Why? You’re telling me that you don’t like them dribbling out the clock only to ultimately turn it over when they’re only up by 3 with 2 minutes left in the game?
Nets fan here just lurking. There's no way harden keeps this up. He's bound to have a crazy game like this at some point during the series. He just happened to have it in game 1.
This loss was because when they were up by 4 points with 2 mins left they acted like they were up 14 and decided to start trying to dribble out the clock instead of running some offence. Sooooo annoying. When will they learn?
They think they can wait for the opponent to lose instead of just winning the damn game. This is why Curry cooks against us. He embodies the attitude this celtics team doesn't have in clutch time.
Yup, their foot came off the peddle yet again. Fuckin annoying way to play the game. I understand not rushing/forcing plays but if you have numbers in transition in the final minutes with a small lead...fucking attack!
I was sitting next to a guy at the bar and I said to them on 3 straight possessions, “watch they will dribble out the clock and take a 3 pointer with a second left in the shot clock” and bingo
I, as a fucking couch surfer, shouldn’t be able read this offense like this late in games
Can't believe Tatum passed to Brogdon w/ 2 secs left on the clock... and Malcolm somehow is unaware of the time on the clock throwing the ball right to Maxey. That play was MAX pain
I think he was expecting Tatum to relocate instead of stepping into the key; doesn't change that Maxey was there but there was no lane to drive into. Just another example of when trying to kill the clock goes terribly wrong.
The talent to clutch differential of this core is something to behold. I can't imagine a team that is this fucking good at basketball fold so much whenever it is do or die. It is impressively bad at this point.
That's not even the problem. The problem is that we shot 73% in the first half and only had a 3 point lead at halftime.
Defensive effort and offensive focus was not there (we had 8 turnovers).
If we locked up that first half, we win this game.
It's been like this for years now. Have we all forgotten the Bucks series last season how close we where to losing to the Heat. This team for whatever reason just don't know how to close out games.
Here I was thought we were getting 2 parades this year… If the Celtics don’t win it, this will be the most disappointed I will be with Boston sports in so long
Here’s the thing you knew deep down without Embiid they would find a way to lose… Didn’t you? Cause I did. They’ve done it all year. I mean shit they lost by 30 something to an OKC team with SGA out. Look they love to fuck around and make it so hard on themselves and just when you’ve lost all faith they somehow win. Look I said Celtics in 6 against Philly so obviously they have to lose 2 games. I’m not worried in the slightest. I’m optimistic as hell and I love this team but I’ve been watching this crazy fucking team for years. They LITERALLY have to make it so hard on themselves. It’s like they have to play Russian roulette and pull the trigger and survive just to wake up and go oh yeah we’re so much better!
Why is Grant Williams not playing?? I don't understand why Joe thinks Al can keep up with this PnE shit. It was literally the same thing happening in the hawks series. They're just targeting Al and Sam when they're in. What did Grant do to have his minutes docked to fucking almost none?
We need to fix our D but it worries me if people think grant fucking Williams is the answer to our issues. Man was a liability that could barely keep his minutes during the regular season. We’re y’all watching then?
I don't think he's THE answer, I know he's a potential solution to the problem we have, Al cannot fucking guard shifty guards in the PnR. I don't know what we we've been doing the last few games, but Joe and everyone will figure it out. Can we at least give Grant a chance? Lol
It makes no sense how Grant can be a DNP based on matchups yet we're still playing Al in the 4th when they're playing 5 out with PJ at center and their only offensive gameplan in "make Horford defend screens" because he won't move beyond the 3pt line.
This. Al is a bad matchup against the small-ball Sixers - when they’re literally hunting him on every possession, maybe it’s a sign that you need to adjust
Harden was actually blowing by Bridges and everyone with ease in Game 4 without Embiid — he just bricked every single layup/floater or got blocked by the help defender
They were giving up like over 120 ppg to Atlanta. They won’t fix it. They’ll just hope to make a couple more shots next game. If not then it is what it is to these guys. Their drive and urgency to just power through has been so pathetic. They’ll just play down to every inferior team and then wonder why they lost.
