{"id":14443,"date":"2020-08-24T17:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=14443"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:30:06","slug":"nh-now-celtics-sweep-sixers-8-24-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=14443","title":{"rendered":"NH Now: Celtics Sweep Sixers 8-24-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celtics Coach Brad Stevens Assessed the Team\u2019s Performance Cautiously, \u201cWe Won Two Close Games\u2026We Played More Good Minutes Than Not, But Still Not Good Enough to Be the Best Version of Ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a Zoom interview with WKXL\u2019s Chris Ryan, Celtic players\u2014Kemba Walker, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and Coach Brad Stevens\u2014discuss the team\u2019s 110-106 Game 4 victory over the 76ers and their upcoming series with the Toronto Raptors. Game 1 of the next round of the playoffs will be on WKXL at 6:30 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kemba Walker, the high scorer in Game 4 with 33 points on 53% shooting, gave credit to the 76ers and acknowledged that this was only the first round of the playoffs and that the Celtics have a long ways to go.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/881184451&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wkxl\" title=\"WKXL - NH Talk Radio\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WKXL &#8211; NH Talk Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wkxl\/nh-now-celtics-sweep-the-sixers-8-24-20\" title=\"NH Now: Celtics Sweep The Sixers 8-24-20\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NH Now: Celtics Sweep The Sixers 8-24-20<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Coach Brad Stevens assessed the team\u2019s performance cautiously, \u201cWe won two close games\u2026We played more good minutes than not, but still not good enough to be the best version of ourselves.\u201d When asked to discuss Kemba Walker\u2019s qualities, Coach Stevens believes that Walker\u2019s love of the game inspires to work and play hard. In particular, he praised his defense in this series.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player lazyload\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ri2a_WRut00?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Smart credits the team\u2019s success to trusting each other more than last year. When asked about what motivates him to play such outstanding defense, Marcus feels that much of it is instinctual and part of it is confidence in his defensive ability.<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown echoed the comments of Marcus Smart about there being better team chemistry on this year\u2019s Celtics. Jaylen remembers that they swept their first-round opponent in last year\u2019s NBA Playoffs and lost in five games in the second round. This bad experience will hopefully push them to play harder in each round. When asked about how Kemba Walker\u2019s and Jason Tatum\u2019s increased scoring has enabled the team to concentrate more on defense, Jaylen Brown felt that it was very helpful because Philadelphia was a very physical team. <\/p>\n<p>Jason Tatum discussed the importance of defense, especially in the playoffs. Jason pointed out the importance of playing well on both sides of the ball. He believes that the key to the Celtics defense is that, as a team, they are long and versatile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtics Coach Brad Stevens Assessed the Team\u2019s Performance Cautiously, \u201cWe Won Two Close Games\u2026We Played More Good Minutes Than Not, But Still Not Good Enough to Be the Best Version of Ourselves.\u201d In a Zoom interview with WKXL\u2019s Chris Ryan, Celtic players\u2014Kemba Walker, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, and Coach Brad Stevens\u2014discuss the team\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nhtoday","7":"category-nh-now-news"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14445,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions\/14445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}