Figure it the (bleep) out. That was the “adjustment” the 76ers made in Game 4 against Boston, writes davidaldridgedc. At the end of the day, James Harden and Joel Embiid figured it out together when it mattered most for the 76ers.
, already a great defensive player, had no problem blocking Embiid’s increasingly land-locked jumper, twice. Tucker saw it and got in his teammate’s face.
“Nobody can guard Joe one-on-one,” Tucker said. “There’s no way. That’s no disrespect to Al or anybody else. But I’ve guarded him for a lot of years. But when he’s aggressive and assertive, it’s impossible. And I’d seen him on two or three plays in a row not do that. And we can’t have that. We can’t have that. Not with the season on the line. We can’t have that.”
Embiid got his second wind just in time, hitting a fadeaway over Horford with 2:40 left in OT to bring Philly within one, drawing a foul on Horford with 56 seconds left and making two free throws to put Philly back up one. And then, seeing Brown cheating to him when he started to post up Tatum on Philly’s final possession. The Celtics had switched off of Tobias Harris’ cutting all day long — and they did again here, leaving Tatum on Embiid. But Brown made a cardinal mistake.
“I think it feels, you have that, what’s the right word — you’re anxious,” Maxey had said Saturday. “You want to be so successful, you want to help your team win. I think that’s one thing that speeds you up. … The refs let you play a little bit more. You can be a little bit more aggressive on defense, get into guys’ bodies and make them take the shot that you want them to take. I think that’s the biggest thing in the playoffs.
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