To make a deep playoff run, unlikely heroes often step up at important moments. has played in big games with Harden before, and it showed. and he delivered in a big way: 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting, five rebounds and energy on the defensive end. He had been considered a disappointing free-agent signing.īut in Game 5, Rivers surprisingly called on House Jr. has largely found himself out of the rotation for most of the season. Touted as an important signing by the Sixers (they even got docked draft picks for tampering to sign him!), House Jr. had played just eight minutes for the Sixers in a Game 2 Celtics blowout at TD Garden. Completely out of the rotation for this series, House Jr. There are many heroes for the Sixers, but there was no one unlikelier than Danuel House Jr. How the 76ers dominated the Celtics in Game 5: 'We control our own destiny' Danuel House Jr. As Mazzulla said, it was their first really bad game of the playoffs. This was the worst the Celtics had to offer in the biggest moment of the season. Maxey kept cooking everyone the Celtics threw at him. They had no answers for Embiid’s low post offense and transition defense finally returning to strong form.
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This team had the upper hand in this series and fumbled it away multiple times, then looked shell-shocked when the Sixers were finally at full strength tonight. The only time they looked like themselves for more than a minute was when Joe Mazzulla sent in the garbage time unit.
But they were flat, cold, and seemingly out of gas. It’s all been about preparation and improvisation, with just the right balance of creators and shot-makers to make it work on a nightly basis. The Celtics have always done things on the fly this year. They were booed off the court by the Boston crowd. The Celtics weren’t able to stop any of Philadelphia’s leading scorers from having big, efficient nights. The team forced 13 turnovers, but several came late in the fourth quarter while the end of the bench put together a meaningless run. Al Horford missed all seven of his 3-point attempts. They committed a long list of dumb fouls.
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