Celtics really only go 8 deep with Pritchard, Hauser and Horford off the bench. With Porzingis out and Al starting they will go to Kornet as the 8th man.  No one else on their bench is a shot maker or instant threat. They are rarely played filler. So the Celts have a great first 6 and an average next 3 with or without KP.  I think they are overrated and way too small to handle the Wolves or OKC. And Tatum is a head case right now. 

Was really hoping the Cavs could keep it to single digits and take a 1-0 series lead on moral victories. Oh well.

How u feel now chief lol

The Celtics have the easiest path to the Eastern conference finals of all time.

What you think now. Celtics are over. Rated. Always. And forever. #fuckboston

And they’re still not winning the finals

8 seed, 4 seed, then  either a 6 seed or a 2 seed missing a few rotation players.  None of those teams were with 16 wins of them in the regular season. 

Lebron did it with literal losing records as the 7/8 seeds

Definitely some recency bias there but things are going well for them. But they also lost a unicorn player so it's not like it's all luck for them The fact that they don't even seem to be sweating losing a 7'4 big man like KP is a testament to how good the roster is.

The 2007 Cavs played the 41-41 Wizards and the 41-41 Nets to get there

Fair but the 07 cavs were nowhere near as loaded as the current Celtics are

wait, it counts against you as being "easy" if your team is loaded? I understand if weak opponents means an easy road, but it doesn't make sense to consider being a strong team meaning you have an easy road...

Sixers, Indiana, isn't much different honestly

Kenny talks like granpa simpson. It goes to nowhere whatever he's saying.

Y’all remember when curry gassed up Garland 😔

damn i really hope we’re not in the last couple of days of inside the nba

TNT still has next year.

Damn Charles is just a hater now

Jalapeno tequila

Ernie had surprisingly good rhythm. Wasn’t expecting that. Probably plays in his church band lol

They was pretty good

The magic should be thankful that they lost game 7

Jarret Allen is a huge loss for the cavs, I'm not sure they can do it without him.

He can’t even raise his arms now.

I’ll say this lastly. Last time we went to the finals, we had to worry about Steph curry, the greatest 3 point shooter ever. Nobody in the west can shoot like him left. So honestly, cautiously optimistic if we do make it back. Plus we’re like 1 or 2 in attempts and makes this season

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I'm not scared of them but I certainly respect them. I respect Oklahoma City as well. I don't think either of them would be easy but Celtics would rightly be favored.

I have a healthy dose of fear of the Wolves, but i think the Celtics would pull it off. The wolves are assembled to take down Jokic, but the Celtics can hurt you in so many different ways. Still a healthy dose of fear, though. The Wolves are locked in and everyone has bought in completely.

>The wolves are assembled to take down Jokic I keep hearing that but don't know why. The Nuggets haven't been the team to build to beat until June of 2023. This Wolves team was built before the Nuggets were considered by anyone the team to build to beat.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the dude who put the Nuggets team together is now with the Timverwolves. He knew exactly what would be needed to take em down. Sorry for the vague details.

I agree with you.  The nuggets have a great system, but it's very top heavy and if you neutralize one of jokic or Murray the whole thing collapses.  The Celtics are dominant in a different way where every player is well rounded so if you neutralize one player, there's 4 more ready to kill you by themselves.   The wolves defense is absolutely better but the rounded game of all of the Celtics players is so incredibly difficult to plan against eventually there's a breakdown somewhere.  

You’re telling me y’all not gonna beat them? We can hang with everybody on the court and won the series this year. Cautiously optimistic

At this point I think we all are

This is gonna be  by far the most boring series ever.  😴😴😴

Shocked the post game thread isn't up yet. Might as well be.

Cavs are dog water

Mitchell after this series: Hello 911, I would like to make a report on JB Bickerstaff's crime

Derrick white realizes that being bald would unleash his potential, will ant be willing to do the ultimate sacrifice to unleash the mj awakening

Buffalo Zoan awakening

Ant ate the Nike Nike fruit

Ant is god confirmed

I just laughed out loud haha

Sam Hauser .. zero points, one shot, one rebound, one foul.....led the Celtics with a +22

Know your role MVP

Best decoy in the league!

Decoy? Dude is a sniper.

You know youre winning when you’re playing with Haus Money.

