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The moment of truth has arrived: the NBA playoffs started tonight (Saturday), and began with a crushing victory of Philadelphia over Brooklyn.
Three more matches will be held later.
The night's games:
Philadelphia (3) - Brooklyn (6) 101:121 (the Sixers took the lead 0:1 in the series)
Boston (2) - Atlanta (7) 99:112 (the Celtics took the lead 0:1 in the series)
Cleveland (4) - New York (5)
Sacramento (3) - Golden State (6)
Only lasted one half.
Brooklyn (Photo: Reuters)
And it's at half power.
Embiid (Photo: GettyImages)
Philadelphia (3) - Brooklyn (6) 101:121 (the Sixers took a 0:1 lead in the series)
The Sixers opened with an easy victory, on a night in which Philadelphia enjoyed 21 three-pointers (a club record in the playoffs) 49 percent from beyond the arc and 100 percent from the penalty spot (16 of 16).
Joel Embiid again provided his numbers with 26 points and 11 of 11 from the line, on a nervous night that included his confrontation with Royce O'Neal and a punch to the face - but the bright spot for Philadelphia was James Harden, who against his former team excelled with 23 points and 13 assists, when he again looks at his best and shoots 7 threes in 7 of 13.
Tobias Harris added 21 points on 3-for-3 shooting, and the Sixers are off to an encouraging start, trying to win their first championship since 1983 and advance to the first round for the first time since 2001. Mykel Bridges scored 30 points for Brooklyn, which was still close to the Sixers in the first half but broke away in the second In front of the energy brought by the hall full of 20,913 enthusiastic spectators.
Is this how you get to the playoffs?
Atlanta (Photo: GettyImages, Maddie Meyer)
Easier than expected.
Tatum (Photo: GettyImages, Maddie Meyer)
Boston (2) - Atlanta (7) 99:112 (the Celtics took a 0:1 lead in the series)
Atlanta was throughout the season an unstable team, which responded to every victory with a loss and its fans did not know how to eat it.
In Atlanta, they hoped that the playoffs would straighten out the ranks and change the attitude, but the Hawks opened the playoffs with a miserable and embarrassing first half, during which they conceded 74 points and at the end went into the break trailing by 30 points.
It ended in an easy victory for Boston: Jaylen Brown scored 29 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Jayson Tatum scored 25 points and added 11 rebounds, Derek White finished with 24 points and 7 assists, and the Celtics, who shared only eight players, were surprised by how easy it went
Atlanta's comeback attempt was too late: after Boston scored 74 points on 60 percent of the field in the first half, in the third quarter it already began to doze and dropped to 35 percent of the field, thus allowing the Hawks to reduce the gap to minus 20 "only".
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Atlanta recorded a 2:10 run and narrowed it to only 12, but did not get any closer than that, even though the visitors won the second half 38:55.
Dejonta Murray scored 24 for the Hawks, Trae Young faltered with 16 points on 5-for-18 from the field, and Atlanta opened the playoffs with 17 percent from three (5-for-29) and 38 percent from the field.
It won't surprise anyone if it looks different in the next game.
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