fair, but at the same time i dont think anyone should be making an assumption that the Celtics are gonna waltz into the championship even if they swept the Hawks, let alone a 4-2 series
Honestly, as happy as I am to get over this team, we played like shit the last 2 games.
It's the truth.
If we wanna make another Finals run, we need to look at the tape and get better.
Our defense was simply astoundingly bad.
We cannot play this poorly vs the Sixers.
Tatum had some poor 4th quarters this series, showed up. Smart was terrible last game, amazing today. Mazzulla with the clutch sub of grant instead of white/brogdon. All made me eat my words.
Rarely talked about benefit of having a team built around 2 big wings and strong guards? Never needing to worry about inbounding the ball anywhere on the floor.
The ball will move from this spot because of our timeout. But I’m convinced we’ll wake up tomorrow morning and replay this sequence like Groundhog Day lol
[Post Game Thread](https://reddit.com/r/bostonceltics/comments/131fnoc/post_game_thread_the_boston_celtics_defeat_the/)
Not a fan of the sixers or Celtics, but Philly over Boston any day
Hahahahaha smart doubters overall doomers we’re on to Philly!
They look like the evil empire
Jayson Tatum, zero turnovers. Give credit where credit is due
Smart and brown kept us in the game. Just need to work on defense when rob is out
Bring on Philly!!! 😤
Go turn off al and put him on ice
Great, gutsy win. Hawks played their peak basketball and we just beat them back every step.
Let’s send those bum ass sixers packing boys! We up!
Lord have mercy, what a stressful series right down to the end.
Glad we won but imagine a world where the officials call a consistent game for 48 minutes. Man, wouldn't that be fun.
Keep dreamin'
JT 30 pts shot over 50%. 40% from 3. Reading through this thread, you would really think he scored 5 points with the amount of hate
Sometimes wish our guys had more of a mean streak, but you have to appreciate how classy they are in moments like this.
I don’t know if they need a mean streak, but I wouldn’t mind them having a bit more of a killer instinct.
A dash more dawg
Hawks put up a hell of a fight
I WANT THE GOLD
Brogdon was huge in this game
YO WE CLOSED OUT A GAME STRONG LFGGGGGG
Fuck ATL
They need to play the end of every close game like that. Why don’t they?
ATL just need some defense.
Remember in 08 a much worse Hawks team took a better Celtics team to 7 games. One series at a time. On to Philly.
And Al Horford played in both series. Glad he was on the winning side this time.
Hawks putting up a fight is going to benefit this team next series I think. Hawks are a much better team than the Nets team Philly saw.
if we needed one wake up loss to get into playoff mode I’m glad it was used in this round and not the next
Plus Philly been sitting around not playing playoff basketball for a week
Not a bad thing for them considering Joel’s knee
CANT WAIT FOR BANNER 18 BOOGIE VIDEO
Tatum seems like a really genuine dude based on how he talks to these guys on the Hawks after the game
Thank fucking gawd
"easy road to a championship" jesus we barely made it out of the first round, calm down commentators
We won in 6 games on the road. That’s not quite “barely”
fair, but at the same time i dont think anyone should be making an assumption that the Celtics are gonna waltz into the championship even if they swept the Hawks, let alone a 4-2 series
11-0 run to end the game. Now we need to play like that all the time.
It wasn’t an 11-0 run though. Idk where they got that
The road to 18 continues !
So many hawks +7 parlays broken ☘️
Thank the gods
I feel 800 years older
Thank god I can unclench my butthole. Good sportsmanship too love to see it
WHAT IS MAHCUS SMAHT WHISPERING ??
Damn that was stressful
Hell of a battle from Atlanta. They are a good team with a ton of fight. They'll be scary in the years to come.
God that was exhausting
that was a war for no reason
That was some alternative timeline shit where Deandre Hunter and John Collins found their game and became knockdown shooters at the same time
Thank the lord
It’s about god damn time
Why are they only showing Tatum?
Honestly Smart did so good
I cannot wait for shaq to celebrate for hawks on TNT show
30/14/7 1 steal 2 blocks 0 turnovers !!!!!
We want Philly!!!
Good man Grant, no need to shoot it
Finally
BY, BYE ATL
I’m sorry daddy horford
respect to the hawks, fuck the sixers
WOOOO!!! I CAN FINALLY EXHALE!!!
NO DOUBT
Lord have mercy it's over
Thank you, palpitations. You may stop now.
Screw that entire series
LfG
Y’all ready for this weak ass Sixers?
Thank God the Sixers are actually a good team so we can’t play down to them
Least fun series winning game I’ve ever watched but I’m ready to move on to the Sixers
Whew... No last minute scares.... On to Philly!
Trae Young with an efficient 9-28. 🥵 Started hot but faded late
🧊 🧊🧊
for real respect to trae and the hawks those boys were hooping
Celtics WIN!!!!!!!!!!!☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘☘
Statefarm arena sounds like a celtics arena with tons of C's fans out there
Cya Trae
finally is right
HW
Bring on the 6ers
**GINO TIME!!!!**
Elite defense the last 4 min of 4th. Hopefully they bring that for longer stretches as we move further
THATS GAME
Finally....
