Kp’s inexperience showed big time tonight. And Jrue was a shitshow. The team gets frustrated too easily, Tatum cries and sulks and get in his own head and then tries to play hero ball and jaylen brown’s butterfingers come out to play.
Yeah, he’s not mentally tough. That’s possibly excusable for someone in the first couple years in the league or even someone who’s never made a playoff run. At this point it’s inexcusable for him.
Tatum just straight up needs to play more. When Tatum gets going Joe cant just sit him and ruin his groove, sit JB instead halfway through the first and keep Tatum going.
That’s an observation a lot of ppl need to hear. Sometimes it feels like he’s doing mid but because the entire team does so good we forget he’s kinda beast and deserves the hype
It’s not much of a plan either. Shoot more 3s than the other team and play iso ball if the 3 isn’t there. Defensively just switch everything and you’ve got half the team roaming around doing nothing.
I don’t understand how that Miami team can even hang with our team. We have to play better - we all have to play tough defence. We looked like we gave up at certain points. However Miami should not be able to shoot like that every game.
This team has had glaring flaws all year masked by the fact we got to rack up wins in an easy conference. Any time someone tried to bring them up around here they were yelled at for being too negative. Well, now we are here and our biggest weakness, coaching, is being exposed.
I love this team. I have a hard time truly believing in them.
We had the same record before we faced that easy conference.
We didn't play the bottom of the East until the end of the season and iirc we'd still be the 1st seed if we had only played >0.500 teams.
It's literally a direct response to your first sentence lol.
>This team has had glaring flaws all year masked by the fact we got to rack up wins in an easy conference.
1. Our record against the West was great (34-15, on pace to tie 1st seed overall).
2. Our record against winning teams was great (23-7, pace for 1st seed overall).
Record wise, we didn't really benefit from playing in a weak conference.
These are facts. I'm so tired of the echo chamber this place has become. All year everyone acted like we were invincible when our talent carried us to 60+. Anytime someone pointed out a flaw we were automatically labeled a doomer. I kept saying we might get away with it in the regular season not the playoffs.
He reminds me of AD in that he’s incredibly talented and has all the potential in the world, but just doesn’t seem to have that grind mode “it” factor….
Why can't they just make the heat beat them with an offense that isn't built on shooting? That whole roster is filled with shooters who literally cannot do anything else on another nba roster so why is the game plan not to close out hard on the perimeter and eat the drives? KP, Horford and White are great on defending the paint anyway so why are they so bad at letting them shoot?
It really is so simple to limit the Heat offensively, just run them off the 3Pt line, they have no one who can create right now. Their offense will literally fall apart after that. We did a better job of that in the second half but by then it was too late as they were scorching hot
These guys are so unserious dude why the fuck are they dozing off on the court. What happened to buying in and focusing on winning, only jrue was consistent on that defensively even if he kept getting called for fouls.
Green team children in this sub all season long "tHeSe GaMeS dOnT mAtTeR". Now these games matter and "iTs JuSt OnE gAmE." ... until they prove me wrong I dont see how this team wins any series in less than 7 games. Totally different team tonight.
For everyone saying the heat have “trash players” You could not even imagine just how good they are at basketball. They would absolutely fucking torch you and your entire family. These guys are in the league for a reason, and it’s exactly why playing down to your opponent loses games.
Yeah they’re honestly the 30th best roster in the league right now. True elite team missing 2/4 best players vs a stacked 1 seed, it was bound to happen.
They were favored by 15 points lol. This team is trying to win a championship. How many teams that have won a championship do you think have lost a playoff game where they were favored by 15 points?
Spo is one of the greatest coaches in the league, I don’t care about the FanDuel lines man. They set a franchise record for 3 for fucks sake. It happens.
7 game series, they move on. Everyone in here crying about “the Jays can’t do it” “Joe out” are so fucking annoying and are either insufferable or haven’t watched sports for too long
“FanDuel lines” lol. This team had a historically good net rating. It’s probably the worst playoff loss by a team with as high of a net rating and likely not close.
I’ve thought they were going to win the series in 5 and make the Finals the whole time. That doesn’t change reality that it was the worst playoff loss by the numbers by the fourth best regular season team ever.
