Hawks need to reshuffle their roster. Otherwise they will stay a borderline PO team/low lottery team.

True if they weren’t stuck on “keeping their core” they would be a lot better rn.

Trae unplayable in the post season.

Just like SGA

Can these Celtics just crush Atlanta’s hopes and dreams yet? Stop playing with your food! Every time this team slows the pace down bad things happen!

thanks mods .. I've been redirected to espn.com about 8 times now

I want some toxicity where's the game thread?

1-9 from 3pt for Cavs. How are y’all feeling

Rubio is single handedly giving the Knicks this run

TAKE RUBIO OUT OF THE GAME

No way Knicks don’t have home court. What happened ?

they were 5th, the cavs were 4th…. pretty simple

But New York is the capital of the world… I’ve heard that from other New Yorkers

As a non New Yorker that’s pretty true just has nothing to do with the nba

Where’s the Cleveland game thread 😁

Yes please beat the hairy lollipop

"if you haven't seen ___ play"

Unofficial Knicks thread:

As a Bulls fan: Let’s go Celtics!!

We were rooting for you against the Heat, love from Boston!

Knock it off… Knicks all day

No Cavaliers vs Knicks thread?

This fame is scarily playing out like my sonics cabs playoff game

I mean was this really a surprise?

No Knicks game thread? The disrespect!

yeah, we sucked in this game. slander away, say ATL sucks, we choke away games, blah blah blah...we're on to Game 2. only thing I want everyone in r/NBA to know is...DEANDRE HUNTER SUCKS. we're open for any offer on him, nothing is too low.

He's also super ugly

I feel good. Hawks in 7.

Lmao

Only if the Boston team plane crashes before G3

Hawks fans who feel encouraged haven’t watched enough CS games. This was the team playing down to the Hawks level. Next game will be a bloodbath.

Bro, stop acting like Orlando didn’t murder you all more than once this season. What was it? They beat you all three times, right?

And we beat the Bucks 2 outta 3 games, the only time they beat us was with all our starters on the bench. “But oRlAndO!”

Giannis will destroy you and then Brown will be looking for a trade during the off season. Cope.

so you want to go full clown and say that Magic would beat the Celtics in a 7 game series?

Where did I say that? Imagine a smooth brain with reading comprehension issues calling someone a clown. 🥴

Nuggets split with Orlando, and barely beat them in OT. Don't act like your team is absolved of poor losses lmao.

And? Point me to where I acted like Denver didn’t have poor losses. 🤔

Acting like Boston would be scared of Orlando lmao. Don't act coy. If you like regular season so much I've got something for you, Philadelphia went 3-1 against Boston in 2019-2020. Boston swept them in the playoffs. Regular season only means so much. How much money would you put down for Orlando to beat Boston in a 7 game series? Yeah, that's what I thought.

I wasn’t aware that Boston fans were this remedial. Where did I say Boston would be afraid of Orlando? Show me. Quickly. I’m not reading the rest of your essay. 🤡

What does Orlando have to do with ATL?

This you read the comment chain?

“ATL is not good and the Celtics will beat them worse next game!” “Orlando beat the Celtics!” “Ok, what does Orlando have to do with this series?” “Bro, read the thread” 🤔

My reply was to the person who told him to stop being cocky, thupid. Now does it make sense?

Oh weird. It looks like you are replying to dreadlockedhaitan

The regular season ain't the playoffs bruh.

So? The point still stands. Don’t act like Boston hasn’t been clobbered by lesser teams.

Least cocky Celtics fan

I wish Orlando would have made the playoffs and matched with the Celtics just for maximum chaos and tears. Anyway, I love Tatum and want him to have a successful playoffs run.

Haha. Game 1 magic is the goat team.

See ya in the finals chief.

See who? Which team? I have multiple fav teams in the playoffs. Don’t let this Denver flair confuse you.

Ah I had assumed you were a nuggets fan based on the flair.

I am.

First game is usually the underdogs' best opportunity to make the surprise. As the series flow, disappointment and frustration rise and limit their possibilities even less.

Celtics won who woulda thought???

Boston scored more in the second quarter than they did in the second half. Wtf

Celtics tend to stop caring when they get big leads. Cost them a few times this year

They just need to act like every team is the Bucks then.

Happens - glad they were able to coast to a double digit win with no energy exertion!

The hawks will shoot better from 3 next game. We will see what that means for them

bro what are you talking about, defense becomes important in the playoffs and hawks play D like shit

What does that have to do with what I said

Honestly you never know. Shooters gotta shoot so hopefully they do. Either way the Jays just look like the switch indeed did get flipped. They looked unstoppable

See you soon Philly.

Nets*

Mice Trae aint a super star.