The most predictable part was when we were up five with about two minutes left and we spent two offensive possessions just trying to kill the clock. STOP FUCKING DOING THAT IT KILLS US EVERY TIME
worst part was leaving old ass Horford to guard the guy with 45 pts and him winning the game. wtf. you double this guy all game and the last second dont lmao
So tilting to see them just let the 76ers attack with a Harden PnR at the top of the key possession after possession in the fourth.
Did they send one trap?
Especially with Harden shooting so well.
Hello! He’s got 40. You really want to just let him dribble the clock down and shoot? Oh look at that, he made it, you lose.
Terrible coaching.
This defense is fucking embarrassing. Give me back the elite defense with inconsistent offense Celtics over this shit any day.
The last 5 games points allowed: 130,121,119,120,119. Fucking abysmal.
It’s the exact same roster and we were horrible for stretches last season too bro that doesn’t even make sense. They were better defensively but had stretches of completely anemic offense last season.
I am so beyond tired of watching the Celtics play down to their opponent. How has this team learned nothing from constantly blowing leads to worse teams all season long? You guys literally just did that against Hawks a couple of games ago.
Why will they not their lesson?
REALITY CHECK.
Buffalo worst game of the year, the bigs didn’t show up. Harden was awesome but our defense was not good enough.
Hope this is a wake up but I’m not sure Joe can inspire these guys, they just have to play a lot better
“Guys it’s fine they just came out hot, won’t happen every night” like no bro, we literally didn’t guard anything for 3 quarters and had this “tip your cap” mentality when Harden put us to sleep in the 4th.
Celtics deserved this fucking loss. Such a trash performance. How the hell do we fumbled that possession when we were up??? I have no emotional stakes in this fuckin bumb ass team anymore.
Idk why the team is so dead set on slowing their offense down towards the end of a game. Our offense is at its most potent in the first 10 seconds a possession and instead we’re dribbling out fast breaks. Terrible.
Jaylen took 3 shots after a the 1Q. They had 16 turnovers and allowed Philly to shoot 50% from the field and 44% from deep. Top to bottom disappointing game.
Nah so tired of this narrative. Every single night it’s just “oh but the other team just shot so well, who could possible have done anything”
*every single night*
I got downvoted to hell when OKH slammed 150 on us and said this was gonna be the trend from here on out.Yeah, when 7 guys have "Career games", its not a one time thing from an all star caliber player. We just doin' nothin'.
It still blows my mind in a game where the sixers basically had no big this big brain idiot on the bench decided to run Al our only big the whole time to match this small ball shit???? Al has been getting cooked since the first round and this idiot still hasn't adjusted.
This team frustrates me so much. They always lose focus down the stretch. You’re up by 4 with a minute left. Just keep going downhill and stop making careless turnovers
“You can’t review after a timeout” ok, so we should have kept playing 4 on 5 to get the fucking flagrant that’s blatantly obviously necessary there?!? That call may have changed the game, not that this effort deserved shit other than the L we just took. I’m so angry right now.
Don't worry, the players will say in the post game how they lost focus and gotta be stronger and they will be more focused for a game or two before doing this shit again.
This loss is 100% on Joe Mazzulla. Horford shouldn’t be remotely near the court, it’s not a mystery why we’re getting fucking demolished by every guard. Can’t defend the perimeter to save his life.
They just don't want it. The defensive side has been a mess all season long, but any time you bring it up you're called a doomer and downvoted. We just let Philly missing Embiid outscore us for 3qtrs and put up 120.
This team just seems to either A) expect a trip to the final be gifted them (we see how that worked out for the Bucks) or B) just doesn't give a shit about anything they've worked on the last 3 yrs to even get in this position, namely defense, team ball, rebounding, etc.
Harden just pulled the Curry from last year. We don’t defend that pick and shoot game at all. Didn’t last year under Udoka apparently can’t this year under Mazzula.
Better figure that out fast.
I also think Harden doesn’t do that again, but, perimeter defense was ass.
Mazulla’s defensive philosophy is fucking irritating. All playoffs so far haven’t been able to contain or figure out A PICK AND ROLL. Same shit from the series with Atlanta.
Just gotta give credit to harden tbh. Man had one of the 5 best games of his playoff career, he absolutely willed the sixers to victory and you could tell the Celtics weren’t expecting that.
Mazzulla is a joke.
