That’s because Joe decided to play drop coverage and leave everyone wide open. And then didnt adjust.

Maybe. But we also saw Miami Heat somehow keep up the hot shooting an entire series and upset us.

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This is almost identical to what happened in 2024 against the heat in the first 2 games. I’m chillin 😎

we’ve literally seen this same story for the last 3 years of the playoffs. we blew the first 2 games against the knicks last year with a 20 point lead because he refused to make adjustments

Called it yesterday. Happens every playoffs. At least one game the other teams just hittin 3s for no reason outta character.

Your model is flawed. Celtics shooting badly was definitely just noise. But philly shooting well wasn’t “luck”, it was us playing bad perimeter defense. Ie. We can’t play the same way in game 3 and expect a different outcome

Yes but… they don’t need to shoot threes when they aren’t hitting open threes.

heard that before

¹³⁄₅₀ from 3 is not bad luck.

the another problem is their defense. pp is having a cold night and he is still playing, the guy cant even defend and rebound. they are playing 4v5 because of him. did joe forget that he can play hugo or garza too? the guy didn’t even try to find a solution.

JT and JB have gone down 3-2 to prime embiid, jimmy buckets, and prime giannis. This is a chamionship contender, nothing but a flesh wound

The problem is that about halfway through the 4th they stopped running any offense at all and just started chucking contested 3s (looking at white and Tatum).

Yeah we’ll be okay against Philadelphia, but that’s not the goal and these kind of shooting games aren’t necessarily rare

Derrick White missed so many tonight it was genuinely disturbing

Celtics took 50 3’s.

When you have every single player drop into the paint and overhelp and have some of the slowest rotations you will ever see AND dogshit screen navigation, youre gonna let up a high 3p%. Just an all out failure on the perimeter in this game.

It’s not just numbers and shots. It’s how you choose to defend. We had a shitty defensive game imo. That can’t happen again.

Or maybe just switch up the game plan when 3s ain’t working. We’ve seen this movie before

6ers shot almost 15 more 3s this game than last and they were mostly open. We fed them those shots, it wasn’t luck

not worried on offense, just bad shooting. but defensively awful drop coverage all night, can we let maxey get switched onto queta once or twice? its not the total end of the world. or do something to take away easy pull up and kickouts. very bad coaching by joe today.

We’ve seen too many a season end where we assume we can’t find new ways to lose. I have faith they can win, but won’t be surprised by anything

Sucksers shot 49% on 3’s, The league average on open 3’s is around 40%, so even if we left them open all the time they wouldn’t normally hit that many.

Scheierman 11 mins btw. This team does not need to tighten the rotation like this, its strength is in its depth that way everyone can play hard af. Also, drop isn’t going to work if it’s made this obvious.

Bro take Derrick White to a space museum so he can learn about aerodynamics and maybe his shot will improve. He’s insulted physics and now physics is having revenge on his jumpshot.

cant believe this is still an issue

3 points made doesn’t entirely depend on skill, defense is also a huge factor. If the opposing team defends you tightly on the 3pt line and our team sags off on that on the defensive end, who has a higher chance of making the shot?

I can’t even imagine if Reddit was a thing during the 08 run. Those post game threads, especially during the hawks series would be insanity lol

Could have used a guy like Simons tonight.

NBA is fixed and we should all stop caring about their wrestling style soap opera agenda

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