2023-05-01 16:27:10
The start of the second series of Eastern Conference semi-finals is tonight! The Celtics receive the Sixers in Boston, in a TD Garden which will not miss the opportunity to raise the temperature. Of course, the presence of Joel Embiid is still very uncertain, and this will necessarily mark the fate of this meeting.
We must honor the historical grandeur of this series. A Celtics – Sixers, it can not be invented. Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, then Larry Bird and Julius Erving. Absolute legends of the Grand League have played those games, and tonight it’s up to James Harden, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown to take up that glorious torch. In the text, the Clubs have everything to win this series: reigning finalists, very correct regular season… but first round of Playoffs which does not necessarily reassure everyone. Against Atlanta, Beantown showed smugness. Sufficiency that cost one game, the other having been ripped off by Trae Young’s shot.
And this question: Can Boston line up several top games to dot the i’s and show Philadelphia who’s boss? The question seems almost stupid, in the light of Boston’s last Playoffs campaign. And yet, it is no longer when we look at certain game sequences offered once morest Atlanta, a much weaker team on paper and in reality. Tonight, the challenge will be even greater: the Sixers atomized Brooklyn in four games, while we expected the Nets sharper. They tried everything, but Philly handled the job brilliantly. Even without Joel Embiid.
From there to embark on comparisons between Nets and Celtics? No, we haven’t caught anything illegal so far. But the Sixers know what they need to do, and they showed it in their first-round series. The main unknown then? Joel Embid. We were telling you this morning: The Celtics receive the Sixers in Boston, in a TD Garden which will not miss the opportunity to raise the temperature. Of course, the presence of Joel Embiid is still very uncertain In question, a sprain of the outside ligament of the knee, caused by the Nets. The Celtics’ defense will be greatly facilitated without the Cameroonian giant. You will have grasped it, it looks very complicated for Philly without its major player. It is in this capacity that cynically, coldly, the Celtics must take advantage of it. And show the East that the boss lives in Massachusetts.
Source : ESPN
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