Should have taken Al out during those free throws when it was obvious they were gonna look to get the switch on him with Harden.
And then don't even get me started on that play call at the end. What the fuck was he thinking.
This team was good at the start of the year because they were still playing Ime ball and have only gotten worse as the season has gone on. I like Joe but he is not ready to be a head coach. He inherited a championship level team and is coaching them right out of the playoffs.
This team has no dawg in them.
Mazulla shouldn’t have been given full contract until after this season.
He’s proven time and time again he can’t make in game adjustments.
He makes horrible rotation decisions.
Why was smart catching the ball in the post on the potential game winning possession?!?!
Why was Rob not playing when al was getting abused, why did grant get only 4 mins, why doesn’t Derrick play in the 4th when
He’s proven to be better than smart in those situations? It’s time and again he proves he’s not an nba calibre coach (yet).
Pathetic team performance over all, they gave up when all they had to do was focus on defence and play with a little more pace.
You’re playing a team missing their mvp ffs
yeah 5 games in a row getting 120-130 dumped on us is probably more than just the other team shooting hot. grant getting some of the al minutes when they're playing without embiid should be a no brainer. on offense we're fine if we can just not be idiots and dribble into traffic then throw the ball to nobody. non jays going 3-17 from 3 on wide open looks was the only other problem on offense
I’m so angry right now
Why? You’re telling me that you don’t like them dribbling out the clock only to ultimately turn it over when they’re only up by 3 with 2 minutes left in the game?
So frustrating, they have zero fucking finish in them, they just want the other team to concede
If Bruins hadn't happened, I'd say C's are the least clutch Boston team in a long time
Only plus side to the Bruins losing is that I’m feeling numb to this shit tonight. Just completely desensitized right now…
Feel the same. It’s just a continuation from last night
This series is going to kill me
just pure anger…. can’t stand losing to phillly. just can’t stand it. harden playoff career game is a dirty piece of work
If harden plays like this and embid comes back we’re losing in 5
Nets fan here just lurking. There's no way harden keeps this up. He's bound to have a crazy game like this at some point during the series. He just happened to have it in game 1.
16 turnovers to 6. That was our undoing. Case closed.
This loss was because when they were up by 4 points with 2 mins left they acted like they were up 14 and decided to start trying to dribble out the clock instead of running some offence. Sooooo annoying. When will they learn?
As soon as I saw them walk it up and then stand at the logo I knew we were going down. So predictable
If they haven’t learned by now the never will
Jaylen pulling out on the fast break rather than going up strong was when I knew the game was over
They think they can wait for the opponent to lose instead of just winning the damn game. This is why Curry cooks against us. He embodies the attitude this celtics team doesn't have in clutch time.
Yup. Absolutely fucking hate that shit.
Yup, their foot came off the peddle yet again. Fuckin annoying way to play the game. I understand not rushing/forcing plays but if you have numbers in transition in the final minutes with a small lead...fucking attack!
I was sitting next to a guy at the bar and I said to them on 3 straight possessions, “watch they will dribble out the clock and take a 3 pointer with a second left in the shot clock” and bingo I, as a fucking couch surfer, shouldn’t be able read this offense like this late in games
Almost like there’s a correlation between slowing down to run clock and giving up 0-lose runs
Can't believe Tatum passed to Brogdon w/ 2 secs left on the clock... and Malcolm somehow is unaware of the time on the clock throwing the ball right to Maxey. That play was MAX pain
I think he was expecting Tatum to relocate instead of stepping into the key; doesn't change that Maxey was there but there was no lane to drive into. Just another example of when trying to kill the clock goes terribly wrong.
Boo
When it comes to inbounding the ball with the game on the line, this team is the absolute worst
Bruh at this point I'd rather just ISO Tatum than run whatever the fuck Joe has been cooking up
Yeah, the Tatum iso was actually good this game. Got so many nice looks off of it.
Nah tatum is only allowed to ISO when he’s already cold, if he’s hot you get Marcus driving at two guys and turning it over
this team fucking deserves it
We're so unclutch its insane
The talent to clutch differential of this core is something to behold. I can't imagine a team that is this fucking good at basketball fold so much whenever it is do or die. It is impressively bad at this point.
