Needed some time to recover before looking at the box score and oh man does it sting.
-Philly turned it over 9 times compared to our 5.
-Embiid had only 11 FTA, technically under his average of 12.
-Celtics out rebounded them on the offensive glass 10:3
-Celtics had 7 blocks compared to their 1
-Celtics had 4 steals to their 0
-Celtics took 49 3s compared to their 28 and only made 2 more.
-Celtics 26.5% from 3 vs. 39.3%
-Celtics had 9 more total FGA to Philly at 93.
Conclusion:
-Reasonable Embiid FTA: cannot bitch about free throws when he dominated the paint and only shot 4 3s.
-Celtics were better in almost every metric except shooting and specifically 3p%. Take 5 or 10 of those chucks and turn it into a drive or foul attempt and it’s likely a different outcome.
-Hauser ended at 50% from 3 on 6 attempts. White 31.3% on 5 of 16. Pritchard 2 of 7 and Brown 3 of 9.
One issue is chucking 3s the other the Celtics do is consistently ignore the hotter hand for the open shot. We’re modeled off of 3 heavy GSW offense. Food for thought: If Klay had it they kept his rhythm, they didn’t ice him out because Draymond was open in the corner.
This shit is so frustrating because we have so much data on this in the playoffs, but literally everybody reverts back to this iso 3 chucking style. Coaches need to identify these patterns as they’re happening and players need to take their Blinders off and tune down the irrational confidence. If you told me Embiid would had 11 FTAs and we dominated in steals, blocks, ORBs and Philly had nearly double the TOs I would bet it all we’d win. This is the 4th time it’s been “they didn’t fall!” Or “we had great looks” without adjustment.