I’m not but don’t love the lack of urgency

I am not worried about the series but it did feel like a big part of why Philly shot lights out was because of their ability to dissect our defense. Wasn’t purely hero chucking. We go to game 3 tho hard to sweep anyone Cs in 5.

They shot an unbelievable amount of wide open threes and never saw an adjustment. Pretty disappointing from a coaching perspective you can go nuclear when it’s wide open. Maxey is probably 50-60% on wide open threes in practice which this was basically shooting practice for him and vj

It’s convenient you’re comparing it to Miami game too in 2024 and not in 2023 or the Knicks game 2 in 2025. This team has lost when heavily favored

I wish people would stop acting like it’s a total fait accompli

Yeah Miami was wild that game, sometimes other teams just get hot and there’s not much you can do about it

It isn’t even just that they went nuclear. Joe kept running drop. Our pick and roll defense is bad. If we keep leaving them open, they will make shots. It is not some random coincidence that giving them looks will result in them shooting well and getting into a rhythm. They also played really physical and tough on our guys. They came to play. It isn’t a random variance game but an actual representation of our decisions and how good they are. This is going to be a long series

I am worried about game 3 because Embiid may be back in Philly territory. And 3 of the next 5 games would be in Philly. Our players just are not as skilled frankly. We have the better coaching for sure but if the Sixers keep playing like that, it’s going to be a tough series.

I am.

We aren’t the best team in the league anymore, and if we are, it’s by a very small margin

Well none of us expected a sweep…but I’m guessing we expected to play better in our loss.

I guess the silver lining is that we shot 25% from 3, they shot 50%, they won by 14, we got to 2 multiple times but couldn’t put together enough stops to take the lead. Though in honestly 14 point loss feels like an appropriate score, we were really that much worse than them tonight.

All that said, I’m expecting a much better performance on Friday…I think the 30 point thrashing and 16-0 run created complacency with them and they stopped being the harder- and smarter-playing team. They let the Sixers take too many open 3s and they cashed in tonight. But I think our perimeter defense will be much tighter next game and I don’t think they will shoot 50% from 3 again. Even if they shoot 35% and we shoot 25% again I think we will have enough to win.

Vucevic is a liability defensively though…they’re forced to play deep drop coverage with him and VJ was getting a lot of open midrange shots off screens as a result.

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This ^^^ I hope Maxey’s taunt at the end motivates them to go all out game 3 & 4. Easy to talk shit when you’re up 16 points.

yep

This team should never be compared to 2024. That team had tons of heart. This one does not. Perfect example is Vuc: poor effort, bad shooting, bad defense. That was basically the whole team tonight

The Celtics routinely put up stinkers at home in the playoffs. No idea why.

they had one rly good stretch where it looked like they were gonna come back and then they let Edgecombe have a wide open 3 and then went back to shit.

Yep, was hoping this postseason would be different. Wonder why they are better on the road and mediocre at home. Been this way for far too long. 2018 they won every home playoff game until game 7 of conference finals despite not having a massive talent advantage over the competition and really haven’t been good in the postseason at home since.

I mean frankly they have a problem playing down to competition in the regular season and in the playoffs. Like they played down to Miami in 2023 and they played down to the Knicks in 2025. They were heavily favored in both of those series and in both series they lost the first three games.

You know they say that all teams are created equal, but you look at the Celtics and you look at the Sixers and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another team, you got a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance of winning. But the Celtics are a genetic freak of a team and they’re not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beating them. Then you add Joe Mazzula to the mix, your chances of winning drastically go down. See the 7 game series in the playoffs, you got a 33 ¹⁄₃ chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and ²⁄₃ chance of winning, because Nick Nurse KNOWS he can’t beat the Celtics and he’s not even gonna try! So Sixers, you take your 33 ¹⁄₃ chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 ¹⁄₃ chance of winning in the playoffs. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 ²⁄₃ percent, I got 141 ²⁄₃ chance of winning the series. See Philly, the numbers don’t lie, and they spell disaster for you in the playoffs.

Don’t say that on here, they think Mazzulla is Red Auerbach 

Hmmm, one of those years something happened…. Trying to remember…..