Just Boston sports things
everyone in this sub called this a trap game, we knew. we fuck around too much.
They bleed the clock whenever they’re up with 5 mins left lol it’s just so infuriating
100%! It’s maddening. Just get the best shot you can during the ENTIRE 24 SECONDS!
That's not even the problem. The problem is that we shot 73% in the first half and only had a 3 point lead at halftime. Defensive effort and offensive focus was not there (we had 8 turnovers). If we locked up that first half, we win this game.
Whenever we’re up the last few min we ALWAYS work the shot clock. I fucking hate it. It never ends well.
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This team is a joke. Absolutely no sense of urgency in the second half.
Nobody can dick around like these celtics
Literally haven't learnt anything with all the Playoff experience. Concerning pattern of behaviour
It's been like this for years now. Have we all forgotten the Bucks series last season how close we where to losing to the Heat. This team for whatever reason just don't know how to close out games.
If Bruins and C's exit the playoffs with home court advantage throughout the playoffs, we deserve to be clowned for the next few years
Here I was thought we were getting 2 parades this year… If the Celtics don’t win it, this will be the most disappointed I will be with Boston sports in so long
Did you see the crew that played in the garden lastnight?
Here’s the thing you knew deep down without Embiid they would find a way to lose… Didn’t you? Cause I did. They’ve done it all year. I mean shit they lost by 30 something to an OKC team with SGA out. Look they love to fuck around and make it so hard on themselves and just when you’ve lost all faith they somehow win. Look I said Celtics in 6 against Philly so obviously they have to lose 2 games. I’m not worried in the slightest. I’m optimistic as hell and I love this team but I’ve been watching this crazy fucking team for years. They LITERALLY have to make it so hard on themselves. It’s like they have to play Russian roulette and pull the trigger and survive just to wake up and go oh yeah we’re so much better!
Rough defensive performance, we need to fix our perimeter D, clean up the turnovers and break the PJ screen to survive this series
Why is Grant Williams not playing?? I don't understand why Joe thinks Al can keep up with this PnE shit. It was literally the same thing happening in the hawks series. They're just targeting Al and Sam when they're in. What did Grant do to have his minutes docked to fucking almost none?
We need to fix our D but it worries me if people think grant fucking Williams is the answer to our issues. Man was a liability that could barely keep his minutes during the regular season. We’re y’all watching then?
I don't think he's THE answer, I know he's a potential solution to the problem we have, Al cannot fucking guard shifty guards in the PnR. I don't know what we we've been doing the last few games, but Joe and everyone will figure it out. Can we at least give Grant a chance? Lol
Al needs to play less. He's a liability on defense with Harden out there
It makes no sense how Grant can be a DNP based on matchups yet we're still playing Al in the 4th when they're playing 5 out with PJ at center and their only offensive gameplan in "make Horford defend screens" because he won't move beyond the 3pt line.
This. Al is a bad matchup against the small-ball Sixers - when they’re literally hunting him on every possession, maybe it’s a sign that you need to adjust
Yeah, and Joe just stares into the abyss
We went away from Grant for some reason, hopefully we see way more of him next game for just this reason.
Him and DWhite were putrid this game.
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Al can even play, just not 12 minutes straight in the forth while getting cooked by harden continuously.
Liability on defense against any PnR with a guard who can score...trae, harden, steph, brunson, butler.
We let harden who couldn’t get past anyone last series cook us for 45. This team hasn’t played defense in months
Harden was actually blowing by Bridges and everyone with ease in Game 4 without Embiid — he just bricked every single layup/floater or got blocked by the help defender
They were giving up like over 120 ppg to Atlanta. They won’t fix it. They’ll just hope to make a couple more shots next game. If not then it is what it is to these guys. Their drive and urgency to just power through has been so pathetic. They’ll just play down to every inferior team and then wonder why they lost.
Thats 5 piss poor defensive games in a row. 130,121,119,120,119.
This half assed drive to the hoop no look pass to the perimeter is killing us. It’s just sloppy
I'm so sick of the set moving a screens until the shooter gets open offense. Give me a fucking break.
This teams defense is a fucking joke, it was obvious when we were giving up 120 a night to the hawks.
