It's the details. Brown not dribbling clean on the break allows for the chase down. It's simple. Tatum and Brown have the taughtness of a retired madam.
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I want to also say this isn’t Mazzulla’s fault. He was put in an absolutely impossible position. A 34 year old coach with no experience where it’s basically Finals or bust.
This goes back to fuck Udoka with a rusty spike. I will forever watch him and root for him to fall on his fucking face. Fuck him. “They had to make a choice and they chose that”. Fucking piece of shit
And it's not some kind of surprise or disaster that Coach Joe is getting outcoached. It's just too bad. I'm not saying Ime was some kind of savant or way better, but he was clearly more experienced and he would have been building on what he learned, etc. This is just deer in the headlights seeming at times. Which, again, is not that surprising. Just disappointing.
Joel is playing like a man possessed. The extra rest he accrued given the lead has benefitted him greatly
Fucking dunk that shit. You KNOW Embiid is coming up behind you.
The Sixers are the better team.
The Sixers are the better team.
Celtics running uphill the first 3 quarters of the last two games. Never in this one. They can win two in a row, but it's tough to see a way they pull that off.
To be fair, a coach looks a lot better when everyone’s shots are falling and that’s what happening for Doc tonighy
Exactly.
Yes, Udoka’s team did this last year…but thay was his first year. The expectation is that you learn from that.
Now we are back to square one with Mazzulla and it’s the same shit
Narrator: it was too late.
This team can’t keep failing to show up, putting itself in a deep hole, and banking on its ability to come back.
loose handle, couldn't time the jump well because he was stumbling and fumbling
Brick city isn’t going to get it done - no matter anything else. Shooting tonight was among the worst I’ve seen from this team. No path to victory and provided the Sixers a lot of breakouts.
He’s simply not a player you can trust to make the right play in these games. All he has to do there is execute a clean fast break and he can’t do it. Almost dribbled it off his foot.
I just don’t see how coaching changes anything with this game or this team. It’s a good but not perfect team that is extremely streaky. It was that way under Stevens, Ime and now Mazzula. They had a ton of wide open looks tonight.
IMO, the biggest material adverse event was RWill’s injury. Their defense was helped a lot last season when he was mobile defender, and their rebounding was decent with him and Horford on floor. That was their peak. They have not gotten back to that level of performance since then.
IMO, the biggest material adverse event was RWill’s injury. Their defense was helped a lot last season when he was mobile defender, and their rebounding was decent with him and Horford on floor. That was their peak. They have not gotten back to that level of performance since then.
They had the best net rating of any team in the league, finished top 5 in both offense and defense and generally had their best regular season in years?
Philly is shooting almost exactly their season average tonight - a little better from 2, a little worse from 3.
I understand the frustration with Mazzula in other games but this game is absolutely not on the coaching.
Strong likelihood that of the final four teams are
Lakers, Heat, Sixers
Need Denver or the asteroid to step up.
Lakers, Heat, Sixers
Need Denver or the asteroid to step up.
The only one of those that matter to me is Stevens. These are two rookie head coaches in a row. It’s just like a rookie player, you learn and get better as you are on the job.
It’s very clear that this group needs an ass kicker. Mazzulla may be the opposite of that. I bet you in his postgame conference he says this was a great game
