It doesn’t take a degree in Hinkalytics to see that the Celtics are killing the Sixers with open threes. And the Sixers are hurting themselves by missing their open looks.
Boston has made 32 three-pointers in the first two games of this series. Thirty of them are considered to have been “open” or “wide open” shots according to the NBA’s analytics’ statistics. The Celts are shooting almost 50 percent on those attempts. The Sixers have made 16 open threes, at a dim 30 percent. Put it all together, and it helps form an 0-2 Sixers’ hole.
Somebody call a timeout already.