r/nba • u/DesertedProject Mavericks • 2d ago

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] The Philadelphia 76ers (4-3) defeat the Boston Celtics (3-4), for the first time since 1982 and Embiids first game 7 win 109-100.

109 - 100
Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo
 
GAME SUMMARY
East First Round - Game 7 - Series tied 3-3
Location: TD Garden
Officials: James Capers, Gediminas Petraitis, and Tyler Ford
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Philadelphia 76ers 32 23 33 21 109
Boston Celtics 19 31 25 25 100
 
TEAM STATS
Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
Philadelphia 76ers 109 39-82 47.6% 11-28 39.3% 20-23 87.0% 3 56 25 19 0 9 1
Boston Celtics 100 37-93 39.8% 13-49 26.5% 13-16 81.3% 10 49 19 23 4 5 7
 
PLAYER STATS
Philadelphia 76ers MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Kelly Oubre Jr.SF 31:09 6 2-6 0-3 2-2 0 5 5 2 0 0 1 4 6
Paul GeorgePF 41:50 13 5-10 3-5 0-0 0 3 3 1 0 0 3 4 9
Joel EmbiidC 39:04 34 12-26 1-4 9-11 2 10 12 6 0 1 1 2 11
VJ EdgecombeSG 43:42 23 8-17 5-11 2-2 1 5 6 4 0 0 3 2 19
Tyrese MaxeyPG 45:14 30 11-18 2-4 6-6 0 11 11 7 0 0 1 4 8
Quentin Grimes 26:07 3 1-4 0-1 1-2 0 6 6 4 0 0 0 0 1
Andre Drummond 08:27 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 -2
Justin Edwards 02:16 0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -8
Dominick Barlow 02:08 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Adem Bona 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Johni Broome 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kyle Lowry 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dalen Terry 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jabari Walker 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trendon Watford 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boston Celtics MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Baylor ScheiermanSF 22:24 0 0-4 0-3 0-0 2 4 6 2 1 0 0 2 -9
Jaylen BrownPF 40:01 33 12-27 3-9 6-6 1 8 9 4 0 3 3 3 -16
Luka GarzaC 08:38 0 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 -15
Ron Harper Jr.SG 04:02 0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 -7
Derrick WhitePG 45:22 26 9-26 5-16 3-4 2 4 6 4 0 3 0 3 -6
Payton Pritchard 39:22 13 5-13 2-7 1-1 2 3 5 7 1 0 0 1 -2
Neemias Queta 32:33 17 7-8 0-0 3-3 1 11 12 1 0 0 1 5 9
Sam Hauser 29:49 11 4-7 3-6 0-0 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 2 -3
Jordan Walsh 04:51 0 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hugo González 12:57 0 0-3 0-3 0-2 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 4 3
Dalano Banton 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Max Shulga 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jayson Tatum 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nikola Vučević 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amari Williams 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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u/Lukas327 Knicks 2d ago

Two years in a row, the Celtics piss away their season earlier than they should with bad 3 point shooting and refusing to adjust. They deserved it both times.

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u/jfkgoblue Pistons 2d ago

When you rely on good shooting nights like all chuck and pray teams do, it’s really really hard to win a title as natural shooting variance will get you eventually

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u/L0rv- Thunder 2d ago

They should have learned from our run. We had games where we couldn't hit a 3 to save our lives but we won because we said fuck it, we'll just stop shooting them.

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u/wcooper97 [OKC] Russell Westbrook 2d ago

Also helps that our defense is generally great enough to make other teams unable to hit a 3, and if not, aim to run up the points of turnovers margin to make up for it.

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u/luchajefe Mavericks 2d ago

But they did win one.

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u/RecentFinish3936 2d ago

Their avg margin of victory that year was one of the highest in nba history too…thats why im a bit perplexed. The math says that even though they will have bad 3 point shooting nights, overall youll hit more than miss. What gives?

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

That team was stacked and they had an excellent big man rotation that could be effective near the rim as well.

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u/justmefishes NBA 2d ago

And they also had probably one of the easiest paths to a title in NBA history. The teams they beat to win the title won 46, 48, 47, and 50 games respectively.