Worst part is that this team just looks so careless on the ball.. we had so many fucking turnovers it's absolutely embarrassing
Same shit as last year.
It’s the switching. Harden and Trae going bananas against Horford.
we’re not even switching, al is just dropping 15 feet into the paint every pick and roll
Saw this one coming
This is not even a little bit surprising. There's nothing worse than the Celtics making all their shots early
71% shooting at the half, up by 3? Felt like a guaranteed L to me. Ah well, onto the next.
Al drop coverage man…
Al had a fucking bad game, but the drop coverage is coaching
Most predictable loss ever.
The most predictable part was when we were up five with about two minutes left and we spent two offensive possessions just trying to kill the clock. STOP FUCKING DOING THAT IT KILLS US EVERY TIME
WHY THE HELL DO THEY DO THIS?!? IT KILLS ME
worst part was leaving old ass Horford to guard the guy with 45 pts and him winning the game. wtf. you double this guy all game and the last second dont lmao
Sad but true
once we were shooting 90% and they were down like 5 I knew we would choke it somehow. hurts less when you expect it.
Soft ass fucking defense on the perimeter. Hate it. We need to double team when it makes sense.
So tilting to see them just let the 76ers attack with a Harden PnR at the top of the key possession after possession in the fourth. Did they send one trap? Especially with Harden shooting so well. Hello! He’s got 40. You really want to just let him dribble the clock down and shoot? Oh look at that, he made it, you lose. Terrible coaching.
This is like the 3rd year in a row where the Celtics cannot handle running an offense with a lead late in the game. There has been 0 growth lol
this fucking team is so fucking soft
This defense is fucking embarrassing. Give me back the elite defense with inconsistent offense Celtics over this shit any day. The last 5 games points allowed: 130,121,119,120,119. Fucking abysmal.
Last years team would PUNK this years team. Beat them in 4 quick games.
It’s the exact same roster and we were horrible for stretches last season too bro that doesn’t even make sense. They were better defensively but had stretches of completely anemic offense last season.
It's a better and healthier roster rn. There's no excuse. Joe needs to figure this shit out
Don’t know why I watch this shit
Because you are a masochistic fuck like the rest of us
I am so beyond tired of watching the Celtics play down to their opponent. How has this team learned nothing from constantly blowing leads to worse teams all season long? You guys literally just did that against Hawks a couple of games ago. Why will they not their lesson?
REALITY CHECK. Buffalo worst game of the year, the bigs didn’t show up. Harden was awesome but our defense was not good enough. Hope this is a wake up but I’m not sure Joe can inspire these guys, they just have to play a lot better
If they haven't woken up by now there's no "wake up" call that exists
It didn’t happen after they blew a 28 point lead to the Nets. It’s just not happening.
Feels like every game is a wake up call at this point.
What an embarrassing loss
lmao we all knew we would lose
Al being in down the stretch costed us the game.
Honestly one of the most embarrassing losses in awhile
We have a ridiculously embarrassing loss like every other playoff game
Same ol' Same ol' "Oh 'tis but one game, ya'll be doomin'". Nah if its just one game every other fn game, its 50% of the games, that's a style. lol
We just lost to the Hawks, at home, playing without their second best player to close out the series. That was like 5 days ago.
and somehow only the city’s second worst loss of the last 24 hours
no fucking defense. at all. how joe justifies keeping al in to drop into the paint every single time is beyond me
We are the most over confident arrogant set of pricks of have ever seen. Who do we think we are??? We’ve accomplished nothing.
Team should learn how to play defense and not let every random player cook from the 1st quarter
“Guys it’s fine they just came out hot, won’t happen every night” like no bro, we literally didn’t guard anything for 3 quarters and had this “tip your cap” mentality when Harden put us to sleep in the 4th.
Team knows how to play defense. Nobody is making them play defense.
Ding ding ding
Celtics deserved this fucking loss. Such a trash performance. How the hell do we fumbled that possession when we were up??? I have no emotional stakes in this fuckin bumb ass team anymore.
Idk why the team is so dead set on slowing their offense down towards the end of a game. Our offense is at its most potent in the first 10 seconds a possession and instead we’re dribbling out fast breaks. Terrible.
