Game 5, October 30 at Indiana

SteveF

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It's all the misses at the rim leading to transition. Celtics are 5/13 at the rim.
 

Imbricus

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Yeah, our shooting is pretty rough. Indiana too seems to be good at the sneak-from-behind steal, and that's caught our guys off guard a few times. I'm starting to wonder if Indiana is just not a good matchup for us?
 

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Yeah, our shooting is pretty rough. Indiana too seems to be good at the sneak-from-behind steal, and that's caught our guys off guard a few times. I'm starting to wonder if Indiana is just not a good matchup for us?
Pacers are a fantastic offensive team. C's needed to be locked in defensively from the opening tip, and they weren't.
 

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The defense is not there at all. Agree with HRB---secondary break is killing Celts
 

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Tatum, Brown and Holiday all throwing up clunkers at the same time is tough to overcome
 

Imbricus

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Yeah I thought for sure that challenge was going to be successful. Glad it wasn't but ...
 

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Seems like they’re waking up; we’ll see if they can get and keep the intensity up in the second half.
 

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Shooting a three getting touched on the elbow of your shooting arm can completely alter the shot.
100% Any contact with the shooting arm is going to get called. I just wasn’t sure that there was contact from the angle they showed.
 

Imbricus

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Well, we can all agree that Tatum and Brown, 2-13 from three, isn't going to cut it.
 

SteveF

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Defensive rebounding has been an issue in spite of the size advantage, likely a product of all the dribble penetration the Celtics are allowing.
 

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C's mailing it in on defense against an elite offensive team. Bad combination.
 

HomeRunBaker

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He's a career 33% 3 point shooter, and shooting 31% so far this year. Sometimes they just hit the shots you give them.
These are wide open non-challenged looks though. His numbers would be much higher if he got these looks every game.
 

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These are wide open non-challenged looks though. His numbers would be much higher if he got these looks every game.
He's not a guy that takes a lot of contested 3's. He's Marcus Smart, give him 6 shots from 3 even with some space and he's gonna hit 2-3 of them, not 5. Plenty to pick at about today's effort, I'm not upset with how they're defending Siakam.
 

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Ugh, this game is turning into a farce. They can't miss a three, we can't make one. Brown blows a bunny.
 

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Put Pritchard and Hauser in to see if they can get rolling.
 

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The PBP guy keeps saying couldn't "Cash out" for missing a shot. I prefer couldn't "Cash in"

Yes, that's what I'm reduced to in this game.
 

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Any Pacers fan saying that Mathurin could've made a difference in the ECF (they do exist) is having fun. He's been the best player tonight, by a large margin.