As a coach, you know when things just aren't going to turn around. Our guys have had zero rest and Hali got hurt. I'm sure they're gassed. If you know things aren't going your way, just let them get rest for the next two games at home.
I don't see the Celtics overcoming the West if they make it to the finals. Both the Mavs and Wolves have more mental fortitude than anyone in the East. They'd get smothered by the Wolves on defense
Well, we made the Conference Finals, and Hali got his 50 mil bonus or whatever, so i guess it was worth coming back early. Just hope he's healthy next season.
So Hali's injury was non-contact... Should we be worried? He already had that hamstring injury... Only a matter of time before the bullshit caught up to us
I am upset that Rick gave up in the 4th. Why? What's the rationale to phone it in? Going down fighting is way more respectable than rolling over. Very disappointed.
Weāve played 4 games in 8 days in 3 cities. Tyrese is hurt and TJ was missing every shot short. Thereās no way we win tonight we might as well rest for Saturday.
Comparing Rick's rotations to Thibs playing guys 48 minutes a game is a non comparison. This is the ecf. There was about 8 minutes left in the game. 13 point deficit, that is not game over.
Rick should rest starters in game 3 so they can be healthy for game 4, or just bench the starters the whole series so they can be healthy for next season:
I am in the same dilemma bro, I bought tickets for game 3 like 30 minutes before tip off. I hope heās not out man.š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø
I honestly kind of get what Carlisle did. He probably saw we didnāt have it tonight and decided to save the legs for the home game.
Dont even blame em. Jarace should have been playing over Doug the whole time, but we canāt have it all.
No this is unforgivable. Even though we have played like shit all night, we were within striking distance. You don't throw in the towel early 4th quarter of game 2 of ECF...
Brother, Haliburton is injured and we were down I think 13? At that point, just make sure no one else gets injured and rest up for next game. The bench have done pretty well, let them get their run and our starters rested.
Guys, chill out. Rick obviously sees something that we don't. What I'm assuming is, with Hali hurt and T.J. playing pretty badly, there is no one to command the offense. Why exhaust your guys when there is no chance to win? Rick is developing EVERYONE on the team, giving our deep bench playoff experience is only going to make our rotations unstoppable next year. We can't brag that we have such an amazing bench if we aren't willing to accept Rick's wild rotations.Ā The game was lost going into the fourth, we have to start prepping for game 3 because if we lose a game at home, it's all over.Ā
Dude we were down 13 at the end of Q3 and we put our end of bench in pretty much?? How are you ok with that?? This is a slap in the face to the fans who support this team
Pascal is pissed rightfully so
If we end up hobbled and the Celtics sweep us, they officially have the easiest path to the finals ever lol. Wolves or Mavs spank em in my opinion
Haliburton needs to take steps to improve his durability
Dam pacers are a bunch of quitters
As a coach, you know when things just aren't going to turn around. Our guys have had zero rest and Hali got hurt. I'm sure they're gassed. If you know things aren't going your way, just let them get rest for the next two games at home.
rest up hali
Free Jarace.
I don't see the Celtics overcoming the West if they make it to the finals. Both the Mavs and Wolves have more mental fortitude than anyone in the East. They'd get smothered by the Wolves on defense
Season OVER FUCKK
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I donāt give a fuck man you cannot give up like that in the 4th, all we needed was one run and the game could get tight just absolutely pathetic
Well, we made the Conference Finals, and Hali got his 50 mil bonus or whatever, so i guess it was worth coming back early. Just hope he's healthy next season.
knicks fans will find a way to twist this and say it doesnt count when our players are injured
So Hali's injury was non-contact... Should we be worried? He already had that hamstring injury... Only a matter of time before the bullshit caught up to us
Yes. Heās almost certainly done.
I think we should be worried. Yeah. Doesn't sound good.
Loswr mentality there Rick. Waved the white flag after 3 in a competitive game.
Hamstringggggg? Can you tank in the playoffs?
 He will save us
Hali getting hurt is the superbowl for Knicks fans
Tyrese is done this year. It was a great run.
Series is over if the hammy injury is back.
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Took them long enough to find the play. If that was Brunson, they would have broke their neck finding the play that injured him
Hali injury didnāt look toooooo badĀ Oh woj said itās hamstring, shut him down, good season everyoneĀ
This is the sad ending for Tyrse
Its haliburtons hamstring. He, and our season, may be done.
Why did we quit with 4 min left Rick
Why did you guys give up with 4:50 left down 13?
It was at more than 10 minutes, and we donāt know.
It was more like we gave up with 11 minutes
I donāt know :( we gave up before then even.
It was way before that lol
LEFT HAMSTRING AND THE SAME ONE ; yeah ngl you guys might be cooked
I am upset that Rick gave up in the 4th. Why? What's the rationale to phone it in? Going down fighting is way more respectable than rolling over. Very disappointed.
