Sixers vs Celtics 3/20 @ 7:00pm EST

[Sixerscan]

If Celtics fans go after Simmons because they feel he's overrated (I can understand them tbh), they should also have the guts to look into the mirror and face the image of Jayson Tatum (although still a very nice player)

Anyone that feels Simmons is overrated has no idea about basketball or simply doesn't watch games, there is just no way you can come to the conclusion he is overrated if you watch him play.

I think there's a difference between overhyped and overrated. I feel Simmons is overhyped by us, just like Tatum is by Boston fans.

Overrated, more difficult to say. Simmons is an Allstar. He deserves that.

Yeah he’s not getting named to an all nba team or anything.

Russell Westbrook, there’s someone that’s overrated.

[thenbaman]

Simmons is an allstar for a reason.

[Stanford]

Read on Twitter

I mean, come on. How many dudes could even pull this off?

[Sixteen]

I can't take Celtics fans serious anymore. Wtf is a bad win? So by that logic, it would have been a good loss.

[Stanford]

She's not completely wrong.

Well, okay, whatever. We do that **** after every loss. If that **** counted, we'd be undefeated this year.

[Wilfried]

I can't take Celtics fans serious anymore. Wtf is a bad win? So by that logic, it would have been a good loss.

It's a very good loss for them because their aim was probably to not have home court advantage from the 2nd round on.

[Stanford]

I can't take Celtics fans serious anymore. Wtf is a bad win? So by that logic, it would have been a good loss.

Reports say they tossed and turned in their beds whispering a haunted "Forty Three" all of last night.

[FireMorey]

I can't take Celtics fans serious anymore. Wtf is a bad win? So by that logic, it would have been a good loss.

They’re afraid of us, as is their team. They know the only way they can “beat” us is with help from the refs. Tonight blatant favoritism for the Celtics plus we were on a back to back, and we won anyway. Last meeting in Philly Embiid gets mauled by Horford at the end of the game, no call. Last year in game 5, Embiid gets the ball under the basket with a second left, gets mauled, no call.

I think they all knew deep down this “ownage” was fluky, and in reality we are the better team and the luck was going to turn and turn hard eventually. The team showed it during the game when Smart lost his cool. Sixers players were calm and composed the whole game. Celtics players were not. As we all know, in life, the insecure, and afraid people are always the ones who lose their cool the easiest. We saw that last night.

[hookshot199]

She's not completely wrong.

Well, okay, whatever. We do that **** after every loss. If that **** counted, we'd be undefeated this year.

I don't want to minimize a win against a good team. But the Celtics "lost" that game more than we "won" it. We are
lucky that we probably won't play them in the first or second rounds because if Smart and Baynes both play they'll
beat us in six, maybe in five.

Her comment about Hayward was silly. He's had four 20-point games this season including one against us in February.
That's out of 60-plus games.

I try to bite my tongue about Brown because he's got some knowledgeable supporters on this forum. But what he did
last night - and this goes beyond his challenges with X's and O's - is a fireable offense. He played Embiid, in just his
fifth game back after missing eight - 41 minutes.

It wasn't that important a game in the big picture.

Shame on him. And coupled with the fact that we weren't close to being prepared to handle Kyrie and Scary.

[cool93]

She's not completely wrong.

Well, okay, whatever. We do that **** after every loss. If that **** counted, we'd be undefeated this year.

I don't want to minimize a win against a good team. But the Celtics "lost" that game more than we "won" it. We are
lucky that we probably won't play them in the first or second rounds because if Smart and Baynes both play they'll
beat us in six, maybe in five.

Her comment about Hayward was silly. He's had four 20-point games this season including one against us in February.
That's out of 60-plus games.

I try to bite my tongue about Brown because he's got some knowledgeable supporters on this forum. But what he did
last night - and this goes beyond his challenges with X's and O's - is a fireable offense. He played Embiid, in just his
fifth game back after missing eight - 41 minutes.

It wasn't that important a game in the big picture.

Shame on him. And coupled with the fact that we weren't close to being prepared to handle Kyrie and Scary.

So if we lost, we could have said, that it's not their win, it's our loss cause we played away game previous night and shot 37% from the field (with ton of missed layups and open 3s).

It's almost impossible to actually win, using this logic.

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[Bum Adebayo]

Well, okay, whatever. We do that **** after every loss. If that **** counted, we'd be undefeated this year.

I don't want to minimize a win against a good team. But the Celtics "lost" that game more than we "won" it. We are
lucky that we probably won't play them in the first or second rounds because if Smart and Baynes both play they'll
beat us in six, maybe in five.

Her comment about Hayward was silly. He's had four 20-point games this season including one against us in February.
That's out of 60-plus games.

I try to bite my tongue about Brown because he's got some knowledgeable supporters on this forum. But what he did
last night - and this goes beyond his challenges with X's and O's - is a fireable offense. He played Embiid, in just his
fifth game back after missing eight - 41 minutes.

It wasn't that important a game in the big picture.

Shame on him. And coupled with the fact that we weren't close to being prepared to handle Kyrie and Scary.

