⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Celtics got 9 points ahead of the pace we expected in the fourth quarter.
Where it moved
▲ BOS better than we expected
▼ PHI better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 11 points better than our numbers for the Celtics.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Celtics won, and why the 76ers did not.
From the game
Lived at the line, 32 free throws to their sixteen- Won the glass, 49 rebounds to 37
- A 15-0 run took them from 4 down to 11 up in the third quarter
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their fourteen, and were outscored 29-13 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Celtics
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 2-point lead to 10
Q3 9:02 · BOS 51-41 PHI
- 15-0 run
A 15-0 run took them from 4 down to 11 up
Q3 1:36 · BOS 70-59 PHI
Bad plays
- Technical
Antoine Walker Technical Foul
Q2 8:07 · BOS 25-19 PHI
76ers
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run took them from 6 down to 4 up
Q3 3:55 · BOS 55-59 PHI
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| BOS | PHI | |
|---|---|---|
| 41% | Shooting from the field | 38% |
| 10 | Threes made | 6 |
| 43% | Three-point accuracy | 33% |
| 23 | Free throws made | 13 |
| 61 | Rebounds | 42 |
| 14 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 18 | Assists | 23 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 5 | Fast break points | 4 |
| 13 | Points off turnovers | 29 |
| 20 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 8 | Steals | 10 |
| 5 | Blocks | 2 |