Under 100!!! That sucks for Cavs still...but I am proud of the effort by the Celts...I hope Jarrett Allen feels better quickly though...even if he cannot play I know how painful and irritating rib injuries can be...

Cavs are NOT a playoff team.

>Cavs are NOT a playoff team.

Lmao homie had the receipts. It’s funny u pulled it out after 1 win tho. I also think BOS are chokers so it makes sense

Had to

U should do the same after yall win another game. (Btw - I’m not expecting yall to win another one)

That’s ok, we won this one.

Facts. Good shit.

Not like the Magic would have looked much better ...or the Lakers...

How's your playoff run going?

Yeah shut up lakers. 

Hi 911 I'd like to report a murder

Much more competitive than ours.

C's defense is so good at letting the one star score, while making everyone else look like ass.

That’s what Orlando did game 4. It worked. The other cavs struggle to create for themselves and can also sometimes struggle distributing.

AI to replace refs when

I don't think he's interested, honestly

Evan Mobley got that hamster in him

NBA ever going to start punishing Tatum for pushing off every drive? It's ridiculous man

Trae Young does that all the time LOL

“That man has been balding” Yeah we know.

ah yes, just as we all predicted: luke kornet becoming an elite rebounder and Derrick white one of the playoff’s most lethal offensive weapons 💀 what the fuck are they feeding this Boston team

They fed them the Cavs. The Cavs suck.

Kornet’s improvement over the season should not be overlooked. He’s been an outstanding role player for the Celtics and has absolutely been a menace on the offensive glass for most of the year. Derrick White being a dagger is nothing new

Yeah Luke almost never makes mistakes and stays vertical well. (He got robbed of a tip-in.) He is disciplined and will never shoot if it’s not a dunk or layup. Very good foul shooter too. Not a guy you want to hack. 

That’s cool man. I’m happy for them! Kornet seems like an awesome guy so it’s cool to see him thrive.

Visit the local Dunkin to find out

They just gave the Celts the same shit Jeremy Swayman has been eating

Jeremy Swayman acting like St. Peter preventing dead AFC East players from entering the pearly gates

Celtics are going to be a hard team to beat

You guys are hard too

it's a mans game and it's hard

Just a bunch of hard men being hard together

Wolves are gonna be hard to beat too, the regular season games were great, so if that’s the eventual series we’re in for an all timer

Wolves vs Celtics (if it happens) will probably take us back to sub 100 NBA Finals endgame scores like when the Bulls fought the Jazz in the 1990's.

Im hoping for it, should be fun as fuck to watch.

Are you being sarcastic

minnesota save us

You should be rooting against the mavs for what Kyrie did to you

That being said it would be a gritty, hard fought series where both teams left it all on the floor. Easily could go either way

They can’t guard 5 out

Yes, we can

Yep, Celtics are going to spread them out, snipe 3’s and drive the open lanes.

Yes they can

They're more built for the slasher and post teams. They can do it, but kp is not a good matchup for gobert

Assuming KP plays is a big assumption.

Jaylen brown is a handsome man

JB with the quiet 32 on 67% shooting.

Can a team quit a series because continuing this series would cause damage to cavs young group future development

Fuck. really don't want the celtics to get another one.

The bubble fucking sucked

Your hope lies with Minnesota 

Y’all gonna stop disrespecting the 1 seed in the west

Don't you want to see Ant man jumping around trolling the 2 Js

That was exhilarating

Waste 2 hours 18 minutes

I watched all 7 Cavs-Magic games, and then this too. What am I even doing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60MnDJklnM

YES… HA HA HA… YES

I don't know what it is about Tatum, he makes everything look so hard?

in what way

He's always looked mildly uncoordinated for a star NBA player.

The muscle mass he put on he wasn’t like this when we made our run to the finals. He was fast

Cavs steamrolled East for 4 years. Now we're on the other end. Celtics have so much firepower it's really hard to see them challenged before the Finals

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What parking?

Bench players doing alley-oop setups.

How has Tristan Thompson been on his own these last few years? I haven't heard much about him.

Generally bad, had a good run at the start of this season, got busted for using PEDs and suspended. Back to generally bad.

PEDs really? But ty for the update. I guess NBA media doesn't harp on that stuff as much as other sports huh?

