4/4@Philadelphia: Sweep the Six!
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Couldn’t agree with this more. It doesn’t give anyone any more confidence in the calls and it destroys the flow of the game.
Lousy play. It’s an immediate reaction and probably overdone but the coach is a real concern for me
The answer is just that Smart is going to have to play better. Even though we got Brogdon specifically to help stop the offense from turning to shit, it’s going to be Marcus out there, probably instead of Brogdon AND White if everyone is healthy. Just have to hope he plays better.
Very fun game to watch. Cs never conceded, even if they made some poor decisions along the way.
Was there not a better option than the quick 180 degree rotation for a long 2 from the side? That seemed forced.
They were shading to help but I think Tatum needs to be able to beat him 1 on 1 more frequently than he did even if Harris is a good defender. It is huge for the Sixers if Harris can cover Tatum and hold him to a pedestrian performance.
Of all the sports, basketball is easily the least conducive to and most harmed by replay. It has never been good and will probably never be good. It’s not tennis, it’ll never be perfect with or without replay so you might as well not make it worse and slow the game down at the same time.
Things were much better when calls were made simply based on who had inside position and that sort of thing.
Even then…we want OT now in the season? Jack up a 3, who cares. Get this short lineup some rest.
I don't think the officials were about to give the C's two straight calls like that, unfortunately.
Right. Tatum was drawing other D out wide for Marcus trailing underneath. But ?Maxey tripped him with no call and went to option 2 in tatum.
Overall agree a 3 pointer woulda been smarter in the long run
Yeah, I'd rather a couple of guys curling to the 3-point line for a catch and shoot than whatever that was.
Sixers did a great job taking Tatum away tonight but of course that’s much easier to do without Jaylen Brown. They aren’t beating us in a 7 game series if we’re healthy. And I don’t think it’s particularly close.
Yup. If smart doesn’t get tangled up he’s wide open under the basket with Tatum sealing two guys essentially. It looked like it was going to work until Smart fell
Perfectly designed play except for that part and hard to get a whistle there.
Yeah. That makes more sense. I think I would have preferred something from 3. No need to play for OT. Get the win or not and call it a night. Crazy they were even in that position.
Meh. 5 minutes isn’t going to kill them. They’ll have a week off before the playoffs begin and everyone has been getting plenty of management throughout the year. A tough OT grind it out win without Jaylen and TL would have been a nice F-U to Joel and the Sixers before a playoff series.
Smart doing smart things, White hitting 3 and Grant finally getting a call on Embiid.
This really was one of the coolest basketball plays we've seen all season:
View: https://twitter.com/taylorcsnow/status/1643438138268819461?s=20
View: https://twitter.com/taylorcsnow/status/1643438138268819461?s=20
Would basically take 4 performances at least as good as tonight from Embiid to have a chance and even then the C’s still have the advantage.
I also suspect the refs feel much less pressure to get it right the first time around given they know it can be “cleaned up” on replay. Same in NFL.
Why? Smart to me at this point isn’t as good as the other two.. and both of them are competent three point shooters..
If Marcus continues to play defense like he has been then there’s just no advantage to having him on the floor imo.
Smart made key plays down the stretch on both ends tonight. He’s been making “game winning plays” in these spots like tonight for years. He’s never not going to be on the floor at the end of games as he can also matchup defensively against a variety of players and is among our best rotational defenders. The position that will be matchup dependent, as it’s been all year, is Brogdon or White in the backcourt with him.
People hate on the guy - his offensive game is undeniably flawed - but he makes plays like this on the regular and singlehandedly gets stops on D. You want that on the floor in crunch time.
Joe finally got the Derrick White memo (40 mins).
Took 75 games, but we have that going for us.
Took 75 games, but we have that going for us.