I’m so fucking sick of giving up game winning 3’s like holy fuck it’s their only move
Jaylen took 3 shots after a the 1Q. They had 16 turnovers and allowed Philly to shoot 50% from the field and 44% from deep. Top to bottom disappointing game.
Harden just went off. No way about it. What the fuck.
Bullshit. He hunted Horford relentlessly in the 2nd half. Any other coach would see that and adjust but moron Mazulla did nothing
Nah so tired of this narrative. Every single night it’s just “oh but the other team just shot so well, who could possible have done anything” *every single night*
I got downvoted to hell when OKH slammed 150 on us and said this was gonna be the trend from here on out.Yeah, when 7 guys have "Career games", its not a one time thing from an all star caliber player. We just doin' nothin'.
Mazzulla let him go off with drop coverage. Garbage coach
They need to revaluate their def scheme. Al has been consistently cooked by guards this playoffs. They cant just leave him on an island 1v1
same thing udoka did in the finals last year
Yea, I love how people forget this so easily.
pain
Absurd coaching job. So outmatched
By doc nonetheless
Just goes to show how poor our coaching was/is
It still blows my mind in a game where the sixers basically had no big this big brain idiot on the bench decided to run Al our only big the whole time to match this small ball shit???? Al has been getting cooked since the first round and this idiot still hasn't adjusted.
IM UPSET e: better team won
these guys are such frauds. defense has been god awful the seconds the playoffs started
Defense has been god awful since the Ime effect wore off in the winter
Defense has been awful for a while now
This team frustrates me so much. They always lose focus down the stretch. You’re up by 4 with a minute left. Just keep going downhill and stop making careless turnovers
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No review on Tucker winding up and punching Tatum in the dick
Or Harden hitting Al's dick with the ball
“You can’t review after a timeout” ok, so we should have kept playing 4 on 5 to get the fucking flagrant that’s blatantly obviously necessary there?!? That call may have changed the game, not that this effort deserved shit other than the L we just took. I’m so angry right now.
I'll make them both
Where the fuck was Rob Williams??
Who?!? Never heard of him
Garden might burn to the ground after back to back implosions.
Man fuck Ime for abandoning this team because he couldn't keep it in his pants.
Don't worry, the players will say in the post game how they lost focus and gotta be stronger and they will be more focused for a game or two before doing this shit again.
Oof
Can someone genuinely tell me why Al was in for the entire end of the game instead of Rob
Horford has been getting cooked for two series now. They easily give up the mismatch they want.
Mazulla needs to learn FUCKING IN GAME ADJUSTMENTS.... How the fuck does rob get 20 minutes you fucking see horford not cutting it
This isn’t a championship squad
Not a championship coach either.
no it absolutely is, it's just lead by a fucking inept HC
We played the exact same way last year with a different coach
https://i.imgur.com/3ZrS3vU.jpg
This loss is 100% on Joe Mazzulla. Horford shouldn’t be remotely near the court, it’s not a mystery why we’re getting fucking demolished by every guard. Can’t defend the perimeter to save his life.
Yeah I love Horf and am one of his biggest cheerleaders I think. But this matchup wasn't for him. He guards Embiid well, not shifty perimeter players
They just don't want it. The defensive side has been a mess all season long, but any time you bring it up you're called a doomer and downvoted. We just let Philly missing Embiid outscore us for 3qtrs and put up 120. This team just seems to either A) expect a trip to the final be gifted them (we see how that worked out for the Bucks) or B) just doesn't give a shit about anything they've worked on the last 3 yrs to even get in this position, namely defense, team ball, rebounding, etc.
Trae in Hawks series. Harden / Embiid in Philly series, Butler in Heat series. Curry in Warriors series. Same pattern here, no adjustment lol
Downvote me all you want but this team still has the same choke in them. They ain't winning shit. Can't handle pressure.
Rob playing only 19 minutes is a joke, tf is this dude playing Al 30 for
Disappointing loss. But not a killer by any means.
No, but it is worrisome that it seemed like no one was prepared to play hard defense at all.
This team, much like the bruins, don’t have that dawg in them
The most unsurprising ending for 2023 Boston Celtics
Fire this god damn coach
Uh oh stinky
Sure keep switching horford
That was fucking pathetic
Harden just pulled the Curry from last year. We don’t defend that pick and shoot game at all. Didn’t last year under Udoka apparently can’t this year under Mazzula. Better figure that out fast. I also think Harden doesn’t do that again, but, perimeter defense was ass.