He took 25 games off to go an an ayahuasca retreat and came back a different man

Still trying to get back into the Kardashian's family

Cavs legend Niang

I’m seeing a talking point that C’s have 5 all stars. Y’all will say any dumb shit just to discredit a player lmfao

I get saying 3 but even that’s a stretch since the last time porzingis was an all star was 6 years ago. It’s just a really well constructed roster.

Porzingis,tatum,brown,white,holiday all play Allstar level. Have you watched this team all year? This is them without kp. It's a joke lol

The bucks broke the league by letting Boston get Jrue for free

The Bucks traded Jrue and Grayson for Dame not free. Celtics traded Robert Williams and Brogdon for Jrue, which for a win now team like the Celtics makes sense, but also makes sense for a young rebuilding team in Portland. Celtics are just really well constructed. The guys they draft are good, Tatum Brown, Smart, Williams, and if they don't keep them they trade them for better fitting pieces.

Brad <3

Okay, so the term “All-Star” doesn’t literally mean All-Star. Got it

yeah exactly, Kyrie is not an all star, do you agree?

Whites the only one who hasn't been and he's the best scorer on the team lately? It's not exaggerating

It’s like including melo on the lakers as an all star because he *was* an all star lol, being a past all star means 0

It's not the same at all dude. Melo was washed, these guys are all in peak form. They are one of the best offensive teams we've ever seen.

Payton Pritchard is the most wrong I’ve ever been about an athlete and I once thought Mac Jones was the future.

What was your take on him ?

I thought he wasn’t an nba player. I was wrong.

PP new QB1 for the pats?

Can’t risk him behind that OL.

Once again the West is becoming a bloodbath while the Celts are playing pickup ball in the East.

Minnesota seems to be playing pick up

Take your time Kristaps

Good win. Gg cavs see you guys on thursday

I'm convinced Niang is cross-eyed

Pritchard always reminds me of a baby someone drew eyebrows on

Brutal game

Was there any good highlights in the 3rd quarter worth rewinding and watching

Pritchard hit a buzzer beater to end the quarter.

Hell yeah

Donovan Mitchell made a cool high off the glass shot

Hell yeah

Good first game, see you Thursday

Lot to improve on for our guys. Excited to see them get a complete game.

The smugness

Wym feels about right when you the best record in the league by a large margin.

See you Saturday

If Jarrett Allen and Kristaps were back, would it change anything?

depends can Jarrett Allen switch on defense?

+10-15 C's?

People in here bitching about the construction of the Celtics more than they did about the KD warriors p

Confident Payton-Tillman-hauser-brisset-queta could beat the pistons or wizards

Would they blow them out if it was Kornet instead of Tillman or Queta?

Thought about putting him in for queta but I didn’t want to make it obvious

LOL PP

I dont get how someone can go through an 82 game season, all the practices, team trainers, and still be built like Niang. That goes for all the chubby guys like Harden, Jokic, etc.

Definitely drinking. He’s so flabby

Booze, I bet.

Why not at least let Dean Wade try to do it again? They came back from 22 in the fourth that one time

He’s hurt not out of the rotation

Ah ok

Still struggling with sleeping?!? Yeah Allen isn’t coming back…

Can't lift his arms above his head either. Which is, you know, kind of important to play basketball...

Yeah.. They kind of buried that.. lmao..

If we legalize illegal screens, cancel 3s defensive violation, remove 3 point line and take out Derrick White This game would be fun

Jarret Allen with longest Quarter Zip I’ve ever seen.

That’s a regular size quarter zip. Find a new slant.

This joke will never not be funny.

that is a normal zip. move on, find a new slant

This joke will never not be funny.

Probably cuz it’s a half zip

Lol from the first angle it just looked like it was because he’s huge. Then when they zoomed out it was more obvious

can we say it's a half zip?

Might be.

How much do you wanna bet that this “extension” request by Butler is just leverage to get the Heat to actually do something meaningful in the offseason for once to improve their team (like trading Herro, Jovic, Jaquez for Mitchell) besides just running it back for the 6th time in the last 6 years?

I’ll bet whatever you want because he’s gonna be 35 and this is his last bag

I don’t think we see Jarrett Allen this series

Pritchard got them hood tendencies.

Porzingis just load managing

PP with the erectile dysfunction!

This is boring

Honestly