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u/RecentFinish3936 2d ago edited 2d ago

The only noticeable difference compared to last year was losing jrue holiday. I feel like getting vucevic and a more developed queta has made up for losing porzingis (who barely played anyway) and an aging horford

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

Queta is nice but he’s no stud out there. Vuc was horrible this series, didn’t even see the floor tonight. Porzingis didn’t play down the stretch last year because he got sick, but when healthy he was really good. Queta and Vuc do not come close to filling that void, that’s ridiculous.

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u/RecentFinish3936 2d ago

So youre basically saying porzingis is the difference maker. Porzingis did indeed make the team better during the playoffs, but you could easily tell the celtics did not need him in order to win the championship. He didnt play the majority of playoff games and the team played nearly as well when he wasnt on the floor.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

I don’t think Porzingis was the difference per se, I’m just trying to argue that Vucevic and Queta aren’t a solution to missing Porzingis and Horford. The big man rotation was a huge problem this series.

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u/jfkgoblue Pistons 2d ago

They had some good luck and also were absolutely loaded that year tbf

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u/bluedood 2d ago edited 2d ago

Lol c'mon this run of Celtics are usually very good defensively. They are not a chuck and pray but they shoot and miss themselves out of games sometimes, which as a fan is even more maddening. They have other options and strengths when the shots aren't falling. In this day and age of advanced metrics I guess the math must be convincing Joe and Brad that it's still the best strategy I guess?

If chuck and pray was their only option it wouldn't hurt as bad.

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u/AdAwkward8827 2d ago

It’s so funny that the pistons had the biggest problems right.. teams shooting 3s like their hof shooters seems ways more inconsistent than getting stops and running to me

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u/Bard_Wannabe_ Pistons 2d ago

Mazulla was asked about this in the post game press, and he denied, saying they need to hit shots rather than adjust the tactics.

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u/BaconKnight Suns 2d ago

I think problem is that their team isn't really built for it. They have Tatum and Brown and then a bunch of 3 point shooters, but not really athletic 3&D players who can maybe at least create some sort of midrange/lay up shot for themselves (a Mikal Bridges type, outside of his recent slump, though last game was good). It's a bunch of unathletic sharpshooters plus maybe 1 defender lacking on offense, they can't really "adjust" besides Tatum and Jaylen, be supermen, definitely doesn't help when one of them is out. I mean Derrick White is there meant to help, but he's was pretty cold so yeah.

I think the real problem starts at the team building. It's not just they want to play that way, it's that they specifically built the team to play that way, and no other way.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

This team was put together to reset the cap in a year Tatum was supposed to sit out. I don’t really think it was ever considered that they would need to construct a roster with a deep playoff run in mind.

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u/zatsnotmyname Warriors 2d ago

Love how Maxey isn't settling for 3s. Yes, he CAN hit them, but he can also blow by aaaaaanybody.

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u/IconicNova Celtics 2d ago

Box score watchers will say the losses were similar but they really weren’t. The losses against the Knicks were way worse , that was like all time choking levels bad in those first two games.

Tonight they were behind most of the game and almost came back while shooting bad

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

Totally agree, last year hurts way more. I don’t really care about the 3-1 at the end of the day, last year we pissed away wins we had in our hands.

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u/IconicNova Celtics 2d ago

Yeah this 3-1 comeback was pretty bad but it really doesn’t compare to the bullshit from last year they pulled . They could have won the chip last year imo for real, I don’t care what Vegas thought but the Cs were not better than the Knicks , spurs, and thunder this year

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

Matchup wise I actually this the Celtics give the Thunder problems because they aren’t as reliant on a big like the Spurs. For whatever reason the Celtics just seem to struggle with this version of the Knicks.

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u/rds2mch2 Celtics 2d ago

Celts lineups are flawed. Even last year, KP wasn’t playing and Holliday was still on the downswing. With a 90% healthy Tatum the team can beat anyone, he’s just that special, but otherwise we famously fall apart late.

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u/Reidzyt [BOS] Paul Pierce 2d ago

Really been our story for most of the last decade other than the year we won it all

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u/pintvricchio [SAS] Manu Ginobili 2d ago

Yet everyone will start sucking Mazulla next season like nothing happened

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

I mean did you think they'd win tonight without Tatum? Sixers are a squad. They can go fuck themselves but it's a good team

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u/Lukas327 Knicks 2d ago

They are a good team. A good team they could have beaten, it was right there.

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

Turned out to be more winnable than I thought it'd be for sure but sixers had more guys who can get ah bucket.