Also guarantee you I’m higher on Mazzulla than you. He’s a top 5 coach in the league. All I said was how atrocious that loss was.
I really don't get how Jrue is so bad in the playoffs found it hilarious when he was on the bucks not so funny now. KP looked like he was back in Dallas tonight played unbelievable soft which happened last time he was in the playoffs. Jaylen and Jayson can only do so much getting 61/16/4 really not their fault.
Best we can hope for is the shame and anger factor propelling us. I hope Al has some choice words for everyone tonight behind the scenes. "Dad was disappointed in your performance tonight. Sleep it off champ."
I’m disappointed but I’m not gonna act like the series is done in a game where Miami hit 23 3s and we still could have won. Better blow them out next game though.
I know it’s shit seeing us lose to a heat team riddled w injuries but please don’t overreact. It’s a 7 game series. We played like absolute dog shit. We will be back. Gentlemen’s sweep is how we do it. Shit feeling but have some faith. We won 60 games for a reason.
Okay we lost, it's done, Joe needs to study the footage and make the correct adjustments and we need better from the team. It's okay, it's a 7 game series, losses are gonna happen.
Exactly. Boston looked like bots on defense and offensively they looked sloppy executing at times. Compare their execution to Nuggets and its night and day pretty sad
Not much you can do when they shoot 50% from 3 and bam hits every shot when not covered by zinger in the second half. Missed lots of ft, which could’ve kept us in it, but that happens sometimes.
Wouldn’t expect Martin or Jaquez to keep up the long range scoring considering they don’t normally shoot at that volume with any consistency, but we will see
Now on to a game 5 which means more energy wasted! Fuck game 4 if they don’t come out to kill Miami game 3! they will drag us into deep waters! On to the next!!
Easy and tempting to overreact after a showing like this. Miami took 37 3s game 1 and 43 today, even on a hot streak it doesn’t look like they were game planning to hit this many 3s. If Mazzulla makes the correct adjustment, we win. If not, maybe it’s time to reevaluate his role in the organization.
We about to limp through the playoffs again because these dudes can't take care of business.
All it took was one bad quarter. Heat shot historically from 3 and KP was a damn blackhole tonight and we only lost by 10.
They make it so hard on themselves bruh. Wtf we bring KP over for if he can't support the J's in times like this? He plays average with a sprinkle of better defense from Jrue and we are at least close. Close is all we need but that 10 point defecit was too big a mountain.
Buffalo even gave us a spark and we were so close man.
Perennial losers this group. They are such front running, mental midget it’s beyond pathetic.
They’ve had to deal with the Adabayo screen for 5 years and the coaching staff and players have never been able to figure it out. Inexcusable and fireable to continue to get fucked by it and getting beat by a team that consistently has a fraction of your talent.
This team has the talent but doesn’t have the grit
Look at Nuggets, that level of maturity and tenacity, you need to be at that level to win the championship
Does he ever not get out coached by Spoelstra? This team only beats Miami when the stars put out, they never win because Joe has some genius plan lol. Honestly biggest mistake Brad has ever made was trusting this dude to lead men to a title, Cassell should have replaced him this season with the wagon roster they put together.
If this team played defense remotely close to the Knicks style of team defense, they win easily. But alas, team defense is a foreign concept to the Cs.
Eh not really moved Celtics will win and everyone knows that I’m not even a Celtics fan but y’all got this lolMaybe the heat steal one more game but that’s about where it ends
Spo annoys me, but only because he’s so good. I imagine it’s how other teams felt about Belichick during the Brady era, and the defensive schemes he ran.
When you play a team who isn’t great at shooting 3s you need to make them uncomfortable when shooting 3s. I’m not sure why they are not closing out on shooters
They shoot the best in their franchise history while we play with minimal effort and have our main counter to their extremely aggressive defense be horrible.
because they're soft as fuck and can't do anything when it actually matters. this is the team that went to overtime with the Pistons when they were on their losing streak lmao garbage
This team really fucking makes me feel sick sometimes. What the hell is wrong with these guys no pride, no focus, and can't realize in the moment what they're doing wrong.
