©  2108 Jordan Long  Sports-Scoop.com | Sports with Attitude The Boston Celtics survived a game 7 against the Milwaukee Bucks, coming away with a 112-96 victory. They move on to face the Philadelphia 76ers. Game 1 is tonight at 8 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Boston faced Philadelphia 4 times in the regular season. Boston was 3-1. Philadelphia avoided the season sweep on January 18th winning 89-80. Of course that was 2 months ago and these teams are playing at a different level. The Celtics are going to be able to score points. In the 1st-round they averaged 102.4 points per game.   The Celtics will need to continue to feed the ball to Al Horford who is averaging 18.1 points per game in these playoffs. Jaylen Brown, Marcus Morris, and Jayon Tatum should also have decent looks at the basket against Philadelphia. Boston was average shooting the 3-pointer. They were able to pass the ball around but couldn’t put the ball in the basket from beyond the arc. Against the Bucks, they shot 35

©  2108 Jordan Long  Sports-Scoop.com | Sports with Attitude The Boston Celtics lead the best of 7 over the Milwaukee Bucks 2-0. The series now shifts to Milwaukee for games 3 and 4. Game 3 is tonight. The Celtics hope to earn a victory to take a commanding 3-0 lead. Boston won game 1 by 6 points. It went into overtime and they outscored the Bucks 14-8 in the extra session. Game 2 the Celtics made sure it didn’t go into overtime with a 120-106 triumph. Boston has been successful so far because of their offense. In 2 games they are averaging 116.5 points per game. It helps they are shooting 47.3% . Beyond the 3 point line, the Bucks aren’t able to stop them from scoring making 42.1% of them. Defensively the Bucks score 106.5 points per game. The Celtics need to play better defense. They are allowing too many easy passes and wide open looks. Milwaukee is taking advantage. They are shooting 53.8%, a pretty decent percentage but the Celtics are making it difficult for them to fire from 3

©  2108 Jordan Long  Sports-Scoop.com | Sports with Attitude   The Boston Celtics are 53-23 and sit 2 games back of the Toronto Raptors for 1st place in the Eastern Conference with just 6 games left in the regular season.  With all this success, Head Coach Brad Stevens is a candidate for NBA Coach of the Year. Stevens should receive consideration for the award.  The Celtics were dealt an early blow to their championship hopes when small forward Gordon Hayward went down on opening night.  They started 0-2 and looked like it could be a long year.  The Celtics have gone an impressive 53-21 since that injury.   And their defense is the reason as they give up only 100.1 points per game, 3rd best in the NBA. According to ESPN, Stevens said, “Could care less.  There are 29 other great coaches, and just to be a head coach in this league is enough.  It’s super hard.  There’s no way that I would ever consider myself to be in that race.” Stevens is right.  He knows there are other coaches who m