Agreed. I'd guess it was 100% on the players not staying attached to their man & closing out properly.
Hah. Love Robert but he's not quite who I envision giving a pep talk. KG would be so amped for this game you'd run through the proverbial wall.
KG is the dedicated crazy MFer who could get up for a game. I wish we got to see him longer on the parquet. That dude was special.
It’s given me some time to watch a bunch of other NBA playoff games without much of a rooting interest which has been fun. It has been a good reminder that playoff wins are hard and no team is consistently going wire to wire with 20+ point wins.
Just to pile on, definitely had to be mostly effort and less scheme.
I don't particularly mind the wait between games (as noted, other games have been great to watch) but there's something fundamentally bullshit about the fact that our potential 2nd round opponent could have completed their series entirely before we even tip off for game 3.
Yeah that's become an oddly competitive series, which is only good for us. I'm happy with how it's turned out, but it's frustrating that that series is essentially 2-3 days ahead of the celtics'.
His minutes were low because he picked up two early fouls and sat awhile, and then because the game wasn't competitive in the closing minutes.
Yeah, that is under 50% TS for Bam, with ~no additional creation or drawing 2 to the ball.
At this point, "refs let them play SUPER physical" has been the case in the majority of playoff games I've watched. It's the default.
Tonight felt extra lol, Bam would have fouled out six times if it was a regular season game, and his name wasn’t Bam.
Feels so weird vs last game. Like Spo said out loud the math game wouldn’t favor them if they didn’t shoot 40. Then they shot 28
You can't really build an NBA offense around a guy who doesn't create advantages if left in iso. It just doesn't work.
I haven't watched much of the game yet, but I doubt they shot fewer 3s because they wanted to shoot fewer 3s.
"Do the same thing as last game, but with 20% more conviction" is undefeated as an NBA playoff adjustment for superior teams.
I thought this was a great game defensively by KP. He really battled and contested shots well with Bam and was consistently good with his weakside rim protection rotation.
Yea they didn't collapse nearly as much and stayed with their man on the perimeter. More discipline
My guess is that he expects the Celts to hunt him to oblivion as soon as he checks in. So he's willing to give up the much-needed three point shooting to prevent that.
A couple things. Cs finally exploited him on both ends. First, they pressured him when handling the ball. Second, exploited him on defense. All he’s worth is the occasional 3
More broadly, we kind of did to the Heat tongiht what they have done to us in the past. They don't have a PG, and we put pressure on the ball and forced turnovers.
Robinson played pretty poorly and turned the ball over (or came close to doing so) at least a couple of times if memory serves.
Interesting. Maybe that was part of the reason for Patty Mills getting so much run in the fourth. He's old but he does have experience running point in the playoffs? Or more likely it was just the fact that it was a blowout and Spo threw him in there.
Yeah, Spo in the post-game presser emphasized how physical Boston played. How they outmuscled Miami and they had no answers.
And it was so obvious in game 2. Celtics would “close” on their guy to 5 feet instead of 3. Which is the difference in a 3 or passing it.
this needs to continue every game against the Heat. To be honest, it’s kind of amazing they weren’t doing it before
a huge difference from Wed's half-hearted defensive effort
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