NBA Playoff Round 2 thread

[NeedChapmans]

Wow. Embiid and Simmons combine for 5 made baskets and Philadelphia gets out of Toronto with a W.

Crazy.

[tjforce]

And now we got a series.

Huge game for Butler.

Great gameplan by Coach Brown.

Kahwi still a beast though.

[MIRRABB]

Raptors were 20-67 not counting Kawhi, just painfully bad

[tjforce]

Originally Posted by NeedChapmans

Wow. Embiid and Simmons combine for 5 made baskets and Philadelphia gets out of Toronto with a W.

Crazy.

it's exactly how I called them playing to win.

With Gasol and Leonard guarding these two, they have to rely on Butler, Harris and Redick to do the scoring.

Embiid and Simmons focused on defense, and that's where the battle was won.

Great gameplan by Brown

[daeve]

really only Butler had a good game for Philly, that should've been a win for the Raps but they shot pretty horribly from 3 [actually both teams shot under 30% from 3] and got nothing from anyone outside their big 3. Seriously the next best scorer was Gasol with 5 [yikes]. And their bench only scored 5. Bizarre game from a deep team.

[Nutcracker33]

Raps lost the game in the first half, 6sers played some really good D, Danny Green missed some of his signature shots (including his potential game tying open 3)

[ninjacookies]

Originally Posted by rhigh2390

Lol same for me.

Gosh Danny Green....

Green was 1-8 on the night. Just terrible.


But the bench. 5 points combined? Is that even possible?

Vanvleet is captain invisible. What happened?

[NeedChapmans]

Originally Posted by tjforce

it's exactly how I called them playing to win.

With Gasol and Leonard guarding these two, they have to rely on Butler, Harris and Redick to do the scoring.

Embiid and Simmons focused on defense, and that's where the battle was won.

Great gameplan by Brown

Meh. The offense for Philly tonight was quite terrible, even worse than game 1. Starters shot a collective 21 for 56 with 19 turnovers and just 3 offensive boards.

It was the play of Ennis and Monroe that saved their bacon.

[The Accountant]

the fact that the Sixers won in Toronto without offensive play from Embiid and Simmons is pretty great. got nervous at the end there.

Biggest play of the game: Lowry hits a 3, Brown refuses to timeout, Butler holds the ball and let's Embiid work the inside. Huge play and basically decided the game.

Too often, Embiid tries to take on the end of the game himself and messes that play up. Butler was generous and gave it up to the big man. playing like a team goes a long way. i remember last year when horford was owning embiid at the end of everygame for an awkward turnover

[The Accountant]

Originally Posted by tjforce

And now we got a series.

Huge game for Butler. 100%

Great gameplan by Coach Brown. 100%

Kahwi still a beast though. 500%

my thoughts

[tjforce]

Originally Posted by NeedChapmans

Meh. The offense for Philly tonight was quite terrible, even worse than game 1. Starters shot a collective 21 for 56 with 19 turnovers and just 3 offensive boards.

It was the play of Ennis and Monroe that saved their bacon.

You think it was pure coincidence that Embiid and Simmons only took 13 combined shots instead of their average of 31?

Or maybe that was a gameplan adjustment.

[pgisback]

Is there a way to pick who is better between Kawhi and KD? Tough tough choice.

[ninjacookies]

Lol why on earth did Kanter cock that back when he's got a separated shoulder.


Brilliant.

[The Accountant]

Originally Posted by ninjacookies

Lol why on earth did Kanter cock that back when he's got a separated shoulder.


Brilliant.

Yeah. That was just plain dumb. That looked a little painful. This he might've hyperextended it

[daeve]

Originally Posted by ninjacookies

Lol why on earth did Kanter cock that back when he's got a separated shoulder.


Brilliant.

caught up in the moment, he realized it immediately...boy if he has to sit, Jokic is gonna feast on Collins/Leonard/whoever else.