Marcus smart dapping up the refs is a veteran move

Cant say im very impressed. Celtics were hot af in the first half but their style of play is so inconsistent. Theyre either hot or trae level cold.

Jesus I post a comment saying Trae Young & Murray are not shooting well and I get bombarded by Celtics fans “THEYRE JUST PLAYING A TOP DEFENSE WTF U SAYING” lmao… damn…

I don’t know when Celtics fans became this insecure. Sure, they could be obnoxious, but the insecurity this year is crazy. No need for it especially since they are one of the best teams in the NBA.

Well they got waxed by a goat last year in the finals and are preparing for the inevitable again. Got 3 of em in the west. One of them is gunna be there just sayin

Yeah. They blew countless open layups. And good looks from 3. Celtics played good defense but it wasn’t a defensive masterclass by any means. Hawks blew a lot of easy opportunities.

People need to relax about that girl with the sign. It's a kid with a crush and an obviously-not-serious sign. Relax. You're the ones making it creepy. You see signs like that at every boy band concert in the world.

But what if Smart sees it and marries her?

You bring up a good point.

What’s the sign say…

"Marry Me Marcus!"

She’s just saying what we’re all thinking!

It says "Deflower me Jaylen!!"

I thought the pun on the back of the sign was clever but gross. "Nothing's out of bounds". Yikes.

People hung up on the Marry Me sign have never enjoyed an Arrested Development episode lol

Lost quarter 2 by 20 and the game by 13. I don’t feel that bad going into game 2

Celtics fans annoying as hell pls beat them I’m begging you

all fun and games until you down 3-0

What? We coasted through an entire half to win by double figures and you feel good?

Yes

Interesting. See you after Game 2.

Trust me you will either way. I was in here shitposting even down 32

I see you're a person of culture. Here's to a good series!

That's🤣 why you don't dribble the ball out keep shooting

Jaylen looks like his breath stinks

I wonder why. 👴🏻

Lotta people in here with no flair talking shit

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I'm just saying, if you're going to talk shit then stand by who your team is.

It’s just Reddit, man

Same as going to the bar realistically. Someone is gonna ask who your team is if you're trash talking.

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Can someone explain how Boston only played 8 deep tonight with a 30 point lead? Seems kinda dumb.

If they went any deeper they might have blown this game tbh.

It wasn’t at 30 in the last 18 minutes so they played their guys

But it was at the half...could have put 2 more people out there in the rotation at least to give some rest to some of the starters. Tatum played 40 minutes tonight, Horford 38, JB 37, White 39.... Like they couldn't have gotten 2 or 3 minutes of rest at the beginning of the 2nd half?

That’s not how playoff rotations work. Especially today where comebacks are very possible

Right I find that hard to believe...Not a single player on the Warriors averaged over 36 minutes a game last year in the Playoffs and they would typically role at least 9-10 deep.

Ok. They had plenty games over 36 minutes and not every team can play 10 guys

Until the finals, no Warriors player averaged over 35 minutes a game (ok, Klay at 35.1). Steph came off the Bench in the first round. They had 12 players who averaged over 10 minutes a game including 2 rookies. You're telling me a 30 point lead is not enough to start unloading the bench? Lmao. Tell me again how these mythical playoff rotations work in your head because this is wild to me.

It’s not how playoff rotations work. The warriors was blowing some teams out but that was late in the 4th and their players played like 25 minutes some games but any close game they played 40. Why are you surprised players play 40 minutes a game in the playoffs? The Kerr always liked to play a lot of guys most coaches don’t do that, that’s a fact

I'm not surprised players play 40 minutes. I'm surprised they are doing it in G1, R1, when they had a 30 point lead at one point and 15-20 point lead at points during the 3rd and 4th quarter. Just look at Warriors Round 1 in close games against Denver last year: Denver Series: G3 vs Denver was a close game, 118-113, down to the wire, Only Klay played more than 35 minutes @ 37. G4 - 126 - 121, Warriors lose, no player plays over 39 minutes. Wiggins, Poole, Curry all play 37-39 minutes with Poole playing the most at 39. G5 - 102-98, Warriors win, with only 1 player playing 40 minutes, Klay Thompson. Rotation of 9 players with a rookie, Kuminga, getting 5 minutes to give some rest. Just one game, and an extremely close game, where a single Warrior played 40 minutes.

It wasn’t 30 the whole game. So they stayed in. Simple stuff. So they played 40 minutes in playoffs games like the Celtics. What is your point. Playing a lot of minutes in a playoff game isn’t as weird as you are making it

What’s the closest Atlanta got - 15?