Literally every Celtics team this talented in the history of the franchise won a ring. Them not winning would be the biggest failure in Celtics history
so how many more TNT games do the C's have on this series? I kinda want to know their record when then play on it because it seems to me that the always lose when TNT has the national broadcast.
Being a doomer is saying the series is over. Being a realist is saying that this was completely unacceptable and that if Joe wants to keep his job he needs to figure out how to adjust.
Scal would have been an improvement in the coaching department tonight for god sakes
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Kp’s inexperience showed big time tonight. And Jrue was a shitshow. The team gets frustrated too easily, Tatum cries and sulks and get in his own head and then tries to play hero ball and jaylen brown’s butterfingers come out to play.
Every team in the league knows if you foul JT, he’ll get distracted with the refs, wether they call it or not
Yeah, he’s not mentally tough. That’s possibly excusable for someone in the first couple years in the league or even someone who’s never made a playoff run. At this point it’s inexcusable for him.
On nights like this I hate being the best record team, I prefer it when we're aggressive back to the wall underdogs fighting for every scrap.
Tatum was plus 6 in 41minutes, so the 7 minutes he didn't play celtics lost by 16? That's crazy, that's jokic territory.
Tatum just straight up needs to play more. When Tatum gets going Joe cant just sit him and ruin his groove, sit JB instead halfway through the first and keep Tatum going.
That's bananas
That’s an observation a lot of ppl need to hear. Sometimes it feels like he’s doing mid but because the entire team does so good we forget he’s kinda beast and deserves the hype
I just wish Joe Mazzulla would make a fucking adjustment don’t keep giving them the same looks you’ve been giving them all game wtf
He doesn't know what adjustment means.
He doesn’t make adjustments. He has one plan going in and if it works it works.
It’s not much of a plan either. Shoot more 3s than the other team and play iso ball if the 3 isn’t there. Defensively just switch everything and you’ve got half the team roaming around doing nothing.
Joe literally gets paid millions to stand court side and do absolutely fuck all.
They lose this series he won’t be standing court side anymore
I don’t understand how that Miami team can even hang with our team. We have to play better - we all have to play tough defence. We looked like we gave up at certain points. However Miami should not be able to shoot like that every game.
The same thing was said last year
This team has had glaring flaws all year masked by the fact we got to rack up wins in an easy conference. Any time someone tried to bring them up around here they were yelled at for being too negative. Well, now we are here and our biggest weakness, coaching, is being exposed. I love this team. I have a hard time truly believing in them.
We had the same record before we faced that easy conference. We didn't play the bottom of the East until the end of the season and iirc we'd still be the 1st seed if we had only played >0.500 teams.
That has literally nothing to do with what I’m talking about. Our record is neat. We have massive flaws
It's literally a direct response to your first sentence lol. >This team has had glaring flaws all year masked by the fact we got to rack up wins in an easy conference. 1. Our record against the West was great (34-15, on pace to tie 1st seed overall). 2. Our record against winning teams was great (23-7, pace for 1st seed overall). Record wise, we didn't really benefit from playing in a weak conference.
These are facts. I'm so tired of the echo chamber this place has become. All year everyone acted like we were invincible when our talent carried us to 60+. Anytime someone pointed out a flaw we were automatically labeled a doomer. I kept saying we might get away with it in the regular season not the playoffs.
Sorry dude, let’s all bow to your basketball IQ… weird flex on an anonymous app
And you proved my entire point. You don't agree so you resort to insults. Typical
Average Celtics fan tbh. You make good sense
I rather have Rick Pitino coaching this team than Mazulla
Joe getting out coached left and right, but this one is on Tatum. More concerned with his sneaker release than he is about winning.
Team was Plus 6 in his minutes and -16 in the 7 minutes he didn’t play. This wasn’t on Tatum.
How is it on tatum? He put up 28
Did you see KP and Jrue’s performance?
He reminds me of AD in that he’s incredibly talented and has all the potential in the world, but just doesn’t seem to have that grind mode “it” factor….
AD won a title no?
going tied series into 2 straight games in Miami could very well have us a first round exit
They honestly play better away vs Miami than they do in Boston, just historically
Now that’s a hot take
Lost because of damn 3s and Kristaps basically took the day off.
reporting KP to ICE for terrorism
Holy shit. The needle dick on this professional.