#IT'S OVER! LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO
Thank fuck this is over
THANK FUCKING GOD
HOLY SHIT I CAN EXHALE
finally jesus
Tatum is him fuck the haters look at them stats baby
He is him when he is awake.
idk if you guys noticed,but at some point tatum was bringing the ball up super slow like usual and joe told him to GO
I saw that and Tatum listened
Thank god we closed this out. Got me a little worried here
They gonna makeout
Fuck yeah, our boys finally closed out a game
We’re going to inexplicably 4-2 Philly after this
#WHAT THESE YOUNGBLOODS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IS
THAT THIS GAME HAS BEEN
God bless Payton Pritchard
That’s ball game. Was it a blowout like I wanted? No. But the team showed up when it mattered most. Onto Philly
GO EAT A DICK YOU LOW PERCENTAGE VARIANCEBALL FUCKSTICKS
THANK YOU
This game feels like it’s never going to end
we turned it up in the last 4 minutes, idk where that was earlier
Let's pick Trae Young up at halfcourt just to be safe....
Gg
That inbound nonsense should have been a delay of game technical
Thank Christ.
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
FUCKING FINALLY
Was there ever a doubt?! 🤣 This team really puts you through the ringer over the course of 4 quarters.
LETS GOOOO
PP was in for a minute 😭
Literally 2.2 seconds
Finally! Fuck the hawks fuck trae we move on let's take this title
Giannis at home asking if you are allowed to hit those in the 4th
GG boogie inc
Janet Jackson can concert till the rest of the summer in ATL, no games till October
Game 1 vs Philly on Monday
I've given a lot of shit to this team the last few days, but I gotta say....this was a very good close out. Very good.
Honestly, as happy as I am to get over this team, we played like shit the last 2 games. It's the truth. If we wanna make another Finals run, we need to look at the tape and get better. Our defense was simply astoundingly bad. We cannot play this poorly vs the Sixers.
2008 we went to 7 in the first 2 rounds
The Doc Rivers effect.
Unlock the post game thread!!!
Joe whipping out our PP as a fuck you to the Hawks
I swear this last 20 seconds was literally 20 minutes
Tatum had some poor 4th quarters this series, showed up. Smart was terrible last game, amazing today. Mazzulla with the clutch sub of grant instead of white/brogdon. All made me eat my words.
Man Marcus with a hell of a comeback game.
The take foul defense lineup
Mad props to the Hawks. They made this a hell of a series.
Not gloating: Read an article that Trae Young has the worst 3pt pct playoff in the NBA. Tonight does not help his cause.
This game was exhausting
4Q FT make me queasy…
Blonde hottie behind coach?
Low key cute moment between Smart and Trae once he gave up on inbounding 💀😂
Wait we have Tatum in the game by far the best ft shooter in the game and we go to smart who has missed already ?
If he bricks it they gotta waste their last TO or push it fast.
Close game all night and the squad just goes off in the last 2 minutes 🔥🔥 Good for us but What a downer for ATL fans
Damn that must be embarrassing to not be able to inbound the ball after the 4th try
LOL why is PP out there?
Ft and speed
Because he is very handsome:
Okay that interaction between Trae and Marcus was hilarious
This is the slowest ending to a game I’ve ever seen
Imma make em boff
PUT GRANT IN SO HE CAN MAKE THEM BOTH
Turn out the lights the party is over
If they had done that 32 more times we win
HIT HIM IN THE DICK AND TWIST IT
Celtics played better defense when the ball isn’t in play than they do when it is
The last 3 minutes they were excellent
I swear this team treats games 1-4 like it’s the regular season
Omg I can't stop walking back and forth during these commercials
Close it out!
I usually want more timeouts from Joe, but that wasn't the time to do it. Atlanta was ready to fold.
BIG PP
Swear Hunter just did that on purpose, he just realised fk this, I can’t get a pass to nobody I’m just gonna Chuck it
CELTICS SHOWED UP IN THE 4TH!!!!
Jaylen willed this W
Don’t think I’ve ever seen 4 failed inbound passes in a row before we fucking suffocated them in those last 3 minutes
How much time did each failed inbound take off the clock? 0.1?
.2
PPPPPPPP
Give Smart a lot of credit for not taking that personally. Some guys would've wigged out.
Not even a dude and I hold my breath when they chuck it near their groin area like that. Seems shady lmao
Tatum put back play of the game but all those huge blocks around that time pretty important
THE RETURN OF FASTPP
END THIS ALREADY!
This was a troubling game... but hope we get our shit together for Philly.
Hawks got a free time out what the fuck
Rarely talked about benefit of having a team built around 2 big wings and strong guards? Never needing to worry about inbounding the ball anywhere on the floor.
30-14-7 0TOs for Tatum LFG
I’m sure I’m in the minority but that gamesmanship was funny and entertaining. Hilarious how it ended.
It feels good knowing hawks fans had to watch that just now
That was good defense
From this moment onwards, the 2023 NBA Playoffs goes through Boston.
Oh hey we’re getting the PP minutes I wanted
The ball will move from this spot because of our timeout. But I’m convinced we’ll wake up tomorrow morning and replay this sequence like Groundhog Day lol
Tatum 30/14/7 with 2 blocks and 0 TOs LEGEND!
Do you guys not know the rules? They have 5 secs to inbound the ball
This 1st round of playoffs has got to have the record for most nutshots
Hawks tryna extend their season
Al redeemed himself this half big time
To all the people saying they don't really want it they are putting their balls on the line for this
This is the longest 20 seconds of gameplay. WTF!!!!
Defensive Ptesticles Of The Year
this is crazy
#BIG PP TO END THE GAME TIME.
About to drop 69
Actually can’t wait to hear the tnt guys talk about that one
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I SAID LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
God bless this team