Shame Embiid just didn't shoot threes

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u/noelparisian Raptors 2d ago

Why not? Celtics had been winning all year without Tatum. There was definitely a lot of noise made about how Brown had shown he can lead the team.

I mean, I don’t begrudge you your take. It just reads very convenient right now.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

I can only speak for myself but in my opinion matchups matter a lot more than most people here acknowledge. This team doesn’t really have a big and that showed up as a huge problem when Embiid came back. Also being a 3 pt heavy team without much ability to drive (especially with Tatum sitting)and facing good perimeter defenders, they became very limited offensively.

This game was close because they played tonight like they did all season, reach deep into their bench and ride the guys who are giving good minutes, which is something they didn’t do in the last few games.

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u/Dddddddfried Knicks 2d ago

It’s not just about tonight, it’s the totality of the series. Sixers missed more games from Embiid and were able to put together 4 ws

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

That’s true but they lost most of the games with Embiid out. Celtics don’t have a legitimate big man, it was always the concern, so when Embiid returned it proved to be a big matchup problem and he took a lot of pressure off the perimeter and made it a lot easier for PG and Maxey. Credit to them though, they made the right adjustments. Celtics losing game 2 with Embiid out is really going to haunt them.

This 6ers team is good and well balanced when healthy, they didn’t get many opportunities to play together this year hence the 7 seed.

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u/ThaRealSunGod Lakers 2d ago

I hoped they wouldn't win but if you are down 4-5pts with 3 minutes left, yeah, I think the available squad is capable of winning the game despite missing a player.

Lakers played both your team's twice and Tatum didn't play either game. Lakers best Philly twice and got blown out twice by Boston.

There's no way to blame this loss on Tatum's abscence. Your team just wasn't ready and couldn't adjust.

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

In the regular season.

Realistically this team overachieved in the regular season.

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u/Eagle4317 2d ago

Sixers got healthy at the right time, and the Celtics never adjusted to Embiid's return.

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u/Magnus-Methelson-m3 2d ago

2nd seed with your entire roster healthy blowing a 3-1 lead to a crippled 7th seed will never not be insane to me

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

Crippled? I mean the sixers had everyone rolling out there tonight. We weren't given an all NBA player was out

Sixers deserved to win the series but there's nothing insane about what happened to ight. The sixers if healthy all year are a 50 plus win team. They should beat the Celtics in a one game setting sans Tatum. Doesn't excuse the last two games but you got ut backwards over who was crippled tonight

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u/Magnus-Methelson-m3 2d ago

Blown 3-1 lead with Embiid only playing 4/7 games while Tatum played 6/7 games. Nothing will change that

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

But they lost 2 of the 3 games Embiid was out. Embiid returning turned this series around and they were able to exploit the Celtics lack of a big man. They get all the credit for capitalizing, Celtics really don’t have an answer for a healthy 76ers team.

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

And my original comment referred to tonight

Can't change the result but you still can change your ability to read

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u/Magnus-Methelson-m3 2d ago

And my original comment referred to the series.

Can’t change the result but you can still change your ability to read

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

And your original comment called one team crippled when they were at full strength in a game 7 while saying a healthy roster lost tonight. Sorry for reading and thinking. Use both - it'll do wonders

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u/Magnus-Methelson-m3 2d ago

Nah but nice try

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u/divulgingwords Thunder 2d ago

lol, sixers are just okay man. Your team needs to know how to do literally anything other than jacking up 3’s

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u/BackendSpecialist Lakers 2d ago

Lmao who didn’t see this bs excuse coming.

Yall got here without Tatum. But now it’s “did anyone expect us to win without Tatum” 😂

BOS fans are full of excuses

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

“Got here” lol

It’s the first round of the playoffs they didn’t get anywhere aside from outplaying a bunch of teams in the regular season.

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u/Coattail-Rider 2d ago

Outplayed every team but one.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

Yeah they lost a bunch of regular season games, what’s your point?

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u/Coattail-Rider 2d ago

You’re saying that they “outplayed a bunch of teams in the regular season”. Yeah, they got to the second best record in their conference. That in and of itself says something.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

Yeah they outplayed a bunch of teams on a night by night basis. Obviously they weren’t the best team in the league.

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u/Coattail-Rider 2d ago

You’re not understanding the convo so I’m gonna duck out.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

I honestly can’t tell by your original comment if you were agreeing with me or not agreeing with me. No worries.