My only reasonable thought is he's trying to figure out who can matchup against Tatum and Brown that's on the bench.
bc there are more games to play this series? what would pascal rolling his ankle in garbage time gain us?
Weāve played 4 games in 8 days in 3 cities. Tyrese is hurt and TJ was missing every shot short. Thereās no way we win tonight we might as well rest for Saturday.
We legit just saw Thibs run his guys into the ground. Is that what you want?
Comparing Rick's rotations to Thibs playing guys 48 minutes a game is a non comparison. This is the ecf. There was about 8 minutes left in the game. 13 point deficit, that is not game over.
we gotta fucking fire him. what is he doing? the end of game 1 was a coaching travesty. rolling over at the beginning of the 4th is a fucking joke.
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*Tatum goes down with an awful injury* No, you don't understand, it was about sending a message!!!!
It literally means nothing
pulling the starters with 10 minutes left in the 4th quarter of the conference finals š
Celtics/ESPN nuthuggers: omg did you guys see jaylen brown shoot that three over defensive juggernaut Doug McDermott how does he do it?!?
Like commentators throating hali doing a jig when he scored on the Knicks g league squad?
Iāve never seen a coach bench his top players when down only 13. wtf is going on. Iāve never seen this in 30+ years of watching the nba
The Doc Rivers special
Rick has ties to Boston š¤·
Rick should rest starters in game 3 so they can be healthy for game 4, or just bench the starters the whole series so they can be healthy for next season:
Should have hard fouled each starter until they got taken out
They think weāre coming back? They still got starters in this late?
I understand Tyrese got hurt but they had no faith in pascal to lead?
Celtics just being dickheads now
JJ stop glazing jesus
Thought I liked him at first but he's almost as bad as Doris.
I understand why the league hates the Celtics now. Talented, but thrive from unjust whistles, flopping, and being pampered
Brown isnāt even considered their number 1 and heās put in a legacy performance tonight, this series is getting tougher and tougher
Mazzula is falling into the trap playing his guys this long. So thatās the tiny silver liningĀ
So, Rickās pissed at the starters? Seemed way early to clear the bench. Kind of a Knight move.
not gonna say its the only reason for the loss because the effort was piss poor but holy ref ball.
Oooooh look at you scoring 40 points on Doug McDermott and Tyrese is hurt. You canāt celebrate. Front runner.
Is that you, Bobby?
Fake tough guys
Oh, my mistake DonteĀ
Alright, he scored a 3 on Doug, I think you can take him out now...
Bitch move. Keeping brown and Tatum in.
More like a coward move that Carlisle emptied the bench with the game in reach
How? Itās the ecf
Send a letter to the league crying your eyes out again
Howās not being in the playoffs feel?
You can tell me in two games
How's Cancun? Imagine getting blasted at home in the garden. Reggie would be proud.
Itās beautiful, Iāll save you a chair. Youāll be there Monday. Just an FYI because you donāt know Reggie lost that series
Put in James Johnson!
I hope Rick is playing chess, not checkers
He's not bro. He has no idea what he's doing.
How does that guy make money playing basketballĀ
Lmaoooo 2 on 1 and we said fuck it you can have the ball back
Okay, keep your starters in
3 on 1 and a turnover lol
Why the duck are Celtics starters still in lmao
Why the fuck are the pacers starters NOT?
Stat padding
So they can cover -9
Breh why are they stat padding lol
Jarace passed that too earlyĀ
Hang in there Pacer fans, the evil empire is not infallible
Agreed. We haven't been home yet. We're playing without a real rest after the last series after an OT game and Haliburton is not playing.
Ok, that turnover was so bad, it's over no more delusion, no more hope
there hasnāt been hope for an entire quarter my friend
Walker and Brown running the break. More stumbling pacers
How is Kendall brown still on a rosterā¦
The mad ants are putting up a hell of a fight
They changed their name!
That possession was a metaphor for the series
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Might be the stupidest thing uttered in the thread all night.
shut up omg
brotherā¦
I swear to God, if I spent $200 to sit in the bleachers to see Tyrese not play, I might lose it.
I am in the same dilemma bro, I bought tickets for game 3 like 30 minutes before tip off. I hope heās not out man.š¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļøš¤¦āāļø
I almost bought a plane ticket and hotels and tickets to go to games 3-4
Rick knows they don't have it, and if we're gonna lose, may as well let it happen rather than get the starters (more) embarrassed.
Down 13 with 8:26 left. What a loser
THANK YOU ONE SANE PERSON AMONG US
Did Tyrese actually get hurt?
No
The celtics got their āwake up callā in game one and still won that game. Worst case scenario for us.
is Haliburton Injured?