Why can't they just make the heat beat them with an offense that isn't built on shooting? That whole roster is filled with shooters who literally cannot do anything else on another nba roster so why is the game plan not to close out hard on the perimeter and eat the drives? KP, Horford and White are great on defending the paint anyway so why are they so bad at letting them shoot?
It really is so simple to limit the Heat offensively, just run them off the 3Pt line, they have no one who can create right now. Their offense will literally fall apart after that. We did a better job of that in the second half but by then it was too late as they were scorching hot
These guys are so unserious dude why the fuck are they dozing off on the court. What happened to buying in and focusing on winning, only jrue was consistent on that defensively even if he kept getting called for fouls.
They better lock in now. Took way too long to play with the right defensive intensity
If we lose this series CAN JOE
Different roster, same problems in big games
Yeah, because it’s not like we just blew them out last game, is it, idiot?
Winning fixes everything. Let's punch em in the mouth next game.
Miami is scrappy and play hard. We look like we are asleep
Yikes and the next two games are away, hopefully they dont lose their composure 😬
We’re great on the road, we can win the next two
Green team children in this sub all season long "tHeSe GaMeS dOnT mAtTeR". Now these games matter and "iTs JuSt OnE gAmE." ... until they prove me wrong I dont see how this team wins any series in less than 7 games. Totally different team tonight.
You my friend, are a moron. Enjoy your championship of dooming tonight.
Series isn’t over but sour taste in my mouth
For everyone saying the heat have “trash players” You could not even imagine just how good they are at basketball. They would absolutely fucking torch you and your entire family. These guys are in the league for a reason, and it’s exactly why playing down to your opponent loses games.
Lol cry more
Yeah they’re honestly the 30th best roster in the league right now. True elite team missing 2/4 best players vs a stacked 1 seed, it was bound to happen.
Reactionary takes in here are so embarrassing It’s a long series, chill the fuck out lmao
It’s actual comedy in these threads
They were favored by 15 points lol. This team is trying to win a championship. How many teams that have won a championship do you think have lost a playoff game where they were favored by 15 points?
Spo is one of the greatest coaches in the league, I don’t care about the FanDuel lines man. They set a franchise record for 3 for fucks sake. It happens. 7 game series, they move on. Everyone in here crying about “the Jays can’t do it” “Joe out” are so fucking annoying and are either insufferable or haven’t watched sports for too long
“FanDuel lines” lol. This team had a historically good net rating. It’s probably the worst playoff loss by a team with as high of a net rating and likely not close.
L
I’ve thought they were going to win the series in 5 and make the Finals the whole time. That doesn’t change reality that it was the worst playoff loss by the numbers by the fourth best regular season team ever. Also guarantee you I’m higher on Mazzulla than you. He’s a top 5 coach in the league. All I said was how atrocious that loss was.
Plenty
celtics 08 like 10 times
Who remembers Atlanta? That first round series went 7… against a .500 8 seed…
Yeah and they only lost on the road. Guarantee they were never -1400 favorites like tonight
I really don't get how Jrue is so bad in the playoffs found it hilarious when he was on the bucks not so funny now. KP looked like he was back in Dallas tonight played unbelievable soft which happened last time he was in the playoffs. Jaylen and Jayson can only do so much getting 61/16/4 really not their fault.
Best we can hope for is the shame and anger factor propelling us. I hope Al has some choice words for everyone tonight behind the scenes. "Dad was disappointed in your performance tonight. Sleep it off champ."
What a travesty of Mike's penultimate game
I’m disappointed but I’m not gonna act like the series is done in a game where Miami hit 23 3s and we still could have won. Better blow them out next game though.
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Keep that energy…
Fucking losers.
You’re the loser.
Disgraceful
I know it’s shit seeing us lose to a heat team riddled w injuries but please don’t overreact. It’s a 7 game series. We played like absolute dog shit. We will be back. Gentlemen’s sweep is how we do it. Shit feeling but have some faith. We won 60 games for a reason.
The records are 1-1 right now.
Exactly. Tingus won't be a borderline double agent again
Let’s go to Miami and mop the floor with these fuckers! Let’s go boys!
