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“He has to be more aggressive and hit more shots.”
Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey is effective in transition as well as shooting from the outside. Daniel Parhizkaran/Global Staff
Nurse Nick He flashed an embarrassed smile when asked about it Therese Maxey Developing into the premier scoring option in the NBA.
Maxey scored 21 points in Game 1, seven fewer than his regular season average of 28.3 points. He shot 8-for-20 from the field and used his speed to generate eight assists. This was not enough to stay in the competition with the Celtics team, which achieved a huge victory with a score of 123-91.
Nurse said Philadelphia needs more production from the All-Star team moving forward.
“I’m just smiling because I’m going to give you the same answer I’ve given you about 17 times over the past two years,” the nurse said. “He has to be more aggressive and hit more shots.”
“He just has to find them, wherever they are. If it’s transition, if it’s deeper, if it’s more probing, if it’s fadeaways, if it’s transitions, if it’s post-ups or whatever. I just want him to continue to raise that level of shot attempts and aggressiveness.”
Celtics coach Joe Mazzola He was pleased with his team’s defensive effort in the first game. Derek White He started the game guarding Maxi, but the Celtics also experimented with placing taller defenders like Jayson Tatum and Jordan Walsh On maxi sometimes.
“He’s a great player, you’ll never stop him,” Mazzola said. “You’ve got to throw multiple bodies, multiple coverages, you’ve got to guard him one-on-five. I thought our level of communication, the five guys involved on almost every possession was really important, so I thought we did a good job of that.”
Mazzola expects a better effort starting Tuesday night. The 76ers shot 4-for-23 from 3-point range, a stat they are unlikely to repeat. The Celtics won the rebounding battle and put pressure on the 76ers by getting good looks in transition.
“First and foremost, we have to play a lot better in a lot of areas,” Nurse said. “That’s the biggest thing. We gave up too much in transition. We made too many baskets. We just didn’t score well enough for whatever reason, or shoot well enough. We’ve got to be better schematically, we’ve got to be more solid on the ball. It’s not just tweaking somewhere. We’ve got to play a lot better.”
Close calls
There were several upsets in Game 2 on Monday night.
Top-seeded Detroit lost to the Magic, tying the series. The Knicks lost to Atlanta. Anthony Edwards The Timberwolves won over the Nuggets by scoring 30 points and 10 rebounds. Mazzola was asked about his takeaways.
“We watched the late games, both games were close in the last three minutes, just trying to learn from how different teams performed down the stretch,” Mazzola said. “We learn as much as we can. Other than that, the most important thing is to focus on us.
“Every game has a life of its own. We don’t have control over that. We just have to control how we play, how we execute, how we go from every timeout to every timeout, from every run to the run, from play to play. You just have to play with that consistency.”