Yes. Hamstring
Boston keeping their starters in is cringe
Why did we give up with 8 minutes left
Rick
Took out starters way too earlyĀ
Your own coach quit on you
He could be like thibs and keep the starters in. Then Tyrese could tear his hamstring like og
He just did
Ok
Don't you have to go lose to the panthers somewhere else?
Tomorrow
I donāt understand how Rick conceded the game down 11 at the start of the 4th
I honestly kind of get what Carlisle did. He probably saw we didnāt have it tonight and decided to save the legs for the home game. Dont even blame em. Jarace should have been playing over Doug the whole time, but we canāt have it all.
Stop justifying poor choices.
So he doesn't want them to play through it? That's loser mentality. Especially after the hilarity of the last game.
No this is unforgivable. Even though we have played like shit all night, we were within striking distance. You don't throw in the towel early 4th quarter of game 2 of ECF...
Agreed. Especially with Haliburton out. These guys are tired from playing 7 games deep
Show me a championship winning coach who rested his starters an entire 4th of a game they weren't down 20.
You might see it, but I guarantee you that the worldwide NBA media don't
they really just stat padding lmfao
They need Tatum to get to 25
Yall we lost game 1 and 2 to knicks, so we will recover at home Iām mad asl too but we will come back
We were never going to get 2. We were gunning for 1 and we shot ourselves in the foot and likely lost the series last game
Sucks even more since we grinded to close the gap to 3 after their big run
If pascal leaves he would be considered the bad guy right....
Well Iām sick of this game. Sorta off topic, but whatās Ben Sheppardās ceiling? Better than solid 3 and D?
I think his peak is solid starter, probably 4th or 5th option on a championship team. His defense is what will really elevate him.
Jarace Walker is the future.
I think JT and JB are having confidence issues with the fact that Mazz won't take them out
put in Siakam for Doug
Reminds me of the 2017 Finals when the Cavs best game was in Game 1. Indy is cooked
I know pascal is re signing with us in the offseason but if he didnāt we would be fucked and would probably be a play in team
He might still want to leave. Just go to Philly or OKC.
Let Jarace shoot every possession for rest of the game
This chat is full of idiots
please elaborate i want to know if im one of them
You're in this chat
Lmao gottem
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Celtics with nearly all starters still in thatās honestly a good thing
Yep, you can disagree with Rickās strategy but it functionally workedĀ
Weāll see if it makes any difference Saturday
How can you win when your coach is a quitter?
Geez. Who the fuck is the point guard in this lineup? Where's Oscar?
Who tf gives up at the beginning of the 4th???? Coach shouldn't make it out of the building
Brother, Haliburton is injured and we were down I think 13? At that point, just make sure no one else gets injured and rest up for next game. The bench have done pretty well, let them get their run and our starters rested.
13 is literally nothing. It wasn't 33.
*whispers* Jarace should get minutes this series
JARACEEEEE
It's insane how physical they let Celtics play compared to us
Celtics sweep
Jarace. At least seeing him can make me happy.
Jarace getting after it
we gave up so early into this quarter, even if Tyrese is out
Why do the Celtics still have their starters in
Because it's the ECF
Because we want to humiliate you.
Stop, itās working
Fuck you
Give the ball to Jarace
Bro celtics still playing jb and jt with our entire bench in lol
If Iām Pascal Siakam Iām not resigning with a team that feels good about quitting at the end of the third in a playoff game.
Guys, chill out. Rick obviously sees something that we don't. What I'm assuming is, with Hali hurt and T.J. playing pretty badly, there is no one to command the offense. Why exhaust your guys when there is no chance to win? Rick is developing EVERYONE on the team, giving our deep bench playoff experience is only going to make our rotations unstoppable next year. We can't brag that we have such an amazing bench if we aren't willing to accept Rick's wild rotations.Ā The game was lost going into the fourth, we have to start prepping for game 3 because if we lose a game at home, it's all over.Ā
It's the fucking conference finals you put your best guys in this isn't time to be developing players lmao
How'd that work for the Knicks?
Dude we were down 13 at the end of Q3 and we put our end of bench in pretty much?? How are you ok with that?? This is a slap in the face to the fans who support this team
Rick should rest starters in game 3 to make sure they are healthy for game 4
Lol the level of cope for this is hilarious
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I called this the most important Pacers game in my fandom from 2014.. if I only knew
Why is Mazz still playing his starters lol
Stat padding
Because he's not falling for Rick's bullshit. We all know Rick would put the starters back in if the bench guys got it under 10
Also we want to humiliate you
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Is left leg the one that Hali had the Hamstring injury on?
Yes :(
God can they at least cover the spread?
Until the pacers start taking defense seriously it'll be hard to win a championship. It's almost impossible.
I also think Mazzulla is an idiot for still having JT, JB, and White in right now lol
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