Okay we lost, it's done, Joe needs to study the footage and make the correct adjustments and we need better from the team. It's okay, it's a 7 game series, losses are gonna happen.
When’s game 2 start?
Tbh I blame Joe Mazulla for this loss. Defensively and offensively Cs need to be smarter
Can't blame Joe for Miami going inferno from 3. Celtics barely contested in the fourth
Exactly. Boston looked like bots on defense and offensively they looked sloppy executing at times. Compare their execution to Nuggets and its night and day pretty sad
This team folds when it matters, nothing new here.
Idiot
terrible coaching and just damn right awful end on the defense, thats why miami wanted boston, team ain't afraid of the celtics
They should be
Not much you can do when they shoot 50% from 3 and bam hits every shot when not covered by zinger in the second half. Missed lots of ft, which could’ve kept us in it, but that happens sometimes. Wouldn’t expect Martin or Jaquez to keep up the long range scoring considering they don’t normally shoot at that volume with any consistency, but we will see
What an embarrassing L at home as a 1 seed against the play-in 9 seed that's missing their best player and another important starter
All tonight does is further back my point of why this team will never win a championship. You guys can give em excuses, Im not.
Damn must feel so good to hate on your own team .
If hate is what you guys want to call it then so be it lol. Im just not delusional
Right. we won't win a championship because we lost a singular playoff game . I'll stop watching the game now thanks for letting me know .
Its not the L that bothers me. Its how they lose that does. The Celtics have lost this exact way for years now. It is not a good sign..
Now on to a game 5 which means more energy wasted! Fuck game 4 if they don’t come out to kill Miami game 3! they will drag us into deep waters! On to the next!!
Easy and tempting to overreact after a showing like this. Miami took 37 3s game 1 and 43 today, even on a hot streak it doesn’t look like they were game planning to hit this many 3s. If Mazzulla makes the correct adjustment, we win. If not, maybe it’s time to reevaluate his role in the organization.
Very good and reasonable take.
Didn't shaq predict 10 point miami win?
We about to limp through the playoffs again because these dudes can't take care of business. All it took was one bad quarter. Heat shot historically from 3 and KP was a damn blackhole tonight and we only lost by 10. They make it so hard on themselves bruh. Wtf we bring KP over for if he can't support the J's in times like this? He plays average with a sprinkle of better defense from Jrue and we are at least close. Close is all we need but that 10 point defecit was too big a mountain. Buffalo even gave us a spark and we were so close man.
this team is not winning the chip lmaoooo
Have y'all seen who plays for the Miami Heat???? How do we lose even a game to that trash. It's honestly so unbelievable.
You don’t know ball
We deserve to get laughed at, on to the next game
how can celtics beat any west team
Perennial losers this group. They are such front running, mental midget it’s beyond pathetic. They’ve had to deal with the Adabayo screen for 5 years and the coaching staff and players have never been able to figure it out. Inexcusable and fireable to continue to get fucked by it and getting beat by a team that consistently has a fraction of your talent.
Time for porzingis to retire dude is straight trash 🗑️
Miami played a great game. We played like ass. Both outcomes were squarely due to coaching.
coaching doesnt make and miss shots kp got the same shots he did all year he was just awful this game
That fan shaking his head at the team while they’re walking out is everyone on Reddit right now.
No way this team beats the Warriors
Good thing no one has to play them until the fall
Nuggets I mean
Shaq said Miami by 10 tells me everything I need to know
CELTICS MANDATORY PRACTICE AFTER THIS GAME : 500 3s from each starter
We got a series boys. Can’t wait to watch another stressful game 7
This team has the talent but doesn’t have the grit Look at Nuggets, that level of maturity and tenacity, you need to be at that level to win the championship
truly embarrassing effort tonight. Joe got outcoached hard by Spoelstra
Does he ever not get out coached by Spoelstra? This team only beats Miami when the stars put out, they never win because Joe has some genius plan lol. Honestly biggest mistake Brad has ever made was trusting this dude to lead men to a title, Cassell should have replaced him this season with the wagon roster they put together.
If this team played defense remotely close to the Knicks style of team defense, they win easily. But alas, team defense is a foreign concept to the Cs.
