April 24. 2024 Beat the Heat

[bosockboy]

Nothing from White either.

 

[Don Buddin's GS]

You've no doubt heard of the "porn 'stache?" Tyler Herro has a "porn beard,"

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

This segment of the game gets zero stars

 

[mikeford]

Jaylen Brown is the only guy who showed up tonight

 

[Auger34]

The interior passing to Porzingis has been fucking pathetic all game. By literally every player

 

[teddykgb]

This is 100% a game thread post and I won’t stand by this but this Celtics team is just not a serious team. You just can’t get punked on your home floor by a severely depleted Heat

 

[Mystic Merlin]

Gross performance coming out of the half.

 

[Helmet Head]

It’s not like many of these 3s are being challenged. Kind of hard to figure out why they are helping so much.

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

Joe Mazzulla run an offense please.

It doesn't matter if you are smoking layups and missing wide open looks

 

[bohous]

Bad quarter. Adjust and pile it on in the 4th.

 

[Valek123]

Heat just more physical and playing to what the refs are allowing tonight.

Celts falling into the post season hero ball trap.

 

[riboflav]

Unfocused and poor communication is killing them. They’re not contesting these 3s

 

[RSN Diaspora]

horrible shot from KP

I’d love for him to sit the rest of the quarter. Something isn’t right with him tonight.

 

[bosockboy]

Up to 58%

 

[Auger34]

Porzingis has been horrific all game. I think he might just need to sit

 

[SteveF]

I think the Miami 3 point shooting got into their heads and they are playing frustrated. We'll see if they have a run in them.

 

[JCizzle]

Jaylen Brown is the only guy who showed up tonight

For all their talk about not taking games off in the playoffs, it sure feels like they're treating this one like a random mid January game. Some - not all - of the hot shooting is just not giving a shit about closing out.

 

[Mystic Merlin]

Their offense is somehow more worrisome right now

 

[DeJesus Built My Hotrod]

This is 100% a game thread post and I won’t stand by this but this Celtics team is just not a serious team. You just can’t get punked on your home floor by a severely depleted Heat

Hard to argue in the moment. I mean I'm about to subscribe to your substack and all that. But there's a lot of game left.

 

[MannyRam]

This is good for them. This season has been largely too easy and they're going to need to deal with some adversity and work to overcome it. Especially if/when they face a team down the road like the Nuggets

 

[Dr Strangeglove]

I did not see this coning. At all.

 

[Auger34]

Tatum seems frustrated about something.

Holiday and Porzingis have just sucked.

White hasn’t been bad but he hasn’t been good either.

A very weird game

 

[timelysarcasm]

58.1% from 3 for Miami, largely assisted by so many of them being uncontested.

Still think they win this, but can't keep fucking around.

 

[Caspir]

And here comes this team’s Achilles heel. Adversity.

 

[ifmanis5]

Tatum still on the bench.

 

[benhogan]

OK a little playoff adversity is good for this team

we're coming back and winning this

 

[teddykgb]

This is good for them. This season has been largely too easy and they're going to need to deal with some adversity and work to overcome it. Especially if/when they face a team down the road like the Nuggets

If you can’t knuckle down and actually play defense and deal with the same double te you saw last game in the fourth then you shouldn’t be talking about even trying to handle Jokic

 

[Ed Hillel]

Let’s see if this team can differentiate itself from prior iterations.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Embarrassing

 

[Lazy vs Crazy]

The two big lineup is bad.

 

[JCizzle]

JB and PP. Neither with any awareness

 

[chilidawg]

It doesn't matter if you are smoking layups and missing wide open looks

Exactly. Just get your heads out of your collective asses.

 

[ifmanis5]

Play some defense challenge.

 

[mikeford]

Yeah this is not the night for these guys. Completely not with it mentally.

 

[Auger34]

In the vein of game thread posts…maybe this new officiating is making Porzingis less effective?

I’m always struck at just how easily he gets pushed off his spot. You’re a big dude, stand your ground

 

[OnWisc]

Careless play coupled with bad luck on both ends equals, well, this.

 

[lars10]

Why is Robinson just allowed to hack the shit out of people to create turnovers?

 

[Spelunker]

I miss Kornet

 

[twibnotes]

So happy we have a young coach learning on the job

 

[Ale Xander]

Down 12? Wtf
Why don’t they like rest

 

[Light-Tower-Power]

Thank Christ for Sam Hauser.

 

[One Red Seat]

The talent differential is huge, no way they should be getting beat by these clowns at home. Really head scratching

 

[osori]

I knew a game like this would be coming as soon as the matchup was decided, but didn't imagine it being at home.

 

[8slim]

If you can’t knuckle down and actually play defense and deal with the same double te you saw last game in the fourth then you shouldn’t be talking about even trying to handle Jokic

This is also the point in the game where the Nuggets said fuck this noise and began to slowly assassinate the Lakers. Gotta do the same

 

[SoxFanInPdx]

That was one of the most laziest quarters of Celtics basketball I've seen this season and there have been lots of them. Wake the hell up, boys! It's the playoffs. This Heat team has no Butler and if they steal this one, Miami will have hope.

 

[Auger34]

Stop throwing those fucking passes Tatum. Fucking Christ

 

[Mystic Merlin]

OMG WTF WITH NO CALL

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Porzingis -29! JFC

 

[JCizzle]

Miami mugging Al

 

[Ale Xander]

Down 9 wtf?
Why don’t they like rest