[HardenToSixers]

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7 minute mark. Embiid talked about how scoring is key for our defense because it prevents celts to play offense with pace

more selfless in his answers talking about the team rather than himself. love that.

Impossible to win a championship being lead by non prime to post prime players who does not have the right balance of me vs we.

I hope Biid has scratched that itch, like how Harden did.

true. honestly, at the end of G1, I didn't love Harden's comments about how he liked having all those shots, especially after the poor performance the next two games, but a game like tonight and obviously G4 redeems him. The team seems like it's really starting to gel so let's hope we keep up the positive momentum.

[Jamel_Embiiden]

If we somehow win this series I want Embiid chasing Horford down the tunnel shimmying all the way to the damn locker room

[spikeslovechild]

Nicely said by this guy at Celts board

This is in my mind a lot

This Cs team is built like GSW, a small ball team.

Because of the rule changes since Adam Silver took over, the NBA is back to being a league dominated by big men.

So I don't know if the Cs can win a chip without a quality big man.

Right now, all the Cs can do is shoot 3s and hope JT and JB can make tough shots.

But the game is not really trending toward favoring to a big. Its just trending away from swing man, which greatest trait is man to man defense.

Another thing is, its not Silver. But teams just got used to playing against advanced switching defense. So they structured their roster and scheme around that

Its very hard to defend anyone in man to man nowadays. I read at celts board and they also complain not being able to stop our guys. Same thing here.

And since you’re not decreasing the ppp on defense from that man to man that much, in general, guards would then have more advantage because they’re OP on offense while you can structure swarm or zone defense to scheme out of it and bigs because they can generate higher ppp on 1v1 while generating higher impact on defense than wings.

It's Embiid presence inside and his ability to control the paint on both ends of the court. Horford is still above average. Their wings showed they can score inside at will if given the opportunity in game 1. This series and their shot selection would be completely different if Reed was starting for us.

There seems to sort be this tendency on the part of GB and other teams to not give Embiid credit. Whatever. When he wants to he can have the same impact as Gobert defensively