The 76ers did one thing they were supposed to do.

The Celtics did a few things they weren't supposed to do.

And now this series is tied.

There, welcome back to the show.

I am John Corrales.

And today we're talking about a Boston Celtics loss in game two of the opening round series to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Later on, we'll get into some of the supporting cast, which wasn't exactly supporting cast.

We'll spend the second segment talking about Vijay Edgecombe and the Celtics defense.

But let's just start with this 11-97 loss to the Sixers with

Philadelphia came in and did the thing that I said and everybody said, I'm not going to sit here

pat myself on a back and Sam, some sort of genius for saying they needed to shoot more three-pointers.

Everybody said they needed to shoot more three-pointers. Everybody said they needed to shoot more three-pointers.

It was the obvious thing.

Nick Nurse said it after game one.

A lot of analysts, you look at what they did in game one, you say, you can't shoot 24-3-pointers

against what Boston does and compete.

So what do they do?

They come in here.

They shoot 39 three-pointers and they shoot almost 50%.

They were 19 of 39 from three in this game.

The Celtics were 13 of 50.

So the Celtics still got up more volume,

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