Winning At Home is Possible on May 19, 2023
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Close game. Come out with the exact opposite energy and execution from the Game 1 third quarter and I like the C’s chances.
He’s much better with football. The orgasm every single basket style annoys me.
I agree with this...Heat are tougher in half court and Celtics have both depth and athleticism if they get out there.
Nice to see Grant was released from the tomb. This may be his last game as a Celt on the parquet.
at some point, Joe will realize that putting Tatum at the FT line is better than having Tatum initiate from the top against the zone.
Smart, Brogdon & White are all capable of getting that entry pass into Tatum
Nope. They’re either going to shoot lights out from 3 or lose. They’re not winning this one with defense and execution.
yep he had a couple misses in a row. White was hot on wide open catch and shoots, mostly off Tatum actions.
I hate how Jimmy Butler coasts through the first half when their role players keep it close. He seems primed to go full assassin mode in the second.
Miami have been playing zone or a semi zone and have plenty of bodies at the 3 point line. We aren’t able to drive to setup the drive and kick 3. Spolestra was openly talking about it in the huddle they showed and knows that if they can reduce our volume of high quality threes we don’t have a lot of other ways to beat them. They’re playing really smart, really high execution basketball and it’s not going to change in our favor unless we find ways to make it easier for our offensive players. Right now we keep trying to do the same things and I dargue the degree of difficulty is way too high right now
Smart isn't, he turned the ball over twice in 4 possessions trying to break the zone.
They're shooting 41.7% from the field but 42.9% from 3. Seems like one of these unsustainable. They're (probably) not going to shoot 43% from 3.
We have too many guys who are much better at on-ball than off-ball and I don’t really trust they would get it right.
43 from 3 is perfectly reasonable. On the other hand, we should shoot better than 30% (but also not a crazy big outlier)
Really disappointing. Feels bad to know any bargain SoSH analysis of this series would have stressed a plan for breaking the zone consistently.
We are going to be talking about unsustainable shooting percentages all offseason if it keeps going like this. Miami is able to get a good shot by Butler nearly every time down the floor if they want to. We can’t contain him at all and he’s moving our defense so much while making shots himself. I don’t see why it isn’t sustainable when we have shown no ability to stop their best player
There is no sustainable or unsustainable in a short series, there is only what happens.
Remember in 2003 where the whole season it was like “this is a really talented team, sure hope this manager thing doesn’t come back to bite them…”
We're set up for it, our guards are just morons. Al Horford is at the nail calling for the ball and Marcus is trying to make circus passes through 3 guys, or Tatum or Brown tries to go 1 v 3.
The odd thing is they know what to do---every few trips they execute a perfect pass to middle and then to the open man. But then they drive into traffic, Smart tries to make an amazing pass, someone jacks a bad three...and Miami just ran six points off. I have a bunch of criticism of CJM...but they do seem to have the play for this.
I mostly just remember unplugging my television and throwing it into the front yard.
Caleb Martin. He should be very unhappy with his performance thus far. He has got to pick it up.
yep, the problem isn't that they don't know what to do, or the coaches don't have them set up and prepared... it's that it's boring to do the little things so our "big 3" refuse to do it, which really has been the same problem in all facets of this team for 3-4 years and 3 coaches
It seems that the Heat have been taught and coached to understand and anticipate the Celts passing lanes and tendencies. And the surprising thing they did this last year too. They are prepared
Totally agree with this. It is now or never and I'd be lying if I said I had very much confidence in this team right now. So disjointed and generally underachievers
3rd quarter coming up. Hopefully they have KG or someone in there yelling at them to remind them of a sense of urgency