![]() He took it off and soon absorbed an elbow to the face from James Harden, who was assessed a flagrant foul.īrown continued without the mask but finished the half with cotton in his left nostril. “He got it rolling, and there’s nothing they could do to stop him.” BANGED-UP BROWNīrown began the game with the black mask he has worn since breaking a bone in his face before the All-Star break. “JT just got it going and get out of that man’s way,” Brown said. The 33-10 edge in the third was the most lopsided quarter in a Game 7 since at least 1997. He picked up where he left off, scoring Boston’s first basket and 11 points in the first quarter, 14 more in the second and outscoring the Sixers on his own, 17-10, in the third. Tatum started 0 for 6 in a Game 5 loss and missed 14 of his first 15 shots overall from the floor in Game 6 before making four 3-pointers in the final 4:14 to force the decisive seventh game. And then tonight I think we took a step backward. I thought we took another step this season. “We played great all year and this loss absolutely diminishes what we did this year in some way. I really did,” said Sixers coach Doc Rivers, who was on the Boston bench when the Celtics won it all in 2008. The Sixers lost in the conference semifinals for the third straight year, and the fifth time in six seasons they have not gotten any farther since reaching the NBA Finals in 2001 despite “The Process” - tanking their way to four top-three draft picks in a row, including Embiid. Newly crowned NBA MVP Joel Embiid scored 15 points on 5-for-18 shooting, and Tobias Harris scored 19 for Philadelphia. “As a competitor, I love the opportunity.” “It’s the best time of the year,” Tatum said. Miami beat Boston in six games in the 2020 East finals and the Celtics took a seven-game matchup last season. Tatum was subbed out of the game with three minutes left to a standing ovation from the crowd, which soon broke out in a “Beat the Heat!” chant. “You always come into a series with the expectation of how it’s supposed to go,” said Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla, who is in his first year as an NBA head coach after being promoted on the eve of training camp after Ime Udoka was suspended. Tatum added 13 rebounds and Jaylen Brown scored 25 points for Boston, which rallied from a 3-2 deficit in the series to keep alive their hopes for an unprecedented 18th NBA championship. “We had a saying: ‘It’s only up from here.’” “It definitely was on my mind that I had played as bad as it could get, for 43 minutes. Our season could have been over after Game 6,” said Tatum, who broke the Game 7 record of 50 points Stephen Curry set two weeks ago. “I was relieved just to get another chance. The Celtics, who lost to the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals last year, will face the Miami Heat in the East finals for the second straight season. One game after missing 14 of his first 15 shots only to awaken in the fourth quarter in time to save their season, Tatum scored 25 in the back-and-forth first half and 17 more in Boston’s 33-10 third quarter that turned a three-point lead into a runaway. ![]() This puzzle uses anagrams in over 50% of the clues, which is far too many.BOSTON - Jayson Tatum gave Boston a long-overdue fast start and followed it up with a finish the NBA had never seen before.Īfter struggling in back-to-back games, Tatum erupted for 51 points – the most in a Game 7 in history - and the Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 112-88 on Sunday to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year. A creature formed by a word for a Great (i.e. ( DISTRAUGHT} An anagram (fluttering) of IT’S inside a word meaning a breeze or one that you get under the crack of a door.Ħa Understand a disclaimer is to be announced (4) It’s very much a case of you pays your money……ġa It’s fluttering in the breeze like mad (10) Excalibur certainly has a unique style of her own, which sort of divides the punters here. No instruction to remove letters first, as is normal with this sort of clue. 12 across is what can only be described as a complex anagram in that as far as I can see, you need to make an anagram of some letters within a word. Some stuff to be admired, but one or two very poor clues that really drag it back. Toughie No 333 by Excalibur Hints and tips by TilsitīD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **Ī bit of a curate’s egg, this puzzle. ![]()
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