[The Accountant]

Originally Posted by pgisback

Is there a way to pick who is better between Kawhi and KD? Tough tough choice.

maybe we'll find out when they team up in NY

[ninjacookies]

Originally Posted by The Accountant

Yeah. That was just plain dumb. That looked a little painful. This he might've hyperextended it

I'd be surprised if he can play the rest of the series. At this point he may be a detriment to the team only playing with one arm/hand. Give Leonard/Collins some run and let the rest of the team pick up the slack.

[ninjacookies]

Originally Posted by daeve

caught up in the moment, he realized it immediately...boy if he has to sit, Jokic is gonna feast on Collins/Leonard/whoever else.

lol yeah. I honestly think it doesn't matter who's in there...Jokic is going to have a huge series. The key is how they're going to do against that backcourt. When Jokic and Murray both have a big game, they're tough to beat.

[NeedChapmans]

Originally Posted by tjforce

You think it was pure coincidence that Embiid and Simmons only took 13 combined shots instead of their average of 31?

Or maybe that was a gameplan adjustment.

I think Embiid was clearly not feeling well and Simmons didn't shoot in game 2 just like he didn't shoot in game 1. If the plan was to go into Toronto and score 94 points, then they achieved their goal just like they did in game #1.

They sucked. Simply that Toronto was worse.

[ninjacookies]

CJ looking really good early.

[NeedChapmans]

Denver allowed SA to shoot better than 65% (1st quarter) from the floor to open the game 3 times. Portland doing it here having made 8 straight shots.

Pretty crazy to see teams just hit everything, and Denver never really down a bunch.

[tjforce]

Originally Posted by NeedChapmans

I think Embiid was clearly not feeling well and Simmons didn't shoot in game 2 just like he didn't shoot in game 1. If the plan was to go into Toronto and score 94 points, then they achieved their goal just like they did in game #1.

They sucked. Simply that Toronto was worse.

Ok. So your take is that Embiid felt good enough to play 32 minutes, but in those 32 minutes his tummy aches too much to shoot more than 7 times, even though he handled the ball enough to have 5 assists and turn the ball over 6 times.

Makes much more sense than Brown game planning for him to shoot less and rely on Butler more.

[daeve]

Murray looking sharp, if he has a big series that might really put them over the top.

[NeedChapmans]

Originally Posted by tjforce

Ok. So your take is that Embiid felt good enough to play 32 minutes, but in those 32 minutes his tummy aches too much to shoot more than 7 times, even though he handled the ball enough to have 5 assists and turn the ball over 6 times.

Makes much more sense than Brown game planning for him to shoot less and rely on Butler more.

I don't understand what you're driving at here? They offense was terrible; really really terrible. And your telling me that (1) Brown game planed for this terribleness and (2) it worked.

I don't see either of those things. I just see a team who on the offensive end of the floor was just as bad as they were in game #1, but got great contributions from the bench vs. Toronto who was equally terrible but no bench contribution.

Thus, Ennis and Monroe were the difference makers.

[tjforce]

Originally Posted by NeedChapmans

I don't understand what you're driving at here? They offense was terrible; really really terrible. And your telling me that (1) Brown game planed for this terribleness and (2) it worked.

I don't see either of those things. I just see a team who on the offensive end of the floor was just as bad as they were in game #1, but got great contributions from the bench vs. Toronto who was equally terrible but no bench contribution.

Thus, Ennis and Monroe were the difference makers.

No, I'm saying that they planned to focus the offense less on Embiid and Simmons as scorers.... as evidenced by the 13 shots between them.

Does it make more sense now than the first time I said it?

"Originally Posted by tjforce View Post

With Gasol and Leonard guarding these two, they have to rely on Butler, Harris and Redick to do the scoring.

Embiid and Simmons focused on defense, and that's where the battle was won."


I agree that Ennis and Monroe made a difference, but if you don't think Butler was the story on offense, then i don't know what game you were watching.