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Post by wcp3 on Apr 24, 2024 20:15:59 GMT -5
Some of this shooting by Miami is luck, but this is as bad of a defensive effort as you’ll ever see when you consider who Miami has on the court.
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Post by philarhody on Apr 24, 2024 20:17:32 GMT -5
Some of this shooting by Miami is luck, but this is as bad of a defensive effort as you’ll ever see when you consider who Miami has on the court. It’s not like Miami is scoring 140 tonight. The Celtics are failing to exploit matchups in the halfcourt, which has been the Achilles heel for awhile.
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 24, 2024 20:18:52 GMT -5
Just everything going Miami’s way and nothing our way.
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Post by philarhody on Apr 24, 2024 20:20:38 GMT -5
Spoelstra is coaching circles around Joe.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 24, 2024 20:20:51 GMT -5
Worst game I've seen KPor play in the green uniform. He can't hit - and Bam can't miss.
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Post by wcp3 on Apr 24, 2024 20:21:06 GMT -5
Some of this shooting by Miami is luck, but this is as bad of a defensive effort as you’ll ever see when you consider who Miami has on the court. It’s not like Miami is scoring 140 tonight. The Celtics are failing to exploit matchups in the halfcourt, which has been the Achilles heel for awhile. The Celtics have been one of the best teams all season at mismatch hunting. The problem is everything tonight has been iso ball off very little movement. They’ve made things so easy for Miami tonight.
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Apr 24, 2024 20:21:22 GMT -5
KP now at -33 and looking completely unplayable. Going to be a lot tougher to win this series with him being a non-factor
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Apr 24, 2024 20:22:19 GMT -5
Embarrassing.
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 24, 2024 20:22:51 GMT -5
Spoelstra is coaching circles around Joe. I don’t see it.
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Post by philarhody on Apr 24, 2024 20:24:03 GMT -5
If you think Porzingis is the problem, you’re missing forest from the trees. The problem is the Celtics failing to play off of the Porzingis double teams and attack the basket. Miami is shading a man toward KP, leaving lanes to the basket for aggressive drives.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 24, 2024 20:24:08 GMT -5
As hot as Miami shooting has been, as out of synch the Celts have been, it is a 2 possession game.
Well, that went south fast.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 24, 2024 20:24:58 GMT -5
Letting Caleb Martin do this is infuriating.
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 24, 2024 20:26:54 GMT -5
If you think Porzingis is the problem, you’re missing forest from the trees. The problem is the Celtics failing to play off of the Porzingis double teams and attack the basket. Miami is shading a man toward KP, leaving lanes to the basket for aggressive drives. Bro, The Porzingod was unable to post like Tyler Herro.
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Apr 24, 2024 20:26:54 GMT -5
If you think Porzingis is the problem, you’re missing forest from the trees. The problem is the Celtics failing to play off of the Porzingis double teams and attack the basket. Miami is shading a man toward KP, leaving lanes to the basket for aggressive drives. While that’s all true, he’s also missed some short range shots that he usually makes, took a really bizarre deep three with like 20 seconds left in the shot clock, and has had a lot of trouble handling any passes. He wasn’t the only problem tonight, but he definitely played like shit
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Post by philarhody on Apr 24, 2024 20:28:27 GMT -5
Spoelstra is coaching circles around Joe. I don’t see it. One of these coaches is running the other team off of the 3pt line and helping on the interior mismatch. The other coach is Joe Mazzulla.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 24, 2024 20:28:40 GMT -5
Another bad third quarter tonight
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Post by philarhody on Apr 24, 2024 20:30:32 GMT -5
If you think Porzingis is the problem, you’re missing forest from the trees. The problem is the Celtics failing to play off of the Porzingis double teams and attack the basket. Miami is shading a man toward KP, leaving lanes to the basket for aggressive drives. Bro, The Porzingod was unable to post like Tyler Herro. Yeah they also send help every time he touches the ball. You don’t see Jokic trying to score on double teams while 4 guys sit outside hoping for a 3.
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Post by Montana Lemonious-Craig on Apr 24, 2024 20:31:30 GMT -5
I really don’t know what to say. I want to think this was just a blip, but this was every single issue that’s been there the past few seasons in one game: terrible perimeter defense with no adjustments, letting marginally talented players get hot, not protecting home court advantage, lazy offense with little ball movement. They should win this series, but there is a HUGE disparity in coaching ability right now that should be obvious to anyone with functioning eyeballs. Hopefully the Celtics talent advantage takes over, but the hell knows at this point
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 24, 2024 20:31:40 GMT -5
Did I see that right? Celts are 4-6 in their last 10 playoff games at the Garden. How is that possible?
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Post by ianrs on Apr 24, 2024 20:31:51 GMT -5
This is not on Mazzulla - its an embarrassing defensive and all-around effort from this group at home against a group of ragtags.
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Post by wcp3 on Apr 24, 2024 20:32:03 GMT -5
We’ve seen some of these issues persist under three coaches now. At some point, it’s on the players.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Apr 24, 2024 20:34:38 GMT -5
Celtics talk big - but they just don't seem mentally tough enough. Kinda embarrassing, this game.
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Post by philarhody on Apr 24, 2024 20:35:13 GMT -5
We’ve seen some of these issues persist under three coaches now. At some point, it’s on the players. I agree with that. But Joe will have to be replaced by a proven good coach (see Brad Stevens ;-) ) before they break up the team.
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Post by capesox on Apr 24, 2024 20:37:57 GMT -5
Scalabrine is saying he is shocked. lol The guy never learns from the past. This has been the M O of this team for years.
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Post by Don Caballero on Apr 24, 2024 20:38:01 GMT -5
I think you guys are overreacting a bit, this was a tough loss but the Celtics didn’t look LOST or anything. Just need The Porzingod to be back to form and tighten up the defense.
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