Dude literally lives to whoop our ass

He has been amazing and the crazy thing is that you can still tell that he is not himself. It’s a good thing that he is so well rounded because that helps hide the fact that he is coming back from such an injury

Looks like he’s been here all season long.

Absolutely insane stuff. I hope this becomes the norm and the achilles isn’t the devastating injury it used to be.

It’s really great to see him play at this level, because it means that the fears of him “not being the same player he once was” will likely end up not being a reality.

It’s crazy how a player coming back from an Achilles injury is still getting the “anybody but him” game plan.

The anamoly

Lead the Celtics in minutes played too.

He’s a marvel

His spacing provides value but man if it’s not working, he’s just a net negative. He is so bad at reading the opponent’s offense.

I need Vucevic to stop playing ball period

It’s just who he is and part of why we sucked

I know Mazzulla likes him for his ability to space the floor. But my god is he bad defensively. The worst Nikola defensively in the sport.

Idk what everyone is talking about I feel like he’s been solid this series and better than Queta

I miss Simons

He missed a free throw so he could get his 3000th playoff point with a dagger 3 and destroy Philly’s hopes and dreams.

He loves 4th quarters in Philly

And he barely looked like he broke a sweat. Mayor of Philly, he’s been here before.

incredible game if you’re a fan of offensive fouls

Yes but the reffing was bad for everyone, especially fans.

He simply can’t be this bad offensively post round one if the Celtics want to have any shot of advancing though. Legitimately dreadful, and most of his shots are wide open threes.

That was a huge offensive rebound it absolved him of a career-defining abysmal night ngl

Also shout out to Bona for getting himself in that Tatum mismatch twice on that possession

He pissed me off for most of the game ngl

I’m hoping the more he plays with Tatum this year, the more in rhythm he becomes on offense

3 crazy blocks and should have had a 4th if that maxey layup wasn’t half an inch over the cylinder

Genuinely awful commentary

No one will ever convince me Eric Collins is not a Celtics hater

Sounded like their first time watching basketball, could not believe what I was hearing

Yeah wtf was that. There was that play with Vuc holding the ball at the top of the 3 point line and dude was like HE HAS TO SHOOT IT there was like 11 seconds left on the shot clock and they were up, made it seem like the play and the Celtics were unraveling lmao

On both ends too. Dude was so hard to listen to.

I love Eric Collins on Hornets games, but I think I’m good with him calling the Celtics lmao

Guy was actually stunned at Drummond hitting a 3 when he’s been hitting them decently all season on low volume. Dude can’t even pretend to care about these teams.

There was so much going on, but please don’t forget that in the first quarter Eric Collins thought that the Statue of Liberty was in Philadelphia

Sixers have been gritty all year. Playoffs are definitely very different from the regular season

I’m bummed, the Celtics played bad enough for the Sixers to steal this one. Drummond’s first stint was a horror show though. I really wanted Embiid to have a cushion to come back without needing to play awesome immediately facing elimination/a 2-game deficit.

Weaknesses are amplified in the playoffs and the Celtics bigs have been vulnerable the past few games

If Embiid didn’t get hurt at the worst possible time I don’t think it would be crazy to say they could’ve gone to the ECF after these first few games

We’re not as good as everyone thought we were unfortunately

Queta’s had a rough go around with foul trouble, which isn’t surprising given these are his first real playoff minutes

The steals, the blocks, the big offensive rebounds are great. But goddammit I need White VJ to hit some shots.

Getting rid of the local playoff teams announcers just to force the Hornets announcers on us. #thisleague

Worst fucking announcer crew I’ve ever had the displeasure of listening to. I usually like him in hornets games, but he was god awful tonight. He didn’t even know what was happening most of the time, made so many mistakes. Other guy sucked too, whoever he is. Prime’s broadcast is absolute dog water

Remember when he said that nothing bad has ever happened to Tatum?

Did you know that tyrese maxey is like Allen Iverson

Yeah that’s the downside of having to rely that fucking much on a rookie

He made some plays but got spooked for some reason for the first time. He’ll overcome and be back making threes Sunday.

The fact that the game suddenly turned into an ISO Duel between PG and Tatum was unexpected.

That was absolutely ridiculous lol couldn’t believe it.

Baylor and Garza too

+18 in 13 minutes this game

There were 4 seconds on the shot clock

unimaginable slander esp with how the announcers were deglazing bona

I know Tatum isn’t quite Curry with the outrageous shots but he has to be top 5 all time with outrageous shots lmaoo

Bro there was like 5 on the clock

Tatum hits that shot against the sixers ¹⁰⁄₁₀ times lmao. He loves to kill us

He took the same shot earlier, either late in the 3rd or early in the 4th and it was so bad. Not as bad as Browns’ turnaround flip shot in the 2nd with 3 defenders around him and double digits left on the shot clock.

We look way more competent than i expected so far in this series. Not deflating at all.

That segment of no baskets when they took the lead was hard

Why would they feel deflated? It was a close game while missing their MVP center and they stole one on the road. With news of Embiid coming back soon, they should be motivated more than anything

Embiid coming back may make it interesting

Dunno why they’d feel deflated, they were right there with the Celtics the whole game until the last ~30 seconds. Plus Boston is looking very rough around the edges with a couple guys in slumps at the worst time.

Still like Boston’s odds, but Sixers aren’t going to be a pushover by any means.

Thats how he talks about literally every team lol

I agree, you’d think they were hitting game 7 winners

3 blocks (should have been 4) absolutely outstanding defense all game. Average Derrick White clunker.

no, it was ASS from beginning to end

You’re going to hate what the Spurs will look like in a few years then.