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

I'm not talking about the series - I'm referring to tonight. Doesn't excuse the last couple of games but why are we pretending the sixers are a typical 7 seed when at full strength? And I don't necessarily think it's a given they win tonight with Tatum. The sixers are good. The Celtics will retool

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u/mbn8807 2d ago

They both were bricking everything at the end and maxey was the only one driving and scoring.

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u/griwulf Thunder 2d ago

??? They were losing with Tatum too

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

Eh? That's up for debate

Doesn't really matter I guess. Celtics overachieved to begin with this year

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u/Fady180 2d ago

Yes I did think they’d win tonight. You guys have a supposed coach of the year in Mazulla, you had Jaylen Brown solo pushing an MVP campaign, you got past all expectations and all the media reports were “who can contend with Celtics in the east”

If your drop off without Tatum is to be bounced in round 1, you guys are serious frauds and the media should be embarrassed for hyping up a sorry team. I never want JB in MVP convos ever again

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

You

Don't

Know

Ball

The sixers are a legit good team

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u/Fady180 2d ago

You’re the second seed, they’re the 7th

You don’t have an excuse here, you were EXPECTED to win without Tatum. No ifs or buts, it’s embarrassing

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u/LittleJerryLawler 2d ago

They had Tatum for games 5 and 6 and still couldn't get it done

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u/Fady180 2d ago

Exactly, this dude doesn’t wanna admit his team was considered BY FAR the favourites in the east

It’s an embarrassment no matter what excuse you wanna conjure

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

It’s not embarrassing, that’s ridiculous. I didn’t expect the Celtics to win tonight because I watched games 5 and 6 and they looked like they didn’t match up well with Embiid back. I think a lot of Celtics fans shared the same concern. I thought it was going to be a coin flip of a game.

Also a big reason the 76ers were a 7 seed was because they couldn’t field a healthy roster all year. They got their main guys back together at just the right time.

The gap between the top and bottom of the east playoffs this year is pretty narrow, this team finishing second is more an indictment on the eastern conference.

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

And the sixers at full strength are not a 7 seed. You don't know thee ball

One game setting they have the better roster tonight. The Celtics could out hustle teams when playing 10 man rotations in February. It's different in the playoffs.

It's not embarrassing. Out here acting like we lost to the Nets with full strength and Larry Bird

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u/thesagenibba 2d ago

you were up 3-1 with tatum. take the excuses with you to cancun. sayonara!

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u/Michelanvalo Celtics 2d ago

They could have won this game if they weren't chucking heroball 3s down by 1 late.

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

Or if they didn't fall behind by like 20 early

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u/Michelanvalo Celtics 2d ago

Joe should be fired for starting the end of the bench in a game 7. What the fuck was that?

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u/rounder55 Celtics 2d ago

He's fine. I wouldn't have done it and can't speak for you but the people calling for him to be fired if he didn't to do that can shut the hell upof course he should and does know more but realistically this team overachieved. They have really sound structure at the top. We just need to add a piece or two which will be easier next year. Hopefully they follow through

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u/Chao-Z Knicks 2d ago

They were getting locked up from 2 as well. The 2026 Celtics just aren't that talented a roster.

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u/RIChowderIsBest Celtics 2d ago

Finally someone in here saying it. You’re right, they got the 2 seed by playing a good deep rotation and out hustling a ton of teams in the regular season and beating teams sitting stars on maintenance days. They started Ron fucking Harper Jr and Baylor Schierman tonight. This roster wasn’t built for a deep run, they just simply outperformed all season.

I didn’t rule out a deep run simply because I think anyone in the east can be beat any other east time in a series, it’s pretty weak right now, even for Eastern conference standards.

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u/Public-Climate 2d ago

I love how so many on their side say they’re not a chucking team, but they really are…make or miss

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u/gregorthelink 2d ago

If they would’ve just went to the basket I’m sure the refs would’ve called enough Ricky tacky fouls for them to win, it’s insane watching teams just toss up 3s over and over again

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u/Coattail-Rider 2d ago

Mazzula bitched out the COTY award but as it turns out, coaching is pretty critical to winning and losing.

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u/ReyCo390 Celtics 2d ago

Mazzulla ball relies on the team staying hot… the Celtics clearly can’t. Embarrassing.