原標題：Joel Embiid said he ‘didn't get the ball’ enough late in the Sixers'
loss to the Celtics. What does that mean for Brett Brown?
內文：
BOSTON — The message arrived via familiar delivery, the words clipped,
the volume steady, the tone matter-of-fact and devoid of emotion. As is often
the case with Joel Embiid, the words impart a much harsher bite on paper and
ink than they had sounded in real time as he spoke them. In the wake of another
infuriating loss to a team that seems to find a new way to beat the Sixers
every time they play, the big man tried to frame his frustrations within the
context of self-responsibility. Yet by the time he was done speaking, he had
delivered an assessment with an unmistakable implication.
“I felt like I could have done more,” Embiid said after a 121-114 overtime
loss to the Celtics on Christmas Day. “I didn’t get the ball. The ball didn't
find me in the fourth quarter and overtime, so, in those situations, I've got
to show up, but I also have to be put in the right situations to be able to
help this team. I felt like I wasn't in the right situation. We lost. I put
this heavily on me because I know I could have done more, and the more I was
playing, all day they couldn’t guard me, and they were playing a lot of 1-on-1
, double-teaming on the first dribbles, but I have to find a way to adjust
through that and just be myself.”
在延長賽過後114比121輸給波士頓賽爾提克後，Embiid說我認為我可以為球隊做得更多，
但是我在第四節跟延長賽拿不到球，他們採取很多1對1、團隊的包夾，但我知道我必須找
到一個方式來調整，在球隊艱難的時刻跳出來幫助球隊。
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Any ambiguity that may have seemed present in those sentiments was quickly
dispelled when Embiid was asked why he thought the ball did not find him down
the stretch.
“Don't know,” the big man responded. “Got to ask coach.”
Embiid被問到為什麼球沒有轉移到他手上時，但Embiid回答我不知道，要去問教練。
There's a lot to unpack here. Before doing so, it’s worth noting that Embiid
is an emotional player, and this was an emotional game, and nothing about the
manner in which he delivered his postgame comments suggested a malcontented
player who believes that the blame for losses such as this should belongs first
and foremost with the bench. There are a variety of reasons why the Sixers came
up short in their latest attempt to show they belong among the Eastern
Conference's elite, and most of them exist on a level far less complex than
Brett Brown’s in-game coaching decisions and/or his ballhandlers' execution
of whatever those decisions were.
Embiid是一個要為情緒性的球員，在賽後發表的一些評論影響到球隊。
At the top of the list was their misfortune of being the other team on the
court on a night where Kyrie Irving could not miss a shot. The Celtics guard
scored 40 points on 17 of 33 shooting, including a pair of back-to-back
three-pointers that put Boston up for good. Next, and nearly as detrimental,
were the 19 turnovers that the Sixers committed, six of which came from Embiid.
With the Celtics turning the ball over nine times and enjoying a +4 advantage
on the offensive glass, they essentially enjoyed 15 more possessions on a nigh
where their best player could not be stopped.
KI在全場33投17中的表現，而76人全場發生高達19次的失誤，但其中6次失誤來至於Embiid
，而賽爾提克全場只發生9次的失誤，並且在進攻籃板球也比76人還多了4個，讓攻擊次數
就比76人來得多。
Both of these factors would seem to be more a function of personnel than any
sort of strategic shortcomings. While this particular performance by Irving was
of a different variety from most of the other epic performances that the Sixers
have allowed to opposing guards this season — Jimmy Butler's on-the-ball
defense down the stretch was about as good as you could hope for in such a
situation — but the fact remains that this team will struggle to get where it
is going if it does not improve its defense on the perimeter. That the Sixers
had an open look at the buzzer in regulation for the win should not obscure
the meticulous way in which the Celtics' starting unit used its size/strength
advantage to generate open looks throughout the first two quarters.
By halftime, three different players had backed J.J. Redick down and sank
fadeaway jumpers over the veteran guard, a strategy that played a big role in
the 57-51 lead that the Celtics built.
JB個人的防守沒有太大的問題，但是團隊的對於外線的防守有著很大的問題，如果不改善
團隊對於外線的防守，76人會打得非常掙扎。
Regardless, in the fourth quarter, this was a game that the Sixers were in a
position to win.
這場是76人可以在四節中可以獲勝的比賽。
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