Destroyed on the boards.
Ref watching (and whining).
Got Milwaukee into the bonus with 6 minutes to go in the game and stopped driving.
After game 4, Ime chortled that the Celtics can get Horford wide open jumpers any time they want - the went to him once early then buried him, he got 7 shots.
Grant and Pritchard are afraid to take threes. They went 0-3 today and each passed up open looks. Grant, instead, tried something different - putting the ball on the floor and then off his foot and out of bounds. Grant needs to stay within himself and not think he can attack defenders off the dribble like he is Tatum or Brown.
Pritchard actually came up big on a couple of shots in his 2nd half stint. Late in the clock takes a shot from Tatum and beats the buzzer on a 7-foot fallaway to put the Celtics up 14 with 10:16 to go. Two minutes later, the Celtics run (yet another) ineffective offensive set that almost leads to a turnover, and Pritchard races up top to give White an outlet. Clock is winding down and you can see Pritchard actually wants the ball - he gets it, drives, hits an 8-footer to put the Celtics up 11.
I thought Ime had some curious substitution decisions. Brown had an immense 16-point third quarter, and Ime sat him down for the first 4.5 minutes of the 4th. Of course, the team played well and built up its lead over most of that span. I also think he might have been reluctant to take the defensively overmatched Pritchard out of the game because he was the lone guy getting after it in the offensive end.
Brown came into the 4th with 27 minutes and just having exploed for 16 in the third quarter, Tatum had 29, and Tatum played the entire fourth while Brown sat for the beginning. Mistake.
But at the end of the day, throwing this game and perhaps the season away was a group effort.
I don't expect them to win this series, though they could. If they do advance I don't expect them to win the ECF. They aren't able to sustain the level of effort and quality play that is needed to win. (Or, if they are, they haven't shown it). Add it all up quarter by quarter and they have been off their game for more of this series than they have been on it.