00:00Licking our wounds here after a surprising Game 2 loss for the Celtics team.
00:04We've gone over all the shooting numbers, obviously.
00:07Was this just a case of make or miss, or was there something deeper going on here, Mannix?
00:12I think a lot of it is make or miss.
00:15I think fundamentally at the very beginning, they took their foot off the gas a little bit.
00:21I mean, Game 1 was so easy.
00:23And for a lot of these guys that have played the 76ers in previous playoff series,
00:29they know that they've got this history, that they've played well against the Sixers,
00:35they've beaten the Sixers every single time.
00:37So I think maybe they lost a little bit of that edge.
00:40Maybe that contributed to the poor three-point shooting.
00:43I mean, nobody in that starting lineup could buy a bucket from three-point range in that game.
00:48And we've seen this from Boston at times during the last few seasons,
00:52where they have one of these clunkers once every couple of months,
00:56where nobody can make a shot from three.
00:58And we sit there the next day and wonder why they don't go to the basket a little bit more.
01:02It's kind of woven into the DNA of this team.
01:05But I thought it was a couple of things.
01:06I thought they didn't play with any edge early in the game,
01:09allowed the Sixers to get some momentum,
01:11allowed Vijay Edgecombe to get some confidence.
01:13And, you know, it just kind of spiraled from there.
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