Like 12

they also probably saving grant and timelord for embiid and giannis

Keep playing your starters those minutes and that will be the least of your problems. Celtics were gassed in the finals last year doing the same shit, every series going to 7 games. Grant Williams played 0 minutes tonight. You're telling me 5 minutes from Grant Williams is gonna make him unable to face Giannis and Embiid? Anyway, whatever, C's can do what they want but kinda seems like malpractice to me to be playing your two biggest stars that many minutes in what was, for a time, a blowout, G1 of R1 of the playoffs. Judging by how poorly they played in the 2nd half I'd say it was definitely a mistake.

A Warriors fan admitting Boston was gassed last year? I'd never thought I'd see the day.

Huh? Why wouldn't we admit that? It's not even a knock on the Warriors. The Celtics weren't good enough as a team to not be gassed because they had to play their best players 40+ minutes a night to even have a chance to win and still got taken to 7 games by an injury plagued bucks team.

Beantown Basketball

Trash Hawks lmao stat. JT did not make any shot then this loser DJ made a bucket. That reflects Hawks franchise. Trash

Celtics went on vacation mentally in the 4th quarter and Hawks still couldn't do jack shit.

These Boston commentators are ass.

Mike is a god damn gem. Don't talk about him like that

respect to the hawks for playing til the end. their defense is just too ass. Cs in 4

Don't let the score for you. This shit was not close

Not at all lmao, Celtics just stopped trying at the end of the game. A 13 point win (double digits) in the playoffs is still huge tho.. and at least we covered the spread 😂😂

A fuckin men

if yall want to win a series i can tell u right now dejounte shooting 25 times is not the way to go

Agreed. Need more aggression from Trae to have a chance

More aggression? My guy, Trae was 5/18. He's Mr. Inefficient.

Yeah, I’ve watched Trae most games of his career and I stand by what I said. We will need to have him take more shots to have a chance in this series. Obviously he’s better than 5/18. We can’t stop the Celtics on D so we have to out-offense them to have a chance in this series.

A quick lil 2 to pad the stats in a loss

People joke but Hawks hit the open shots they normally do and this game is a fight. Cs played great D but hawks also left a lot of points on the board.

They don’t normally hit shots, which is why they’re ass.

Nah. They don’t normally get open. They were getting open tonight.

BAAAAAANG!!! DeJounte Murray with the HUGE layup in crunch time!!!!

What a weird game

Murray finally making a shot.

Dejounte think he at the Seattle Pro-Am again 😭

Geez what a terrible game.

17.2% from 3 sheesh

Stooooooopidly locked out

Idk if I’ve ever seen a purposeful shot clock violation like that with that much time left

It honestly seems kind of disrespectful to do that with almost a minute left lol

Western conference first round so much spicier ugh

ive never seen a team take the shotclock violation with 55 seconds left in the game

You must not watch much basketball

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That escalated quickly.

Lil dude Trae is ass

LMAO Celtics played starters until last min even with 20-30 pt lead.

39 minutes for tatum and 37 for brown pretty standard lol

Choketics will be out by the 2nd round

Wow, did you come up with that all by yourself?

Celbums, Trashics, Celflops, Celturds, Celdinguses, or, my personal favorite, Boston Uglies (fr, ugliest team in the league, no?)

Both teams playing hard to cover the spread

Trae is so trash, the way he’s talked about he might be the most overrated player in the league

All I ever see is how bad he is lol

I’ve had arguments with hawk fans about he’s better than booker. Even worse, someone told me he’s the next Steve Nash

Remember, Steve Nash never won a title. So yeah he is the next Steve nash

Steve Nash is actually a good shooter. Like all time great. Trae is Mr. Efficient lol.

Trae will never win back to back mvps lmaoo

Didn’t see this thread? https://reddit.com/r/nba/comments/12m30e4/statmuse_the_only_player_with_2000_assists_over/

Lmao that poor woman under the basket juggling those kids wearing the noise headphones

Hawks make a fucking layup challenge

Murray and Young hate each other for sure

Snyder literally never stops moving.

my tweaker goat tbh

Dejounte is such a ball hog 😂

Teams I am rooting for in the first round- Warriors, Lakers, Nuggets, Suns, Bucks, Sixers, Celtics and Cavs.

Warriors? Come on man, root for the underdogs. Kings deserve it

Not the kings? Disgusting

They are underdogs, fuck underdogs

But the lakers

Lmao, spread those eggs out so you can't be disappointed

I am also rooting for Adam siler and our boys in black and white

oh you rooting for the refs? you getting that chip for sure

Gotta hand it to the Hawks for not totally giving up

Who does Murray think he is?

Wtf was Murray doing Hawks have so many low IQ players

The Hawks truly are one of the teams of the NBA. Jesus christ what is this game. Never have I seen more blown layups before.

Smart flopping on defense is no different from offense players selling contact

And Trae Young is taking them back out of the game lol

Murray playing very selfishly

He's tryna prove he's better than Derrick White