not disagreeing but be sure to factor in offenses are better than they've ever been, and they are getting better every year at a startling pace. meanwhile the Celtics have a top five or so defense in the league.
I missed the game so I watched this instead and the way it's edited you'd think that the Jazz were actually competitive.
They were comically bad. The first 20 or so minutes was Globetrotters v Generals.
Yeah.. I noticed that too. They showed basically every Jazz basket and hardly any of the C's. In the third quarter there's a run where they showed no Celtics baskets.. you just see that the lead stays the same or grows. It was basically a Jazz highlight reel, which was odd.
Unless something notable happens, the recaps usually skip over FT's. The C's (mainly Tatum and KP) lived at the line in the third. Probably why there wasn't much in the way of highlights for that quarter.
What are the solutions?
Most satisfying victory of the season.
Is Nesmith like that in every game or does he save it for BOS? I get the chip on the shoulder thing to an extent but the guy was given plenty of chances here, couldn't buy a shot or play D without fouling and got traded into a perfect situation where he's now flourishing. Why is he so angry at BOS?
When goes nuclear like that, it just doesn’t matter. At the end, with the game in hand, everyone in the stadium knew the step-back was coming and not only drained it to get to 38 but laughs his way back down the floor like we’re all the dumbest people alive and he could hit shots from Mars if he wanted. He might put up 50 on Monday.
This was well on its way to being a frustrating loss until they stepped up and shut Indy down in the 4th.
The Pacers never led. Not once. About the only thing I can fault last night is the FT shooting.
He always had played with his hair on fire, but there's definitely something extra going on with him. Dude needs to tone it down a notch for sure, he's reckless out there.
Question - do you get your streams from something other than League Pass because the Celtics never trailed in this game? The lead fluctuates because in NBA games teams don't *always* maintain the same margins throughout the contest as subs come in, teams make runs and momentum changes. I suspect whatever you are watching - (is it FreeVee or something?) - isn't showing you the same things.
When they weren’t up by double digits on the road against one of the better teams in the East, obviously.
The Pacers did not have a single possession in the second half where they could have taken the lead. Moreover, they only had 2 possessions all half when they were only down by 3 points.
We are in a virtuous little stretch with this team - even including the Thunder loss - that it seems a shame not to recognize just how thoroughly they dominated the Pacers in that game. It did get within one score but you could see that Indy was using all of its firepower just to get there.
I get that this is mostly ad hominem, but: their lead fell from 16 late in the second quarter to 1 late in the third, with 2 starters and one of our bench regulars in foul trouble, and the team shooting below 50% on fucking free throws. If you watched the game and didn't see it slipping away, maybe you weren't paying attention?
I couldn’t imagine having any negative thoughts about that game, personally.
Yeah I was being sarcastic lol, maybe I’m too good at it. People can’t tell in person, either.
Now I think you actually didn't watch the game - I don't think anyone who actually saw last night's third quarter would say that the Celtics dominated it.
I thought d effort and rebounding slid second half of third quarter in a way that, for last years team, often portended trouble.
I got it. Was just adding on to clarify my post.
The more they steamroll now, the more leeway they’ll have to rest guys later. Schedule is super soft in February and March, so should be able to afford it either way.
To clarify my language, they dominated the entire game. And no, I am not an arbiter of what topics are OK to discuss but people need to understand that when *we* opt to post here, we are opening our choice of language up to criticism.
I think we're all at different places in our journey with this team. God knows there have been growing pains over the years and we have seen a *lot* of big leads carelessly blown. I can't fault EJ if he was feeling antsy over a 16 point lead whittled to 1 on the road against a hot team on the second night of a back to back. From my perspective, I think the team has finally grown up and I have considerably less stress about them righting themselves when they go on an in-game slide (maybe the years of making them play through it has paid off; maybe it's more Holiday and White and the absence of our beloved agent of chaos) as is apt to happen in the NBA.
In the post you cherry picked one comment from to take issue with, I noted this very thing: Indy has the top offense in the NBA (Boston is #2) and the Celtics held them to their lowest point total. So I agree about this.
I'm less sure about this.
And they would have maintained their half time lead had they been able to hit free throws. They lost the third quarter by 6 points and missed 8 free throws in the quarter..
I'm all for figuring things out and improving, since there are definitely areas for improvement.
Seriously. 3-9 from 3 instead of 2-9 and slightly better on FTs and they win the quarter
This is misleading, since the Celtics 6.5+ point differential last year was the lowest figure to lead the league since the 1970s. So, ranking 2-3 in both offense and defense profiled as less dominant than in any other season in recent memory.
They're currently 10th in 3rd quarter margin and 9th in fewest turnovers allowed. So, if they're in the top third of the league even in the areas that are supposed to be their biggest weaknesses, then I don't know what we're supposed to worry about.
Man you’re posts are miserable sometimes