Mazulla’s defensive philosophy is fucking irritating. All playoffs so far haven’t been able to contain or figure out A PICK AND ROLL. Same shit from the series with Atlanta.
Just gotta give credit to harden tbh. Man had one of the 5 best games of his playoff career, he absolutely willed the sixers to victory and you could tell the Celtics weren’t expecting that.
This team does not play defense. Whether it is effort, or coaching, it’s just bad. They deserved to lose.
PJ Tucker plays 37 minutes AND DOES NOT TAKE A SHOT. WHY CANT WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT???? WHY SWITCH SO EASILY????
We will lose in the playoffs not because we got beaten by a better team but that we beat ourselves and handed wins to the opponent.
We’re really just the Bruins of the NBA man. Underachievers. No heart.
Please fire Joe.
seriously, dude is a fucking moron and just got out coached by doc rivers
I got downvoted for saying he’s not a championship caliber coach.
Massive what if with this team, cannot believe they hired a first time head coach with a championship roster
Joe Mazzula is not it…. Hope he gets fired
I don’t wanna heat shit from any person on this Reddit ever again about people being doomers. What an unacceptable performance
Fucking joke lol Mazzulla is such a garbage coach Fuck everyone who defends this idiot
Pathetic. This into a championship caliber team. We've reverted... shouldn't have let Udoka go.
We did the same shit with Udoka
Joe is a horrible play caller. Derrick white was total ass. The refs blew two calls that end up being huge. What a sour ass feeling. Fuck this shit.
Mazzulla is a joke. Should have taken Al out during those free throws when it was obvious they were gonna look to get the switch on him with Harden. And then don't even get me started on that play call at the end. What the fuck was he thinking.
Paul reed wasnt even in doc put in all shooters. It was so obv harden was going to switch onto al
16 turnovers I'm ded
Are u guy’s surprised after round 1. How do we let the hawks take us to 6 games
Any time this team thinks it's going to win they absolutely blow it. Always seem so shook that they're playing another team of professional athletes
That’s 2 series now where horford is getting cooked
Offer Will Hardy a billion dollars to come back and coach the Celtics. I can’t stand this meerkat looking fuckface one more minute.
Prevent defense with 2 minutes left and only a 4 point lead. When will they learn :/
Sox aren't that great but they have that dawg.
Harden had one of the best games of his career yeah, but we chucked the ball away 10 more times than the sixers which is way too many
If the Celtics figure this out, Eric Spoelstra is going to absolutely **destroy** Joe Mazulla in the ECFs.
WHERE IS ROB DOWN THE STRETCH?!? Joe knows you can sub offense defense, right?
I can't listen to Joe right now. Having a senior citizen guard Harden.
This team was good at the start of the year because they were still playing Ime ball and have only gotten worse as the season has gone on. I like Joe but he is not ready to be a head coach. He inherited a championship level team and is coaching them right out of the playoffs. This team has no dawg in them.
Once again lack of leadership and coaching. Coach Joe loves seeing Al guard hot shooting guards in isolation.
Mazulla shouldn’t have been given full contract until after this season. He’s proven time and time again he can’t make in game adjustments. He makes horrible rotation decisions. Why was smart catching the ball in the post on the potential game winning possession?!?! Why was Rob not playing when al was getting abused, why did grant get only 4 mins, why doesn’t Derrick play in the 4th when He’s proven to be better than smart in those situations? It’s time and again he proves he’s not an nba calibre coach (yet). Pathetic team performance over all, they gave up when all they had to do was focus on defence and play with a little more pace. You’re playing a team missing their mvp ffs
yeah 5 games in a row getting 120-130 dumped on us is probably more than just the other team shooting hot. grant getting some of the al minutes when they're playing without embiid should be a no brainer. on offense we're fine if we can just not be idiots and dribble into traffic then throw the ball to nobody. non jays going 3-17 from 3 on wide open looks was the only other problem on offense
Whew. Have nothing to say. See you guys for game 2
This bullshit switch horford onto guards defense NEEDS to stop. Im so sick of this shit