So if we lost, we could have said, that it's not their win, it's our loss cause we played away game previous night and shot 37% from the field (with ton of missed layups and open 3s).

It's almost impossible to actually win, using this logic.

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Many poeple on this forum already do this when we lose against Celtics, pointing to how we are shooting well below our average or how the refs missed key fouls.
There is no such thing as a bad win or a bad loss, just stupid excuses by biased fans. It was a back to back and this matters, so it is a win.

[hookshot199]

Well, okay, whatever. We do that **** after every loss. If that **** counted, we'd be undefeated this year.

I don't want to minimize a win against a good team. But the Celtics "lost" that game more than we "won" it. We are
lucky that we probably won't play them in the first or second rounds because if Smart and Baynes both play they'll
beat us in six, maybe in five.

Her comment about Hayward was silly. He's had four 20-point games this season including one against us in February.
That's out of 60-plus games.

I try to bite my tongue about Brown because he's got some knowledgeable supporters on this forum. But what he did
last night - and this goes beyond his challenges with X's and O's - is a fireable offense. He played Embiid, in just his
fifth game back after missing eight - 41 minutes.

It wasn't that important a game in the big picture.

Shame on him. And coupled with the fact that we weren't close to being prepared to handle Kyrie and Scary.

So if we lost, we could have said, that it's not their win, it's our loss cause we played away game previous night and shot 37% from the field (with ton of missed layups and open 3s).

It's almost impossible to actually win, using this logic.

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No it's not. It was a stupid foul with the clock running - to give Redick, who normally doesn't shoot well
against the Celtics, three foul shots.. And then pushing Embiid in the back was a punk thing. Of course
he should have been tossed and Embiid shouldn't have been t'ed up. Either way, it was another three
points and they lost their best defensive player with more than 20 minutes to play.

Big picture: It wasn't worth risking your franchise player to win a game that almost certainly will have
no material impact on the playoff seedings.

Brett Brown is no better than Tom Thibodeau when he does stuff like this.

[hookshot199]

I don't want to minimize a win against a good team. But the Celtics "lost" that game more than we "won" it. We are
lucky that we probably won't play them in the first or second rounds because if Smart and Baynes both play they'll
beat us in six, maybe in five.

Her comment about Hayward was silly. He's had four 20-point games this season including one against us in February.
That's out of 60-plus games.

I try to bite my tongue about Brown because he's got some knowledgeable supporters on this forum. But what he did
last night - and this goes beyond his challenges with X's and O's - is a fireable offense. He played Embiid, in just his
fifth game back after missing eight - 41 minutes.

It wasn't that important a game in the big picture.

Shame on him. And coupled with the fact that we weren't close to being prepared to handle Kyrie and Scary.

So if we lost, we could have said, that it's not their win, it's our loss cause we played away game previous night and shot 37% from the field (with ton of missed layups and open 3s).

It's almost impossible to actually win, using this logic.

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Many poeple on this forum already do this when we lose against Celtics, pointing to how we are shooting well below our average or how the refs missed key fouls.
There is no such thing as a bad win or a bad loss, just stupid excuses by biased fans. It was a back to back and this matters, so it is a win.

So which are you, Bum? Yes, there is such a thing as a bad win. If your star player goes down
or his tendonitis flares up because you kept him too long in a relatively meaningless game.

[cool93]

Big picture: It wasn't worth risking your franchise player to win a game that almost certainly will have
no material impact on the playoff seedings.

I agree with that. I just think that JoJo has that type of personality that when he truly wants something, he goes 100% and doesn't care about anybody. Yes, even coach. For good or bad.

[Ericb5]

We are a better team than the Celtics on paper, but we were last year during the playoffs too(due to their health) and they still beat us. The teams that I fear in the Eastern conference are Boston, and Toronto, but that is mainly do to the fact that they have beaten us so many times in recent years.

At some point we are going to push through, and hopefully that will be this year.

[kuclas]

It was just better execution down the stretch by sixers. People say it’s mental. It’s not. Being mental means sixers would have given up by 3rd quarter after being down 15 in the 1st half. It means giving up being down 99-90 after being within 4 after the 3rd quarter pain.

Mental is when a team just gives up. The sixers have not given up in any of the last 9-10 games they played Celtics.

[FireMorey]

Mahcus Smaht was fined 50k for pulling a Crosby last night for taking a cheap hide and hiding behind teammates to save your life.

He should donate it to Embiid as a thank you for not killing him.

[Sixerscan]

Mahcus Smaht was fined 50k for pulling a Crosby last night for taking a cheap hide and hiding behind teammates to save your life.

He should donate it to Embiid as a thank you for not killing him.

Hopefully if he tries something like this again in the playoffs, this has set the precedent where he would get suspended.

[nitocobola]

Mahcus Smaht was fined 50k for pulling a Crosby last night for taking a cheap hide and hiding behind teammates to save your life.

He should donate it to Embiid as a thank you for not killing him.

what a clown lmao.

50k lost

[76ciology]

I like a 3 things we did this game.
1.) zone defense and aggressive trapping, when celts hunt on a mismatch.
2.) Ben on Kyrie. This allows Biid to switch and step out
3.) Sixers hunting Kyrie’s defense.