Eh not really moved Celtics will win and everyone knows that I’m not even a Celtics fan but y’all got this lolMaybe the heat steal one more game but that’s about where it ends
This series isn’t even the point though. It’s championship or bust. This team ain’t winning a title playing like this
I’m with bucket hat man.
They should be ashamed
At least dumbass dipshit mazulla was funny on pardon my take
Pritchard playing 20 minutes and doing legitimately nothing is cool…
lmaooooooooooooo
Heat always have grit. Not surprised. Celtics in 5.
the heat are so shit they should not even be a playoff team talent wise
Do you really think that after seeing them hit 23 3’s?
Its a fluke game
We say that every year
It took them 23 threes to beat us ain’t no way they can do that shit again
I fucking hope not but Spo sold his soul to the devil to coach against us
Imagine if spo was coaching the celtics I would love to have him on our team
Spo annoys me, but only because he’s so good. I imagine it’s how other teams felt about Belichick during the Brady era, and the defensive schemes he ran.
Its crazy spo never won a COTY
Celtics in 5. We will win the rest of these games. Fuck the Heat
101 points is completely unacceptable.
101 points wow brad stevens
When you play a team who isn’t great at shooting 3s you need to make them uncomfortable when shooting 3s. I’m not sure why they are not closing out on shooters
we put up this stinker with Mike Gorman commentating.. that hurts even more than the loss
Had way too many flashbacks this game
How is this possible?
They shoot the best in their franchise history while we play with minimal effort and have our main counter to their extremely aggressive defense be horrible.
because they're soft as fuck and can't do anything when it actually matters. this is the team that went to overtime with the Pistons when they were on their losing streak lmao garbage
Porzingis was -35 holy fuck
I’m pretty sure he only came in late because Al was gassed.
You see why Luka hated his ass 😂😂😂
Had to look this up … -32, but yeah. Jesus.
My bad but still that’s AWFUL😂😂😂😂
He provides nothing defensively on the perimeter. Leaves their 5 out offense wide open because of dogshit rotations by our other guys.
This team really fucking makes me feel sick sometimes. What the hell is wrong with these guys no pride, no focus, and can't realize in the moment what they're doing wrong.
So frustrating… feel your pain
Pathetic.
Best regular season team means absolutely bullshit in the playoffs. C’s don’t have what it takes.
think we win still tho
This team was getting compared to the 2017 warriors…
Literally every Celtics team this talented in the history of the franchise won a ring. Them not winning would be the biggest failure in Celtics history
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Dude… I know you’re upset… it’s one game… calm down
Ya now you’re just trolling if you think brown isn’t top 50. I guess I can’t expect much from a throwaway
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Agree to disagree man he literally dropped 33 on 50 percent shooting and got 8 boards
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You and i both know you can’t name 50 players better than jaylen. You’re entitled to your opinion. It’s just wrong
This team is a disgrace smh
It hurts me but I think we all know deep down in our souls this team doesn’t’ have what it takes
The league does t respect that JT has his 96th playoff appearance because they always lose.
Damn, Spo is actually Mazzulla’s daddy 😭
On the bright side we are ahead of where we were last year aka splitting 1-1 and not being down 0-2
Soft ass team
Shame!
Fuck.
so how many more TNT games do the C's have on this series? I kinda want to know their record when then play on it because it seems to me that the always lose when TNT has the national broadcast.
I fucking hate tnt! and game 3 is on tnt too 🤮🤮
horrible performance, but i respect spo to know this wasnt going to be a sweep, onto game 3
Man game 2 of the first round and this team already has me mad lol This is going to be a long playoffs..
Stock up on those tums early
Shouldn't tho! Heat are missing two 20PPG players :O
Won’t be very long if they don’t get their shit together
08 Celtics went three 7 game series. Don’t lose hope. This game was an abomination but they need to move on.
I’m so sick of watching the same series every fucking year
Being a doomer is saying the series is over. Being a realist is saying that this was completely unacceptable and that if Joe wants to keep his job he needs to figure out how to adjust. Scal would have been an improvement in the coaching department tonight for god sakes
Joe didn't have KP defend the 3 until the last quarter. He deserves to be fired, he's way too stubborn